I thought it would be fun this week to compare the current team members with classic mario kart characters while we wait the next coach and the next cycle of players, I'll go first and I'm using qualities based on the mainly 1990s Mario Kart games, the super nintendo one and the nintendo 64 version. The relatively current ones on the recent nintendo systems I've played but never owned or cherished as a child so they don't have the same nostalgia for me. So here's the basic characters if anyone wants to add additional characters or associate more players into these characters that's fine too of course. Mario: Carli Lloyd, Alex Morgan, Christen Press Luigi: Alyssa Naeher, Ashlyn Harris, Adriana Franch, Jess McDonald Princess Peach: Crystal Dunn, Alex Morgan Yoshi: Mallory Pugh, Kelley O'hara Toad: Tobin Heath, Megan Rapinoe, Rose Lavelle Bowser: Lindsay Horan, Julie Ertz R.O.B. the robot: Sam Mewis Koopa Troopa:
I have no idea how you're making these associations, or what prompted this idea, but I will concede it is a fun one. The completionist in me noted 7 players missing from the WC roster (Brian, Davidson, Dahlkemper, Krieger, Long, Sauerbrunn, and Sonnett) as well as 2 characters missing from the classic Mario Kart 64 roster (Donkey Kong and Wario). Care to complete the list? I would think Tobin would be more of a Yoshi myself. And Alex Morgan gets two characters? What gives? Also I would the GKs would by nature correspond with the heavyweight kart characters (ya know, as the anchors of the defense)?
Comparing Mario Kart to NASCAR is analogous to comparing Super Mario Strikers to FIFA. NASCAR drivers don't have to worry about these little beauties, for one thing.