There were six players on the U.S. team that played anything approaching what could be called a "soccer season" in 2020. And I'm being quite liberal with the term. Canada had 13 players who fit that description. Sweden had 22. Australia and Norway had 23. It wasn't just that we didn't play in 2020, but also that the rest of the world did. The rest of the world enjoyed an advantage that we usually enjoy, and it showed. Edited to acknowledge that this is Murray's quote, not MRAD12's.
Anybody know how to watch the US/Sweden Olympic match? I'd like to see the match again before offering my dubious wisdom on why the U.S. lost. Two impressions of the game I have are: (1) The Swedes surprised the U.S. with a high press and an aggressive offense while we were expecting them to be defensive; and (2) the Swedes flooded the U.S. left flank with their best offensive players and had a numerical advantage over Dunn and whoever was or should have been helping her.
don’t quite understand; the USWNT going to play at least 24 games this year alone (this is on par with most league/club players from around the world). Seventeen players get their salaries paid by USSF, it’s up to them if they want to play extra club ball ; you mentioned Norway as having 23 perfectly fit/or doing it the right way? They didn’t qualify for the Olympics nor did their NT looked at all impressive this year or last, loosing 0-7 to Holland & 0-4 to Germany’s B squad. Same thing with Australia; their record so far the year is 2 wins, 2 ties & 8 losses! By winning bronze, we did better than either of those two teams
It still seems to be up at the NBCOlympics website for those with a cable subscription. Y'know it was just an impressive execution of a plan by Sweden . Or just a plain execution! I've rewatched a couple times and I may rewatch again because it's just kind of awesome to watch how good Sweden was against the top-ranked team and reigning World Cup champion.
Pearce has chosen to defer her induction until next year: Legendary USWNT defender & 2021 National Soccer Hall of Fame inductee Christie Pearce Rampone has chosen to defer her induction until 2022. The NSHOF fully supports Christie’s decision & looks forward to honoring her & her historic achievements at next year’s induction ceremony. pic.twitter.com/v1xw5GgLJ7— National Soccer HOF (@soccerhof) October 2, 2021
Saw this yesterday morning and punted on attending Induction Ceremony. No Christie.......no jackdoggy.
Seems the USWNT is talking to a US-born Spanish player, Damaris Egurrola, about making a one-time switch: Fútbol with Grant Wahl: USWNT in preliminary talks to land 22-year-old rising-star defensive midfielder Damaris Egurrola of Lyon. https://t.co/9ko7kqTygQ— Subscribe to GrantWahl.com (@GrantWahl) October 16, 2021 I am only aware of Sofia Huerta making a switch to the US previously.
Huerta only played on Mexico’s youth, u17-20 squads. Egurrola debuted/got 8 minutes-1 cap credit with Spain’s senior NT in 2019, but hasn’t played for them since. Plus has played for the Basque NT(though their not officially recognized by FIFA). So is it allowed now to switch from one senior NT to another in woso?( other sports do it by paying an fee from one federation to another)
Yes, as long as the matches were friendlies, players can do a one-time switch. It's the competitive matches (major tournaments and their qualifying tournaments) that cap-tie a player. Does Leroux not count?
She probably does since she played in the (then) FIFA U19 World Cup for Canada in 2004. The one-time switch wasn't available until 2008.
Youth matches that are in FIFA or confed competitions (U20, U17 primarily) provisionally cap-tie a play. Once you are provisionally cap tied, you have to file a one-time switch if you want to change (subject to other eligibility rules).
I feel like we should give a shout out to the former USWNT players who finished the NYC marathon yesterday: Former USWNT players @laurenholiday12 (3:40.30) @LeslieOsborne12 (3:41.33) and @AbbyWambach (3:44.25) ran the @nycmarathon today. Impressive times.— Nancy Armour (@nrarmour) November 7, 2021 And those times are not bad...about an 8:30/mile pace.
The Times could have been in the 2-20's but all three choose to stop and sign autographs along their 26-mile trek.
That movie was/is a bit weird for me. I really really enjoyed it on first viewing but after that it rapidly became harder to watch. I am not exactly sure why it is that way or what it is that began to grate after one viewing. I have noticed that in a few other movies like "Mars Attacks" and even the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Some movies, for me, just give everything they have on first viewing. The following is labeled as a spoiler due to it not being soccer related and if people want they can just ignore it. Spoiler (Move your mouse to the spoiler area to reveal the content) Show Spoiler Hide Spoiler Of course there are others that get more pleasant to view the more you see them and that is sometimes true for truly bad movies like: "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" and "Invasion of the Bee Girls" and (The top movie of all time at getting better as you watch it again and again) "Plan 9 form Outer Space." One more that I still am not sure I like it on first viewing or on later viewings is "Killer Clowns from Outer Space" But none of the movies involve soccer at all. BTW: I have absolutely no idea why I choose to watch a bad movie again but I am thankful that I tried it on several movies and there are movies, like "It Came From Beneath the Sea." The octopus was less believable than the shark in Jaws 4. Now, I have to go re-watch "Ishtar" or "Water World" to see if I misjudged them. As a cure for insomnia bad movies are very good but movies that seemed bad and then seem better on additional viewings are not good for the insomniac. One becomes afraid that you might miss something that makes it better than first thought. Now I have a post that just barely mentioned soccer. I hope most people that are not interested in movies just bypass this. Spoiler (Move your mouse to the spoiler area to reveal the content) Show Spoiler Hide Spoiler
I have not listened to much of the Snacks podcast (hosted by Sam Mewis and Lynn Williams), but the YouTube algorithm brought this one with Becky Sauerbrunn up for me and I really enjoyed it: It touches on some unexpected topics like fertility and private vs public self as well as some of the more usual lighter stuff. I may go back and listen to some more of the episodes now.
Can someone please remind me why the Crest below the WNT photo has 4 Stars above it - Happy Turkey Day you rascals.