Friday, September 28, 2007

USA Women get smoked

For all those wanting to know my opinion on the US debacle it is this...Greg Ryan should be fired immediately and any players over the age of 30 need to be cut from the team. His decision to change goalkeepers was not the reason we lost, but it was a terrible one. Quite frankly I am embarrassed at how outplayed we were by the Brazilian women who just put on a show. Some of their players are more technically gifted then any player the Americans have ever produced. It is now clear that the rest of the world has caught up to the US women and they need to have some drastic changes take place in the program to make sure we stay at the high level we are all used to. Our philosophy of boot it forward to our strikers is never going to work anymore, we need to have skillful players in midfield who can work the ball up field with good movement and passes. Most good teams are able to cope with our giant forwards now by employing a good sweeper to intercept those passes or to blatantly foul to stop any scoring threats we create. I would expect a brief overhaul of the program before the Olympics next year. Lets hope we learn from our mistakes.

1 comment:

klpanning said...

there is only one thing worse than watching soccer...and that is watching women play soccer