She answered Carli Lloyd's bad-mouthing our national team with grace and logic. Especially when she said being happy at the World Cup does not mean you want to win less.

@outkast84

6 ай бұрын

Where was Lloyd wrong though?🤔

@hmahdavi

6 ай бұрын

@@outkast84 No one in the history of soccer has badmouthed his/her own national team.

@outkast84

6 ай бұрын

@@hmahdavi Oh I'm sure they have, just not on camera. Again, she spoke the truth about the state of the team. No coincidence that they just so happened to failed reaching at least the semifinals for the first time in USWNT history.

@Jamakaya1

6 ай бұрын

While doing so, she also carefully avoided being drawn into a personal fight with Lloyd. Interviewers sometimes like to promote that kind of drama and Midge didn't bite. Good for her.

@rasclotify

6 ай бұрын

@@outkast84 Lloyd wasn't wrong, she just isn't savvy and selective in her language. You can be critical & supportive simultaneously if you choose yr words well. She comes off as bitter and wanting to see the USWNT lose for personal disillusionment. Other commentators are able to achieve this, or coaches, watch how Emma Hayes talks to her players. The challenge is how can you be honest but still uplift yr players/peers?

The women on past team’s, when MIA. Chastain, Foudi, Scurry, etc fought for better play. The fight that women/minorities have to fight to be treated equally & w/respect. Lloyd takes that for granted complaining that her teammates were protesting for equal rights, gay rights, etc. she just wanted to play soccer. And now she is being a bit full of herself saying the current isn’t good. Well, Carli, don’t forget the battles fought by your mates, past & current.

The pay to play system is hurting the USA both on the men's and women's side of the game because unlike other countries the best athletes are still not playing soccer here because they can't afford to.

@LJ_S1K

6 ай бұрын

Honestly, its the same system for all our top sports. I grew up playing basketball and to play the best players you have to play in AAU which is just as expensive as paying club soccer.

@BakerClassics

6 ай бұрын

@@LJ_S1K shoot not even just the top sports. Have you seen how much it cost for girls to play volleyball? It's just the American way. Everybody wants their cut. And I'm not even talking about the clubs. Every entity that profits around youth sports. Especially the municipalities.

So well spoken! Not just another great player.

She's a legend, a winner, and she's correct on many points, but Carli Lloyd also hates on anything where she's not the center of focus. I just said what many are reluctant to say, sorry not sorry

@hmahdavi

3 ай бұрын

you don't say I hate the USA just because we have Trump running for president.

@nicolebrown5987

Ай бұрын

@@hmahdavi mic drop

Lloyd wasn't wrong, she just isn't savvy & selective in her language. You can be critical & supportive simultaneously if you choose yr words well. She comes off as bitter & wanting to see the USWNT lose for personal disillusionment. Other commentators are able to achieve this, or coaches, watch how Emma Hayes talks to her players. The challenge is how can you be honest but still uplift & push yr players/peers? I view ex players as capable of being literal extended members of the system even though they're not on the pitch anymore. There is an unspoken inclusive insular loyalty that sorta is for life wether yr on the pitch or not. Look at Abby Wambauch, Julie Foudy, etc that's a family, a sisterhood. You can be brutally honest but follow with comments that get players to turn the eff up. Carli doesn't do this. She seems to get off in seeing them fail in a "I told you so" sort of attitude. How does that serve the squad?

@hmahdavi

6 ай бұрын

it is better for her and soccer if she doesn't talk especially bad-mouthing her old teammates.

@sandrobinari4433

5 ай бұрын

Why do you all think FOX picked her!?

@hmahdavi

5 ай бұрын

Fox likes people who attack anything American. @@sandrobinari4433

Good interview. Love to see another "on the fringe" National Team Player....John Brooks. THAT would be interesting!

We knew what the quality of the rest of the world. What we also knew was that Vladko was the wrong coach and completely messed up the team. I'm hoping a new coach changes that, but she has zero international experience so I'm nervous.

Carli Lloyd is a class act. She's a role model for other girls. She spoke her truth that was backed up by Hope Solo & others.

Midge was timid in her response to charges made by Lloyd considering Lloyd accused current team of not being up to the task of being champions or having the right stuff.

The Football nations have begun to take notice. The USA could continue to dominate but not without investment at all levels. If the level of investment stays the same then the US women will fall out around the same level as the men. The amount of money invested in Football, especially in Europe is insane. Now that the women are filling stadiums the investment is increasing with the interest. Barca women routinely fill camp nou stadium. The money is noticing. It's not a fluke that Spain won the World Cup.

Midge Purce !! ⚽🔥🙌

It seems more people are fixated on the messenger rather than the message. So many responses attacking Carli without actually addressing what she was talking about. Going back to the start, the whole reason USWNT is as popular as it is now is solely because of the success the ladies have had. They played the game for the beauty/fun of it and for national pride, NOT for the pay or social justice. Those ladies deserver as much, if not more, credit for winning the equal pay fight as anyone who put their name on the paperwork. Carli has been critical of the teams because she does not feel the new generation is as dedicated to the game and nation as they are to personal gains. She is not attacking the players but their work ethics. Some people get defensive and just retaliate out of anger. Some take the criticism and use it as motivation or opportunity to improve. As a coach, you have to deal with different types but the Champions are usually the second type.

Carli did not play in that many world cups and Olympic rosters for being an idiot…she knows many things we don’t know about. She’s a legend. Truth hurts but is needed at all times.

@elenisk

6 ай бұрын

She doesn’t seem to care about the success of the team. Carli has always been for Carli that is so obvious if you follow her career, read her autobiography.

@stephaniee2075

6 ай бұрын

She's a selfish narcissist that pouts when things aren't exactly how she wants them. This isn't new info lol. She can be an amazing soccer player and a shitty teammate/person at the same time.

Midge doens't get it about the development in this country. The rest of the world has caught up and, in some circumstances, passed development in the USA. Dempsey made the point that they pay to play system vs. free play and ways people can advance in other countries national teams is key. pay to play system is killing soccer here in the USA A) because too many club teams have a say who and who doesn't go and B) clubs care about winning over development. two recipe's for disaster and we're seeing the results

@derekk9202

3 ай бұрын

She gets it. You don't.

@coachaugie

3 ай бұрын

@@derekk9202 here we go...another one who doesn't know anything about the women's game and wants to comment

Fix the rugs

Rapinoe shouldn’t have been on that roster. Purce was ready!!!!!!

I honestly feel like Carli Lloyd needs to ask herself - what happened to her? Why is she angry and bitter at a team that is rebuilding. The team has a right to learn. They're not the same team as the past decade or before. And, her comments don't support growth, it's not supportive or do anything productive. I suggest she get some major therapy and get her own internal house in order. In other words FO.

Who is Midge Purce?

@davidsprenkle2641

6 ай бұрын

You must not follow the NWSL or the USWNT. Most recently, she was the MVP of the NWSL championship game which Gotham won against OL Reign.

@derekk9202

3 ай бұрын

Who is gus

Carli is awesome

@derekk9202

3 ай бұрын

Bitter former player not much more

@IXMANMOXI

3 ай бұрын

@@derekk9202way more heart and grit than the existing soft woke players