Morgan lost her touch but the future for uswnt attackers is bright hopefully they give the new young ladies midfield and attackers a chance to prove themselves and maybe take Morgan spot

That Germany goalie flattens Korniak near the end . . . and the ref just swallows her whistle? Bizarre.

@canebro1

Жыл бұрын

At minimum that was a potential head injury, which is now an immediate stop

@TomF18

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that one was beyond explanation.

@timberwolfe338

Жыл бұрын

6 yards clear of the box!!!!

@daturdburglar2261

Жыл бұрын

Should have been red

@nandofim

Жыл бұрын

timberwolfe338 And red card for the goalie...

Mal was at midfield when she started tracking the ball. No one knew what was coming except her. Awesome! The German defenders never put a body on her. They were preoccupied with Alex Morgan giving her a convoy every time she goes downfield.

@mcaro1

Жыл бұрын

Too bad she’s a trump supporter

@blackgrl71

Жыл бұрын

Germany also doesn't have the speed to match Pugh, Smith

Huerta needs to be put on midfield every single game. shes amazing. she sets up bangers its not her fault they dont finish. shes amazing. what a crack

@MikeDillinger

Жыл бұрын

This is correct.

I was at this game last night. The US should have high presses Germany. Germany is a good team and physically brutal, borderline dirty but truthfully the US is a much faster team and should be using that advantage. Germany does not have breakaway spend. They attack the middle. I am not sold on our coach. On the goal by Germany no one marked the scorer.

@lamiz3786

Жыл бұрын

pretty biased, Jule Brand is faster than every american defender.

@mtadams2009

Жыл бұрын

@@lamiz3786 Maybe one player but from what I could see when I was at the game the Germany’s are not as fast. They are surely very physical and also very skilled. The US team has a long way to go and I am not sure the coach is getting the best from the players. I still think England is number one and the US and Germany are neck and neck.

@njzito

Жыл бұрын

Well you should like a idiot. Go do some research and let me know what you find.

@erobinsonii

Жыл бұрын

@@Ralph_Smith0724 The ball bounces off of Huerta's butt. If you want to blame her for that, I don't care. There was a time later in the game where Sophia Huerta does head the ball to the D. The shot was not good but that was something I would have complained about.

@erobinsonii

Жыл бұрын

@@lamiz3786 Emily Fox outran whoever she was guarding on the American left. I don't know the names. But like I've said before, everybody's forwards are faster than defenders. Foot speed is not Sophia Huerta's forte. It wasn't Kelley O'hara's either. Sometimes Rose would cover for Kelley. Rose is playing more of a forward position now, but Sophia is a ridiculous passer. The US is not going to depend on a lot of short passes. It's a quandary. Definitely having Cook play on the same side as Huerta is not the answer.

The male announcer is screaming like this is the world cup final 😂 its a friendly match

@lamiz3786

Жыл бұрын

yeah the german team changed goalies mid game meanwhile the US played super seriously. In a friendlies lol.

Need to finish- way many more goals should have happened

@DannyCosmos

Жыл бұрын

@@Ralph_Smith0724 Huerta sets them up and they dont finish them. huerta is amazing at midfield

Lessons learned: -SAM (Sophia, Alex & Mal) should always be the starting front line. -The midfield needs to drop back on defense a lot more often. Ertz is sorely missed there. -Defensive coaching is sorely needed, and that’s not Vlatko’s forte. Their positioning as a whole is horrible, and they got burned on the counter attacks over & over. Plus, Cook should always be a sub; she’s a weak link.

@RogueSamus27

Жыл бұрын

Thank You! Glad to see someone else notice this. Been pulling my hair out seeing the same problems with Vlatko's coaching since that pre-Olympic friendly against Sweden in 2021.

@TomF18

Жыл бұрын

@@Ralph_Smith0724 Yeah, I prefer them, although I didn’t think Fox and Sullivan did badly. But Cook was exposed over & over, and I don’t think Dunn’s back to 100% yet.

@blackgrl71

Жыл бұрын

And Girma as Defender

@TomF18

Жыл бұрын

@@blackgrl71 Yes! She’s showing a lot of promise.

@bigtate1439

Жыл бұрын

The defense surely needs work, but I have to rant about Pugh and Smith because of how big I believe their potential is, how huge of a key to the US team's success they are, how ABSOLUTELY FRUSTRATING they have been to watch, and how much better they were this game. They have the talent to help this US team become an offensive juggernaut, but to be quite frank, their decision making in the final third has been horrendous up to now. Before this game it felt like they were downright allergic to passing or playing holdup if they won/received the ball in an attacking position. Just tunnel vision every time. If Andonovski is going to continue to be dead-set on playing this offensive 4-3-3 with backs pushing up, Smith and Pugh will need to help control the middle third of the pitch and make better decisions in the final third, like they did in this win. It will significantly ease a midfield and defense that has players playing roles they aren't used to due to injuries if they aren't constantly wasting half chances and rushing like before. This was the first game where it looked like these two players were thinking about the overall flow of the game and what they needed to do for TEAM success. This game was a decent start of the team looking like an actual unit. Smith's goal came from some nice short passing (also some terrible German defending) on the edge of the 18, but it was still mostly an individual effort, and even in that run of play the lack of cohesion and trust was apparent. After a nice triangle to get her in, every other US player in the attacking area stood there ballwatching because they didn't expect a decent cross or centering pass from her. Not a single run from the edge of the box or move to leave their marker, each of them moved like three walking paces. Who wants to waste energy making a run for no reason? Part of that is positional coaching too. Pugh needs to watch film or something because she was edging TOWARD the ball when her defender left and there was a mountain of space smack dab on top of the penalty spot. Pugh was also better in the final third than before, but she still botched amazing chances with poor decision making. She made a magnificent run and cut her defender back beautifully for a clear shot on goal JUST outside the six yard box.....and then she laid the ball off to Morgan. It was unselfish but you simply can't pass a shot just outside the six with only the keeper to beat, that's just ridiculous. It definitely felt like she was overcompensating for all chances she was hogging before. Talent is not Pugh and Smith's problem, clearly. Their problem is knowing when to make great individual plays, and when to trust and utilize their teammates. Because the same thing happened with the lack of trust and cohesion on this play too. Morgan was not expecting that cutback pass at all, so her run was halfhearted and she was not ready to receive the ball. That's the kind of rapport they have not built because of their style of play up to this point. And then we have Pugh's breakaway. The keeper BARELY even made it outside the six yard box and she tried to dribble around her. That ball needs to be smashed around the keeper if she's not going to close. Obviously way easier said that done, but finishing has been this team's kryptonite on offense and needs improvement. All that being said, both of them were huge parts of this victory and I do believe they are the correct options to start up front with Morgan. Let's hope the mindset they carried into this game will be continued and was not just an anomaly. They at least attempted to be unselfish in the final third and there was even a decent amount of midfield pressure and buildup play from them there that we haven't seen before. The cohesion and mutual trust wasn't all the way there yet, but this was a good stepping stone. It takes more than one game of unselfish play to build that up. If they are smart on the attacking and middle thirds, I honestly believe they can help carry a defense and defensive midfield that has looked extremely suspect, the second half of this game is proof of that. It's not like the defense has been giving up 3 and 4 goals in these losses. Overall, the US have been creating more than enough opportunities to beat teams that score two goals against them, even with a lack of connection. If they manage to build that up with their teammates, this team will look amazing come world cup time. But it's a big IF.

Mal Pugh really make an impact..

@ptrevino7684

Жыл бұрын

That's some speed right their Andy

It about time after all those lost.

I need to see Kristie at the 6 more!!! I also wanna see Sanchez more. Pair her and Trinity Rodman on one side and you’re bound to get a goal or two out of them. I also don’t think this was Alex’s best game but it seems she’s used more as a decoy for the wingers to make runs inside and score. I think if Horan played the 9 and we used her as a target woman and let the wingers make runs past her, it could be extremely deadly.

The technical level and team chemistry of the US team is not there. Instead of worring about winning these games and playing older waning skill players. They need to build a team and develop their newer future players

Man those goals were scored on some pretty big defensive collapses... at 7:08 The commentator did a great job imitating a machine gun!

@scottnelson2384

Жыл бұрын

First time I actually enjoyed Salazar., he was very good, great calls. Couldn't stand the gooooaaaalll thing. Someone needs to tell him to stop trying to say names in the native tongue, he sounds ridiculous.

@DannyCosmos

Жыл бұрын

@@scottnelson2384 he mostly sucks al his goal calls sound rehearsed like he thinks of cool stuff to say when someone scores but doent reherse it either just sounds forced and lame.

@kirstieb8025

Жыл бұрын

@@scottnelson2384 he’s hispanic tho

...super obvious the goalkeeper doesn't play the ball. How the referee misses this is beyond me. You don't need VAR for that

Pugh played like she got possessed by something.

Sophia Smith can't be stopped!

That was dope!! 👏🏼

One word. PUGH ❤

Such a sweet game don't know how any one could not like it

Pugh can’t missed on those 1 & 1 opportunity, not many of those you see in a game.

@rolandoreyes3144

Жыл бұрын

You are right. But she is young, She is going to learn.

Winning is GOOD Winning after coming from behind is even BETTER....Trusting those young players to win is even more EXCITING...go USA WOMEN

Nice win, some good plays in spots, but the inability to finish -- to even put the ball on the goal face -- is depressingly familiar. The new wrinkle was to have some wide open breakaways that also resulted in poor finish attempts. There is obviously time to get things right. Let's hope this match was an inflection point on the way to vast improvement and not a temporary variance in what has been an extended run of lackluster play.

How is the hit on Kornieck by the keeper not a red card?!

USA....USA....USA...I ' am so proud of you girls ...💪💪💪

OK, finally seeing a national or pro team line up defenders across the six to defend set pieces. This makes complete sense from a physics standpoint, attack the ball in AWAY from your goal. These high lines with defenders chasing swung balls in TOWARD their own goal is just working against the laws of physics. Love to see it. 6:48 Just got to keep pressing out.

I am just gonna say it. Naher is the best goalkeeper I have seen in my 23 years of watching the USWNT.

@davidsprenkle2641

Жыл бұрын

Whether or not that's true, she's been great for the USWNT. Goalkeeper is the one position we don't have to worry about.

@romeoarmstrong360

Жыл бұрын

Solo

@timberwolfe338

Жыл бұрын

My friend.... Hope solo is a trash human but she was beyond incredible in the keepers box. I'm not sure we can say Naeher is better on keeping ability or accolade alone.

@DannyCosmos

Жыл бұрын

shes good but Solo is the goat. Naher cant toucch hopes numbers...

@DannyCosmos

Жыл бұрын

@@romeoarmstrong360 hope solo is the goat.

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Is it me or are the REFs at any level forgot how to protect players?!?!?! as a SD Wave fan, thankfully, Taylor Kornieck wasn't hurt.

The goalkeeping reminds me of JV soccer

Opening comment " The Usa has never lost 4 in a row " Well, you have that to look forward to :)

Seems very messy and lits of misses opportunities, nice win but hopefully more organkzes next time!

Off the sweat and grind of the uswnt players. Vlatko please resign.

@minhsp3

Жыл бұрын

FIRE VLATKO

Mal Pugh is damn quick. She needs to finish those 1v1's though.

why dosent pugh make gun noiss and gun signs when she scores? fifa dont allow it?

Mallory , coming like a super turbo snake / rocket .

Bravo USA🫶🏼♥️

How do you not stop a shot goin 2.7 mph? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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The German ladies played so dirty in such an international friendly match. They deserve a pass just for being blonde bombshells.

The USWNT won by grit and physicality with a great herculean effort by Pugh and Smith but unfortunately playing like that will run our players into injury. We don't have team cohesion or chemistry offensively.

@georgegarvey7338

Жыл бұрын

BULL F&CKING SHIT!!! Why in the f&ck are the lazy ass bum women getting half of the men's money for a game they didn't even f*cking play in Qatar!?!? F&CK all of you feminazi's!!

@richard6440

Жыл бұрын

@@georgegarvey7338 . wishbone made a valid point about football. You just rant hatred. For your information. The mens Wc was played in Qatar. The Womens WC will be played in Australia. Did your Mum drop you on your head as a baby?

@georgegarvey7338

Жыл бұрын

@@richard6440 You must have a small penis & I was doing your mother, sister & niece!!

❤I mean what I said

replace vlatko

Can someone please explain why the US women’s soccer team deserves half of the money the men’s soccer team won? Seriously?

@richard6440

Жыл бұрын

Dee Bee 2 months ago Can someone please explain. You really want to know? In every country, apart from the Usa, if someone plays for their country, they get a game fee. The fee will be exactly the same for men and women. In England its around £1,000 per game. The male players earn thousands of pounds per week playing for their clubs, so they donate that £1k to charity, have done for years. And the England women do as well. In the Usa, for whatever, its different. The game fee that the Usa men and women get " might " be the same. I do not know. It should be, if it isnt. They are both representing their country. But it seems that the Usa womens team wanted a bigger share of the prize money, that ' they ' won , from the Four World Cups that ' they ' won. Its complicated. The Usa women are far more successful than the men. The ussf refused, so the women sued and won. and then found out that they would get less, so wanted to revert to their original contract, and a judge refused. as i said, its very complicated. But as far as winning is concerned, the Usa womens team wins a lot of games and a lot of trophies. Wish me country's team did that :) Well , i'm English and we have just started, winning the Euros , 29 games undefeated , and favourites for this years World Cup. So as far as i'm concerned, if the England Women win the World Cup , pay them. A lot ! Football / soccer is a religion in Europe. Pay them. They won the world cup. Make them millionaires ! ....... That enough explanation? :)))

@deebee4575

Жыл бұрын

@@richard6440 I think you’re missing the part where nobody goes to see women’s soccer on a professional level. The World Cup? That’s the men’s game. The US women’s soccer team brings in less than 10% of what the men’s soccer team brings in.

@richard6440

Жыл бұрын

@@deebee4575 If you are talking about the ' National ' teams , then they are not played for profit. The USS is a non profit organisation. Most federations are. Most of the money comes in from TV revenue or sponsorship , not fans on seats. All that money goes to the respective National Federation and it is paid out by the federation. The amount that any federation pays to its teams , is only a small percentage of its income. So the federation can easily pay both national teams , men and women, the same game fee. Which is usually a lot less than they get from their club salary. nobody goes to see women’s soccer on a professional level. They might not in the Usa, but in Europe, the womens clubs have an average attendance of 11,000. Some twice that. For the National team , every England game is sold out. In June last year , England beat the Netherlands 5-1 in front of 19,000 fans in a 38,000 seater stadium. The next 12 games, up to now, have been sold out. 10 of them in 30,000 stadiums and two at Wembley, which holds 88,000. One of those games was v the Usa. So i dont know how many fams go to watch the Usa. You do have the problem of other sports in the Usa , baseball, basket ball, ice hockey etc . In Europe, football / soccer is a religion. Seriously. And the World Cup? There are two. The mens Wc is held one year before the Womens. Although the mens WC attracts billions in tv and sponsorship, the Womens is getting bteer every year. It will never catch the mens , but it is financially able to stand on its own feet, without any subsidies. The US women’s soccer team brings in less than 10% of what the men’s soccer team brings in..... That could be due to the tv contracts, sponsorship deals , ticket prices, when and where the womens games are played. Other games or sports that are being played or shown on tv at the time. For example, if a mens game was being shown on tv at a certain time , it would be suicide to show a womens game on a different channel. actually pointless to show ' any ' program, while the football is on :) So are you sure you are talking about the National team and not Club football? Just wondering.

We use to demolish this teams now we celebrate just the bare minimum.

@johnnybgood1169

Жыл бұрын

No. Germany was always competitive with the USA.

Player of the match,Alyssa Naher.Mallory Pugh needs some coaching on how to put the ball in the back of the net.

@kirstieb8025

Жыл бұрын

um, this happens to every top player 🤬

Pugh needs to learn when and how to pass. She can't always go straight for the goal.

@terry2346

Жыл бұрын

@@Ralph_Smith0724 Hard for them to keep up as she is so fast! But I agree.

> The referee missed a red car when she see a planned foul onto the American player, really a sandwich onto the American player.sje even show the yellow card. But, one of those 2 player shouldn't take out of the game immediately. We don't want to have those aggressive and dirty players on the field. Is a bad example for the new generations.

@incarau

Жыл бұрын

The referee it didn't call the foul.

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Жыл бұрын

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Talented team. USA have so many great players but they lost three times. Maybe the coach is not as good we need. Some substitutions were not right, like put Korniak (midfielder) instead of Morgan. What about Rapinoe, Hatch, Rodman. Or putting Thompson in England. I don’t know. They will be champions again but the coach has to use the players better.

@Delboy0

Жыл бұрын

Excuses. The USA are no longer playing semiprofessional part-time players from other nations anymore, where they would win by being fitter and stronger. As European women’s teams have got funding and become full time professionals, it is exposing the weakness in the USA soccer, such as low technical players and a lack of tactical sophistication due to poor coaching in the USA in general. Too much emphasis on physicality in women’s soccer in the USA not enough on tactics and technique and possession.

@AW-zk5qb

Жыл бұрын

@@Delboy0 lmao for once I agree with you Delboy0. US men's and women's do not understand that technique, possession and creativity are the essential parts of this sport, not physicality and speed (those are nice additions once you have the required technique). But what I've been telling you is that if soccer/football were the top sport in the US from the beginning (late 1800s), and the US had a proper soccer culture, the US would understand this. Watch how Americans talk about American football, baseball and basketball and how Europeans talk about soccer/football in terms of their pundits. They have a fundamental knowledge of the game. You do not see that with American soccer pundits. It's easier to eventually be better if you have maybe 85-90% of the funding but are from a nation with a proper soccer culture (European women's teams) than if you are from a nation with slightly more funding but without a proper soccer culture (US women). So the fact that the US women won the 2019 Women's World Cup surprised me; I thought that the aforementioned increase in funding while being from a proper soccer culture would have led the US women to lose in r16 of QF, yet they had their most dominant Women's World Cup win ever. And by the way, when I say if soccer were the top sport in the US from the beginning (late 1800s), and the US had a proper soccer culture, I'm not saying it would be like the Spanish or Brazilian type of play. It would be different from any national team we see, but the closest thing to it (to give a chance to visualize it) would be a mix between the French and English. There'd be a baseline technical ability that the present US doesn't even have because of lack of soccer culture, and supplemented to it would be very good strikers, good defenders and excellent goal keepers. The position that would be RELATIVELY the weakest for the US compared to other positions, would be the playmaking position. But in a nation where soccer is always top sport and as huge as the US, even in that the US would have good players. The US would also have a very good league if soccer were always the top sport in the US. I do not know whether it would be the best league in the world, top 3 or top 5, but my guess is it would be at least as good as Serie A/Bundesliga (I will estimate on the low end for the league just for argument's sake). If soccer were always the top sport in the US, the US team would be made up of players in top european leagues and top players in one of the top leagues in the world (the US league). Even when England were in their recent low ebb (about 2008-2016), they had players who were starters and bagging goals on decent Premier League teams. Even at a low ebb for the US, the US would have the same thing Also, I know you talk a lot about the black players on France and England making them out of reach for the Euro nations that don't have many black players. While I'm not sure how true that is (euro 2020 Italy, 2018 WC finalist Croatia, Germany 2014 had 1 black player, 2008-2012 Spain had no black players, nor did 2006 Italy, or any WC or euro winning european teams besides 1998-2000 France and 2018 France and 1984 France and 1988 Netherlands had a couple black players). But if you look at teams like France 2018, you'd have that with the US teams in the 1930s-1960s before even the likes of France had many black players on their national team. If soccer were the top sport in the US from the beginning, the US, as a perpetual World Cup contender, except from the beginning, and competing when World Cups were easier to win (pre 1970), the US would win 2-3 World Cups between 1930-1970, and 2-3 World Cups between 1970 and now. At worst, it would be 2 by 1970 and 2 between 1970 and now, for about 4 on the men's side. If the US had this proper soccer culture, but still had the funding advantage over European women, they'd likely have won 6 of the 8 Women's World Cups instead of 4. But the US winning 4-6 of the 21 World Cups on the men's side would be more indicative of the US' strength if soccer were always its top sport, rather than the US women winning 6 of 8 Women's World Cups. So my point is that if you equalized everything; on the women's side, the rest of world had same funding as US women, but the US had the 120+ year soccer culture of most of the world, the US on the men's and women's side would be among the favorites every World Cup and would have won World Cups

@minhsp3

Жыл бұрын

FIRE VLATKO

@MrGeneric2011

Жыл бұрын

Rapino is over the hill and a net drag on the team at this point. when she's on the field. Her glory days are behind her.

@victorpatzi9306

Жыл бұрын

@@MrGeneric2011 Morgan too. Rapinoe makes goals and moves better.

The girls are trying to do to much. Too many touches, too many passes. Pick your spot, move and shoot. Not pick your spot, move, move again, touch again. Also, the US leagues are too soft compared to international leagues. They need to be more physical. Not saying go take out people's knees, but the other leagues have no issues being harder on the hit.

@minhsp3

Жыл бұрын

TRUE

That "Pugh Pugh Pugh" thing is so cringe

Where are the men?!?!

@richard6440

Жыл бұрын

Playing in the mens team. This is womens football.

☝🏽 pUghSA

2022? more like 2020-PUGH

Damn those German defenders were lazy on that second goal.

@ndingere7857

Жыл бұрын

Nope, they were NOT!! They were just BEATEN, that's all!

@ivgondef4408

Жыл бұрын

@@ndingere7857 look at the one that just stops running back to try to stop the goal

@ndingere7857

Жыл бұрын

@@ivgondef4408 I know it looks like she was lazy. Actually it is that she is very smart. She can see that there was NO WAY that she or her team mate could catch up to Pugh after she flew past them carrying the ball with her. She saves her energy and hopes the Goalie would save that one. If not, it is what it is, nobody is a magician here.

@ivgondef4408

Жыл бұрын

@@ndingere7857 just cuz your beat doesn't mean you give up that's sports 101

@ndingere7857

Жыл бұрын

Ivgondef. That is true if the sport is about crossing the finish line. Here, a player (A) with high soccer IQ knows not to waste energy jogging behind and accompanying a lightning quick attacker that player A knows she CAN NO LONGER catch up to.

A red card should be Shawn immediately to the player committing the foul.

@richard6440

Жыл бұрын

shawn who ?

Most European teams are very dirty players. They should be punished. I Was a referee for 9 years in Pasadena, California. I never lost control of the game. And I didn't let a intentional foul pass by with no punishment or ignoring the play like this referee have done it.

@richard6440

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incarau 3 months ago Most European teams are very dirty players. Is this the only comment you can make? just copy and paste on to every football video ?

US men's and women's do not understand that technique, possession and creativity are the essential parts of this sport, not physicality and speed (those are nice additions once you have the required technique). But what I've been telling you is that if soccer/football were the top sport in the US from the beginning (late 1800s), and the US had a proper soccer culture, the US would understand this. Watch how Americans talk about American football, baseball and basketball and how Europeans talk about soccer/football in terms of their pundits. They have a fundamental knowledge of the game. You do not see that with American soccer pundits. It's easier to eventually be better if you have maybe 85-90% of the funding but are from a nation with a proper soccer culture (European women's teams) than if you are from a nation with slightly more funding but without a proper soccer culture (US women). So the fact that the US women won the 2019 Women's World Cup surprised me; I thought that the aforementioned increase in funding while being from a proper soccer culture would have led the US women to lose in r16 of QF, yet they had their most dominant Women's World Cup win ever. And by the way, when I say if soccer were the top sport in the US from the beginning (late 1800s), and the US had a proper soccer culture, I'm not saying it would be like the Spanish or Brazilian type of play. It would be different from any national team we see, but the closest thing to it (to give a chance to visualize it) would be a mix between the French and English. There'd be a baseline technical ability that the present US doesn't even have because of lack of soccer culture, and supplemented to it would be very good strikers, good defenders and excellent goal keepers. The position that would be RELATIVELY the weakest for the US compared to other positions, would be the playmaking position. But in a nation where soccer is always top sport and as huge as the US, even in that the US would have good players. The US would also have a very good league if soccer were always the top sport in the US. I do not know whether it would be the best league in the world, top 3 or top 5, but my guess is it would be at least as good as Serie A/Bundesliga (I will estimate on the low end for the league just for argument's sake). If soccer were always the top sport in the US, the US team would be made up of players in top european leagues and top players in one of the top leagues in the world (the US league). Even when England were in their recent low ebb (about 2008-2016), they had players who were starters and bagging goals on decent Premier League teams. Even at a low ebb for the US, the US would have the same thing Also, I know you talk a lot about the black players on France and England making them out of reach for the Euro nations that don't have many black players. While I'm not sure how true that is (euro 2020 Italy, 2018 WC finalist Croatia, Germany 2014 had 1 black player, 2008-2012 Spain had no black players, nor did 2006 Italy, or any WC or euro winning european teams besides 1998-2000 France and 2018 France and 1984 France and 1988 Netherlands had a couple black players). But if you look at teams like France 2018, you'd have that with the US teams in the 1930s-1960s before even the likes of France had many black players on their national team. If soccer were the top sport in the US from the beginning, the US, as a perpetual World Cup contender, except from the beginning, and competing when World Cups were easier to win (pre 1970), the US would win 2-3 World Cups between 1930-1970, and 2-3 World Cups between 1970 and now. At worst, it would be 2 by 1970 and 2 between 1970 and now, for about 4 on the men's side. If the US had this proper soccer culture, but still had the funding advantage over European women, they'd likely have won 6 of the 8 Women's World Cups instead of 4. But the US winning 4-6 of the 21 World Cups on the men's side would be more indicative of the US' strength if soccer were always its top sport, rather than the US women winning 6 of 8 Women's World Cups. So my point is that if you equalized everything; on the women's side, the rest of world had same funding as US women, but the US had the 120+ year soccer culture of most of the world, the US on the men's and women's side would be among the favorites every World Cup and would have won World Cups

@brosephjames

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You write way too much

@richard6440

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@@Ralph_Smith0724 ....... rjay 3 months ago You write way too much. No he doesnt. You wait till i get started ::

@richard6440

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@@Ralph_Smith0724 Organised Womens football started in England by 1881 , so your first statement is wrong. The Womens game in England was banned from 1921 to 1971 , so your second statement is wrong. After England won the WC in 1966 , the womens game started up again , but was pretty much ignored by the footballing authorities until they had done very well in the Mundalito tournament , winning it twice in the 80's. Then Fifa started up a WC for women in 1991. Now the Usa get involved. Because you have a college system in the Usa , you had an advantage over Europe. Our colleges / universities are for education, not sport. So the only help they would get, would be from the professional mens clubs. Who ignored them. So the Usa ( almost professional ) team kept winning the WC against the amateur European teams. Until the 2019 WWC when England lost in the semi to the Usa. The top clubs then started supporting the womens teams, giving them funding , training facilities etc. And a year or two ago, our teams finally went pro. The English FA , after seeing the Women lose 12 of their last 14 games, decided to employ Sarina Wiegman, the Dutch coach of the Netherlands that lost the 2019 final to the Usa. She took them to her second Euros win , and Englands first , beating all previous winners of the WC , Euros and Olympics. 29 games undefeated. 21 of those v the top 20 teams. The Usa isnt doing so well. In the current rakings, they are only 5 points ahead of Germany. Your time at the top might just be coming to an end. Check the rankings score, if you like. And revered is not exactly the word that you should use. :) I can think of others , none of them polite . Respected, yes, they are still dangerous, but there are 3 or 4 teams who can beat them now. Revered, feared. No, not any more. Welcome to 2023 :)

The new professionalism in Europe has robbed the USA of the fitness and athleticism advantage that used to win the games so easily with. It is now exposing the weaknesses in women’s soccer in the USA. The poor coaching in general meaning there has been too much emphasis on physicality, meaning American players are inferior technically to Europeans and women from other traditional soccer nations. You add to that the lack of tactical sophistication in the American women’s league where all the teams play transition football due to this over emphasis on athleticism meaning football produces players who are powerful runners and not creative, high technical skilful passing possession players. And you are noticing a clear difference in the technical quality of women players in European teams compared to Women on the US team. It is only going to get worst for the Uswnt because Europe is only at the start of their professional era and just wait these countries with no pay to play system start getting the best female athletes in soccer, it will be game over for the USA

@janainaabreu110

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Acho um ezajeiro falar isso as jogadoras americanas nao fica so na correria elas tem criatividade nos passes de bola chute forte e muito mais nos temos que continuar a apoinha las isso sim

@AW-zk5qb

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US men's and women's do not understand that technique, possession and creativity are the essential parts of this sport, not physicality and speed (those are nice additions once you have the required technique). But what I've been telling you is that if soccer/football were the top sport in the US from the beginning (late 1800s), and the US had a proper soccer culture, the US would understand this. Watch how Americans talk about American football, baseball and basketball and how Europeans talk about soccer/football in terms of their pundits. They have a fundamental knowledge of the game. You do not see that with American soccer pundits. It's easier to eventually be better if you have maybe 85-90% of the funding but are from a nation with a proper soccer culture (European women's teams) than if you are from a nation with slightly more funding but without a proper soccer culture (US women). So the fact that the US women won the 2019 Women's World Cup surprised me; I thought that the aforementioned increase in funding while being from a proper soccer culture would have led the US women to lose in r16 of QF, yet they had their most dominant Women's World Cup win ever. And by the way, when I say if soccer were the top sport in the US from the beginning (late 1800s), and the US had a proper soccer culture, I'm not saying it would be like the Spanish or Brazilian type of play. It would be different from any national team we see, but the closest thing to it (to give a chance to visualize it) would be a mix between the French and English. There'd be a baseline technical ability that the present US doesn't even have because of lack of soccer culture, and supplemented to it would be very good strikers, good defenders and excellent goal keepers. The position that would be RELATIVELY the weakest for the US compared to other positions, would be the playmaking position. But in a nation where soccer is always top sport and as huge as the US, even in that the US would have good players. The US would also have a very good league if soccer were always the top sport in the US. I do not know whether it would be the best league in the world, top 3 or top 5, but my guess is it would be at least as good as Serie A/Bundesliga (I will estimate on the low end for the league just for argument's sake). If soccer were always the top sport in the US, the US team would be made up of players in top european leagues and top players in one of the top leagues in the world (the US league). Even when England were in their recent low ebb (about 2008-2016), they had players who were starters and bagging goals on decent Premier League teams. Even at a low ebb for the US, the US would have the same thing Also, I know you talk a lot about the black players on France and England making them out of reach for the Euro nations that don't have many black players. While I'm not sure how true that is (euro 2020 Italy, 2018 WC finalist Croatia, Germany 2014 had 1 black player, 2008-2012 Spain had no black players, nor did 2006 Italy, or any WC or euro winning european teams besides 1998-2000 France and 2018 France and 1984 France and 1988 Netherlands had a couple black players). But if you look at teams like France 2018, you'd have that with the US teams in the 1930s-1960s before even the likes of France had many black players on their national team. If soccer were the top sport in the US from the beginning, the US, as a perpetual World Cup contender, except from the beginning, and competing when World Cups were easier to win (pre 1970), the US would win 2-3 World Cups between 1930-1970, and 2-3 World Cups between 1970 and now. At worst, it would be 2 by 1970 and 2 between 1970 and now, for about 4 on the men's side. If the US had this proper soccer culture, but still had the funding advantage over European women, they'd likely have won 6 of the 8 Women's World Cups instead of 4. But the US winning 4-6 of the 21 World Cups on the men's side would be more indicative of the US' strength if soccer were always its top sport, rather than the US women winning 6 of 8 Women's World Cups. So my point is that if you equalized everything; on the women's side, the rest of world had same funding as US women, but the US had the 120+ year soccer culture of most of the world, the US on the men's and women's side would be among the favorites every World Cup and would have won World Cups

@koreysamuel917

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This team will get smoked in the World Cup.

@richard6440

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@@Ralph_Smith0724 Ralph Smith 3 months ago Whether you like it or not this is the USA school of football. We have our own style. It really doesnt bother us what style of football you play:) If you play the " grab the ball and rush forward " style , you'll lose. Not every game, you'll still beat low level teams with that. But not against top Euro teams.

@richard6440

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@@Ralph_Smith0724 How come the European teams kill themselves for hiring South American footballers? I think you are talking about the mens game. Only Brazil is any good in the womens teams from south america. and we have hundreds of top women players in Europe.

The new generation is so bad

Too bad Mal Pugh is a known Trump supporter

@minhsp3

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PUGH IS SMART NOT BRAINWASHED

@MrGeneric2011

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Too bad you suffer from TDS.

@mcaro1

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@@MrGeneric2011 too bad you deleted ur comment coward

@AA-gf9kv

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Who care about politics..let's enjoy the beautiful game.

@clara5419

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her or her husband ?