What cracks me up is all the talk and excitement of the USSDA coming in to help the USWNT develop players in their desired style of play. So explain why... whenever the USWNT U20's got a goal-kick the whole team shifts to one side of the field around the half way line to compete for the aimless launch from the keeper
What happened to building out from the back? (My guess is it's too difficult for this staff to coach with any degree of confidence) Is that no longer the plan? We're going to demand that our Youth Soccer Clubs implement a specific style of play...but we'll give the coaches in the top job a pass? We're instead going to go back to the good old tried and tested hoof and run? It's won us World Cups in the past I guess! The Women's game and those player's moving through the "system" should be afraid. Success in results has blinded us to the massive deficiencies in our technical and tactical performance. France not only matched us physically, but they have a much better understanding and execution of the game....How does that happen? Well it happens because the hierarchy of USWNT continues to be a "buddy-club"...Why bother bringing in a new Academy to follow the same old dinosaurs....strip out the antiques and get some new, invigorating leadership into the big seats and focus the development of the younger players, on actual player development and education and not on creating a syphon of players into a tiny pool of kids, who will only be underwhelmed by their education and development, when they reach the coaches of yesteryear higher up the chain!