The WNT lost its first game in almost two years, which is unacceptable. The WNT hasn't gotten smoked by France in a friendly leading up to the WWC since, well, the last WWC, and we all know how horribly that went.
In response to this affront, we should change all of the NCAA rules that currently stunt the professional soccer growth of student athletes by instead stunting their academic growth. In fact, we should encourage more players to skip college completely and go straight pro because the vast sums of money available for women's players. Living in the basement of a creepy Sky Blue fan rent free and making $15,000 a year is certainly a better idea than getting a college degree for most college women. Or just go to Europe right out of HS. It worked for one person, so it must be a good career choice for most.
We must also restructure our entire youth system. 10 years of top down control of the boys' side has worked wonders for them, so we should do more of that for the girls. In fact, USSF should pour tons of time and money into making every child in America play soccer exactly how a handful of people in Chicago believe it should be played, especially when they hire the "right people" to ensure that every coach in America is coaching the one "right way".
We should also fire Ellis immediately. Winning the last WWC in a blow out and going 18-0-2 in 2018 is not good enough. She must beat every team, every time, even with C team players. In contrast, Pia Sundage surely would have still beaten Japan in the 2011 WWC finals even if she hadn't played four of her best players and even if she gave a collegiate midfielder her first cap against a top 20 team playing out of position at outside back. Sundage must be rehired so she can resurrect her strategy of trying to win games solely by bouncing long balls off Wambach's head.
I have an idea. Relax. If the WNT doesn't win the WC, it will be the same result as most of the WCs they've played in. The WNT has been the most consistently good over time and that is going to continue indefinitely, but you're delusional if you think they're worse relative to the rest of the world than they've ever been. The world isn't passing the WNT by. There have always been countries able to challenge and beat the WNT and, go figure, there still are. Right now it is France.
