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    April Heinrichs canned

    Finally USSF does something right.

    GDA was a lazy move done by an organization with no strategic vision.

    #2
    In fairness to her it was a bad idea and poorly executed. on top of that. Even someone good probably couldn't rescue it, but most likely they'll put in someone else equally as unskilled

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      #3
      It’s is shocking to watch the CONCACAF women’s qualifiers and there are no fans!! Are these games closed to the public. How can they be so poorly attended ?

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        #4
        Where is Edinburg, Texas???

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          #5
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          Where is Edinburg, Texas???
          Practically in Mexico, near NOTHING. I suppose they were going for the Hispanic market with the games, but you need to be near a decent sized city to fill stands with suburban white girls. Playing in TX in early October means high heat and humidity and hurricane risks

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            #6
            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            In fairness to her it was a bad idea and poorly executed. on top of that. Even someone good probably couldn't rescue it, but most likely they'll put in someone else equally as unskilled
            In fairness, read this.

            https://www.starsandstripesfc.com/20...er-ynt-problem

            Do you really think she was good? She grew up and strived in a system where all the talent was on one team, nc and when the rest of the world didn’t invest a penny in women’s sports and women’s soccer, so you throw together the best athletes and you win a World Cup.

            If you read the article, you can see a bias to not selecting ecnl players on to junior national teams. Players who went on to be top ncaa players and make the senior national team. How does that happen. You are good enough to make a full us national team, but not good enough to make any junior national team camp even? Your job is to find the best talent and to provide superior coaching and put a team on the field that can win. She failed at her job. Us junior national teams have failed under her watch. Answer was right under your nose, but instead we created a new watered down league and will use that as our primary source of players. Sounds like a plan.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              In fairness, read this.

              https://www.starsandstripesfc.com/20...er-ynt-problem

              Do you really think she was good? She grew up and strived in a system where all the talent was on one team, nc and when the rest of the world didn’t invest a penny in women’s sports and women’s soccer, so you throw together the best athletes and you win a World Cup.

              If you read the article, you can see a bias to not selecting ecnl players on to junior national teams. Players who went on to be top ncaa players and make the senior national team. How does that happen. You are good enough to make a full us national team, but not good enough to make any junior national team camp even? Your job is to find the best talent and to provide superior coaching and put a team on the field that can win. She failed at her job. Us junior national teams have failed under her watch. Answer was right under your nose, but instead we created a new watered down league and will use that as our primary source of players. Sounds like a plan.
              Arent these paragraphs the heart of the issue:

              "As others have noted, the YWNT style in recent cycles, including the recent U20 World Cup, heavily emphasizes individualistic flank play. Central midfield, the theory goes, is simply too easy to clog up defensively. Better to skirt around that part of the field altogether, get it wide as early as possible, and create havoc through 1v1 and 2v1 attacks down the wing.

              Thus, in the current cycle, WNT technical director April Heinrichs and U20 head coach Jitka Klimkova picked a roster that was heavy on attacking players with an ability and a propensity to attack and take on 1v1 from wider areas—e.g., Sophia Smith, Ashley Sanchez, Abigail Kim, Erin Gilroy, and Alexa Spaanstra. (Midfielder Taryn Torres, who can play in a variety of positions, tended to be deployed by Klimkova as a flank attacker as well.)

              B.J. Snow’s U17 rosters in the 2014 and 2016 cycles similarly favored fast, direct attackers, especially 1v1 dribblers out wide. In fact, Snow’s squads for the 2014 World Cup qualifiers and the 2016 U17 World Cup were so loaded up on forwards that they each basically had only three true midfielders. (Oddly enough, these teams also struggled to play through midfield and break down organized defenses."

              Everyone drafts speed, speed, speed and just try to make it work .... The American style of soccer if not predicated on technical ability, spatial awareness, soccer IQ or anuthing else other than speed ..... We do it at the rec level, travel level, local premier, regional premier, and ECNL, DA and US NTs. It is no wonder Colombia kicked the mens butts last night. How about we start picking particular skills for particular positions rather than take all forwards and move them to places that they have never played and in new situations where taking long toiches and running fast sinks you deeper? We dont try to put 4.4 forty guys at LT or QB .... Each football position seeks vasrly different skills and body types ..... Why dont we do something similar in soccer here? I still chuckle that thebintent of DA is the grow prototypical players (forwards and wings imho) rather than let plyers develop unique and necessary, but different, skill sets that can later be harvested as needed for a particilar team.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                In fairness, read this.

                https://www.starsandstripesfc.com/20...er-ynt-problem

                Do you really think she was good? She grew up and strived in a system where all the talent was on one team, nc and when the rest of the world didn’t invest a penny in women’s sports and women’s soccer, so you throw together the best athletes and you win a World Cup.

                If you read the article, you can see a bias to not selecting ecnl players on to junior national teams. Players who went on to be top ncaa players and make the senior national team. How does that happen. You are good enough to make a full us national team, but not good enough to make any junior national team camp even? Your job is to find the best talent and to provide superior coaching and put a team on the field that can win. She failed at her job. Us junior national teams have failed under her watch. Answer was right under your nose, but instead we created a new watered down league and will use that as our primary source of players. Sounds like a plan.
                This is a very good take. +1.

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                  #9
                  [QUOTE=Unregistered;2356855]It’s is shocking to watch the CONCACAF women’s qualifiers and there are no fans!! Are these games closed to the public. How can they be so poorly attended ?[/QUOTE

                  It’s an absolute joke actually. Here’s Team USA attendance figures in Cary, NC (hotbed by the way)...and this is WC qualifying! What’s going on.

                  All three games in Cary, NC

                  Against T&T - 3,996
                  Against Panama - 7,532
                  Against Mexico -5,404

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                    #10
                    [QUOTE=Unregistered;2356943]
                    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                    It’s is shocking to watch the CONCACAF women’s qualifiers and there are no fans!! Are these games closed to the public. How can they be so poorly attended ?[/QUOTE

                    It’s an absolute joke actually. Here’s Team USA attendance figures in Cary, NC (hotbed by the way)...and this is WC qualifying! What’s going on.

                    All three games in Cary, NC

                    Against T&T - 3,996
                    Against Panama - 7,532
                    Against Mexico -5,404
                    And yet they want to be paid the same as the MNT.

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                      #11
                      [QUOTE=Unregistered;2356964]
                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post

                      And yet they want to be paid the same as the MNT.
                      Well, in fairness, they have earned more as a team over the past few years!! Someone has to make the money to pay the huge US Soccer staff their exorbitant salaries ..... especially on the men's side.

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                        #12
                        There were more Colombian fans at the men's game last night then there were US Women's fans at the US women's game.

                        These examples speak directly to our country's lack of soccer culture. US youth soccer players and parents are focused on college soccer, not real soccer.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          There were more Colombian fans at the men's game last night then there were US Women's fans at the US women's game.

                          These examples speak directly to our country's lack of soccer culture. US youth soccer players and parents are focused on college soccer, not real soccer.
                          There were more Colombian fans there last night than there were US Men's fans!

                          "Colombia fans made up the majority of the announced 38,631 fans — a record for a United States men’s national team game in Tampa — at Raymond James Stadium to see the South American country beat the U.S. 4-2 Thursday night. The previous record of 31,547 was set in 2007 against Ecuador.

                          A quick scan of the stands revealed hand-made signs that read “Me Encanta Cartagena” and “Tuluá del Valle” or “I love Cartagena” and “Tuluá of the Valley,” both cities in Colombia. The yellow shirts waved them high in the air, sometimes while doing the wave that rippled through the stadium sections."

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                            #14
                            Soccer here feels like a sport for the rich so it it harder for it to have mass appeal.

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                              #15
                              "In fact, Snow’s squads for the 2014 World Cup qualifiers and the 2016 U17 World Cup were so loaded up on forwards that they each basically had only three true midfielders. (Oddly enough, these teams also struggled to play through midfield and break down organized defenses."

                              No kidding. Can't believe these people get paid to do this.

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