Simple media politics. MiB is in bed with NBC, which is perfect for the OG show since they have the EPL. But they don't have rights to any women's football coverage at all. Since MiB are partners, not employees, they could loan Sam to some of the other networks, but these media companies are weird about that kinda stuff.
Korbin Albert and Sam Coffey impressed me the whole tournament! Right place, right time kind of players with tremendous drive and stamina. Honestly I can't tell whether they had some struggles connecting passes, or whether teammates struggled to keep up with their intensity and positional awareness. Either way, color me optimistic going forward!
Pressing a possession control team like Brazil, (Spain, France) disrupts their offensive rhythm and causes havoc in their passing game. Pressing all over the pitch, fighting every 50-50 ball and getting a toe in to disrupt every Brazilian pass is not easy, it's exhausting for both the offense and defense, but that's what the USA squad did for 90 plus minutes. It was a brilliant strategy and even better on the pitch performance by the entire squad. With that kind of pressure, one beautiful goal made, is all it took to take Brazil out of their comfort zone and caused them to look confused and unorganized. With smart, determined play like that, this team and their coaching staff will go far into the Olympics in a few months and should be great to see. Congratulations!
*Thank you lindsey, foxy, Korbin, Coffey… THANK YOU! Alex showing up and out. Shaw being the MVP is so deserving. Uncle naeher is a freakin legend. This tournament was crazy but the uswnt came out on top. Congrats.*
Sam, we miss YOU on the Pitch, dear!!!🌹💖👍 Great analysis like usual Sam. 👍 Congratulations to our team USWNT for winning the inaugural W GOLD CUP of CONCACAF 2024!!! Hail to the GOAT HORAN, our Captain who techbook header for the winning GOAL! Congratulations to the best goal keeper ALYSSA NAEHER and the best promising youngsters of the USWNT: Shaw, Albert, Rodman, Smith, Girma, Fox, Coffey…… The best interim HC Twila Kilgore!!! Go team USA!!!🌹💖🎉🎉⚽️👍🇺🇸🤩🤩🤩
I am soooo emotional about this win! It feels so huge for this team that has so many new players, is in a huge transition, and is still finding cohesion and it’s sense of identity. Like wow. I am soooo pumped as an old school uswnt fan! I love this team so much and this win was well deserved. Wow there are so many talented players! Can you imagine them settled in with Emma Hayes?!? Omg they are going to be formidable!!!! LOVE THIS TEAM!
Linds had to put the ball in the net with her head. She is special in the air. Only a few players can be as strong as she is... And that cross that led to the goal by Fox was perfect. Yes a new Podcast with you two! When Lynn's goal didn't count...I wanted her to score too. What City is Good Vibes FC in? Haha.
Spot on Sam, as usual. One thing that got me was the erratic performance of the referees. I know that the teams were from such a large geographic area that they needed refs to match that but some of the games were poorly refed. And VAR was not much help at all. But this was great experience for the Olympics. Could not get a greater range of styles, conditions and intensity leading up to the Olympics. Be interesting to see how the She Believes Cup goes, as three of the teams were here and Japan is usually a contender, so game on. And maybe we will get Catarina Macario back!!!
Great points. Can't wait for you to start coaching or be involved with the team somehow. It is great to see the ladies get back to taking trophies home.
Spot-on with #1. We have to improve our building out, both technically and decisionally (tempo: try the penetrating pass or just keep it?). Far too many errant passes. Pressing from the front suits this roster well ... but our forwards need to improve their individual defending. Basics like not stabbing and letting donkey-footed defenders go around you and not fouling a player who's just shielding. I suspect and hope Albert played so much because she's one of the few on the roster who has both the technical ability and quickness to operate in midfield pockets and keep and shift the ball. Impressed with her, and her decision-making is only going to improve with time. I think both PSG and Coach Hayes rate her, and I hope she can become an elite 8 for the next decade. (Horan played so much because ... well, she's the captain and a boss.) Against weaker teams, we can even go Albert, Horan, Lavelle in the midfield and just dominate possession. I'll take the win and trophy. If the USMNT beat Brazil, international news, right? I want to see Coach Hayes improve our ball-retention and circulation, especially in the final third. Our D is solid. It was solid in the World Cup. The problem has been the stagnant, erratic attack. We have to use the flanks more expansively and intentionally, and adding a left-footed, attack-minded 3 like Nighswonger will absolutely help on the left. Better possession and playing higher up the field then syncs with counter-pressing. And if these rising teams like Colombia and Mexico think they can still press us, we have to be tactically flexible enough to play direct sometimes to advance and shift the game to their half. Great rebound after Mexico. And we haven't even added Swanson, Macario, and Thompson. If they come back 100%, I like it.
The subs in the 2nd half were Williams, Smith, Purce, Shaw and Krueger in that order. It just seemed like the USWNT put in 5 fast, forward-like players who could play defense all over the field. Speed, speed, ... , and speed. As consequence, Brazil never came back. And oh yeah, Fox's cross from distance to Horan was amazing.
lynn williams speed and defending/press made her the perfect sub to come in an put even more pressure on brazil and ultimately almost scored because of it!
Thanks Sam! I wonder more about where Rose played and if Rose and Horan can play together. Seems like they just contradict each other. And that sucks because I feel that means Rose will be the one left out.
It seems like they want people whose presence is both offensive and defensive. Sometimes Lavelle dissapeared for me on defense. Where as Coffee, Horan and Albert were making impacts on both sides of the ball throughout the tournament
Korbin compliments Lindsey in the middle and Sam, I was hard on her after Mexico but she blew me away as the tournament went on. Like Emily Fox she is grit. I like Rose she is fast and when she's "on" she is awesome on the ball, but I just don't see her being effective in the middle and consistent with her form. I don't know if it's in between the ears with her. The pressure to having to compete, knowing that there is a change coming and the uncertainty of where you sit on the new managers list maybe effecting her play. But if you watch the match against Argentina where she was class under a hard press and watch the match against Brazil again under the same type of pressure she is chaotic. You will get what I mean when I say inconsistent. IDK maybe Emma can pull out of her what we know can do and that is ball out. There isn't anyone I wouldn't trust more to come off the bench more than Rose, but to me she is a bench player, not a starter. I don't think she will have an issue remaining on the roster for Paris (afterwards idk I believe this is the same for a lot of girls.)
Hello Sam. It must be the Yorkshire puddings that brought the magic back? One of my favourite US players from this team is Midge Purce, so it was good to hear you say she did well, as they all did. I did feel at times like it was a "One nil to the Arsenal" or "Boring, boring Arsenal" type game, but the main idea was to win for this team and you also described it a bit like this.
It's been very cool to see this team growth through the whole tournament. Kinda sad that Debinha played so little and one of the best center backs in the world was out injured for Brazil (and no Kerolin Nicoli thanks to injury) The high press was amazing against these teams but it has some holes. There's a lot of betting where the ball is going and the likes of France, Spain, England and Japan will adjust very quickly. In the semis I said that getting in the referees head is something every great team does and Morgan and Horan were inside the refs ear quite a lot. For me as an outsider, the surprise of the tournament was Coffey. She went from a ghost in the pitch to a war machine winning every 50/50 while leaving the opposition feeling destroyed in the process. I did not know she had that in her. Thank you so much for these takeaways and for letting us act like we know something about the sport in the comments lol
You’re the BEST Sam! This fits you so perfectly. Rose should be the 10 - how do you see us adjusting to make sure she’s in her natural position? Change shape? Also, with our speed, we need to continue to go for width!! LFG USA!
Sam, come to Columbus for SheBelieves Final but get here a day early for the totality Eclipse....next one is 2099. Surely US Soccer is making arrangements for team to view it (mid day). Thousands and thousands are coming in for it slanting across Ohio. Women's Final Four in bball is in Cleveland that weekend and hotel arrangements and just traveling along the highways are already supremely impacted or will be so make arrangements now. Surely Swanson and Macario will be in that call up wouldn't you think?
4:26 I couldn't agree more with Sam and her assessment of the midfield and who should be at the 10 spot. I'm sure it's very difficult to say some things since so many close friends are playing, so making any comment must be done with those relationships in mind. She's always been unfailingly honest though so that I have to believe this comment was well thought out.
The sad truth is that this game reminded me of the times just 5 or 6 years ago when I never watched women's football. It was basically a track meet -- the only rare sequences of up to 5 passes by either team involved 3 or more between the center backs and goalkeeper. Neither team will amount to much against European opposition -- everyone has a Thigh Master and bar bells these days. Saddest of all for those who love the game is to witness the delirium generated by the repeated punt/sprint/out of bounds/throw in/goal kick/corner sequence as if this is something to celebrate. Brazil will not go anywhere because they have no coach to guide their talent; the USWNT have the prospect of Hayes but, judging by Chelski, she achieves the bare minimum with the maximum that money can buy.
Well done Sam!!!! Do a live with your friends on your next trip. would also love a day in the life for you.....would be interesting and entertaining (funny lady)
Sam, you know this better than any of us, so try not to read your statements. We lose your eyes and engagement. Write some major points down and glance down as you need to but otherwise keep you eyes up and away from any reading. Now of course for a podcast, no issues. But for your RUclips channel, eye engagement is key. And hey, you can talk about this all day without a single note. We will never know…
2 things: 1) Catarina Macario is back, and Mal Swanson likely is too, so who is getting cut from the front line? My hot take is Sophia Smith is on the bubble, but want to know your feelings. 2) Can you get your own feed for the podcast? I don't want to subscribe to MiB just to hear TWG.
Sadly (to me), it looks more like either Rodman or Morgan, and I doubt they're gonna drop Alex Morgan. Remember, just a few years ago, Mallory was dropped from the USWNT's front line. It's a seriously competitive front line.
@@Bamboo4U2 I think Morgan made her case to ensure she gets invited for She Believes. Probably going to be a battle between Lynn, Morgan, Smith, and Macario for #9. Trin and Swanson both more outside, so they're in competition with each other. Maybe they cut a MF for Macario? Don't know who that would be tho... I was definitely thinking about how Mal didn't make the olympics and that was a huge wakeup call/ reset when she went from DC to Chi for club and had a resurgence. Not sure if Smith is exactly where Mal was,
@@ScottBaietti yeah, but both Smith & Williams have been on *FIRE* in the NWSL, so I can't see either of them getting cut. In fact, if both of them are doing so well in the national league (NWSL) but not on the USWNT, that, to me, sounds more like a management / coaching failure, no?
@@Bamboo4U2 Well I guess I was discrediting last season because it's been 4+ months since they played. If they come out firing in club then I reserve the right to change my opinion.
Lavelle? Really? Her twinkle toes routine is become less and less effective. The games she struggled the most is Mexico and this final. Very physical games. Her stock went down a bit on this team with some creative players coming in. On the squad but starting games there has to be questions asked
Sam haven't you got any video of you meeting up with the girls back at the hotel????????... If you didn't think to get any content like that for your show then shame on you cos you clearly missed a trick, big time. That's the type of content that no ordinary journalist (no matter how good they may be) could get. You were a special player (who topped the stats poll as the best player at the 2019 World Cup, even outperforming Megan Rapino), and if you're going to make a major impact as a commentator/pundit then you gonna have to be a little more thoughtful about how to get the best value out of your (I was so good I kept the great Lindsey Horan on the bench in the world cup final) ex-player status. All of your chat is fine but some video footage to back it up would have made this video so much better to watch. I was thumbs up 👍 number 200, but now on reflection 🤔... I'm suddenly quite disappointed, so on second thoughts have decided that this video deserves more of a thumbs down.👎 Sorry!! Ps. If a picture is worth a thousand words what price a video??.... (Just saying is all 🤷♂)
@@Bamboo4U2 They are also friends that spend a lot of time making tic toc videos etc. so don't try to imply that I'm suggesting that she be unnecessarily intrusive. She is now in the business of scoring great content (not goals). She knows the score and they do too.
@@beyondthepage9389 Let her share what she feels comfortable sharing and let her make decisions for herself and her career on her own. She doesn't need someone hectoring her from the sidelines. She's proven that.
Naeher while in the net has been out of position this entire tournament. She is lucky not to have given up the tying goal, if not for Casey Krueger heading the ball out Brazil would have tied the game because Naeher was out of position (again).
Don't miss the first episode of Good Vibes FC with Lynn and Becky OUT TOMORROW ON OUR VERY OWN PODCAST FEED!
Where is this episode? I can't find it on any podcast option?
Yay for your own feed!
@@gizmo4577either can I find it.
What do we need to do to get Sam Mewis on television for ALL things USWNT? Such enthusiasm and insightful analysis.
Amen
Unfortunately that is not what gets ratings for the broadcasters hence Lalas and Lloyd being in demand
@@AlejH347are they in demand tho?
Simple media politics. MiB is in bed with NBC, which is perfect for the OG show since they have the EPL. But they don't have rights to any women's football coverage at all. Since MiB are partners, not employees, they could loan Sam to some of the other networks, but these media companies are weird about that kinda stuff.
@@bkirstie being they're under contract with Fox, not technically... Being Fox is keeping them, yes.
Korbin Albert and Sam Coffey impressed me the whole tournament! Right place, right time kind of players with tremendous drive and stamina. Honestly I can't tell whether they had some struggles connecting passes, or whether teammates struggled to keep up with their intensity and positional awareness. Either way, color me optimistic going forward!
Pressing a possession control team like Brazil, (Spain, France) disrupts their offensive rhythm and causes havoc in their passing game. Pressing all over the pitch, fighting every 50-50 ball and getting a toe in to disrupt every Brazilian pass is not easy, it's exhausting for both the offense and defense, but that's what the USA squad did for 90 plus minutes. It was a brilliant strategy and even better on the pitch performance by the entire squad. With that kind of pressure, one beautiful goal made, is all it took to take Brazil out of their comfort zone and caused them to look confused and unorganized. With smart, determined play like that, this team and their coaching staff will go far into the Olympics in a few months and should be great to see. Congratulations!
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Love you commentary Sam. We will miss you forever on the USWNT but, so greatful your still part of the family.
Thanks Sam. Saw you last night on film clip just after Horan goal. I really appreciate your insights. The best since Grant Wahl sadly left us
*Thank you lindsey, foxy, Korbin, Coffey… THANK YOU! Alex showing up and out. Shaw being the MVP is so deserving. Uncle naeher is a freakin legend. This tournament was crazy but the uswnt came out on top. Congrats.*
Korbin Albert was amazing ! Holy crap she’s athletic and hustles! Strong
perks of being a 20yr old playing for PSG already lol, she's got the fitness & endurance down!
Thanks for the wrap up. Really enjoy your insight into the USWNT and your thoughtful delivery.
Sam, we miss YOU on the Pitch, dear!!!🌹💖👍
Great analysis like usual Sam. 👍
Congratulations to our team USWNT for winning the inaugural W GOLD CUP of CONCACAF 2024!!!
Hail to the GOAT HORAN, our Captain who techbook header for the winning GOAL!
Congratulations to the best goal keeper ALYSSA NAEHER and the best promising youngsters of the USWNT: Shaw, Albert, Rodman, Smith, Girma, Fox, Coffey……
The best interim HC Twila Kilgore!!!
Go team USA!!!🌹💖🎉🎉⚽️👍🇺🇸🤩🤩🤩
Sam Coffey is her own brick wall in the mid- SOLID AND GROUNDED
I am soooo emotional about this win! It feels so huge for this team that has so many new players, is in a huge transition, and is still finding cohesion and it’s sense of identity. Like wow. I am soooo pumped as an old school uswnt fan! I love this team so much and this win was well deserved. Wow there are so many talented players! Can you imagine them settled in with Emma Hayes?!? Omg they are going to be formidable!!!! LOVE THIS TEAM!
Sam you are amazing at providing commentary- you have a career in TV !
Linds had to put the ball in the net with her head. She is special in the air. Only a few players can be as strong as she is... And that cross that led to the goal by Fox was perfect. Yes a new Podcast with you two! When Lynn's goal didn't count...I wanted her to score too. What City is Good Vibes FC in? Haha.
Once again, thank you for the insightful and energetic takes from this match.
Spot on Sam, as usual. One thing that got me was the erratic performance of the referees. I know that the teams were from such a large geographic area that they needed refs to match that but some of the games were poorly refed. And VAR was not much help at all. But this was great experience for the Olympics. Could not get a greater range of styles, conditions and intensity leading up to the Olympics. Be interesting to see how the She Believes Cup goes, as three of the teams were here and Japan is usually a contender, so game on. And maybe we will get Catarina Macario back!!!
and Mal Swanson!
Great report Coach. I have always loved your enthusiasm for the game and especially the USWNT. Glad you had a great vacation.
Wasn't the prettiest performance but it got the job done
Sam does such a good job. She’s my go to.
Brilliant review of the game just seen the highlights
I LOVED KORBIN, HORAN, COFFEY IN MID!!!!!
So good to hear a analysis of the game without any disparaging remarks about the team or the team members ❤️
I loved watching your coverage of this tournament, Sam! Can't wait to see more, and so excited for Becky and Lynn to join you at some point, too!
Great points. Can't wait for you to start coaching or be involved with the team somehow. It is great to see the ladies get back to taking trophies home.
Spot-on with #1. We have to improve our building out, both technically and decisionally (tempo: try the penetrating pass or just keep it?). Far too many errant passes.
Pressing from the front suits this roster well ... but our forwards need to improve their individual defending. Basics like not stabbing and letting donkey-footed defenders go around you and not fouling a player who's just shielding.
I suspect and hope Albert played so much because she's one of the few on the roster who has both the technical ability and quickness to operate in midfield pockets and keep and shift the ball. Impressed with her, and her decision-making is only going to improve with time. I think both PSG and Coach Hayes rate her, and I hope she can become an elite 8 for the next decade. (Horan played so much because ... well, she's the captain and a boss.) Against weaker teams, we can even go Albert, Horan, Lavelle in the midfield and just dominate possession.
I'll take the win and trophy. If the USMNT beat Brazil, international news, right? I want to see Coach Hayes improve our ball-retention and circulation, especially in the final third. Our D is solid. It was solid in the World Cup. The problem has been the stagnant, erratic attack. We have to use the flanks more expansively and intentionally, and adding a left-footed, attack-minded 3 like Nighswonger will absolutely help on the left. Better possession and playing higher up the field then syncs with counter-pressing. And if these rising teams like Colombia and Mexico think they can still press us, we have to be tactically flexible enough to play direct sometimes to advance and shift the game to their half.
Great rebound after Mexico. And we haven't even added Swanson, Macario, and Thompson. If they come back 100%, I like it.
Our young ladies are so amazing. Love the USWNT!
The subs in the 2nd half were Williams, Smith, Purce, Shaw and Krueger in that order. It just seemed like the USWNT put in 5 fast, forward-like players who could play defense all over the field. Speed, speed, ... , and speed. As consequence, Brazil never came back. And oh yeah, Fox's cross from distance to Horan was amazing.
lynn williams speed and defending/press made her the perfect sub to come in an put even more pressure on brazil and ultimately almost scored because of it!
Thanks Sam! I wonder more about where Rose played and if Rose and Horan can play together. Seems like they just contradict each other. And that sucks because I feel that means Rose will be the one left out.
It seems like they want people whose presence is both offensive and defensive. Sometimes Lavelle dissapeared for me on defense. Where as Coffee, Horan and Albert were making impacts on both sides of the ball throughout the tournament
@@erl92very true. Horan, Albert, and Coffey in mid was great. Rose can do some good things, but the midfield would have to change for it to happen.
Korbin compliments Lindsey in the middle and Sam, I was hard on her after Mexico but she blew me away as the tournament went on. Like Emily Fox she is grit. I like Rose she is fast and when she's "on" she is awesome on the ball, but I just don't see her being effective in the middle and consistent with her form. I don't know if it's in between the ears with her. The pressure to having to compete, knowing that there is a change coming and the uncertainty of where you sit on the new managers list maybe effecting her play. But if you watch the match against Argentina where she was class under a hard press and watch the match against Brazil again under the same type of pressure she is chaotic. You will get what I mean when I say inconsistent. IDK maybe Emma can pull out of her what we know can do and that is ball out. There isn't anyone I wouldn't trust more to come off the bench more than Rose, but to me she is a bench player, not a starter. I don't think she will have an issue remaining on the roster for Paris (afterwards idk I believe this is the same for a lot of girls.)
Lavelle, Horan, and Coffey all battled to win challenges in the midfield that led to the play that produced the goal.
I thought Emily Fox was excellent in these last 2 games. Today's goal was as much as hers as it was Lindsey's. Love from India!🇮🇳
I couldn't stand Sonnet as a defender; she was always grabbing onto the players she couldn't catch up to. She's of much better use in midfield.
Hello Sam. It must be the Yorkshire puddings that brought the magic back?
One of my favourite US players from this team is Midge Purce, so it was good to hear you say she did well, as they all did.
I did feel at times like it was a "One nil to the Arsenal" or "Boring, boring Arsenal" type game, but the main idea was to win for this team and you also described it a bit like this.
Thanks, Sam, for the insights! (and it would be cool if you came to Columbus!)
It's been very cool to see this team growth through the whole tournament. Kinda sad that Debinha played so little and one of the best center backs in the world was out injured for Brazil (and no Kerolin Nicoli thanks to injury)
The high press was amazing against these teams but it has some holes. There's a lot of betting where the ball is going and the likes of France, Spain, England and Japan will adjust very quickly.
In the semis I said that getting in the referees head is something every great team does and Morgan and Horan were inside the refs ear quite a lot.
For me as an outsider, the surprise of the tournament was Coffey. She went from a ghost in the pitch to a war machine winning every 50/50 while leaving the opposition feeling destroyed in the process. I did not know she had that in her.
Thank you so much for these takeaways and for letting us act like we know something about the sport in the comments lol
You’re the BEST Sam! This fits you so perfectly. Rose should be the 10 - how do you see us adjusting to make sure she’s in her natural position? Change shape? Also, with our speed, we need to continue to go for width!! LFG USA!
"The Canada game was played on a LAKE!" Quote of the tournament!!!
Sam, come to Columbus for SheBelieves Final but get here a day early for the totality Eclipse....next one is 2099. Surely US Soccer is making arrangements for team to view it (mid day). Thousands and thousands are coming in for it slanting across Ohio. Women's Final Four in bball is in Cleveland that weekend and hotel arrangements and just traveling along the highways are already supremely impacted or will be so make arrangements now. Surely Swanson and Macario will be in that call up wouldn't you think?
4:26 I couldn't agree more with Sam and her assessment of the midfield and who should be at the 10 spot. I'm sure it's very difficult to say some things since so many close friends are playing, so making any comment must be done with those relationships in mind. She's always been unfailingly honest though so that I have to believe this comment was well thought out.
(Me commenting live as I watch Sam always 😂)
korbin was most impressive to me, then coffey, then shaw
I thought Dunn had a great final game- she is a hustle tackle queen.
I felt like the first half showed some heavy legs after the slosh fest they played in Wednesday night.
I miss seeing the tower of power on the field but I’m glad she’s still apart of football
Congratulations USWNT! Especially to Rose Lavelle for winning the Academy 😄😄😄
props cause they got the job done. but i'm honestly nervous for the olympics.
The sad truth is that this game reminded me of the times just 5 or 6 years ago when I never watched women's football.
It was basically a track meet --
the only rare sequences of up to 5 passes by either team involved 3 or more between the center backs and goalkeeper.
Neither team will amount to much against European opposition -- everyone has a Thigh Master and bar bells these days.
Saddest of all for those who love the game is to witness the delirium generated by the repeated punt/sprint/out of bounds/throw in/goal kick/corner sequence as if this is something to celebrate.
Brazil will not go anywhere because they have no coach to guide their talent;
the USWNT have the prospect of Hayes but, judging by Chelski,
she achieves the bare minimum with the maximum that money can buy.
Well done Sam!!!! Do a live with your friends on your next trip. would also love a day in the life for you.....would be interesting and entertaining (funny lady)
yea, why no debinha?
Normally i do really like tierna, but she made some careless tackles and mistakes against brazil and was making me nervous thia game!
Sam, you know this better than any of us, so try not to read your statements. We lose your eyes and engagement. Write some major points down and glance down as you need to but otherwise keep you eyes up and away from any reading. Now of course for a podcast, no issues. But for your RUclips channel, eye engagement is key. And hey, you can talk about this all day without a single note. We will never know…
2 things: 1) Catarina Macario is back, and Mal Swanson likely is too, so who is getting cut from the front line? My hot take is Sophia Smith is on the bubble, but want to know your feelings. 2) Can you get your own feed for the podcast? I don't want to subscribe to MiB just to hear TWG.
Sadly (to me), it looks more like either Rodman or Morgan, and I doubt they're gonna drop Alex Morgan. Remember, just a few years ago, Mallory was dropped from the USWNT's front line. It's a seriously competitive front line.
true and she came back a fucking BEAST in 2023 until her injury, so the same could go for whoever gets left off@@Bamboo4U2
@@Bamboo4U2 I think Morgan made her case to ensure she gets invited for She Believes. Probably going to be a battle between Lynn, Morgan, Smith, and Macario for #9. Trin and Swanson both more outside, so they're in competition with each other. Maybe they cut a MF for Macario? Don't know who that would be tho...
I was definitely thinking about how Mal didn't make the olympics and that was a huge wakeup call/ reset when she went from DC to Chi for club and had a resurgence. Not sure if Smith is exactly where Mal was,
@@ScottBaietti yeah, but both Smith & Williams have been on *FIRE* in the NWSL, so I can't see either of them getting cut. In fact, if both of them are doing so well in the national league (NWSL) but not on the USWNT, that, to me, sounds more like a management / coaching failure, no?
@@Bamboo4U2 Well I guess I was discrediting last season because it's been 4+ months since they played. If they come out firing in club then I reserve the right to change my opinion.
VAR said Williams goal was ON SIDES!!
Mmmm, nah, it looked like she was maybe a footstep offsides. Hey, I wanted it to count too, but it's gotta be fair.
W gold cup
Some day soon, they will face an opponent who can actually kick the ball accurately toward the goal.
Some of those long shots from Brazil missed by only and inch or two. We got lucky.
Lavelle? Really? Her twinkle toes routine is become less and less effective. The games she struggled the most is Mexico and this final. Very physical games. Her stock went down a bit on this team with some creative players coming in. On the squad but starting games there has to be questions asked
shaw was not best player. just scored. 😮
RUclips no profit and become a coach, or office staff
Sam haven't you got any video of you meeting up with the girls back at the hotel????????... If you didn't think to get any content like that for your show then shame on you cos you clearly missed a trick, big time. That's the type of content that no ordinary journalist (no matter how good they may be) could get. You were a special player (who topped the stats poll as the best player at the 2019 World Cup, even outperforming Megan Rapino), and if you're going to make a major impact as a commentator/pundit then you gonna have to be a little more thoughtful about how to get the best value out of your (I was so good I kept the great Lindsey Horan on the bench in the world cup final) ex-player status.
All of your chat is fine but some video footage to back it up would have made this video so much better to watch.
I was thumbs up 👍 number 200, but now on reflection 🤔... I'm suddenly quite disappointed, so on second thoughts have decided that this video deserves more of a thumbs down.👎 Sorry!!
Ps. If a picture is worth a thousand words what price a video??.... (Just saying is all 🤷♂)
They're her friends, not just prospective subjects for interviews.
@@Bamboo4U2 They are also friends that spend a lot of time making tic toc videos etc. so don't try to imply that I'm suggesting that she be unnecessarily intrusive. She is now in the business of scoring great content (not goals). She knows the score and they do too.
@@beyondthepage9389 Let her share what she feels comfortable sharing and let her make decisions for herself and her career on her own. She doesn't need someone hectoring her from the sidelines.
She's proven that.
Naeher while in the net has been out of position this entire tournament. She is lucky not to have given up the tying goal, if not for Casey Krueger heading the ball out Brazil would have tied the game because Naeher was out of position (again).