Submitted by jerm, Sep 25, 2007 05:02

"Usually when a team resorts to Route 1 soccer and out-muscling its opponents, the coach's excuse is that he doesn't have the talent to play a possession game. Could it be that despite all of the ambitious grassroots girls soccer programs, the nation still isn't producing enough players so the national team can control the rhythm of the game and win with flair?"

I'd respond to the paragraph in quotation above by saying that the American women seem heavy and slow on the field. I've watched every game that the've played in China and have seen them outrun and outhustled in each one. The long ball is working, but I sure would like to see them play.

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