I remain gobsmacked that the US is in the running at any level for soccer, which was always "everybody else's" game.
The US never repeated the "miracle on the ice," but the hockey team was not the less American for all of that. USWNT pulls out 4 world championships, but they miss one and suddenly they never existed?
For whatever reason women's soccer belonged to the US for decades. Now that the rest of the world has caught up, we're "failing?" No, the rest of the world has leveled up, and it makes things a helluva lot more interesting. The Sweden match was proof of that.
I remain gobsmacked that the US is in the running at any level for soccer, which was always "everybody else's" game.
The US never repeated the "miracle on the ice," but the hockey team was not the less American for all of that. USWNT pulls out 4 world championships, but they miss one and suddenly they never existed?
For whatever reason women's soccer belonged to the US for decades. Now that the rest of the world has caught up, we're "failing?" No, the rest of the world has leveled up, and it makes things a helluva lot more interesting. The Sweden match was proof of that.