Mr.Wombat said it's fine but get back to the serious matter of his friend Hope

Hope Rocks!

No Solo means no HOPE!!!

Smoggie is right . I shouldn't be supporting someone who stabs there so called teammate in the back.

Hope is here to stay

Ryan is Gone i'm so exited

Hope Career is be saved i gues

for the olymics it would be good for the us if some players can play for a club team in europe
just the fact that now players has a club teal is what cost them the world title

The new US league would of started up before the Olympics so I expect most of them are holding for that.

I think they trained too much in the build up to the w/c and burnt themselves out.

Honestly, I don't think any US players will play club until WUSA starts again. There are too many variables against it for them (pay, location, personal lives). Plus I don't think The Fed would allow it because it doesn't benefit them really.

Like with Hope, even though the team treated her sh!tty, the pay and her personal life (she has a long term boyfriend) probably kept her from going overseas.

I don't know if they were burnt out, maybe just overprepared in the wrong playing style, Ryan gave them no other option but long ball- which officially DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE.

By firing Ryan, a coach with the greatest winning streak in USWNT history and a year before the Olympics, The Fed I'm thinking got the message from the fans, that we are tired of sub par coaches that coach long ball. They are apparently seriously looking at Pia Sundhage, which is CRAZY, because they hate hiring foreign coaches.

The interesting thing to watch will be who they hire in the next 30-45 days. And will Scurry and/or Lilly retire or be forced to retire by the new coach. I think if we get a coach who's serious about turning things around, they'll retire. They were great players, but it's always sad when great players hold on too long.

The good news is that The Fed apparently does not have issues with Solo and she is invited to tryouts in January. Also Cat Whitehill made comments in support of Solo after Ryan was fired, she made the obligatory, "Ryan was a great coach" b.s statement and kept it pretty P.C., but you could tell from it that Solo has supporters on the team- again probably the younger players.

Oh, and the wombat is hillarious. I said Abby Wambach's name to my dad once and he was like," She sounds like she might be an Australian animal."

funny

Do we find out who the new coach is before the end of the year ?

Yes, the next 30-45 days.

Here are the predicted top choices:

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=475738&root=us&cc=5901

Out of that list I would prefer the top two. With Pia Sundhage being the number 1 choice as she's already said she would change the way the team play.

I agree. Especially with Sundhage as the 1. The US has always been great at producing female athletes, but we're not a football nation and infusing a European style and knowledge in with our athleticism would bring a lot to the USWNT game, and I think the women's game in general.

She won a lot of fans when she coached in Boston. K. Lilly was the captain of the team at the time, and the first thing she did was make someone more vocal on the field co-captain. Which shows that she is likely to not just go with the flow, which is what the USWNT needs right now.

Tony D. is up on a lot of lists, but he's only a temporary solution since he is signed to be the new Boston Breakers coach in 2009.

Martin Jol not on the list

And he needs a job

A snippet taken from USA Today :

" It's a little difficult to relive that. Mentally I was full of all sorts of emotions. " Solo told AP , referring to her fiery comments after the U.S lost 4-0 to Brazil in the S/F when she was benched in favour of Scurry. " The World Cup was the only thing that kept me together after the death of my father ( in June ) , kept me fighting and together and dedicated to the game...

" I know I have some friendships to rebuild and teammates to rebuild relationships with. But there is nothing I can go back and do. Never did I tend put down a teammate , and that is the thing that hurts the most. I always have respected and will respect Bri ."

I thought she did a really good job in representing her point of view in the interview. I've never been one of those people who thinks she walks on water, but she constantly comes of as the crediable one by saying things like we don't all have to be friends and we're professionals so we need to move past this. She apparently was on some Sports Illustrated worst teammates list, at the bottom, but still, what a joke. I can accept that some people think it was poor form that she spoke out, even though I disagree, but you hear far worse things from male athletes daily. Oh well, the joke that is sports journalism, maybe one day she'll save the USWNT asses and they'll all have to come groveling back like they did with Beckham .

I would rather have Solo watching my back then the so called teammates that stabbed her in the back. She saved their asses in that w/c , if it wasn't for her they wouldn't of got that far. If the player's and people in suits listened to what she said , she didn't attack Bri and I for one still agree with what she said. But it sounds like some player's are still holding the comments against her.

I'm not a big fan of US, as you know, but I agree with what you said there smithy

Twm I'll have to convince you to start supporting them

Maybe I will - as long as G W Bush doesn't have anything to do with the team

The most probable is that Bush doesn't know what soccer is