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Just now, Joe MacCarthy said:

Ahh, i don't think so

Name me one player who was better. This may require it's own thread. Better as in: 1) either a longer career in the EPL with equal or higher teams or 2) more impact-full for their national team 

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Re. Leroux

[ 1 ] The Ref is implying bawdily that  Sydney Leroux  has no aerial game because her cleavage is top heavy.

[ 2 ]  Read somewhere that Sydney Leroux's disenchantment with Canada dates back to the 2004 Thailand FIFA U-19 WWC where some of the "older"   Canadian players made fun of /picked on ( then ) 14-year old Sydney Leroux. Maybe she has no sense of humour?

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On August 15, 2016 at 4:22 PM, TRM said:

Name me one player who was better. This may require it's own thread. Better as in: 1) either a longer career in the EPL with equal or higher teams or 2) more impact-full for their national team 

Hugo Sanchez and Rafa Marquez just to scratch the surface....and they played in La Liga on teams that are astronomically higher than the EPL clubs Howard played for.

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20 minutes ago, dyslexic nam said:

US Soccer just suspended her for 6 months.  Maybe that will be the gentle push she needs to start her career as a fluffer.

Sportsnet seems to think this was due to Solo's comments about Sweden after the loss, but that doesn't make sense to me.  If every player or coach were to be suspended for 6 months for negative comments made about an opponent after a loss in a big game, we'd be seeing these suspensions a a couple times a month and a lot of big name players on the side lines (remember Ronaldo's comments about Iceland?).  Something else must have happened.

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From the ESPN article:

"The comments by Hope Solo after the match against Sweden during the 2016 Olympics were unacceptable and do not meet the standard of conduct we require from our National Team players," U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati said in a statement Wednesday. "Beyond the athletic arena, and beyond the results, the Olympics celebrate and represent the ideals of fair play and respect. We expect all of our representatives to honor those principles, with no exceptions.

"Taking into consideration the past incidents involving Hope, as well as the private conversations we've had requiring her to conduct herself in a manner befitting a U.S. National Team member, U.S. Soccer determined this is the appropriate disciplinary action."

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http://www.espn.com/espnw/sports/article/17385530/hope-solo-suspended-six-months-us-soccer

 

So it seems to be the comments, coupled with the fact that she is a consistently shitty human being.

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39 minutes ago, dyslexic nam said:

From the ESPN article:

"The comments by Hope Solo after the match against Sweden during the 2016 Olympics were unacceptable and do not meet the standard of conduct we require from our National Team players," U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati said in a statement Wednesday. "Beyond the athletic arena, and beyond the results, the Olympics celebrate and represent the ideals of fair play and respect. We expect all of our representatives to honor those principles, with no exceptions.

"Taking into consideration the past incidents involving Hope, as well as the private conversations we've had requiring her to conduct herself in a manner befitting a U.S. National Team member, U.S. Soccer determined this is the appropriate disciplinary action."

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http://www.espn.com/espnw/sports/article/17385530/hope-solo-suspended-six-months-us-soccer

 

(bold underlined is mine)

Sunil Gulati forgets Abby Wambach's conduct at the previous Olympics and he also forget the whole team discriminatory attitude towards Hope Solo when she dared disagree with coach Greg Ryan over using washed out Briana Scurry resulting in the U.S. loosing the final in 2007.

Yes, Hope Solo tends to be on the headlines more than others and controversy seems to follow her, but in spite of all that, she is still being given the number one goalkeeper job.  So Mr. Gulati, you can't have it both ways or use her past against her and not others.

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2 hours ago, ted said:

And what a pointless "punishment". Do they even play a competitive match in the next six months?

They cancelled her (apparently very lucrative contract). Cynically, I definitely believe this was a very convenient time for the Americans to punish her without really punishing themselves, but it is certainly hurting her financially

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Solo said what we've all thought a hundred times in games after we've lost.  She just made the mistake of using her outside voice.

So ironic she lost to Sweden because Hedvig Lindahl is Swedish for "oh sh*t"

You knew the Jill Ellis hire was an own goal waiting to happen.  It just took longer than expected.  Tom Sermani probably had a good grin.

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