According to the Swedish website, SR International, our fearless leader just got a little more fearless as she recently declined an invitation to meet George Bush:

Pia Sundhage might have led the the US women’s team to Gold in the Beijing Olympics, but says she is not interested in going along to meet Bush with [...]

Insomnia. I have it and I’ve spent the past ooooh no-idea-how-long thinking about our WNT and the Olympics and the lessons we are going to take from all of this. Ok, besides the big “Pia gets to keep her job” lesson. Here are some other little tidbits:
Angela Hucles straight up has the [...]

Please DO take a few moments to read the NBC article on the positive effects of Pia Sundhage’s tenure as head coach of the USWNT, as well as Andrea Canales’ thoughts on the topic. And with the success at Bejing, it certainly looks like Pia will be around for a long time to come. [...]

It was an overtime goal from Carli Lloyd that ended the game at 1-0. The USA brings home the Gold YET AGAIN (haters to the left).

Personally, I thought a USA vs Brazil final matchup was enough to get everyone excited and help carry the fans up to the first real days of the new [...]

Unless you are living under a rock, you already know the US women will face Brazil this Thursday morning to compete for the Olympic gold medal. In the meantime, our team will be resting and relaxing to prepare for the game. On a somewhat similar note, I’d like to take a moment to [...]

Mini vacation is now officially over, I’ve removed my Out Of Office Reply, and I’m finally back to “work” covering our Women’s National Team. And I guess I picked a foolish time to take off, because while I was gone, we shook off our initial loss to Norway and won our Group which [...]

This was obviously the way it was going to go down.
Regardless of the fact that they had somehow managed to be group leaders heading into this (early) mornings match-up with Nigeria, we had to always know that this was the way it would end up, right?
After the two ING Cup warm-up games, but before the [...]

Yes, I am back. I have returned from my six day scouting trip of Wyoming only to come home empty handed, with no gallivanting pacey right winger in my grasp to send to Bob Bradley. Though hope may still be in tact for the soccer prospects of southern Wyoming, as there was a [...]

Dear U.S. Men’s Team,
Please don’t eff this up. I don’t mean to be harsh or unduly negative, but let’s face it — you guys really shit the bed in that Netherlands game. A game you should have won. A game you had won until you decided to start playing like me playing FIFA 08 [...]

I had a grand plan to write the Moby Dick of World Cup Blog posts: addressing the USWNT’s dreaded midfield issues, their sometimes maybe somewhat overuse of long balls, and what exactly is up with Aly Wagner these days? But it will have to happen another time cause I’m wrapping up some loose ends [...]