0 comments by Jeff Snyder on 7/5/2015
In one of the most dominant displays that we’ve seen in a cup final, men or women, there are plenty of players that could have been named the Player of the Match. But after breaking history in an already historic match, Carli Lloyd took this game by the scruff of the neck. Her early hat […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens
Take a bow Carli Lloyd. The USWNT midfielder has scored a hattrick in 16 minutes and the final part of it was a beauty, a goalazo for the ages. Lloyd took one look at a Japanese goalkeeper out near the top of her box and decided this was a good idea: Yes, that scoreline now […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens
So much for pressure, so much for playing a game based on keeping the ball away from the Japanese midfield. All of that was thrown out the window as Carli Lloyd slammed home a pair of goals in the first five minutes of the match. Up first was a beauty of a corner kick and […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens
Abby Wambach and her 183 career international goals will say goodbye to the world game following Sunday’s Women’s World Cup final. She won’t start, but is likely to come off the bench. Wambach is also still the emotional leader of this team and the 35-year-old gave us one of the most poignant moments of this […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens
Winning a single World Cup is hard enough, but getting back to the final and having a chance to repeat is twice as difficult. Yet, for Japan the journey through the 2015 Women’s World Cup has led them to back-to-back finals for the first time in the country’s history. Their own-goal win over England in […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens on 6/27/2015
Win and move on — it’s what the knockout stage is all about. Score one goal or 10, does it really matter? When you’re a two-time World Cup winning side and you wear the crest of the United States, the how almost matters as much as the result. So, color a lot of people unimpressed […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens on 6/24/2015
Boring, unwatchable, “not worthy”, slow and on and on…we’ve all heard the criticism of the women’s soccer game. Some of it is frankly true, and some of it has been on display at the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. None of it was on display late on Tuesday night as Japan and the Netherlands clashed […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens on 6/23/2015
Open chances against the reigning World Cup champions in the first few minutes of a knockout stage game? Dream come true, right? That dream turned in to a nightmare scenario for the Netherlands against Japan in the final round of 16 matchup in the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. After putting pressure on the Japanese […]
0 comments by Josh Espinal on 6/21/2015
The second day of the round of 16 of the 2015 Women’s World Cup has now ended and the quarter-finals are starting to take shape as three games took place today and there was a major upset that is sure to shake the women’s footballing world and the host’s magical run continues. So let us […]
0 comments by Josh Espinal
Australia pulled off the upset of all upsets as they managed an 80th minute goal in a scoreless game to overcome the heavily favored Brazil to advance to the quarter-finals of the 2015 Women’s World Cup. The Matildas shocked the whole world as they beat a team that has Formiga, a 37 year-old playing in […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens on 6/20/2015
The weak have been weeded out, the meek still could inherit the earth and the giants of women’s soccer are all alive. Such is the result of the 2015 women’s World Cup group stages. However, it is now do or die time for all 16 teams in the knockout stages. Saturday marked the start of […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens on 6/16/2015
Abby Wambach came back in to the lineup, and her goal at the final moment of the first half secured the United States 1-0 win over Nigeria in the Group D finale for both teams. With the win the USWNT advanced out of the Group of Death as the winner, sitting on seven points. MISSION […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens
Four more teams had an opportunity to punch their tickets to the knockout stage of the expanded FIFA Women’s World Cup on Tuesday. With Group’s C and D in action there were a lot of intriguing storylines on the line. Could an African nation make it to the knockout stages of a Women’s World Cup […]
0 comments by Josh Espinal on 6/14/2015
USWNT forward Abby Wambach has said in an interview following a training session that she believes that if the Women’s World Cup were to be played on grass, the United States would have more goals scored. “In the previous game, I don’t lay out and commit to those headers and that’s why they glance off […]
0 comments by Josh Espinal on 6/13/2015
Today in the Women’s World Cup, Groups E and F finished their second group stage games and we saw our first group winner, a last minute equalizer, and everything in between. 1) Biggest Winner — Brazil Not only did Brazil win their game against Spain, 1-0, but also thanks to results in the other group stage […]
