Hope Solo Rips Ryan, Scurry: 'Wrong Decision ... I Would Have Made Those Saves'

I guess she is only a team player when she plays.

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LB: Would you rather have a goalie who says that benching him/her was the *right* decision? I wouldn't.

This is worse than when Wade Phillips benched Doug Flutie for Rob Johnson in 2000. You don't mess with success at this stage of the competition. Greg Ryan ought to be canned for this.

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I'm with Solo - you can't bench a girl on a 41 game non-losing streak. If he had planned on playing Scurry, which Ryan says he was, she should have gotten in before today. she was flat. 2 near post goals were weak. WEAK

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ryan screwed up. Hope may be wrong for speaking the truth but I can understand her emotion. This is just like Sampson in Paris. You run with what you brung, those that got you there. This is a tragedy, a coach who thinks he is what is important rather that the girls. Fire him!

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The team was disrupted by the goalie change even before the game started, no matter if the move was right or wrong.

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Ryan has made bad decisions throughout the tournament and should resign after the team returns stateside. However, Solo's comments are horribly unfortunate as her emotions have clearly gotten the best of her. Whether right or wrong, being a team player requires a stiff upper lip when confonted with a situation like this. She is doing more damage to her team (and her international career) when they still have a game left in this tournament and an Olympic run on the horizon. I only wish Lilly or another veteran were ther to help her judgement.

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the coaching decision was probably a mistake but her comments show exactly the type of players that are groomed in the USA. Great to see a real team school them.

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Good for you Hope!

I'm sick of people tip toeing around a VERY poor coaching decision. It was a bad decision. He did not put the best team on the field and it is Ryan that is responsible. Brazil played wonderful soccer and I'm not sure the US would have won the game even if Hope had played in the net, but I do think it would have been a much closer match.

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I would agree this was the wrong decision. It would be a different circumstance if the USA and Hope would have lost some games, but they didn't. The coached messed with mental preparedness and this was an absolute distraction for the team. Way to lose this one Coach.

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This day was coming.
US Soccer needs to recognize that a divided federation cannot win. Creativity, best talent, and effort was displayed by Brazil through diversity.
Skill, teamwork, and effort start from hungry players that want to play Sunday not wondering who is in goal
Sound like excuses to me.

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Ryan made the worst coaching decision I've ever seen at such a high level.

1) it undercut the #1 keeper;

2) Scurry had never played a minute in this World Cup, and hadn't played in a game that counted (other than friendlies) for years;

3) undermined team chemistry, first off because he said he discussed this with Scurry months ago. Why only with her? Why not with the Captain, Lilly, at the very least? And Solo and the entire team have to wonder why Ryan and Scurry kept this little conversation on the QT for months.

Plus, Scurry only featured in a few matches leading up to the World Cup, so doesn't have the advantage playing together all the time gives you.

Plus, all of Scurry's negatives: She never had Solo's athleticism and range, she kicks both punts and free kicks for less distance and accuracy, and she is 36 years old and rusty.

Ryan should be fired. The US needs a coach as good as the players who give their all for the team. His World Cup was as amateur as it gets.

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Brazil outplayed USA, it is as simple as that. Who was in the goal didn't make any difference. Brazil's better techniques were obvious. The US team relies on mainly on raw physical strength. The US women's contribution to soccer is raising its popularity to today's level, but its days of dominance are coming to a close as women from countries where men's soccer far exceeds the US men's level keep improving with better coaches
who know the game much better than their US counterparst.

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A haunting loss. Most painful was having to watch their #1 keeper sitting on the bench while the team nosedived over the coach's apparent gambling habit. Who else would tinker with chemistry and solidarity on a whim, in the 11th hour? Even if they had lost badly with Hope in goal against Brazil, it would have been a valuable education. A crucible, to guide them into the next cup. Instead, the haunting will continue, as they struggle for third, then on to terminal navelgazing for several years, and for some, the rest of their lives. Purge the coach. I can't stand gamblers.

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All of you criticizing Hope Solo for her comments need to pull your heads out of your rectums. What do you think Jordan would have said if he was in the same situation? Brady? Tiger Woods? Sometimes you need to throw your teammate under the bus. Briana Scurry was a slow, out-of-shape, disgrace out there. It would be like if the Broncos made it to the playoffs, get to the Super Bowl, and then Shanahan says "You know what? The last two times we won, John Elway was our quarterback. Jay, take a seat. I think I'm going to start John for this one." I'm glad Hope Solo has some guts and rejects this "Let's all be supportive and give hugs to everyone for giving a good effort, even though we lost." That's lawyer ball. That kind of thinking is why we have pampered, entitled young people who think the world owes them everything when they can't read, can't write and are so out of shape, the only sport America is going to be good at in twenty years is sumo wrestling and competitive hot dog eating.

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They consider soccer a sport now?

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What's the worst thing about playing soccer? Having to tell your father you're gay.

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I do not understand the coach making that move after 40+ unbeaten games and Solo playing as well as she had. Her comments are a little ridiculous. How does she know she would have made those saves?

It is such a boneheaded coaching move that after 40+ unbeaten games, he deserves to be fired. Anyone who loses his mind at a time like that cannot be trusted in the future.

Here's my suspicion: If Briana Scurry comes in and shuts Brazil down, Ryan is the genius and gets credit for the WWC victory. It was probably an ego decision, designed to get the credit for brilliant coaching.

It backfired. Boy, did it backfire!

He has earned a spot of the Coach's Hall of Shame.

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If Hope Solo was a Jordan, Brady or Woods type of athlete she would be part of the coach's decision making process. That said, it was a bad move by the coach, mainly because Briana had no playing time. Solo was not playing a great goal in the tournament and all the coaches and players knew it. I coached football overseas and goalie controversy not withstanding, Brazil was the superior team by far today.

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To one that has interest in rectums....Our world class athletes would not have found themselves in this situation...unproven....Scurry has proven herself...remember the Rose bowl....she will be remembered...solo will be remembered for not proving she is a professional off the field of play.

too bad we all had some Hope!

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well done Skrunk...I think your break is over, put down your corndog and go back to manning the Tilt-A-Whirl

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