US Advances Olympics and CONCACAF Final

34-0. That’s how many times the US has scored on their opponents while trying to qualify for the Olympics in just 4 games. It’s also the number of times they have been scored on in those four games. To say that the US has fared well so far would be a massive understatement. The US has played top notch soccer.

Now the US will play either Mexico (again) or Canada in the CONCACAF final depending on who comes out of their game with the win. Really this final is nothing more then a glorified international friendly because both the US and the other team will have already qualified as the two teams from CONCACAF for the London Olympics.

The level of play of these women has been top notch, and frankly at times has exceeded top notch. Just take the game against Mexico for example. Hope Solo was in obvious pain from her hamstring, but it didn’t much matter because the defense simply was not allowing any meaningful shots to get withing range of the goal. So what was the biggest trouble Hope Solo had during the game? Sending balls deep when her teammates passed the ball to her. While I’m sure that despite the pain Solo would have dived as normal she simply did not need to do so.

I can’t wait until this summer when I will be able to see Alex Morgan play in Rochester right in front of me, but even more so I can’t wait until later in the summer when I will get to watch her, Abby Wambach, Hope Solo, Tobin Heath, and the rest of the US team play in London on my TV.

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