Coach Greg Ryan Sucks

This morning I watched Brazil steamroll the US Women's team 4-0 making a 3rd place standing our best possible outcome in this World Cup. There seemed be quite a few stupid choices made. I was livid watching the game and was left with a few scorching questions. Like, why? Why did Ryan start Scurry instead of Solo? Scurry is a great athlete and has had an impressive career, but Solo had played goal in all the World Cup matches this time around. She had performed magnificently. Things were going great. We were in the semifinals. Solo had earned her place out on that field. So why switch it up? Why try to fix what isn't broken? And then the weird substitutions that were heavy on defense while taking all power out of offense. The Brazilians had already scored; a heavier defense was not going to make those goals disappear. An offense is needed to score. Coach Ryan seemed to do everything he could to guarantee defeat.