Sweden pulled off upsets in outlasting the USA and Brazil in the quarterfinals and semifinals of the women’s soccer competition at the Rio Olympics, but Pia Sundhage‘s gals will be decidedunderdogs in the gold-medal match against Germany in what will be the final meeting between Sundhage and German Silvia Neid. Germanyvs. Sweden, Women’s Soccer: 2015: […]
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What They're Saying: Alex Morgan
“They played their cards right. They did the exact same thing with Brazil. They’re in the final, so you can’t really doubt their strategy now.” — U.S. women’sstar Alex Morgan on Sweden, which beat the USA and Brazil in shootouts to reach the Rio Olympics gold-medal game. Morgan said she didn’t share teammate Hope Solo‘s […]
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'Cagey' Swedes deserve some credit
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) Hope Solo certainly triggered a firestorm by using the “C” word to describe the conservativetactics used by Sweden in their Olympic Games quarterfinal last week won by the Swedes on penalty kicks, 4-3, following a 1-1 tie through 120 minutes of play. “Cowards” she called them for lining up in a […]
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What They're Saying: Barbara
“Each team works the way they think they must. I wouldn’t call it a coward approach, but they only played defense. I think they used their strategy. Unfortunately, we didn’t have the opportunity tobreak through. Their strategy worked today, they came out with the win and that’s football.” — Brazilian goalkeeper Barbara after her team […]
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Rio Olympics: Sweden-Germany set for gold-medal game
After the USA, Sweden stymied host Brazil, winning another 4-3 shootout after their semifinal before a capacity crowd at Rio’s Maracana Stadium ended in a 0-0 tie. Sweden, which has one win in fivegames, will face Germany, a 2-0 winner over previously unbeaten and untied Canada in the final. Both winners had lost to their […]
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Swedish match abandoned after attack and bomb threat
Monday’s Jonkoping Sodra-Ostersund match in Sweden was abandoned in the final minute after a masked fan hit Ostersund keeper Aly Keita in the temple and said he had left a bomb in the stands.
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Rio Olympics: U.S. women will remain gold standard
The USA exited the Olympics with a heartbreaking quarterfinal loss to Sweden in a shootout after finishing with a 26-3 edge in shots. It marked the first time in 13 major competitions it failed toreach the final four and raises some questions about the future of players like Hope Solo and Carli Lloyd. But the […]
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Indeed, who was the coward?
The USA’s record in women’s soccer at the Olympics is unparalleled. Even with its shootout loss to Sweden on Friday, it will head home from Brazil with a haul of four gold medals in six competitionsand a record of one defeat after regulation in 32 games. There was nothing shameful about how the USA played […]
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Solo: 'We played a bunch of cowards'
Hope Solo‘s national team career has had its share of ups and downs, on and off the field, but if Friday’s shootout loss to Sweden was her last official match for the USA, she’ll have exit inyet another controversy. The USA had a big edge in shots — 27-6 — but trailed until Alex Morgan‘s […]
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USA-Sweden Olympic Women's Soccer Player Ratings
The USA is out of the Olympics. Not only won’t it do what no one else has done — capture Olympic gold a year after winning the Women’s World Cup — but it won’t even medal. The Americans fell tonemesis Sweden in a shootout after their quarterfinal game ended 1-1 in Brasilia. The Americans had […]