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Morning Read: Tuesday Can't Come Soon Enough
Still licking the wounds of Wednesday's loss in Denmark, the U.S. men look ahead to Tuesday's match against Switzerland; Hope Solo writes an in-depth essay about her month-long ban from the national team.
BY
Jesse Yomtov
Posted
March 27, 2015
8:00 AM
Who should start vs. Switzerland? You tell us.
Why was Mix Diskerud not on the U.S. roster? NYCFC coach Jason Kreis has no idea. “I was very surprised, but you never know,” Kreis said. “I don’t know what the objectives of these two games are for the coach and what he’s looking to achieve or who he’s looking to look at that might be new into that program.”
After last summer's incessant criticism, Michael Bradley is back in form
Landon Donovan spoke to a Harvard class called "The Global Game: Soccer, Politics, and Popular Culture," which somehow is Romance Studies 109. “It was the first time in my life that I had not made a team, that I had not been chosen,” Donovan said of not making the 2014 World Cup squad. “I finally had compassion for people that didn’t get everything all the time and that is much, much, much more valuable than having gone to Brazil and playing in a World Cup.”
Hope Solo on her new blog: “A few days before heading to Portugal [for the Algarve Cup], I’d sent an e-mail to all of my teammates. I let them know what I had been doing in the time I’d been away. I told them that for the first time in my life, I’d been seeing a therapist and dealing with a lot of my issues, and finally addressing all the pain and anger that was inside of me. Twice a week, I also worked with an Eastern medicine healer in Seattle who had incredible experience helping some of the greatest athletes perform at the highest levels. He really helped me see things in a different light. I wanted them to know that I hadn’t just taken 30 days off. Ultimately, I wanted to be a better person and teammate, and that’s what I’d been focused on.”
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