Jul 15
US Women’s Moves Past Brazil
It was a sunny day at Dicks Sporting Goods Park, Colorado as the US Women’s team was able to defeat Brazil in a 1-0 victory. Although it was only a friendly, the game brought some very good signs for the US team. The first and foremost promising sign of a possible Olympics trophy was that they were able to shut down the aggressive Brazilian offense. The US has not conceded a goal in their past six games, and this was just more proof that they have the best defense in the world. Their entire offense was held to 0 goals as Marta Vieira da Silva, Brazil’s leading goal scorer on the year, was shut down by the ruthless US defense. Amy Rodriguez managed to score the only goal of the friendly, coming in the 71st minute. These two teams will cross paths one more time (this Wednesday, the 16th) before the Olympics in Beijing which start 8/8/08.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Let’s hope that the US women’s team can bring home the gold in Beijing! Their defense seems to be playing well enough that that hope could very well become true in the near future.