Posted on 03/20/2018 3:21:41 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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The United States remains at the top of the FIFA women's rankings after winning the SheBelieves Cup, and England moved ahead of Germany into second.The Americans went unbeaten in the four-team round-robin tournament they hosted this month.
England, which lost the final game 1-0 to the Americans, finished runner-up and climbed one ranking place.
Germany dropped to No. 3 after a last-place finish that cost coach Steffi Jones her job. The Germans were ranked in the top two for almost 10 years.
Roma goalkeeper Alisson to captain Brazil against RussiaThe Roma goalkeeper will be the 15th player to captain Brazil in 18 matches under current coach Tite.
...The captaincy became a contentious issue for Brazil following Neymar’s public resignation from the role shortly after leading Brazil to gold at the Rio Olympics in 2016
Upon his July 2016 appointment, Tite took the decision not to appoint a permanent captain, borrowing from his time at Corinthians where he had rotated the armband around the squad.
"I don’t do it just to be nice. I've learned that leadership requires a number of qualities,” Tite said last year. “It's behavioural, tactical, technical, about communication… everyone has these to varying degrees. I try to encourage players to show theirs.”
He has repeatedly insisted that there are “many leaders” in the squad and this week in Moscow the players were each handed a copy of ‘Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life’, by college basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski.
...Van Marwijk is expected to blood a few of the fresh faces in his squad in the Norway game on Saturday or the clash with Colombia on Tuesday in London, and is not concerned that the Danish national team coach will be in Oslo watching his side take on the Norwegians.
Norway game on SaturdaySaturday in Australia. Friday for normal people.
"It’s new, it’s been nice to spend the time together with everybody as a group," the captain said. "We all know the circumstances and it’s just about getting the work in, and we’ve done that to this point and we’ll continue to do that going forward."I think it's only normal when you have a new manager and new staff come in everybody has to impress, everybody wants to put their best foot forward.
"No one really wants to waste time in doing that. We know we’ve got a long path ahead but there's opportunity there to get some good work in and I think with that comes a lot of excitement.
"We are overall preparing for a World Cup and that’s exciting to do it with a new manager and a new way of doing it. I’m just excited as anybody."
However, since falling to that Antoine Griezmann double in Marseille, Germany have bounced back to go on a 21-game unbeaten run, most recently drawing friendlies against England and France.
Germany won all 10 of their qualifiers for this summer's tournament, while Spain had nine wins and a draw.
"It will be a game in which both teams will want to show what they can do," said Low.
"However, neither will want to lay their cards on the table. If we were to play Spain at the World Cup, it would be a very different game and we know they are a top team in every respect.
England come into the game on the back of a pair of 0-0 draws with Germany and Brazil in November, and have not beaten the Oranje since the famous 4-1 win at Euro 96.
Disney show from Argentina. She got free tickets for journalist (150 euros each).
Playing looks a lot better than the screenshot. I'll look into if there is a setting for that.
"This is going to be his team," Sampaoli said, before his side's friendly against Italy on Friday.
"Messi is the best of all and is in a stage of maturity that can he can carry the team on his shoulders. It is more his team than mine."
Houseman, a World Cup winner in 1978, has died aged 64 after losing his battle with cancer.
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