Posted on 06/22/2015 4:55:34 PM PDT by drewh
The heavily favored United States heads into the knockout stage of the Women's World Cup on Monday in a game suddenly dripping with drama the likes of a heavyweight title fight.
In the kind of interest-boosting moment that rarely unfolds at the World Cup, Colombian star forward Lady Andrade held nothing back in a verbal assault on the second-ranked Americans, her opponent in the Round of 16.
"They belittle us," Andrade told USA Today. "They think we're a team they're going to walk all over and it will be an easy game for them. We're going to beat them since they like to talk so much."
Even before Andrade, 23, opened her mouth, the matchup in Edmonton, Alberta, had a back story.
The United States defeated Colombia 3-0 at the 2012 Summer Olympics in a game that is remembered for Andrade getting a two-match suspension for sucker punching Abby Wambach away from the ball.
"I hit her, what else I can say?" Andrade told USA Today. "If you look back at the video, you'll see she hit me too, but we're Colombia so they don't want to review the whole episode."
The Americans probably don't need extra motivation to defeat No. 28 Colombia after getting mediocre reviews for their group-play performance. The United States won the group of death, but many fans are demanding more from a stagnant offense that produced four goals.
The winner Monday will advance to the quarterfinals against China, which eliminated Cameroon over the weekend.
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Go, USA!!
Where’s my fave, Sydney Leroux?
are there any straight girls on that team??? the one in red should prolly be in jail
Leroux is like me, ex-Canadian and believe it or not, I have relatives in Surrey, BC the same city where she hails from.
Leroux is. She is married to Sporting Kansas City’s forward Dom Dwyer.
pls tell me it's #13...
...“the likes of a heavyweight title fight”...
I didn’t know it was soccer, nor have I ever heard of this team, nor of anything in this mildly melodramatic article about what appears to be some hermaphroditic sportsmen
US 2 Colombia 0
Please.
Nobody cares about soccer.
Nobody watches women’s soccer unless their remote broke on that channel.
The US was not impressive in this game (and two starters are benched for the next one). Colombia looked good for the first half.
I like the teams where the women look like women.
This team can’t represent America,
Where is the latin?
Where is the black?
Maybe an American injun?
Doesn’t matter if this group is the best players, we gots to have diversity or some other kind of crap.
The Colombia team was tough and fast. The US women did well to keep them from scoring.
Didn’t look like they had much of a plan for scoring (I hadn’t seen their earlier games); they’d advance the ball but would only have a couple of people forward (as though they expected to take long shots and get lucky, or score on corner kicks/set pieces). They were certainly keeping up with the US team and defending well; after watching Germany play I don’t see the US winning this (though I don’t know how the groups unfold).
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