Brazilian fans greeted her with chants of “Zika” every time she touched the ball in her side’s opening win over New Zealand in Brazil on Aug.3.
Advertisement
Morgan and Sweden’s Linda Sembrandt both had kicks saved by Hedvig Lindahl and Hope Solo respectively before Press’ error gave Dahlkvist the chance for glory.
Hope Solo didn’t exactly buy into the spirit of the Olympic Games last night after the us goalkeeper branded opponents Sweden “a bunch of cowards”.
As Sweden celebrated the victory, captain Carli Lloyd crouched in defeat on the field at Mane Garrincha Stadium.
The U.S. Women’s team also won three gold medals in the last three Olympic Games and was expected to take gold, or at least medal, this year.
It also was the earliest the United States had ever been eliminated from the Olympics since women’s soccer became a sport in 1996.
“I thought that we played a courageous game. I’m going to Rio (for the semifinals), and she’s going home”.
“I don’t give a crap”, the former Team USA coach said about Solo’s words (via Sports Illustrated).
Perhaps the greatest example of not being able to accept defeat came from the USA men’s basketball team at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
“The best team did not win today”, she said. But I also think we played a bunch of cowards.
American women’s team goalkeeper Hope Solo Solo was also slammed by USA media for her comments.
“I’m always nervous about commenting on reports of reports, but if those were the comments, then it is disappointing”, Adams added. The U.S. beat one in France and played another, Sweden, to a draw before being knocked out of the Olympic tournament in the shootout.
Sweden coach Pia Sundhage, who coached the US for five years and led the team to gold medals at both the Beijing and London Olympics, quipped: “It’s OK to be a coward if you win”.
Asked to clarify, she said: “Sweden dropped off”. That left it to Lisa Dahlkvist, who calmly beat Solo in the bottom right corner, the American keeper barely moving for it, sending Sweden to the semifinals and sending the United States to their earliest loss in any major worldwide competition ever.
“I said to the players no words at this point are going to take away how they feel at this moment”, Ellis recounted. The US had been the defending champions. “I didn’t even anticipate it going into penalties”, said Morgan, who scored the lone goal for the Americans but missed in the shootout. What’s more, I likewise think we played a pack of weaklings. Controversy ensued in the second half of the extra period.
The high ranked United States team had gotten past the quarterfinals in seven World Cups and earned silver in five previous Olympics Games.
It started with a loss, of game and dignity, from a classless goalie who never should have been on this Olympic team. “They don’t have as quality of players as the American team does or as Brazil does, so they have to play a way that’s going to give them hope to beat a team like Brazil or the U.S.”.
Advertisement
Solo blamed the loss on Sweden’s tactics.
