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[QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 4022951, member: 199"]
Team sports are always a merger between athletes, styles of play, and coaches. If you follow European men's soccer, you see how important the coaches are, how delicate the composition of teams is, and how the matching of coach and player and style of play can change the perception of player (and coach.)

USA Soccer at this Olympics looks like it has a problem in that balance and I don't think you can point to the players or their age as the cause. They have a new coach and the team flow on the field looks spotty. Soccer is also generally a very low scoring game that relies on individual moments of brilliance during 90+ minutes of competition - close matches can easily be determined by brilliant save, or as in the Canada match a moment of inattention by a defender.

It is also worth noting that the US NT in soccer has never been dominant in the way we look at USA basketball - last Olympics they were 5th (no medal) so they have actually improved on 2016 already. The longest consecutive WC run is currently 2.
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