The Road to London

The qualification process for the United States Women's Soccer team on Friday. The first game was a 14-0 routing of the Dominican Republic that came at a cost because of a bad tackle by and inexperienced Dominican player. Ali Krieger suffered a torn ACL and MCL in her right knee as a result of the play and it is extremely doubtful that she can return to form in time for the Olympics. The main talk after the game was how team USA was too ruthless in the amount of goals they scored. I look at it differently this was the first competitive game that they played since the World Cup final they are a team on a mission that wants everyone to know it. The second game was played at a much higher level by Team USA as well as their opponent Guatemala with the final score being thirteen goal victory. They play Mexico in the semifinals for a berth in the Olympic on Tuesday at 10:30 EST.

Dominican Republic 0 - 14 USA

1’,19’ Wambach
4’ Lloyd
6’ Buehler
17’, 31’,78’ O’Reilly
30’ Heath

47’,48’, 58’,70’,75 ’Rodriguez
64’ Cheney


USA 13 - 0 Guatemala

12’,14’ Wambach
24’ Cheney
29’ Rodriguez
33’ Lloyd
34’ Lindsey
2nd half
48’, 50’,57’, 70’, 87’Leroux
75’ Rapinoe
83’ Morgan