![]() ![]() The legendary generation of players which won that tournament is largely gone – just five players from 2015 remain on the squad in this tournament. Professional teams have a hard enough time keeping a core championship group together and healthy for three consecutive years on a club level – the US women’s team is attempting to do the same thing eight years after winning the 2015 World Cup. The amount of effort, skill and sustained passion it takes to keep up success over a long period of time is beyond difficult and the years between World Cup editions only ratchet that tension up. The biggest enemies of sustained success in sports are waning motivation and, most often, time. Winning three championships in a row is extremely hard to do at the professional club level in any sport, let alone the World Cup in international soccer – no nation has ever won three consecutive World Cups in either the men’s or women’s game. But largely missing from the criticism and panic is a simple fact: what this team is attempting to do is near-impossible. ![]() The result set off alarm bells throughout the US soccer community. US soccer fans started their Tuesday disappointed – and perhaps anxious – as the women’s team only managed a lackluster goalless draw with Portugal, missing out on being bounced from the tournament completely by mere inches.
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