I’m not a sports oracle but I did predict that the US Women’s Soccer Team wasn’t going to dominate women’s soccer for long. I predicted that long before they flamed out in the last World Cup. This wasn’t hard to predict. If you knew anything about international soccer and “travel soccer” in the US this was like predicting the sun would set in the west. And it has.
The USWNT dominated the world stage because the rest of the world didn’t give a damn about women’s soccer. It’s that simple. The rest of the world cared about and watched men’s soccer because the rest of the world cared exclusively about men’s soccer. Girls and women didn’t get the resources. Women’s soccer wasn’t just an afterthought; it was a “no thought.” Not even girls and women in England or Germany or Brazil cared to develop female soccer players to play on the international stage….
