As we all had suspected, Greg Ryan is out as USA Women’s soccer coach.  Ryan had a great win/loss record of 45-1-9 with his only loss the beatdown by Brazil in the World Cup.    Ryan obviously did not win the only tournament that matters, the World Cup.

It is unfortunate that Greg Ryan did not get the opportunity to continue as coach at least thru the 2008 Beijing Olympics which is only one year away.  At least we could see how good or bad of a coach he really was.  His predecessor, April Heinrichs did a horrible job in her 6 years losing the 2000 Olympics and 2003 World Cups and got lucky when the team won the 2004 olympics.  Heinrichs had 3 chances to shine and she had the luxury of coaching the veterans including Hamm, Fowdy, Chastain.    Everyone forgets that Greg Ryan is coaching a bunch of young and inexperienced players while the rest of the world has gotten much better.

The USA women’s team has a lot of work to do.  The current players suck and no coach can fix that.  Whether it is Hope Solo or Briana Scurry in goal, it really does not matter.  These players need to get their act together and stop blaming their coach for their failures..  They have a lot to learn….