The Vig

US Women’s goaltender Hope Solo was benched in favor of Brianna Scurry prior to this morning’s World Cup match with Brazil. The Brazillians ran roughshod over Team USA, winning 4-0. That is a stomping.

Solo wasn’t happy with coach Greg Ryan’s decision and she’s let the world know.

I’m with you, Hope. I do wonder though if maybe something happened behind the scenes which caused the benching. Either way, I don’t think a coach can put his team in this sort of position this late into a tournament. If this country cared at all about soccer, men’s or women’s, this would be a huge scandal. It doesn’t. So this will be over in a few days.Team USA is scheduled to play a friendly against Mexico at PGE Park on October 17th. It will be interesting to see if Solo is still on the team.