Hard to think the World Cup is old news, but yesterday's announcement of the Women's National Team roster for Olympic qualifying matches reminded us it's time to look forward to Brazil.
As Paul Kennedy points out in Soccer America, there is a big turnover from the World Cup team of just six months ago. Six players have retired and two are pregnant. Coach Jill Ellis did not select Whitney Engen or Heather O'Reilly. That amounts to a 50 percent change.
The biggest surprise seems to be O'Reilly, a veteran with 228 caps, number 7 on the all-time list for U.S. women. She saw little time in the World Cup and perhaps is just not valued by Ellis. I'll be interested to see if we read more on this in the coming weeks.
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