Ryan out as U.S. women's coach

[bullets13]

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=474885&cc=5901

I guess playing Scurry was the wrong decision

[SEsoccerplayer]

That's sad because he had a 53 game winning streak but loses the 54 and gets booted after a questionable player change, tough job, ay?

[SFA]

  >:(He lost his job because he made himself the issue and not the team.  Solo didn’t throw Surry under the bus, she just expressed confidence in her abilities.  Most great athletes always believe they can make the save or score the goal.  Players don’t get great by being timid.  He punished her for her confidence.  That is certainly what any great coach would do.  Yeah, right!

[sharkfutbol]

here is an article from soccer america magazine.  I cant link it but its short....  here ya go... like the out muscle verses outplaying.. 

On Monday, U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati announced that Ryan's contract will not be renewed and that a replacement will be named within two months.

Ryan had guided the U.S. women's national team to 49 wins in the 55 games that he was in charge.

A penalty-kick defeat to Germany in 2006 that went into the record book as a tie and a 4-0 loss to Brazil in the 2007 Women's World Cup were the only losses the USA suffered while Ryan was in charge.

But next year the U.S. women will aim to win gold at the Olympic Games. Were Ryan to stay in charge, the bitter taste of the failure at the last World Cup would have lingered.

Scapegoating Hope Solo for her few words during the most disappointing moment of her career simply deflected the focus away from the more important lessons of the U.S. performance.

A game plan of outmuscling opponents when the USA should be outplaying its foes, and hearing Ryan defend that style, was the most distressing aspect of the U.S. performance.

How much blame Ryan deserves for the fact that the U.S. women displayed inferior skills and less sophisticated soccer than other teams at the tournament is open to debate.

But clearly a leadership change was required as the U.S. women's game takes on its short- and long-term challenges.

[Jsmity]

I think that was a pretty rash decision... just b/c the U.S. Women didnt win it all, doesnt mean they didnt have a successful World Cup (Granted they did go in as world number 1 and heavily favored)... JMO