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Simply days away from its Olympic opener, the U.S. ladies’s nationwide crew (USWNT) is hyper-focused on taking the match one match at a time — that begins with a match towards Zambia on Thursday. The ladies’s recreation globally, head coach Emma Hayes stated, is simply too good immediately to take something — the group stage included — without any consideration.
“I can’t overemphasize: We’re solely eager about Zambia,” Hayes stated Tuesday in a press convention. “I feel one of many greatest issues has been that too typically we preserve speaking about what we’re going to do in Paris, what occurs once you get to the semis or finals. I feel it’s disrespectful to the remainder of the world to speak like that. The sport has moved to a degree the place that isn’t the case. It isn’t a shoo-in to get someplace, it must be earned. There’s no given proper when ladies’s soccer has developed the way in which it has the world over.”
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