The 2012
Edition of REAL SPORTS Most Important Moments in Sports edition raises a question that should spark
debate and interest among women's national soccer team fans and players. With Tom Sermanni being named the
new head coach as of Oct. 30, replacing Pia Sundhage, who left to coach
her native Sweden following the Olympic win, is Hope Solo his keeper going
forward?
Heading into the next World Cup/Olympic
cycle, Sermanni has many questions to answer – among them is Hope
Solo, the enigmatic publicity magnet whose glibness and off-field demeanor
continued to attract the spotlight in 2012, the goalie for the future? She’s the
best in the world, and has the stats back it, but with plenty of goalkeeping
talent waiting in the wings, is the media attention regarding her on and
off-the-field issues, rather than the team’s on-field results, worth keeping
when one star goes to no great pains to align herself with the rest of the
squad?
Should she be replaced, it likely won’t be the end of
her career. Now that a third professional league, National Women’s Soccer
League, is in the works, she’ll certainly find herself on a roster as a
big name draw. Read more about women’s soccer in the year-end 2012 Most
Important Moments in Sports edition by REAL SPORTS (www.realsportsmag.com).
Content: Chelsea Janes/Amy Love, Photograph: ISI
Photos / John Todd
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