With the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in full force, the United States women's national team has lived up to the hype thus far with a 13-0 victory against Thailand and 3-0 decision against Chile.
Navy women's soccer coach Carin Gabarra and former Maryland women's soccer coach Shannon Higgins-Cirovski were part of the national team that won the 1991 World Cup and are now members of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Both are pleased with the team's results so far and believe its dominant ways should continue.
Throughout the group stage of the World Cup, much has been made about the USWNT's first match against Thailand and whether or not it was appropriate for the Americans to run up the score the way they did. Conventional wisdom says it was completely warranted; goal differential is a tiebreaker in the World Cup, and those extra goals could become useful down the line. But that has not stopped critics of the team from saying that it was the wrong decision.
