{"id":15435,"date":"2020-02-22T18:26:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T02:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=15435"},"modified":"2020-02-22T18:26:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T02:26:03","slug":"uswnt-beats-every-opponent-on-path-to-2020-oympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/uswnt-beats-every-opponent-on-path-to-2020-oympics\/","title":{"rendered":"USWNT beats every opponent on path to 2020 Oympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"506\" height=\"238\" class=\"wp-image-15414 aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/02\/WNTvCANReport-color-1024x482.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/02\/WNTvCANReport-color-1024x482.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/02\/WNTvCANReport-color-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/02\/WNTvCANReport-color-768x361.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/02\/WNTvCANReport-color-1536x723.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/02\/WNTvCANReport-color-2048x964.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/02\/WNTvCANReport-color-1080x508.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Hannah Greene<\/strong>\u00a0 | Sports Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Since January, the United States Women\u2019s National Team for soccer has been competing in games to qualify for the 2020 Olympics. On Jan. 28, the USWNT kicked off against Haiti, beating them 4-0, and two days later annihilated Panama with a score of 8-0. The final matches before the Semi-Final and Final, the USWNT played against Costa Rica, winning 6-0, another score that didn\u2019t allow for any goals against them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The USWNT played against the young Mexico team and were able to beat them 4-0 to get to the Final vs Canada. In the past, Canada has proved to be a challenging team, making the USWNT work hard for every ball, teardrop, sweat, play and goal. Luckily, the USWNT was able to put three points on the board and not allow any goals, making the final score 3-0 \u2014 clinching a spot in the 2020 Olympics and setting them straight on a solid path to the She Believes Cup, starting in March, where they will compete against England, Spain, Japan, Australia and Brazil \u2014 multiple teams that confronted the USWNT during last year\u2019s World Cup in France.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Heading into the Olympics, the USWNT have a new coach, Vlatko Andonovski, who has made some changes to the lineup and called up multiple new players to join the squad. Alex Morgan, USWNT forward, has not been competing, but standouts Lynn Williams and Christen Press have changed the attacking game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The next game for this team will be held on March 5, where England will meet the United States in the Exploria Stadium in Florida.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Contact the author at <a href=\"mailto:hgreene18@wou.edu\">hgreene18@wou.edu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussoccer.com\/\">ussoccer.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Greene\u00a0 | Sports Editor Since January, the United States Women\u2019s National Team for soccer has been competing in games to qualify for the 2020 Olympics. On Jan. 28, the USWNT kicked off against Haiti, beating them 4-0, and two days later annihilated Panama with a score of 8-0. The final matches before the Semi-Final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":15414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}