it takes time to get it utfifas all clicking

[fifacoinhuiy li]

We’re not where we should be for a World Cup final, but we’re starting to understand the philosophy of our coach. Also, you learn from all of your mistakes and it takes time to get it utfifas all clicking. It’s our job to hear the coach’s voice and understand it.

She wants to open up the field. She’s more demanding of the defenders to come out with a controlled ball. She wants us to have more touches and to create more space to move into offensively. She wants us to work the ball up the field and not just bang it up to Abby [Wambach]. It keeps our minds working. It’s fresh and new. We don’t want to do the same things over and over.

We’re trying to combine more. To play a little more soccer and use good vision; to know when we’re in a good position to attack. We want to have a lot of options, to be more varied in the way we play the game.

Teams are getting stronger and we have to adapt. You can’t just get away with a moment of individual brilliance here and there. You need to play with 11 players on both sides of the ball. Our goalkeeper isn’t just there to save shots now; she comes into the play. The game has advanced.

The moment I look back on is 2008. We were going into the www.utfifas.co Olympics in Beijing and Abby [Wambach] broke her leg. We were devastated. We didn’t know what direction we would go in. We lost our first game and the media, everybody really, turned on us.