The Goalkeeper - Solo vs Scurry
There was a huge controversy when Coach Ryan of the United States Women’s World Cup Soccer team decided to take Hope Solo out of goal, and put in Brianna Scurry instead. Brianna Scurry had not played for quite some time, and Hope Solo had been a star and personality for the United States Team. The decision that Ryan made was because of the way that Brianna Scurry played against Brazil the last time they faced them. Although Hope Solo was surprised and a little shocked by the decision, she still supported the decision, unlike a lot of us. I am seriously questioning the decision after the Brazilian women beat the United States women’s team badly on Thursday.
So, for all of us that think it is easy to make that decision, in comes a game called “The Goalkeeper” by mac games. Here, you ARE the goalkeeper. You make the decisions that affect your own career. You can decide what attributes you want your goalkeeper to have, you can negotiate your contract, or decide to leave the team, or even go to the training area to increase your skills for the next match. The matches themselves offer several ways to play: You can use the mouse to play in arcade mode, Strategy save where you make your best guess before the shot, or Instant save that will rely on your learned skills to make a decision. “The Goalkeeper” is free to try and you can buy right at the site to give you all of the options in the game.
October 18th, 2007 at 2:58 am
It’s not easy really being a coach. All what the coaches wanted to do is to help the team achieve goals. It is rather silly to say that they wanted to sabotage. Who else want to sabotage their own career, may I ask? What we do not know is that sometimes there are underlying strategies and it is not appropriate to reveal or tell anybody. I mean they have the right to decide what they want being the coach. And if everything goes well, they get the credit but if something goes awefully wrong because the coach makes a decision against popularity then all the blame will come to them at all sides. Leave them be making their own decisions and only judge them based on collective results rather than single loses. Remember coaches have their rights.
October 21st, 2007 at 3:57 pm
I guess it was a bad decision on part of the coach, however to be fair to him, one can only speculate on what might happen and base their decision on it. Some time it goes according to the plan and sometimes one has to encounter failure. It’s all part of the game…
November 2nd, 2007 at 5:39 am
Apparently Hope Sols has been asked by the time to come back and practice with them. The coach is gone, and the players have obviously forgiven her for her untimely and perhaps unthoughtful comments.
December 4th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
I have downloaded the game, going to play it.