On Tuesday night at RFK Stadium, the U.S. Women’s National Team lost 3-0 to France, its worst defeat since a 4-0 semifinal capitulation to Brazil at the 2007 World Cup in China. The match was the finale of the SheBelieves Cup, a tournament over which the USWNT lost two of three games and scored just a single goal. Coach Jill Ellis is credited with winning the 2015 World Cup, the first for the U.S. since 1999, but when combining the results during the SheBelieves Cup with crashing out of the 2016 Olympics in the quarterfinal round, and the myriad personnel and tactical errors along the way, it’s clear that Ellis should no longer coach this team.
It’s time for USWNT coach Jill Ellis to go
