The U.S. women’s national soccer team waited — or, more precisely, wasted — 3½ games before looking forward instead of backward.
Coming off a calamitous U.S. performance at the World Cup, the squad’s four friendlies this fall should have been used to turn the page on former coach Vlatko Andonovski’s faulty tenure and introduce fresh ideas and faces in the fast buildup to the Olympics next year.
Instead, interim coach Twila Kilgore was curiously stuck in nostalgia — and not just because retiring stars Megan Rapinoe and Julie Ertz bid farewell in last month’s matches against South Africa.