Les Bleus' 3-1 victory over the USWNT was troubling... but not for the reason you think.

Over the past month, as the American soccer public came to grips with the failure of the US men’s national team to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, the upcoming election for the presidency of US soccer has emerged as the first mile marker on the road to recovery. Howler reached out to every candidate …
The goal that neatly illustrates both the U.S.’s problems and France’s brilliance (Meline Gerard/Twitter) There’s certainly a post-mortem assessment to come from the party-with-the-bad-surprise-ending the U.S. threw itself over this past week, known to the world as the 2017 SheBelieves Cup (which probably isn’t the most unwieldy name ever foist upon a tournament). Monday’s loss …
The goal that neatly illustrates both the U.S.’s problems and France’s brilliance (Meline Gerard/Twitter) There’s certainly a post-mortem assessment to come from the party-with-the-bad-surprise-ending the U.S. threw itself over this past week, known to the world as the 2017 SheBelieves Cup (which probably isn’t the most unwieldy name ever foist upon a tournament). Monday’s loss …
An ambiguous ruling clearly aimed at Megan Rapinoe (Stu Holden/Twitter) Sunil Gulati’s USSF presidency of avoidance continues with the addition of a new policy that should be called the “Please Don’t Make This Difficult For Us, Megan Rapinoe” Rule. Revealed at the U.S. Soccer Annual General Meeting and shared by attendee Stu Holden, the policy, which …
An ambiguous ruling clearly aimed at Megan Rapinoe (Stu Holden/Twitter) Sunil Gulati’s USSF presidency of avoidance continues with the addition of a new policy that should be called the “Please Don’t Make This Difficult For Us, Megan Rapinoe” Rule. Revealed at the U.S. Soccer Annual General Meeting and shared by attendee Stu Holden, the policy, which was …