The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team will complete their World Cup run today, and will either provide the perfect finish to a dream tournament, or will fall just short in their quest for a third World Cup title when the ladies take on Japan in today's Women's World Cup Final (2:45pm, ESPN/Galavision/ESPN3.com).
Standing in the way is the skillful and motivated Japanese squad, which is playing for a nation recovering from a terrible disaster and looking like a team of destiny. The United States has defeated Japan three times this year, but nobody would call this a mismatch considering how Japan has looked in this World Cup.
SBI will be providing live commentary on today's World Cup Final so please feel free to follow along here. As always, you are welcome to share your own thoughts and opinions in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action (Commentary is after the jump):
What a jacka$$ Ives the writer is. So negative about a great team! I hope he doesn’t have any kids.
I wish the mens team had Abby and Alex on the front line.
Do you know what “today” means…?
I am extremely gutted and heartbroken right now. The story of US Soccer?
Gulati is having a lot of practice being the awkard guy on the podium.
At least US is undisputed world champions of competitive eating and US wins the “world series” every year!
Much more devastation than happiness, for the record.
I blame the loss on the 3 damn misses on PKs.. and the terrible defense. CLEAR THE DAMN BALL.
I still say Rapinoe show more vision than almost anybody on our men’s team, and Morgan is a better finisher than men’s forwards. Well, once again, you never want to be a better team going into a penalty shoot out, just ask Brazil.
*lose*
Happy for the nation of my heritage, but devastated for the nation of my birth. It’s hard to beat anyone that believes their cause is greater than themselves. In this case, that much greater.
What is it with penalties today. The better team should have won today (USA and Brazil) and they both miss most or all of their penalties.
Too bad some of the posters on here could not lode as gracefully
lulz
end woman’s sufferage
hahahhaha worst defending i have ever seen. Too bad becuase no one will care about this team anymore. I thought Japan was supposed to have beautiful footwork and were like Barcelona? They looked like sh!t
Yes. If there’s one team against whom I’m happy to lose gracefully, it’s Japan. They’ve played very well.
Great game. They deserved to lose though. Awful finishing.
Carli Lloyd played the whole game as Carli Bornstein.
to the USA women
I enjoyed the ride!
Thank you
Another final choked away. At least it was a great game.
Looks like the whole team (other than Wambach) needs to work on taking penalties that are more than 2 inches off of the ground.
Congratulations Japan. Sincerely.
Great Game
what was the logic of letting carli lloyd anywhere near a penalty kick?
and just like that nobody in america cares about women’s soccer anymore. good job totally f**king that up ladies … kudos!
biggest choke in sports history!
well this is over.
Annnnnd i no longer care about this team.
carli lloyd still can’t shoot. you could see on her run up to the shot that she was going to miss.
Carli Wondolowski
OMG good job women. Way to lose the game all by yourselves.
horrible shot.
ha ha ha!!!!!!!
come on now, win it here, come on
Abby Wondolowski, there…