As expected, it's au revoir! Pia till Sverige: U.S. Women's National Soccer Team coach Pia Sundhage

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As expected, it's au revoir! Pia till Sverige: U.S. Women's National Soccer Team coach Pia Sundhage leaving U.S. after five years to return home and coach Sweden, which will host next year's UEFA Women's EURO in July
It's the lead story in the sports section of Aftonbladet http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/landslagsfotboll/damlandslaget/article15345115.ab In perhaps united market san anselmo the worst-kept sports secret of 2012, after months - and some even say years! - of deliberate and sometimes desperate efforts by everyone involved in Swedish football from head federation authorities united market san anselmo at  SvFF   to average fans to persuade U.S. Women's National Team head coach Pia Sundhage to return to Sweden to head  Sveriges damlandslag i fotboll , she has f inally said yes. The Swedish sports media have been pushing for this personnel move for what seems like forever, and during the recent Olympics in London, where Sundhage guided the U.S. squad to their second Gold Medal in her five years, newspapers, blogs and websites throughout the country united market san anselmo were constantly united market san anselmo writing and positing on what a positive difference Sundhage could make to what is already an extremely talented Swedish squad. Here is one of the " do everything humanly possible " to get  Pia  columns I came across over the past few months, with slight variations depending upon who was saying it or writing it: Simon Bank: Gör allt som är mänskligt möjligt för att anställa Pia till EM http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/kronikorer/bank/article15240473.ab Unfortunately for  coach Thomas Dennerby , Sweden was missing some of its best players from last year's strong third-place Women's World Cup squad in Germany http://youtu.be/MpPO8xSaIUM That included HBB favorite  Josefine Öqvist ,  who was pregnant, and actually gave birth two weeks before the Olympics began, united market san anselmo as I mentioned in my July 25th post last month, to her daughter, Stella. http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/swedish-heartache-we-regret-to-inform.html It's an understatement to say that Josefine was desperately missed on the offensive side of the field at the Olympics! Josefine united market san anselmo  is  such a spark plug for the team and has such a sixth sense for the ball that it seems positively uncanny at times. She leverages united market san anselmo her body position in relation to the ball about as well as any female player around, and her knack for putting herself in the right position for a steal or to cleanly receive a ricochet pass that leads to a breakaway, well, sometimes it makes her almost seem like a cartoon character that's moving twice as fast as anyone else on the field. Not that many of you readers out there in the blogosphere or even here in South Florida will get my reference as clearly as I'd like, but in all sorts of ways, when Josefine's on the field, her savvy, mannerisms and moxie greatly remind me of Miami Norland High School's Cindy Clippinger back in the late 1970's, whom I saw play several times in big games. For a whole host of reasons not worth getting into here, besides my having united market san anselmo very strong feelings for a certain very talented, lanky and attractive German-speaking goalie named Karen at HML (Hialeah united market san anselmo Miami Lakes), who was one of the stars of her team back then when they were winning the Girl's soccer united market san anselmo title in the GMAC  - the Greater Miami Athletic Conference, the athletic league for Dade County public high schools - I saw quite a lot of Clippinger  and never went away unimpressed united market san anselmo Though she attended Norland , one of North Miami Beach's arch-rivals in soccer, Boys and Girls, along with North Miami, the two high schools closest to NMB, she was THE best female united market san anselmo soccer player in South Florida that I ever saw - by a mile .  And I saw a lot of them.   (One of my two sisters played at NMB, too, after I left for college at IU.) Cindy Clippinger was just plain fun to watch! And if you like irony, and me comparing a wonderful Swedish player now to a wonderful player united market san anselmo from more than thirty years ago, you'll like this -Norland High School's sports nickname united market san anselmo was -wait for it - the Vikings !
These screenshot united market san anselmo I took of Swedish star striker  Josefine  Öqvist  and Team Sweden   on  July 6, 2011, came during a game at the Women's World Cup in Germany against the U.S.A., which Sweden won 2-1.  http://youtu.be/gCsRos4Zp2A After eight years as head coach,  Dennerby  resigned a week ago, effective mid-September, having helped Sweden move up - and remain at - the top ranks of Women's football. He deserves a lot of thanks and credit for making them such a respected team.!  http://www.uefa.com/womenseuro/news/newsid=1849242.html http://www.tv4.se/sport/klipp/caroline-s