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09:48 AM ET 05.25 | Eight months after the benching of goalkeeper Hope Solo and the corrosive fallout at the Women's World Cup, no one is pretending that all wounds have healed as the Olympics approach. Close friendships have frayed. The telephone calls that used to come on days off -- let's go shopping, let's go to the beach -- no longer come. "It hurts," Solo, 26, said in one breath, then in the next, "It"s not uncomfortable by any means. "Nobody reaches out to me quite as much," Solo continued. "It's normal. I expect that." Previously, one of her closest friends was defender Cat Whitehill. No longer. According to Solo, Whitehill's response to her explanation was, "I think you're trying to get sympathy because of your dad's death." The star forward Abby Wambach, echoing others, said the team still believed it did the right thing in banishing Solo from the bronze-medal game at the World Cup. "It was a distraction," Wambach said. It the same time, Wambach said, the episode forced her to reconsider her own actions and to accept some responsibility for not making Solo feel enough a part of the team entering the World Cup.

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May 25, 2008  10:10 AM ET

That's why her name is Hope SOLO.
It's 'bout time something nasty happened with this team.

May 25, 2008  10:14 AM ET

I disagree. I believe I would have reacted the same way as Hope Solo did over the most boneheaded decision a coach has ever made. If she's being shunned, she can always give me a call,wink,wink.

May 25, 2008  10:28 AM ET

I hear that, You don't put in a new goalie that hasn't played in months in becuase of a record years ago. But Hope should have kept her mouth shut as well. Either way, Hope sweety, I'll show you some love.

May 25, 2008  10:52 AM ET

She shouldn't have opened her big mouth, but she was right and her coach was an idiot.

May 25, 2008  12:28 PM ET

It was a really bad moment for US soccer to say the least...

May 25, 2008  12:37 PM ET

What a self-righteous bunch of hypocrites. I don't understand how they can't forgive her after all this time. In such a pressure-packed situation to ask her to just shut up about it is asking her to go against human nature. Brazil was too good for them anyway no matter who would have been in goal. Instead of focusing on the jacked-up situation the coach put Solo in, they instead focus on her for not acting like she wasn't dying to do her job. THEY should have been plssed off with her because it was a foul thing for a big-time soccer coach to do. Bottom line.

And they never should have let her get close to a microphone and camera because they knew she was livid when the announcement was made to the team.

May 25, 2008  12:42 PM ET

Very weird article.

May 25, 2008  06:48 PM ET

I think Solo is the one who is right. Scurry played like trash that game. Probably the reason she was riding bench the whole world cup. Im just saying the girl was extremely upset because she was pulled in the biggest game of her life. I mean WTF thats like benching Kobe in the Finals because MJ is on the bench and played great in the Finals. Bet Kobe gets pissed and says something. Id say Solo is the only real athlete on the team. This reminds me of my sister and her friends.Bunch of little girls. Cant even forgive the girl. How retarded just like female social circles.

May 25, 2008  09:50 PM ET

She was right. She didn't say anything CrAzY. But female athletes are kinda hard core. Frequently to a comic degree. Yeah that's right.

May 25, 2008  10:19 PM ET

This is stupid if she is the best Keeper (which she is) then she should play no matter what. Play your best 11 so there are no excuses do you think everyone on any team 100% gets along NOOOOO!!!!!!! But they get paid to play so quit your belly aching

May 25, 2008  10:53 PM ET

Solo did it to herself. This is the real world hunny. Open your mouth like a clown and that is how you get treated. wwwaaaaaaaaaaaa I don't have friends

May 26, 2008  09:07 AM ET

I love it how everyone talks trash saying she should have kept quiet and such......right. Just like it was stated earlier, if your star player for your favorite team is benched (say Kobe in NBA Finals, Manning in the Super Bowl, ARod in the World Series) for an older vet based on how they have done in the PAST, do you think they would keep quiet? HA! And you are going to sit here and say you wouldn't back them up when they talk crap? Please. Be real here, Ryan was a *****ng **** to bench her, he should've gotten ALL the heat, not Solo. She is by far the best keep out there in the women's game. That is why she continues to start for the #1 womens team in the world in games that matter.

Hope, can't wait to see you in Denver in July. We'll see who wins it this time.

May 26, 2008  09:10 AM ET

And for her teammates to criticize her for bringing unnecessary distractions to the team, they are idiots too. GREG RYAN was the one that brought the distraction when he decided to start Scurry instead of his star Hope Solo. Way to stick up for your idiot coach that is no longer around. And gee why is that? I can only imagine....

May 27, 2008  12:45 AM ET

If her teammates are still bitter, that's there problem. The coach messed up, Solo called him on it and that's that. Perhaps she was un-diplomatic but she didn't do anything wrong by saying what she did.

If she's frozen out of US soccer, I think she should take out Canadian citizenship and play for Canada. I might actually watch women's soccer then.

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May 27, 2008  04:36 AM ET

Typical women. Not able to handle a situation professionally. Men wouldn't act half as stupid. If some guy in a team says something offensive, it is forgotten a week later. But women have their 'feelings hurt'. F* that! Pro sport is not about feelings. This is one of the many reasons a lot of men don't take women sports seriously.

May 27, 2008  09:25 AM ET

The sad thing about this whole situation is... the players were swearing up and down all the time you heard from them was how much of a family they were. If that were the case, they would have intervened when Daddy Coach Ryan decided to break up the family, instead of dis owning her. The US will fail miserably because of all of this, and they can't blame anybody except themselves and Coach Ryan. Solo clearly got screwed over in this circumstance

May 27, 2008  01:24 PM ET

Wow, no trolling, THAT wasn't a sexist comment.

May 27, 2008  02:02 PM ET

sure there is some lineage and rule somewhere that would let her play for another country..... It might give them a little Hope with her in the net.

 
May 27, 2008  02:08 PM ET

Hope got screwed. I HOPE she gets a second chance.

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