The US has the skilled female players to play the French or Japan way- I know a ton of them in just the Southeast. The WNT chooses to play the power game- size, strength over skill. Boxx and Lloyd are not good center mids- again there are many better skilled ladies just in the Southeast. But the power game has them in the World Cup finals and so they continue to play the game like the 1999 World Cup team, until they are forced to change