Osborne On Team's Focus
Leslie Osborne credited a freedom to play and a focus on playing to their strengths for the team’s entertaining and decisive victory over Norway in the third place match of the 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
“We know that when we play and we have freedom to play, that we play a lot better, “ Osborne said after the match. “Tonight was a good example of us just playing and playing to our strengths and taking initiative ourselves to play how we can play individually and collectively. I think in this tournament we focused a lot on our opponents and tonight we focused on ourselves.
“Tonight and even against England, I think we came out focusing on ourselves. We are such a great group of individuals, when we come together and focus on our strengths; we are a really good team. I think we just focused too much on our opponents. We had such a tough group to get out of, we just took one game at a time and focused so much on the teams we were playing rather than ‘Hey, let’s play our game.’ We learned a lot.”
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