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Leslie Osborne, USWNT star, will be a guest on Marcelo Balboa's From The Pitch radio show this coming Tuesday evening. Let's hope Balboa can get the Wisconsin Native talking about more than just cheese!

We'd like to hear thoughts on Brazils' Marta, opinion on fired Coach Ryan, and what city she'll play in for the new professional womens league.

What would you like Balboa to talk about? Submit questions below and tune in Tuesday at 5PM PST.

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Women’s head coach Greg Ryan released the roster for the upcoming three-game series with Mexico, and guess who’s back on the roster? That's right—Hope Solo.

Why the sudden change of heart? Have her teammates forgiven her so soon? Have Ryan and Solo actually worked out their differences?

It’s a little more realistic to think that Solo’s return to the National team has more to do with ticket sales and media coverage than anything else. Think about it—before the goalkeeping controversy the coverage of the Women’s World Cup was minimal to say the least, but as soon as Solo opened her mouth and bashed Ryan, every news station was covering something about the WCC.

Here’s the rest of the roster:
Goalkeepers: Nicole Barnhart; Briana Scurry; Hope Solo.
Defenders: Marian Dalmy; Tina Ellertson; Stephanie Lopez; Kate Markgraf; Christie Rampone; Cat Whitehill.
Midfielders: Shannon Boxx; Lori Chalupny; Angela Hucles; Carli Lloyd; Leslie Osborne; Aly Wagner.
Forwards: Natasha Kai; Kristine Lilly; Heather O'Reilly; Lindsay Tarpley; Abby Wambach.

So what do you think? Do you that Solo’s return is a gesture of goodwill or a plot to increase ticket sales?

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Hope Solo won't be in goal for the U.S. against Norway. She won't even be on the bench, as Greg Ryan left her off the roster after Hope was critical of his decision to put Brianna Scurry in the match against Brazil over her.

Maybe Hope should have kept her mouth shut, but can Ryan afford to have Scurry in goal for the third-place match. Scurry's already proven she's not exactly ready to be playing at this level again, as she was out played in the Brazil match. The 36-year-old Scurry just isn't fit enough as the first full game she played in three months was against Brazil. With Hope off the team, the U.S. can only hope that Scurry is ready for this match, because it would be a travesty for the U.S. to walk away from the World Cup with nothing to show for it.

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Greg Ryan's decision of putting Brianna Scurry in goal over Hope Solo failed miserably. As Scurry let in not one, not two, but four goals in against Brazil.

It just wasn't the American's night, as the first goal was an own-goal, then later Shannon Boxx was sent off for a second yellow.

Now the U.S. will play Norway on Sunday for the third-place match.

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U.S. Women's National Team coach Greg Ryan will either be seen as a genius or as crazy depending on how the semi-final game against Brazil goes.

Ryan's decided to bench keeper Hope Solo for 36-year-old Brianna Scurry. The decision probably has a lot to do with the fact that Scurry has been in goal the last two times the Women have played Brazil. Both games ended with a victory for the U.S. team.

But one has to wonder if this is the best move, not only hasn't Scurry played a full game in three months, but also this young squad is very close and something like this could disrupt their concentration.

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With rain pouring down, the U.S. Women defeated Nigeria 1-0 to finish in first place in Group B, more importantly they booked their ticket to the Women's World Cup quarterfinals. Although the African side had possession for most of the game, they rarely tested American keeper Hope Solo. With three points in hand, thanks to the game winner from Lori Chalupny, the Women will now play in England in their quarterfinals match.

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First it seems that Chinas was spying on Denmark's Women's National team, and yesterday, right before Denmark played New Zealand, FIFA announced that they were suspending Denmark's head coach, Kenneth Heiner-Moller, for two games because he apparently came into physical contact with a referee.

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This has been a week of scandal and cheating it seems in the world of soccer, and the Women's World Cup hasn't been ammuned to these issues.

It turns out that during one of Denmark's team meets two men with cameras were hiding between a two-way mirror. It turns out that right before Denmark was to have their strategy meeting for their game against China, two men with cameras were discovered hiding between a two-way mirror.

FIFA decided that the men weren't connected to any of the teams, but here at OBJ, we still find it a little suspicious. Whethere or not they were afflilated with any teams, the matter still remains that they were trying to record Denmark's meeting - it seems a little fishy.

China won that game 3-2.

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The Kristine Lilly-Abby Wambach team strikes again. In the must win game against Sweden, Wambach proved why she's so important to the team. She scored both goals, but the second being the goal of the tournament so far. (Check out her goal here.

That second goal was Wambach's third of the tournament...as well as her 80th goal in 98 games.

All the U.S. needs now is a draw to make it to the next round.

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