Game

The U.S. came out ready to play as did France in a physical but clean match. With Hamm at her best, the U.S.

Squad put together some unstoppable moves and were four goals up by halftime. They were able to substitute freely in the second half.

Post game quotes

U.S. National Team Head Coach April Heinrichs

I am so thoroughly pleased with this team's effort, pride and motivation in today's game. It was a very hard turn around from Olympic qualifying to here and now we are playing one of the top teams in the world. So to win 5-1 is a tremendous day for the team. The best part of today's game is that everyone who played, played well. You can't say that too often because this is a difficult game, but today everyone performed.

Mia Hamm

In a position like that, you try to freeze the goalkeeper with the service and I was able to do that with the cross. But whenever you have to or three people running at the goalkeeper it causes her to hold her line and second-guess herself. You had Julie (Foudy) running near post and Abby running far post and she did a great job finishing it. We finished our opportunities today. We've talked about trying to get numbers forward and we were able to do that. We put pressure on them and were able to win the free kick and corner kick that led to the goals. Angela made a great run and got in behind them. I can get end line, but if people aren't willing to make the runs, you going to have trouble scoring and I had more options than just Ang on that play.

Abby Wambach

I thought that was one of the better finishing halves we've had all year. We definitely came out ready to play and were focused. This field was great, definitely better than the fields in Costa Rica (at Olympic qualifying), and we just played a great first half.