By Alecko Eskandarian, Special to SI.com

Hope Solo (above) took aim at Brandi Chastain with a series of tweets that have taken the spotlight off Team USA's success.

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Hope Solo gets people talking.

On the field, she's the greatest U.S. women's goalkeeper of all time. Off it, she's arguably the most outspoken American player ever.

As the U.S. women's soccer team chases its third consecutive Olympic gold medal -- buoyed by impressive Olympics victories over France, Colombia and North Korea in the opening round -- the majority of the attention has been on Solo's Twitter rant aimed towards NBC broadcaster (and former U.S. women's national team star) Brandi Chastain.

Instead of a positive buzz for the women's team heading into the quarterfinals, it has now largely been overshadowed by the public debate of whether you are on #TeamSolo or #TeamChastain.

Chastain's comments, the ones that presumably irked Solo following the U.S.' 3-0 victory over Colombia on Saturday, weren't overly critical and were primarily aimed at U.S. defender Rachel Buehler.

"Rachel Buehler with the giveaway there," Chastain noted in the match's 22nd minute. "As a defender, your responsibilities are defend, win the ball, and then keep possession, and that's something Rachel Buehler needs to improve on during this tournament."

Though Solo's comments (see her postgame Tweets above) were aimed at Chastain's abilities in the booth, one can't help but read into the "the game has changed from a decade ago" tweet without thinking there's more to this than just commentary.

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