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US women's soccer team is slammed for 'disgusting' celebrations during 13-0 World Cup [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | June 12, 2019 | Charlie Moore and Ariel Zilber

Posted on 06/12/2019 2:47:14 AM PDT by C19fan

The US women's soccer team has been slammed for wildly celebrating every goal in their 13-0 defeat of Thailand. The Women's World Cup favorites thrashed the minnows in Riems, France on Tuesday night and reacted to each goal as if it were their first. Thailand was never a real threat to the U.S. national team. Even so, the three-time Women’s World Cup champions had no desire to go easy on a lesser opponent in their opening game. Goals matter in the group stage.

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To: Mark17

“I don’t know if the US Women’s National ice hockey team still does it, but several years ago, they lost to the Warroad, Minnesota (population 1,800) high school boys hockey team. They also lost to a few other Minnesota boys high school teams too.”

One year my Bantam hockey team (13-14 year olds) were asked to play the women’s junior national team who were in Dallas for practices. The only rule was no checking. We held up pretty well until my kids decided to start checking. They stopped counting the goals at 9. Every goal they scored against us was on the power play.

It was a great lesson learned and it was the key factor in our team’s championship run.


21 posted on 06/12/2019 4:49:55 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Trump is President and CEO of America, Inc.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
Crush the enemy, see them fleeing before you, and hear the lamentation of the women.

~Genghis Khan

22 posted on 06/12/2019 4:51:14 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: OldNewYork
Title IX never required us to actually watch women’s sports.

Just curious: does your contempt for women's sports extend to U.S. women swimmers, skiers, gymnasts, track and field competitors, ice skaters, hockey players, etc. in the Olympics? Or is it only soccer you disrespect?

I find the animus against U.S. women's soccer curious. I suspect most of those who express it are conventional, flag-waving, Go USA fans of U.S. women in other international competitions. So why is soccer different?

There is, of course, the traditional football-basketball-baseball bias of so many U.S. fans, who look down on soccer as alien. I used to share that view before I watched enough soccer to begin to understand it (because I had soccer playing daughters, which led to watching a lot of games). But in addition, the major U.S. sports have now turned me off. Football and basketball have embraced thug culture. And television has poisoned everything. Even college basketball, once the greatest game on earth, is now unwatchable thanks to the shot clock, the three pointer, and one-and-out. Even baseball has compromised itself with the DH, playoffs and interleague play. Soccer hasn't sold out to television.

But that aside, I think a lot of the resentment of the U.S. Women's National Team arises from the fact that soccer is uniquely the only major sport in which the U.S. women are dramatically better than the U.S. men in international competitions. The U.S. women are an elite program and compete for championships; they won't win them all, but they are a threat in any tournament they enter. The men struggle to be a respectable second tier team, and this time around, didn't even qualify for the men's World Cup tournament.

Are the U.S. women really better than the U.S. men? This requires a quick timeout for precise definitions. Yes, they are, in terms of class competition, which is how the games are played. No they aren't, in an absolute sense, just as no female swimmer, gymnast, golfer, tennis player or track and field athlete could succeed in a men's competition. But this doesn't mean women shouldn't play sports. It means we have to accept the nature of class competitions and celebrate best in class.

Why some men seem to be so threatened by a U.S. women's team that does so much better than its men's counterpart is beyond me. I suppose some of it has to do with overheated nonsense expressed by some zealous feminist types who obviously don't know anything about athletics. One even encounters the occasional assertion that the U.S. women's soccer team would beat the U.S. men's team. This usually pops up somewhere in the comments section, expressed by some perfect idiot, but sometimes the perfect idiot is the author of the story. And that's just stupid. Men are bigger, faster and stronger, and the women would be run off the field in a head to head match. Just as Katie Ledecky would lose to Michael Phelps. So what? Men and women are different. That's why the competitions are separate. And it's why the trans thing will destroy women's sports if it becomes common.

23 posted on 06/12/2019 4:54:51 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: C19fan
Soccer is boring to watch, but it's fun to do...much like a fat chick...Bill Schulz(Red Eye)
24 posted on 06/12/2019 4:55:39 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
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To: Libloather

Just wait until the trannies end up on the women’s team.

They’ll take all the slots currently held by the gay gals ...


25 posted on 06/12/2019 4:55:45 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: sphinx

To answer your first question, yes.


26 posted on 06/12/2019 4:56:34 AM PDT by OldNewYork (Operation Wetback II, now with computers)
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To: C19fan
I've been in some slaughter soccer games, usually on the winning side, sometimes not.

One could argue in the cup you have to keep scoring because group stage ties are broken by things such as goal spreads.

So you DO need to keep scoring.

But the celebrating lacked class. I can almost guarantee no mens national team would have done that (any country.) On the other hand, you might see a C Ronaldo do it. You wouldn't see Messi doing it.

It is a commentary on one's character. Others can argue whether it's a commentary on goodness or badness. But it IS a commentary on character. So it's no surprise to me that certain members of the women's team are inserting themselves into politics, whining about equal pay, and making themselves very unattractive as human beings.

I'm sure this doesn't apply to all of them, and even if they are obnoxious ... they have worked hard and earned being good.

But how they handled those goals was totally lame.

For the moment, I've lost any impetus to root for them. That probably will remain.

Hilariously, the other day I heard an NPR story about the US women's success vs the men's. The interviewer asked 'why are the US women so much better than the men? (because the women have had so much more success.) Remarkably ridiculous question.

27 posted on 06/12/2019 5:00:35 AM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

28 posted on 06/12/2019 5:02:03 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: airborne

The keeper seem to make no effort to stop any of the goals.


29 posted on 06/12/2019 5:12:04 AM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: LRoggy

Tough call, since goals matter, but I side with you. Not classy


30 posted on 06/12/2019 5:17:50 AM PDT by chiller (As Davey Crockett once said: Be sure you're right. Then go ahead. I'm goin' ahead.)
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To: sphinx
I think the contempt is being caused by the anti Trump and thus anti American statements by members of the US womens team.

I know that's the case with me. I've had it with this crap. You can't disrespect the country then say you represent the US. They are representing the commie left. It may be only a couple of the players but they are star players and thus represent the team. Their actions taint the entire team. American's are sick and tired of all things commie.

31 posted on 06/12/2019 5:26:44 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: sphinx
Just curious: does your contempt for women's sports extend to U.S. women swimmers, skiers, gymnasts, track and field competitors, ice skaters, hockey players, etc. in the Olympics? Or is it only soccer you disrespect?

Most women's sports are incredibly boring. I'll watch swimming, volleyball, gymnastics, some track and field simply because many of the competitors are good looking and scantily dressed. (OK so sex sells.) Occasionally I'll watch softball. The men's competitions are always better from a sports standpoint.

I will not watch soccer at any level unless I know someone who is playing and I've been properly bribed to attend. Usually I'd rather have hot pokers shoved into my eyes than waste the hours to watch that dreck. (Male or female is all the same)

I do not watch pro football (Until the kneelers are canned!). I do not watch pro basketball (thug ball). Occasionally I'll watch a baseball game.

Is the women's national soccer team better than the men's? Probably. Do I care? Not in the slightest. Soccer is just slightly less boring than watching paint dry.

32 posted on 06/12/2019 5:34:11 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: C19fan

Thailand?


33 posted on 06/12/2019 5:42:42 AM PDT by keat
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To: C19fan

The worst thing about playing Thailand in soccer is you know it will end with a Thai.


34 posted on 06/12/2019 5:44:05 AM PDT by Phillyred
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To: OldNewYork

It’s all about her, isn’t it, not the USA, just her. I am deeply offended that WE are paying these people to play soccer and represent the US, yet their sexual choice and wanting to “F” our President is first and foremost and they will use the world stage to prove it.

I hope they lose, they deserve it. And when I use plural, I mean the entire team. If they don’t support her crap, then they need to speak up, evidently THEY do support her, so they are one in the same.


35 posted on 06/12/2019 5:54:57 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: Toespi

50+ years of Cultural Marxism and she thinks she’s making a ‘brave stand’. Just, no. Cut off the funding for these idiots.


36 posted on 06/12/2019 5:58:05 AM PDT by OldNewYork (Operation Wetback II, now with computers)
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To: OldNewYork

A friend dated a gal on the VERY good women’s soccer team back in college.

Let’s just say that hanging out with and trying to work on my homework while they practiced on a hot day was... memorable.


37 posted on 06/12/2019 6:11:20 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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To: C19fan

Who cares about liberal dykes on grass.


38 posted on 06/12/2019 6:15:14 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Dirty Little Secret Revealed:

Women can be FAR more merciless and brutal than men
when you are standing between them and what they want.


39 posted on 06/12/2019 6:16:42 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: C19fan
Poor sportswomynship indeed. Celebrating late goals like you won the lottery or were just let out of jail.

Was on the fence until I heard Abby Wambach, (who never scored goals when they were needed and loved getting goals against bad teams like Thailand) say that we would not be saying this if it was the mens team. BS

40 posted on 06/12/2019 6:28:00 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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