Posted on 06/12/2019 2:47:14 AM PDT by C19fan
“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.
~Genghis Khan
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.
Just wait until the trannies end up on the women’s team.
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They’ll take all the slots currently held by the gay gals ...
To answer your first question, yes.
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.
The keeper seem to make no effort to stop any of the goals.
Tough call, since goals matter, but I side with you. Not classy
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.
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.
Thailand?
The worst thing about playing Thailand in soccer is you know it will end with a Thai.
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.
50+ years of Cultural Marxism and she thinks she’s making a ‘brave stand’. Just, no. Cut off the funding for these idiots.
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.
Who cares about liberal dykes on grass.
Dirty Little Secret Revealed:
Women can be FAR more merciless and brutal than men
when you are standing between them and what they want.
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
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