I might watch if they wore beach volleyball uniforms.
David Marcus ? I can’t take this guy seriously after he put the protomatter in the Genesis device.
When they showed the line of Thai women during their national anthem (prior to their beating by Team USA of 13-0), every single one of them looked like a guy. It was unbelievable. No beauty pageant queens in this tournament.
Sally Jenkins, the Post & woman’s soccer are all very avoidable.
Byotch takes a knee. Unwatchable!
You know you can’t say what you said today don’t you?
Ok
He is totally right about the women’s game being boring. I used to watch the USWNT anyway because they were my team representing my country. However after the team endorsed the LGBT movement and no longer recalled a Christian player who refused to wear the multi-colored LGBT jersey they adopted during last year’s Gay Pride Month, and the partisan shananigans of two of their CAPTAINS (Rapinoe and Morgan), they completely turned me off and I now invest my time in more fun and useful endeavors than watching mediocre play.
They may win this World Cup unless the French do (quarterfinal between these two will probably determine the winner of the Cup), but European clubs are pouring money into the women’s game from $ made by the men. And they are a heck of a lot richer and have better coaching staffs and facilities. It’s only a matter of time before the Europeans pull at parity and exceed the level of the US team. And I won’t care.
Women with too much testosterone. There, I said it. Sue me.
Bingo, and that's all it is. The only question is whether the spectacle draws a paying audience, and ticket sales/ad rates don't care why or why not.
I think it would be nice if the whole world got over the delusion that sports are important.
The same kind of article could be written about the differences in men’s and women’s basketball. There is no doubt that men are superior athletically. It translates into the way they play soccer or basketball or tennis or any other sport.
This does not mean that you can’t enjoy the competition and drama. The preliminary rounds of the women’s World Cup are similar to the men’s when it comes to mismatches and boring play. The knockout rounds bring the drama and excitement building to the final.
As a real sports fan, I enjoy competition at all levels. For whatever reason, the author of this piece wants to be the skunk at the garden party. So be it. I will continue to watch and enjoy the women’s World Cup. Each to his own.
I’m really disappointed Fox and Friends got on board promoting this.....
....their rah rah blonde sent to France is just over the top.
I’m not supporting, or watching anyone who has already said they won’t attend an invite to see the President.......who stand stony face during the anthem( in Rapinoe’s case said she may never sing the anthem again)
What ingrates!
What whiny babies!
Please......keep them in France !
For me, any sport is unwatchable, but each to his own.
He’s going to get shredded for his comments.
Which means, of course, that he’s right.
Soccer should eliminate offside rule. It would make it much more dynamic game and fun to watch.
I could have saved him the time and effort and told him that up front.
He then goes on to make the same criticism of MLS soccer in the U.S. The men's game in the U.S. isn't (yet) up to the top European standards.
I could have told him that up front as well.
So basically, Marcus is simply announcing that he is a soccer snob. He enjoys only the very elite play in the very best men's leagues. Ok, that's a reasonable viewing preference. But he's writing off 99.99 percent of soccer, and 100 percent of women's sports, as unworthy of his attention.
When he tries to turn this into a concrete criticism of the play in the Women's World Cup, he sounds foolish. He says he doesn't see the women play with the same blazing speed as the men? So what? In a game situation, speed is relative. The fastest women players have the same advantage over their peers in their games as do the fastest men in theirs. If he's never seen one of the top women strikers explode to the ball, split a seam, and score on a breakaway … well, he's not watched enough women's soccer to know what he's talking about.
I just hope we don't have to watch the French strikers doing this to the U.S. defense in a couple of weeks, because France has the speed to do it. But Marcus will miss it. He'll be too busy watching Messi reruns.
As to the lack of parity, as evidenced by the U.S.'s 13-0 win … I don't know what the record is in the men's World Cup; perhaps someone who knows his way around the stats can find that. A quick google search did turn up one game, during 2012 World Cup qualifying, in which Australia beat American Samoa 31-0, with Australia's top scorer, Archie Thompson, scoring 13 goals himself. That was in qualifying, not the tournament itself, but that's incidental.
The point here is striking a balance in a championship tournament between inclusiveness and competitive balance. The NCAA men's basketball tournament has grown too big for my liking; at this point, it would be better just to let everyone play in an open, unrestricted tournament. It would add a week to the tournament; just shorten the overgrown regular season by a week to compensate. (Get rid of the conference tournaments, which would no longer be relevant as a selection device for the NCAA's.) There would be some truly ugly first and second round massacres, but that's ok. I grew up in Indiana back before Indiana high school basketball was ruined by a class structure for the state tournament. The tournament used to be open, and the little schools enjoyed their crack at the big guys. They knew they weren't going to win … but there was always the Milan Miracle to remember, and every year, a couple of little rural schools would upset their big county seat rival, which made it all worthwhile.
In women's soccer, the dividing line is between countries and regions that have strong professional leagues vs. those who don't. The amateurs will rarely beat the pros. The very best young athletes can play college soccer somewhere, and the U.S. is a training ground through college for many of the rising stars in Latin America, Africa and Asia. (You might have noticed Alex Morgan consoling a young Thai player after the match; the Thai girl was, like Morgan, a Cal Berkley grad, so there was some alma mater stuff going on.) The good European and Asian countries have developed strong leagues. But elsewhere the strong players don't have anywhere to develop, or even to play regularly and stay in training, after college.
I don't have a problem with a tournament leaning towards inclusiveness, even though it will produce some mismatches. The Thailand soccer federation will go home with a very clear idea of the gap it faces, and they will know exactly what they have to do to make up ground. There's nothing wrong with that. And if you asked them if they want to participate next time around, or would rather stay home rather than risk getting blown out by the big guys … I think you know how they'd answer.
Totally agree. This is sub par amateur hour play. Here is what they don’t tell you when they’re hyping me this garbage - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4389760/USA-women-s-team-suffer-5-2-loss-FC-Dallas-U-15-boys.html
The great team USA was convincingly outplayed by a 15 year old squad from high school. That tells you all you need to know about the skill level of women’s soccer. This is the big secret that they don’t want you to know. It gets better ratings this way.
There’s also a men’s world cup cricket underway in England that’s getting even less attention in the US than women’s soccer.
My girls don’t play sports. Female athletes are not attractive to men, and at some point I want them out of the house.
My girls don’t play sports. Female athletes are not attractive to men, and at some point I want them out of the house.