Posted on 06/13/2019 7:53:19 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Yesterday at the Women’s World Cup, the U.S. defeated Thailand 13-0. The lopsidedness of the result is further proof that the tournament is a second rate sporting event.
Soccer is the world’s game, but women’s soccer is not. Not many countries take women’s soccer seriously and, with the possible exception of the U.S., those that do don’t take it nearly as seriously as they take men’s soccer.
Hence, mismatches like the U.S.-Thailand farce. There just aren’t enough competent women’s teams in some continents to make up a strong world cup field.
At the real World Cup, a mismatch like yesterday’s is nearly impossible. If the best men’s team from Europe or South America played the worst team from Asia or North America, one would expect a 4-6 goal margin of victory. 13-0 is unheard of.
It’s true that Germany defeated Estonia 8-0 yesterday in a men’s game, but not in the World Cup. The Estonia team could never qualify for the World Cup as that tournament is presently constituted. And 8-0 isn’t 13-0.
The U.S. rout over Thailand has given rise to a pair of controversies: (1) should the U.S. have run up the score and (2) should U.S. players have indulged in major celebrations after scoring the late goals.
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13 - 0 would be unheard of in the men's World Cup. Our women are so far ahead of some other women's national teams it is just ridiculous. Hence this result. Thailand? A nation not known for its women's sports programs. And yet they qualified for these finals - makes you wonder how bad the other teams were. In general, I would say it was just classless and unsportsmanlike on our team's part. Regardless of the gender - and sexuality - of the team members.
My pick-up team was beaten by a team of local all-stars 132-22. We had a great time, and learned a lesson. We sucked, and we had to get better! lol
Well, as long as everyone on the losing team got a Participation Trophy, then its cool.
*SMIRK*
I don’t follow soccer closely, but doesn’t placement in playoffs depend on performance in preliminary rounds?
Therefore, clobbering another side 13-0 is better for your future match-ups than winning 1-0.
The system is set-up NOT to take your foot off the gas.
Whoever would ask, “should they have run up the score” has no idea how international soccer works. The answer is: Yes. By “running up the score,” U.S. women helped make sure they win a tie-breaker for selection into the next round.
Running up the score is not the issue, it’s the way they behaved when they scored.
But what more do you expect from Anti-Trump a-holes.
Rapinoe is an attention ‘ you know what’......and has already said, along with Alex, they will not attend any invite to the White House
Ingrates!
I’m embarrassed Fox is giving them so much coverage!
One of the Fox blonds is over in Paris giddily reporting.
Screw ‘em, hope they lose.
This team and US soccer has been an embarrassment to the values of that made this country great for a long time.
Here’s the team and their captain (who only stands for the anthem because she is forced to) celebrating after their 9th goal. Notice also that Alex Morgan reached out to grab the defender’s shirt to impede her path just prior to the goal. So they were even willing to cheat after 8 goals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et85KZL7wXI
The really tacky part was that they celebrated EVERY GOAL as if they just won a gold medal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APpCJG2chuk
If the men’s team did this, we’d hear endless lectures on toxic masculinity.
Two issues:
running up the score - while goal differential is a factor, over the last several World Cups, when goal differential is used to break a tie, it is never more than 2 - 3. Play slow, play with one less, take long shots to change possession.
Celebrating goals 9, 10, 11, and 13 - no real excuse, tone it way down.
The only women’s sport that is remotely interesting to watch is mud wrestling. Well, beach volleyball is apparently fairly popular.
As to the BS charge of “running up the score”, I refer to the timeless quote by former American football coach Dan Hawkins: “This ain’t intramurals, brother!”
As to the unpatriotic carpet-munching bunch of them, I say they should be left in France.
Shame on the coach for letting them run up the score. The celebrations were pretty classless. Once the game was in hand, just play keep away and run out the clock. Their goalie was 5’5”. We essentially beat a high school team.
This.
It's what the hard leftist core of this team is all about. Juvenile, anti-American, anti-Trump BS. That the members of the team who are not hard left allow their butch leaders to dominate, is a shame.
What is more of an insult — Giving your best effort for the entire game and winning by a huge margin? Or letting up and asserting that your opponent is completely feeble and outclassed but winning by an “appropriate” margin?
Don't forget, A Texas high school boys team actually beat them in a friendly.
There is nothing embarrassing about what they did....
If it were just one game, then yes, you back off and put in the scrubs...
However, WC that’s not how it works.. Goal differentials matter, so you never let up, because your score differential matters down the line.
No coach worth their salt would let up in that situation.
Blame the system for encouraging this, not the players or coaches for doing their jobs.
The US women lost 5-2 to a group of U15 boys (not even a national team). In soccer 5-2 means they were totally outclassed by 13 and 14 year olds boys.
Go find a decent middle school game and you’ll be seeing soccer equivalent to the US women.
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