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The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has announced the death of Olga Carmona's father just hours after she scored the winning goal in the Women's World Cup final. Real Madrid left-back Carmona, 23, scored the only goal of the game as Spain beat England 1-0 in Sydney on Sunday to win their first-ever major trophy in the women's game. Carmona learned of her father's death after the final. An RFEF spokesperson told Reuters he had been fighting an illness for a long time and died Friday. "We deeply regret that we must announce the death of Olga Carmona's father," the...

What should have been a moment of pure jubilation for Spain as the country celebrated its first Women’s World Cup title, was overshadowed a bit by a moment that happened during the postmatch ceremony. Spanish Football Federation president Luis Rubiales planted a cringe-worthy kiss on the lips of team captain Jenni Hermoso during the ceremony, causing outrage. The moment was captured by televisionIn an Instagram live video from the team celebration inside the locker room, Hermoso and her teammates learned that the moment was seen on TV and shrieked while watching it back. She also said in the live video...

A relief exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece shows an ancient Greek youth practicing by balancing a football on his thigh in front of a small boy. This means that football, albeit in a primitive form, is at least 2,400 years old and very likely has its origins in ancient Greece. Looking at this lovely ancient artifact today, one can say that the man seems to be showing his son how to control the ball like an ancient Greek Lionel Messi. According to archaeologists, the depiction of the figure playing with the ball dates back to the...

It’s always interesting when the media make someone or something a cause. A few may remember, for instance, golf prodigy Michelle Wie. In the early 2000s when she was about 14, the media relentlessly promoted the six-foot lass after she showed promise and boasted of how she was going to beat the men, including then-world number one Tiger Woods. For the media love feminism-buttressing, girl-power stories, and Wie wasn’t complaining: Much like Barack Obama getting a Nobel Peace Prize based on perceived potential, the positive press eventually won the golfer a $50 million Nike contract. Oh, today, at age 33,...

Throughout the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, one of the biggest and loudest storylines surrounding the United States Women’s National Team had nothing to do with soccer, but whether or not some players on the team sang the national anthem before the matches. But despite the consistent media discourse, there was very little actual conversation about this controversy from those covering the event or the USWNT themselves. And it sounds like that was an intentional decision. United States Women’s National Team beat writer Meg Linehan of The Athletic, revealed that the lack of coverage regarding the national anthem controversy was...

Former U.S. women’s soccer star Carli Lloyd believes the national team’s early exit from the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup stemmed from issues with the team culture. Lloyd on Tuesday appeared on former player Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union podcast. While discussing the team’s disappointing show at this year’s World Cup, Lloyd revealed that “little things” within the organization showed her things were headed in the wrong direction. “I think when I first got onto the team, there was just a level of respect for everybody there,” Lloyd said, “for coaches, for other players, for support staff. You know,...

The US Women's National Soccer team saw its World Cup chapter come to a close the other day. It ended on penalty kicks. They lost to the Swedish National Team who had been their nemesis for some time. USA today ascribed their demise to being "old and slow." They're right, but that's not all of it. It was wonderful when the USWNT won the World Cup in 2019. All of the US supported them. Funny thing about notoriety, though. How you use it has so much effect on so many other things. In 2015 it was all about team. By...

CORUSCANT — Controversial former U.S. women's soccer player Megan Rapinoe was not unemployed for long, as the Galactic Empire reportedly recruited the recently retired athlete to train its stormtroopers to shoot. "She's the perfect fit for the job," said General Cassio Tagge of the move. "The Empire has carried on a long tradition of poor marksmanship. It is one of the bedrocks of everything we have built in the galaxy. Bringing Megan Rapinoe on staff to train new troops will ensure that tradition continues. If anyone knows about missing important shots, it's this dude with the funny-colored hair." Imperial leadership...

Next to the dictionary definition of “poetic justice” should be a picture of Megan Rapinoe’s humiliated little face after whiffing a penalty kick that helped seal the fate of the U.S. women’s soccer team.In a shootout that ended the game 5-4, Sweden defeated the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT), sending them packing from the World Cup. Of course, the blue-and-yellow-clad fans and players were ecstatic. But the next most excited observers were actually Americans — specifically the ones who, you know, like America.Rapinoe’s fan club — which includes corporate media, LGBT advocates, and the stans in the White House, among...

Jason Whitlock: "Title IX is one of the greatest hustles in the history of pimping. Iceberg ‘Kims’ convinced a U.S President and the 92nd Congress to mandate that billions of dollars be siphoned away from boys and invested in creating female jocks. It didn't matter that girls are far less likely to be interested in competitive sports, or that participation in competitive sports worked against women's supernatural reproductive powers. The American government has spent 50 years and trillions of dollars creating hardcore female jocks. We owed that to women because the government previously spent billions convincing men to take an...

The 45th president concluded his gloating screed by blasting his long-time critic Rapinoe, writing: “Nice shot Megan, the USA is going to Hell!!!! MAGA.” The 38-year-old striker missed a crucial fourth penalty kick, which could have sent USWNT to the quarterfinals had it made it in. Instead, Rapinoe, who is set to retire after this season, ended her celebrated career on a bitter note, later likening her missing a penalty to a “sick joke” in an interview with Fox Sports. Rapinoe has not publicly responded to Trump’s taunts

U.S. — Former President Trump is facing yet another indictment, this time for mocking U.S. Women's soccer after their embarrassing loss to Sweden over the weekend. "The sanctity of U.S. Women's soccer is never to be made fun of," said Special Council Jack Smith after reading the charges. "Every one of those highly attractive and beautiful women is both stunning and brave. We believe Trump violated the constitution somehow by making fun of them on Truth Social, and we will prove it as soon as we can figure out which law he broke." According to sources, Trump posted the words...

President Trump actually predicted the demise of the U.S. Women’s Soccer team – warning that wokeness was not a winning formula. “Woke politics takes the life and joy out of everything. Woke-ism makes you lose, ruins your mind and ruins you as a person. You become warped. You become demented​,” he said in 2021 during the speech to the Turning Point Action​ political action committee in Phoenix.​​ Trump was right. The soccer team was eliminated from the World Cup – one of their worst losses since they were beaten by that group of 15-year-old boys in 2017. There was no...

Former President Trump knocked the “woke” U.S. women’s soccer team after its loss in the round of 16 of the Women’s World Cup over the weekend. “The ‘shocking and totally unexpected’ loss by the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team to Sweden is fully emblematic of what is happening to the our once great Nation under Crooked Joe Biden,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Sunday evening. “Many of our players were openly hostile to America – No other country behaved in such a manner, or even close. WOKE EQUALS FAILURE. Nice shot Megan, the USA is going to...

It was not the ending Megan Rapinoe had planned. She went so far as to call it "dark comedy" and a "sick joke", such was her dismay. After 17 years of putting herself on the line for the Stars and Stripes, the two-time Women's World Cup winner was in tears as she departed the global stage for the final time. On Rapinoe's 202nd appearance for the USA, the defending world champions dramatically lost 5-4 on penalties to Sweden after a last-16 goalless draw in Melbourne. Rapinoe, 38, ranks among the most successful players of her generation and announced before the...

Well, they weren’t going to start singing now. It’s four matches at the World Cup and four mostly-silent national anthems for the U.S. Women’s National Team after the music stopped at the Round of 16 against Sweden. Vlatko Andonovski made a few changes to his starting 11 against the Swedes, and a couple more players than usual sang along with “The Star Spangled Banner” while the rest stood quietly. Alex Morgan, Julie Ertz and Lindsey Horan were again amongst the five who sung, along with Trinity Rodman and Emily Fox. The coaching staff was again quiet. The Swedish team, meanwhile,...

The United States has crashed out of the Women's World Cup after losing a dramatic penalty shootout against Sweden. The Americans created most of the chances during the match – but were foiled at key moments by Swedish goalkeeper Zećira Mušović, who made crucial stops against Lindsey Horan and Alex Morgan. The Swedes will play Japan in the Women’s World Cup quarterfinals on Friday.

Megan Rapinoe has been accused of leading the US team's snub of the national anthem ©Getty Images Megan Rapinoe has been accused of leading a "shameful" snub of the American national anthem at the FIFA Women's World Cup which is currently being held in Australia and New Zealand. The majority of the defending champions' line-up has refused to sing the anthem in their group stage matches against Vietnam, The Netherlands, and Portugal. "Megan Rapinoe, she's the leader of all this," journalist Megyn Kelly said on her eponymous podcast. "She's not a starter. "So that's why she's not on camera when...

The US Women's soccer team once again hit the headlines at the World Cup as they remained silent during the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner ahead of their match against Portugal. The defending champions were accused of disrespect ahead of their 2023 World Cup opener against Vietnam when six of 11 US players stayed silent and did not put their hands over their hearts during the anthem.

In a Women’s World Cup match with Australia, Canadian defender Allysha Chapman went on a profanity-laced X-rated outburst toward Australian coach Tony Gustavsson. Gustavsson was upset with Chapman’s rough play, specifically with leaping into Australian forward Hayley Raso, leaving Raso prone on the ground and requiring medical attention. SNIP The altercation was caught on video and picked up on a hot mic by the broadcast.