Threat of suspension hangs over Canadian women's soccer team

theglobeandmail.com ^ | Aug. 07 2012 | JEFF BLAIR

[Berlin_Freeper]

Canadian head coach John Herdman is asking for empathy ahead of the Olympic women’s soccer bronze medal match.

Not from Canada, a country that rose up in a rage usually reserved for hockey when it felt it’s team was wronged by a Norwegian referee, but from FIFA, the imperious governing body of world soccer, which announced Tuesday afternoon that it is “analysing incidents that occurred after the conclusion,” of Canada’s controversial 4-3 loss to the U.S. on Monday in a semi-final match in Manchester. The unspoken threat of suspension or fine thus hung over the team Tuesday as it attempted to regroup ahead of Thursday’s bronze medal match against France.

[Old keeper]

If a ref takes the time to warn you about the 6 second rule, you need to take it very seriously as you understand that they will be watching and the cost of that call is just too great. If you have a zealous ref, there’s nothing you can do but patronize them. If you challenge them too much - they’ll feel you were asking for it. After having been warned the GK clearly did not demonstrate to the ref that she ‘got it’ something you want to do especially when you think the ref may be a bit of a pisser. Her biggest problem is that the ref surely noticed she took her time getting to her feet, and then walked to the top of the box ( jogging would have been a bit smarter after the warning), and then paused to signal to her teammates to move further up field...I’m sure that pause and signal was the trigger for that ref.

[ColoCdn]

Actually the ref was baited by Abby Wambach who admitted that she gamed the ref into making the call.
And it wasn’t the center who warned the keeper. The center never gave the keeper any indication at all during the game.

[ColoCdn]

Agreed and corrected.

I may have to share this with dfwgator.

BTW, Buehler in collision with Hope Solo during the gold medal match. Watch her hands.
No foul? Fuggetaboutit. Why would you call a foul?

[rbmillerjr]

That should have been a foul...as the handball should have also been called.

There was also an intentional head butting of Wambach...unless that player was the absolute worst header of all time lol.

The Japanese outplayed us most of the game, they didn’t finish. The US team felt the fatigue of from the semifinal Double OT, mostly with some poor defending, allowing Solo to be peppered with quality shots all game.

Ironically, much of the same in the Bronze game, Canada looked fatigued, outplayed by France, who didn’t finish. Tancredi had a lot of play that could have been carded.

Refs are going to miss calls. In the end, it all evens out. In the end, the better teams are going to come out in the end. Sometimes, you’ll get an upset that is earned and sometimes you get the benefit of calls.

You should follow MLB and watch Yankee pitchers get a ball and a half off the corners of the plate.