Posted on 06/12/2019 8:14:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Thailand's players were in tears at the full-time whistle after suffering the heaviest defeat in World Cup history at the hands of the US.
There were those on social media who criticized the defending champions for celebrating each goal, but Alex Morgan -- who became only the second American to score five in a World Cup match -- told reporters that "every goal counts."
With the US 3-0 up by halftime, the match was effectively over. With the title holders then proceeding to score four goals in the space of six minutes early after the break, it was a rout by the 56th minute.
But Ellis proceeded to make attacking substitutions, bringing on forwards Mallory Pugh, Carli Lloyd and Christen Press, decisions she defended after the match.
The Thai team is supported by a wealthy patron, the general manager Nualphan Lamsam, who is the chief executive of one of the country's largest insurance companies.
Her family's company sponsors Thailand's fledgling women's league, and players on the national team are also employed by her company.
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
I loved that commercial.
Personally, I never liked soccer celebrations. As a collegiate sports photographer, I shot probably 5,000 soccer celebrations in my career. They were all very “European” in their style.
Personally, I like rugby celebrations: They get up and go to kick the ball. It is very subdued because you know if you do anything to show up the other team, they will take your head off on the next play.
I guess there aren’t enough 6-foot lesbians in Thailand to form a soccer team.
acting like they did is just silly
If I understand correctly, the World Cup competition is based not only on winning games in the brackets, but also by a count of the total goals scored:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_Women’s_World_Cup#Final_tournament
That means the American women should absolutely have been scoring as many goals as possible in this, as in all their other games in the tournament.
The guy sliding across the field is fine. Despite some of the comments on here, celebration is fine.
The guy sliding on his knees amongst the defenders and pointing at the goalie is obnoxious.
The 2016 U.S. Mens Rugby team got bounced out from advancing to the top-8 medal round because despite beating host Brazil 26-0, they fell one point short in differential, in losing to the dominant, undefeated, eventual gold medalist Fiji, by a try.
Had they beaten Brazil 28-0 instead of 26-0, they’d have been in the medal round.
You well demonsrate the case for the US women.
“You miss the next game if you get a red card.”
In the case of the team from Thailand, and as recognizably bad as they are as they were picked to lose almost all their games, does it make any difference?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/...thailand-womens-soccer-team.../565a9fba-8c73-11e..
“When time mercifully expired, Thailand had suffered a 13-0 defeat to the world No. 1 United States, whose players jumped in one anothers arms, spun around in circles, slid across the pitch and did conga-line dances en route to setting a World Cup record for margin of victory. And the Thai players wept.”
These are professionals. They should know better than what they did. Especially after the game was over as displayed in the above article. Another team may nail someone because of the US team thoughtfulness. And it all comes down to class which the US team did not display.
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You must keep scoring, because ties within the group are broken by such things as goals for and against. So you score 50 if you can, because if you're tied at the end of group stage with some other teams record, it eventually comes down to scores vs common opponents. Other teams are going to blow out Thailand. So you must keep scoring.
BUT, after about 6 goals, you don't really celebrate, because you have respect for the other team.
If I played soccer against a bunch of 3rd graders, I am going to wipe them out. But I'm not going to act like every goal I score is a great accomplishment.
Beating Thailand was no accomplishment. Once you get to 6 or so, you continue to crush them with goals because you must, but you don't really celebrate. It would be kind of like knocking out a frail elderly woman and pumping your fists in the air in triumph.
In their defense, some of these scorers were in their first World Cup match, and since the score was only 3 nill at the half - still a game, the coach probably never had a real chance to tell them 'cut the celebrations - have some class.'
In the end I land against the US women's team. It was pretty pitiful, they should acknowledge that the totally lost control and class, and just move on. It was a sad show of character.
You must keep scoring, because ties within the group are broken by such things as goals for and against. So you score 50 if you can, because if you're tied at the end of group stage with some other teams record, it eventually comes down to scores vs common opponents. Other teams are going to blow out Thailand. So you must keep scoring.
BUT, after about 6 goals, you don't really celebrate, because you have respect for the other team.
If I played soccer against a bunch of 3rd graders, I am going to wipe them out. But I'm not going to act like every goal I score is a great accomplishment.
Beating Thailand was no accomplishment. Once you get to 6 or so, you continue to crush them with goals because you must, but you don't really celebrate. It would be kind of like knocking out a frail elderly woman and pumping your fists in the air in triumph.
In their defense, some of these scorers were in their first World Cup match, and since the score was only 3 nill at the half - still a game, the coach probably never had a real chance to tell them 'cut the celebrations - have some class.'
In the end I land against the US women's team. It was pretty pitiful, they should acknowledge that the totally lost control and class, and just move on. It was a sad show of character.
No you don't. You keep scoring. Ties in group stage are eventually broken by common opponents, and other teams are also going to blow out Thailand.
But you do it with class. You stop celebrating. This is similar to when a player scores a goal against his old team on their home field, at there stadium. As your team celebrates, you wave them down, tell them to cool it.
It's a matter of respect.
Thus far the US women aren't making me fall in love with them, I have more respect for the Thailand team.
This was playing at my pub. I asked the server to try and find something above High School level on the sports channels, but she wanted to watch this travesty.
I finished my beer and left.
In all seriousness, it looks like yet another reason to hate SOCCER.
They’ve been trying to foist this pathetic game on North America since before I was in grade school, and this travesty simply stresses the point that it will NEVER be a sport we like. EVER.
The SMALLEST American player was still nearly a full head taller than the tallest Thai girl.
Perhaps the Thais should have sent a boys’ high school team out in drag:
It *MIGHT* have been competitive then...
Your response - directed at me - is a misdirect as I merely used that line as a reference to ‘answer’ to.
My CITING the line and response is below.(also threw in another comment— #91-—)
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When you are winning by that much you put in your backup players with instructions to take as much time off the clock as possible..
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From a sportsmanship view I completely AGREE with you.
BUT
As a (former) athlete, were I to be assigned to the 2nd or 3rd or cleanup crew, my precious moments would be utilized to show Coach what a terrible mistake he was making having ME ride the pines.
If you leave the starters in ( I KNOW -UNFAIR) you at least can keep them in line by telling them if they dont follow YOUR rules etc they will be 2nd team.
OTOH ... Once you tell them to lay down it may become sort of habit forming...
Really could be a conundrum of sorts...
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