Posted on 07/21/2021 9:34:45 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
Earlier this month several women from the US soccer team turned away from the US flag as 98-year-old WWII veteran Pete DuPré played the national anthem on a harmonica.
The US women’s soccer team was playing an exhibition game against Mexico in East Hartford, Connecticut in a pre-Olympic sendoff game before heading to Japan.
The video is included for all to see.
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On Wednesday Sweden stunned the US Womens Soccer Team with a 3-0 victory in the women’s soccer tournament. They’re out.
The US women’s team was just bounced from the Olympics. Via The AP:
The Americans, ranked No. 1 in the world and the favorites to win gold in Tokyo, were riding a 44-match unbeaten streak heading into the match. But Sweden, ranked No. 5, has been the U.S. team’s nemesis of sorts in recent years. The Swedes bounced the Americans from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games in the quarterfinals, the earliest U.S. Olympic exit ever, by making a defensive stand.
This April, Sweden played the United States to a 1-1 draw in Stockholm, which snapped a winning streak dating back to January 2019 when the Americans lost to France in the run-up to the World Cup. It was the U.S. team’s only draw this year.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Sweden should play the Dallas 15-under boys team - that might be a competitive game.
I’m pretty sure actually playing soccer hasn’t been the point of the US Women’s Soccer Team for quite some time.
Women’s [Lesbians’] pink haired Hate America soccer team loses 3-0.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha .
Jeff Bezos’s alien twin?
Babylon Bee ^ | 07/21/2021
The bad kind.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving group...and that goes for ANY American team who think they are too good to be humiliated.
That’s brilliant!
Yes. Most of the team is just as awful as she is.
...look at the action in the back of each panel.
It makes the punchline even better.
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“Go Sweden!”
They kneeled as well. I’ll pick my poison, go Sweden!
I should have known.
Swedish team captain: They're just a bunch of pussies.
Really, then why don’t you show me what I’m missing here
.....the article is written by a moron. Most soccer tournaments, as is here in the Olympics, are not single elimination, but round robins, two losses out of three and the team is gone. A tie will count as a loss if another team has a better winning record in the qualifying rounds. IIRC, if this team loses another game, they will be out. If they tie, they play again until they lose.
And i could be a totally incorrect soccer dad here. This demonstrates how poorly written the article was to begin with. And a point that we can all agree upon, is that “these GIRLS failed to score a goal.”
Anyone who IS knowledgeable about soccer is a Moron.
AGREED !! I’m safe, 2 yrs being a high school soccer dad last century
Not necessarily. For example, in the just completed Euro 2020, Denmark lost their first two games in the group stages, but still went through all the way to the semi finals where they lost to England.
. A tie will count as a loss if another team has a better winning record in the qualifying rounds.
A tie is never counted as a loss or a win. If 2 teams end up with exactly the same points in the group stages, goal differences and the best loser rules come into play.
LOL!
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