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To: sphinx

Wow, that post of yours didn’t turn out so well.

First 13 and 14-year-old boys are still boys, even as the better players in their sports, I was an athlete and I never knew of any of us who didn’t think of our 13 and 14 year old efforts as childish or who had reached anything close to our full growth and development.

You went back to that one event that you say “hecklers’ bring up but I said this is international, for example, America, Sweden, and Australia.

https://www.google.com/search?q=pro+female+soccer+teams+beat+by+teen+boys+sweden&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS1057US1057&oq=pro+female+soccer+teams+beat+by+teen+boys+sweden&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRhA0gEJMTk4MjZqMGoxqAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8


38 posted on 08/06/2023 8:29:00 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

Did you actually read my post? We’re not talking about 13 and 14 year old boys. The much-discussed USWNT team scrimmage against a boys academy team was against 15 and 16 year old boys who were elite athletes in their sport. The Swedish example you cited was vs. a U-17 team, so 17 and 18 year old boys.

Elite male athletes at that age will be bigger, stronger and faster than adult women. That is not in dispute. The top women’s teams play boys teams in that age range because the women can still hang in well enough to make it a game. But the whole point is to play someone faster and stronger than yourself. That’s how you improve.


41 posted on 08/06/2023 9:17:37 AM PDT by sphinx
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