I’m right with you freep. Flipping back and forth with the Stros game.
Is that her cause? I was under the impression it was in protest of the current administration.
Way to go, great job making sure women's soccer stays an obscure sport!
I'd like to see women's soccer become something people care about other than during the world cup. When people only watch your sport every few years, why go out of your way to piss people off? Atleast be really precise about why you're complaining, because otherwise they'll just remember you made them mad.
Ya that's the part that pisses people off-- if you want to protest something, fine. Millions and millions of young men and women have dodged bombs and bullets, blood and guts, for you to put on your nubby cleats and kick a ball on perfectly green grass into a net before thousands of people and TV cameras. If this is the only sacrifice you're capable of making on behalf of your nation and your people, then perhaps you should do a better job sharing with us what exactly it is you're doing.
That girl took a whoopin today but she gave better than she got. She had saves that were very impressive. Of course she had some gimmies but the one where she barely got a foot on the ball was a SURE goal--- and the post saved her once as well. We're she not on her A game it would have easily been 10-0.
Seemed to be a good strategy to rest so many starters in this game. I bet we see less than a full strength squad on Thursday as well. That said, the game will be pretty important in that losing would pit us against Canada or the Netherlands while a win gives us Spain. All 3 are good teams but Spain would be the weakest of the bunch.
Oh we won't rest the starters against Sweden. We hate Sweden. I mean HATE Sweden. Mia Hamm and Chastain and all the older girls are already tweeting and texting about beating Sweden into submission. They call the Swedish women's team the "Viking Bi+ches" for good reason. This is going to be a straight up tomcat street fight. Expect to see blonde hair strewn about the field in mass quantity.
I wasn't aware that there was bad blood there. I'll be watching with a good friend of mine with Swedish/Norwegian background. Should be fun.
Crazy thing about sports, when you call off the dogs that means that players are no longer at 100% and I can tell you from first hand experience, the fastest way to injure yourself is to NOT go 100% during a competition. Now in a football game a team can take a knee and punt, but the defense better be going full bore because pissed off losers will take cheap shots. There were some very hard fouls late by Thai players late in the match. That's how people get hurt---- going half speed while your adversary goes full speed. If Thailand wants the dogs called off, the coach simply needs to call a timeout and walk their players off the field. In boxing, you throw in the towel.
I didn't mind them scoring 13 goals. Just wish they hadn't acted like the last 10 goals were some huge deal. Some of those ladies are in their 30's, if it were a bunch of teenagers it would not have bothered me as much. But I still would have thought showing a little class would be better.
No wesson oil?Me, the women's soccer team from Sweden, and a big bottle of maple syrup.
Yeah.
There was a persistent rumor of Wesson oil parties at German house when I was in Austin.
If we draw against Sweden we get the group 1st spot because we scored 13!
