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USA 12
Thailand 0
now is 13-0
they were completely embarrassed the last couple of years and now they took it out on Thailand. After the 6th or 7th goal to nil, the coach usually tells the players to stop scoring. Not the US…
who embarrassed them? I thought they are the reigning champs
Hiyo ni overkill.
Siwezi angalia ball ya madem. Labda ball ya mtoi lakini sio futbol. We are out here chilling for AFCON.
An overkill it was…
Their 13-0 victory over Thailand was a record margin for the Women’s World Cup and cause for elation for the team and its fans. Alex Morgan’s individual tally of five goals tied a tournament record.
But as the USWNT celebrated turning a 3-0 halftime rout into a new standard for dominant play against an overmatched opponent, some took umbrage with not only the margin — but the players’ continued celebration of the scores well after the game was in hand.
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Clare Rustad and Kaylyn Kyle, analysts for Canadian sports network TSN and former players for the Canadian women’s national team, had some of the strongest rebukes.
They were celebrating the 10th 11th , 12th and 13th goals as if they had won the world cup.
Wakwende. I hope France or England or Germany wins this thing
Everyone’s now waiting to see “Trumplike Bullies” get thrashed. They have set themselves up to be the main target.
Better bring their A-Game and win it all or they will be a humiliated laughing stock.
Another Mismatch in the works:
USA 2 Chile 0 with 29 mins in.
Opinion: The USWNT had better win the World Cup or legacy will be that of celebration flap
The most important and most scrutinized women’s sports team on earth has breezed through the group phase of the 2019 World Cup and is now headed into the real tournament. All the U.S. women’s national soccer team has to do from here on out is win. It is expected to do that, of course. It also really needs to do it, because the alternative isn’t good.
If this team doesn’t win in France, the salient memory for the United States from this World Cup will be of that crazy opening game and the fascinating issues that it created, topics that linger to this day. In other words, all anyone will remember is 13-0.
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That’s not necessarily fair, but it’s what will happen if the United States loses – and, to a lesser extent, even if it wins. That score against Thailand was one for the ages. Even now, a week and a half later, you can’t help but run into people who understand the importance of goal differential but wince at the thought of seeing their favorite team run up the score on a weak opponent – and even more interestingly, still wonder why the magnificent Megan Rapinoe launched herself into that whirling, dancing, sliding celebration of Goal No. 9.
This being soccer, there certainly were sexists who criticized Rapinoe and her teammates, but it is not at all sexist to question and even dislike what they did.
Memorable and controversial American athletic celebrations on the international stage are never completely forgotten, and gender has nothing to do with it. They are remembered because Americans always command attention, whether they are loved or loathed. Every athlete who has ever put on the red, white and blue knows and understands that.
This isn’t a new development. In the opening ceremony of the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, members of the U.S. team, men and women, were so distracted by taking pictures and waving and dancing that they broke formation and ended up so far behind the lead American pack that they unwittingly surrounded and swallowed up the delegations of several small nations that followed the U.S. into the stadium. As you might imagine, this was quite a topic of conversation in Seoul for several days. The U.S. Olympic Committee’s apologies were epic.
Then there was the 1999 Ryder Cup. To this day, if anyone mentions veteran golfer Tom Lehman, my first thought is of the man I witnessed dancing on not one but two greens while matches were still in progress on that wild September Sunday at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. There was tremendous pushback from the U.S. golf community over media criticism of Lehman and his American teammates – reminiscent of the reaction by some of the criticism of the U.S. in that 13-0 game – but that didn’t change the fact that the U.S. team’s effusive celebrations that day were astonishingly out of place.
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A year later at the Sydney Olympics, there was another excessive display by U.S. male athletes – this time the victorious 4x100 track relay team – in which they preened and postured with the U.S. flag, drawing intense and well-deserved criticism.
So it turns out the women’s soccer team is not being singled out, not at all. It is being treated equally.
Deep down, players like Rapinoe must know that, even as they pushed back against the criticism after that first game. How can they not know? Those of us who have covered the women’s soccer players for two decades know they are whip-smart, the best-educated team this country sends from our shores. If they’re not talking about the legacy of the ‘99ers, they’re remembering the ‘91ers. Everyone knows everyone, and they protect their shared history. This current group is a glorious reflection of its predecessors, growing the game globally by fighting the battles for gender equality that were begun 20 years ago. Female Johnny Appleseeds, if you will.
That’s the irony of the U.S. running up the score or celebrating to the bitter end. You know who probably cares more about the Thai team’s quest to receive more respect and resources from its federation, other than the players from Thailand? Rapinoe and her teammates.
I’ve covered the 33-year-old Rapinoe for years. When I watched her deliver the greatest pass in the history of U.S. soccer, men’s and women’s, to Abby Wambach’s forehead in the 2011 World Cup, I left the men’s British Open golf tournament to cover the Americans’ next game in Germany.
She has taken a knee during the national anthem in support of Colin Kaepernick. She recently became the first openly gay female athlete to pose in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. A co-captain of this team, she hasn’t sung the national anthem at the World Cup, or put her hand over her heart.
I cringed at her celebration of that ninth goal, at least in part because she is so not what an over-the-top American is supposed to look like. It was the team’s first World Cup game in four years, of course, and everyone was ready to explode, and they did. But by that point in the game, by Goal No. 9, I would have figured someone, perhaps Rapinoe herself would have spread the word to tone down the celebrations, leading to a quick hug of a teammate or two, then back to midfield. I was wrong.
I cringed at her celebration of that ninth goal, at least in part because she is so not what an over-the-top American is supposed to look like. It was the team’s first World Cup game in four years, of course, and everyone was ready to explode, and they did. But by that point in the game, by Goal No. 9, I would have figured someone, perhaps Rapinoe herself, would have spread the word to tone down the celebrations, leading to a quick hug of a teammate or two, then back to midfield. I was wrong.
I then was mystified when the ensuing conversation did not turn to a measured discussion of the behavior of yet another boisterous American team, but rather to a pitched battle of the sexes. The U.S. women’s national soccer players are always worthy of the most interesting conversations.
When they lead us there, we should most definitely follow.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Opinion: The USWNT had better win the World Cup or legacy will be that of celebration flap
Final: US 2 Vs France 1
Seems like USWNT will avoid embarrassment and win this thing.
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In the second half, the U.S. was struggling to deal with France, which was constantly knocking on the door for an equalizer.
On the counter, however, the U.S. doubled up the score with Rapinoe finish from a Tobin Heath cross inside the box with 25 minutes to go.
The United States women’s national team passed its toughest test thus far at the 2019 Women’s World Cup to keep its hopes of a repeat alive. Taking on host France in Paris, the U.S. got two goals from Megan Rapinoe to beat the tournament hosts, 2-1, to advance to the semifinals. It’s the eighth consecutive trip to the World Cup semis for the United States. For perspective, there have only been eight Women’s World Cup tournament ever.
It was all U.S. in the first half, thanks to a free-kick goal by Rapinoe, who scored a brace in back-to-back games. The Americans had to weather the storm a bit after going up 2-0 and conceding a set-piece header from Wendie Renard with nine minutes to go.
Rapinoe scored just five minutes in on this free kick to give the U.S. a ton of momentum.
Renard’s header on a set piece with just under 10 minutes to go came after a dominant run in which France created chance after chance. The U.S. defended with all 11 players and managed to hold on to get the job done to knock off the hosts. The U.S. will now take on England on Tuesday in the first semifinal. The Americans will look to punch a ticket to its third straight Women’s World Cup final.
The U.S. women won 2-0, beating the Netherlands to become back-to-back World Cup champions. The final match went scoreless during the first half, which saw the U.S. largely maintaining possession of the ball. The U.S. had previously scored a goal within the first 12 minutes of every World Cup match this year.
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A Fox News reporter was drowned out during live coverage of the U.S. women’s soccer team’s World Cup win when a rowdy bar crowd in France began shouting “fuck Trump.”
“History has just been made,” senior foreign affairs correspondent Greg Palkot said from a pub in Lyon, the tournament’s host city, shortly after the U.S. victory. Behind him, a group of spectators who appeared to be mainly Americans began hollering the chant making clear their disdain for President Donald Trump. Palkot paused as he realized the celebrants were delivering a political message. Still, he maintained composure and carried on with his coverage.
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