Largent80
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U.S. Womens soccer is so much better. Why watch the dreadful mess of the men's team?...Hell I have a hard time watching any soccer but good lord it's hard to understand how the USA can't put together a good mens team.
Largent80":2y2v34g6 said:U.S. Womens soccer is so much better. Why watch the dreadful mess of the men's team?...Hell I have a hard time watching any soccer but good lord it's hard to understand how the USA can't put together a good mens team.
Sgt. Largent":2zmz5h48 said:Largent80":2zmz5h48 said:U.S. Womens soccer is so much better. Why watch the dreadful mess of the men's team?...Hell I have a hard time watching any soccer but good lord it's hard to understand how the USA can't put together a good mens team.
Title 9 was instituted in the United States in 1972, that's how big of an advantage our women have had over most of the rest of the world for decades in developing our women's sports programs, including soccer. Our women are light years ahead.
The men are still trying to develop and catch up to other regions of the world who have had successful programs, developmental systems and superior leagues to develop their players in place for far longer than us.........and we're still struggling to find our way in an insanely competitive men's soccer environment globally.
Sgt. Largent":3fxr1ff5 said:Threedee":3fxr1ff5 said:Hopefully they can at least avoid getting reverse-US Womens'd.
I honestly had no problem with what the US Women did.
The World Cup is the pinnacle of soccer, for both men and women............so to be criticized for excessive celebration for scoring goals, of which is every man and woman's dream since they started playing soccer at a very young age is tone deaf to me.
btw, absolutely no one on Thailand's team said anything negative, in fact the goalie said it was the greatest moment of her career after the game when Carli Lloyd came over to offer her encouragement.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-world- ... lloyd-did/
Do we get mad when NFL teams run up the score? Do we expect MLB teams to stop scoring runs once they're up 10 runs?
The World Cup is professional soccer, and btw every other team in our group is also playing Thailand, we need all the goals we can get to get the best seeding going into the knockout round.
People who are criticizing don't understand the sport is all I can think.
Uncle Si":2bve511o said:Sgt. Largent":2bve511o said:Largent80":2bve511o said:U.S. Womens soccer is so much better. Why watch the dreadful mess of the men's team?...Hell I have a hard time watching any soccer but good lord it's hard to understand how the USA can't put together a good mens team.
Title 9 was instituted in the United States in 1972, that's how big of an advantage our women have had over most of the rest of the world for decades in developing our women's sports programs, including soccer. Our women are light years ahead.
The men are still trying to develop and catch up to other regions of the world who have had successful programs, developmental systems and superior leagues to develop their players in place for far longer than us.........and we're still struggling to find our way in an insanely competitive men's soccer environment globally.
Id also disagree that the men are terrible. I mean 7 nations have ever wona world cup, and only 5 more than once. It's an extremely competitive field. The us are right on the outside of that.
They shit the bed last cycle but that is a very rare thing. They quite typically qualify and advance to the knockouts. Again, not great, but not terrible.
Threedee":nubh6adn said:Yeah, I have no problem with what our ladies did. Watching them crush opponents is a lot of fun. Have to admit that despite being a classless mess, I miss seeing Hope Solo defend the goal.
Chapow":jx40pepq said:Threedee":jx40pepq said:Yeah, I have no problem with what our ladies did. Watching them crush opponents is a lot of fun. Have to admit that despite being a classless mess, I miss seeing Hope Solo defend the goal.
They didn't even need a goal keeper their first 2 WC games. They literally could've played with an empty net, 10 vs 11, and still easily won both of those games. I expect Sweden to be more competitive, but this USWNT looks extremely strong. I won't be terribly surprised if they curb stomp their way through this tournament fairly comfortably.
Quick side note, that Chilean goal keeper was absolutely outstanding. She deserves huge props for her performance yesterday.
Sgt. Largent":3re2lkyt said:Chapow":3re2lkyt said:Threedee":3re2lkyt said:Yeah, I have no problem with what our ladies did. Watching them crush opponents is a lot of fun. Have to admit that despite being a classless mess, I miss seeing Hope Solo defend the goal.
They didn't even need a goal keeper their first 2 WC games. They literally could've played with an empty net, 10 vs 11, and still easily won both of those games. I expect Sweden to be more competitive, but this USWNT looks extremely strong. I won't be terribly surprised if they curb stomp their way through this tournament fairly comfortably.
Quick side note, that Chilean goal keeper was absolutely outstanding. She deserves huge props for her performance yesterday.
As strong as I think the US side is, they've had their problems with the top 10 teams, tying both Japan and England in the last six months.........and France is also looking VERY strong in their group matches.
So I can't buy into the "curb stomp their way through the tournament" statement, but Sweden will be a much better barometer then Thailand or Chili moving into the knockout round.
Chapow":14jgsypd said:Sgt. Largent":14jgsypd said:Chapow":14jgsypd said:Threedee":14jgsypd said:Yeah, I have no problem with what our ladies did. Watching them crush opponents is a lot of fun. Have to admit that despite being a classless mess, I miss seeing Hope Solo defend the goal.
They didn't even need a goal keeper their first 2 WC games. They literally could've played with an empty net, 10 vs 11, and still easily won both of those games. I expect Sweden to be more competitive, but this USWNT looks extremely strong. I won't be terribly surprised if they curb stomp their way through this tournament fairly comfortably.
Quick side note, that Chilean goal keeper was absolutely outstanding. She deserves huge props for her performance yesterday.
As strong as I think the US side is, they've had their problems with the top 10 teams, tying both Japan and England in the last six months.........and France is also looking VERY strong in their group matches.
So I can't buy into the "curb stomp their way through the tournament" statement, but Sweden will be a much better barometer then Thailand or Chili moving into the knockout round.
For the record, I didn't say I expect them to curb stomp their way through this tournament fairly comfortably. I said I won't be terribly surprised if they do.
Chapow":1zpvlb3x said:Threedee":1zpvlb3x said:Yeah, I have no problem with what our ladies did. Watching them crush opponents is a lot of fun. Have to admit that despite being a classless mess, I miss seeing Hope Solo defend the goal.
They didn't even need a goal keeper their first 2 WC games. They literally could've played with an empty net, 10 vs 11, and still easily won both of those games. I expect Sweden to be more competitive, but this USWNT looks extremely strong. I won't be terribly surprised if they curb stomp their way through this tournament fairly comfortably.
Quick side note, that Chilean goal keeper was absolutely outstanding. She deserves huge props for her performance yesterday.
Largent80":374px0mh said:I LOVE it when the women show the men how it's done.
SeatownJay":s46ziw95 said:I have absolutely no idea what to expect from the USMNT tonight I wouldn't be surprised if the won 4-0 or lost 2-1.