Sweden is the number 3 ranked team. It’s not like they lost to Turks and Caicos.
And yet USA was clearly the more talented team but still lost. Distracted.
How are they distracted? All the kneeling bullshlt was in 2016 and guess what? They won the World Cup in 2019. Can I ask, who do you cheer for in sports? I assume State, so we have two championships in 300 years of combined sports. Meanwhile USWNT has 50% of all the championships and lost in the sweet sixteen.
Did you wake up and watch the game? There were games this tournament where they looked lethargic, distracted, and uncoordinated, but this morning wasn’t one of those times. They were on the attack most of the game and ran into a tough team with a GK playing out of her mind. Again, they lost to the highest ranked team left in the tournament.
Some of us weren't waiting for them to fail, but rather waiting for them to play like they usually do which is very well on the world stage. The one thing we count on was the women's soccer team competing in the World Cup. They may have played this game really well but they went over 230 minutes without a goal. I watch this team beat the crap out of everybody four years ago. This is not the quality of the team we have been used to for the last two decades. Paint it over all you want. I think it's just sad.
You’re a State fan right? Remind me again how SEC revenue sharing works? Is it good for us? Typical MS thought process. I hate entitlements!!! Meanwhile sucking off the entitlement teet.
It’s funny, someone talked about the team and leadership gap. I thought to myself, is this a Lemonis coached team? Obviously worlds apart in talent but the leadership issue seems parallel.
Solid GK. They looked good today. Just couldn't finish. Distracted.
I honestly think it was coaching. You can see they have talent but they did not have anything remotely that looked like the organization of a top-notch team on the field until last night. Then it was a little late
You’re not wrong and to be clear, I think they’ve had a bad tournament and have been critical of their other games. I just don’t think this morning’s game is an example of one of those bad games. I also don’t think there’s a massive talent gap between the US and Sweden. There were plenty here, myself included, that thought they might get speedbagged by Sweden, but they didn’t.
That's really where we are in this country today. Some just can't hold different opinions, it's part of their identity so better that Sweden or the Netherlands or some other country with much larger welfare states and socialized healthcare win. But, some of the gals on this team seem to think that way too about other Americans.
The most American thing to me would be if you're not proud of your country, don't "represent" it .
The world, well, a small part of it, has caught up. We used to invest so much more time and money on women's soccer than anyone else and it showed. I don't think Americans realize how much more we supported women's soccer and how little the rest of the world once cared about that sport. Things have changed. Women elsewhere, well not Latin America just yet although there is a powerful feminist movement there, have figured out that if you demand something long enough and present yourself as a victim or propose a policy in terms of its fairness, men and women in power will give you most of want you want. Middle and upper class dads love their daughters and support women's sports so we ask government to do something about it. Anyway, this was the best game the US played so far but it's a team that just has trouble scoring. Mallory Swanson's injury per-WC was a major loss.
Maybe liberals in America should notice that American conservatives are also among the most liberal people in the world. Rapinoe, and maybe some others, support allowing transwomen, biological men, to play on women's teams. I'm not sure how many Swedish players support this. A lot of women who play sports do realize that talented biological men are just better athletes and don't pretend to believe otherwise. Some may be silent about it because the moral scolds might come after them.
And some (not only this team or sport) just can't grasp the fact that we don't give a flying 17 about their life choices any more than they care about mine. Just play the damn game and shut up
I think that's a big part of it. Rapinoe didn't just express opinions about some things, trans women in sports, equal pay, she morally denounced others who disagreed. It's the self-righteousness and absolute moral certainties that bother people. As a Catholic student at State who thought homosexuals should be treated with equality under the law and who enjoyed the occaissional beer, and by occaisional I mean frequent, there were times when some fellow Christians judged me as being morally inferior or a bad Christian. I didn't believe them, of course, but they were a bit irritating.
Maybe it's just a difference in liberals and conservatives, but I have never "celebrated" when a conservative failed at their real job, especially if it's a plyer for a team I like. It's something that would never even occur to me.
The trans sports issue is dead. Who cares anymore? The NCAA, Olympics, all relevant major international sports bodies have all said no transwomen are allowed to play (technically, the NCAA and Olympics deferred to the international organizations). Even Joe Biden has signed off on allowing high schools to do it (AOC had a pretty big meltdown over that one, but she got over it). You've got to update your grievances to 2023.
It's not dead but those international organizations have reached decisions and I suspect the U.S. will comply eventually. The threat of litigation and elections and the extremism of transactivists play a role it. Plus, it's an issue of fairness. But, Rapinoe just the other day voiced her support. And no issue is truly dead.
The US basically already has complied. Maybe some random high schools will allow it for local matches if the community supports it, but we're never going to see one competing for a national championship again.
Social media. I would have never known, but some posters here (and/or ED) who were happy about it linked to it so that we could all know.
