Just be you. You is enough. - K, 4/5/10, 0:13.8 to play, 60-59 Duke.
You're all jealous hypocrites. - Titus on Laettner
You see those guys? Animals. They're animals. - SIU Coach Chris Lowery, on Duke
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
Goal scoring totals so far:
Alex Morgan -- 5
France -- 4
Brazil -- 3
Norway -- 3
Spain -- 3
Rose Lavelle -- 2
Sam Mewis -- 2
England -- 2
Italy -- 2
Sweden -- 2
Lindsay Horan -- 1
Megan Rapinoe -- 1
Mallory Pugh -- 1
Carli Lloyd -- 1
Australia -- 1
Canada -- 1
Germany -- 1
Netherlands -- 1
South Africa -- 1
"I swear Roy must redeem extra timeouts at McDonald's the day after the game for free hamburgers." --Posted on InsideCarolina, 2/18/2015
I love watching them but I can not agree with that in the slightest. The men's team just does everything better but has to go against tougher competition also.
Yeah this is almost always going to be a problem but ine that I think will get a bit better over time. Soccer is still relatively new in this country (exposure wise) compared to other sports. Soccer is slowly becoming more mainstream with pro teams being added and a greatly expanded aau league play.
How cool is it to imagine some our best athletes if they had committed to soccer like other athletes do for their respective countries? Dwight Howard or LeBron in goal anyone? Russel Westbrook as a striker?
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge" -Stephen Hawking
I actually think the least respectful thing you can do to an opponent is to stop trying. It is saying they are not worth you efforts. Now, I am not saying you would continue to press the attack with full vigor, but if an obvious opportunity presents itself, it is disrespectful to give up and not try (IMHO).
And, as others have noted, goal differential matters at the World Cup... to say nothing of the fact that scoring a goal at the World Cup is a lifelong dream for many of these players. I've got no problem with how team USA played.
If folks are looking for someone to blame... it looked to me like Thailand gave up in a pretty big way around the 50-minute mark in the 2nd half and the orgy or goals that followed is on them more than it is on the US. The Thai players stopped moving toward the ball or even contesting what the US was doing for a while and we scored like 5 goals in 10 minutes as a result.
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I will say that it is bad sportsmanship.
Killing the clock is as much a part of soccer as any other timed sport. Is there anyone who seriously thinks that we are going to need that 13th goal for goal differential purposes?
For those advocating this running up of the score, let's circle back after the Duke-Alabama football game.
For those advocating this running up of the score, let's circle back after the Duke-Alabama football game.
OUCH....THAT HURTS already 👿👿👿👿👿
Right...I don't necessarily think there is any issue with the goals during regulation time, but there is no reason you can't just kick the ball around in added time rather than move into attacking position. More or less the equivalent of going hard play-action up 80 in the final two minutes. The real qualms I would have is with the over the top celebrations...if you score fine but kind of an act like you've been there before thing once you're on goal 8+ (which shouldn't be too hard for the top team in women's soccer who has most definitely been there before).
Meh..I look at the score along the lines of a women's bball game. Blowouts happen, often. Thailand can still take pride in the fact that they made the tournament, just as Podunk U can take pride in making the NCAAs before running into a team like UCONN or Notre Dame.
The bigger qualm seems to be with how those goals were celebrated, even as the outcome was obvious. I'm on board with that. There's no need to do some choreographed number when shot #10 goes in the net. Simply smile and enjoy your achievement, you don't have to rub it in.
Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."
Exactly.
(Although in all seriousness, Saban pulled Tua in the fourth quarter of all their blowouts to avoid injury -- even though margin of victory in football factors into public perception and maybe the computer ranking although not sure. Why risk injury sending our players forward, instead of doing the Brazilian "Ole!" for the last section of the game?)
I will say that one of my co-workers has a theory -- running up the score was a message to US Soccer regarding the USWNT's push for higher ("equal") pay. That sorta makes some intuitive sense to me I guess.
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