USA beat England in the Womens WC Soccer

TheMercenary · 09-22-2007, 06:45 PM

Good round ball this am. England was strong and the US had some lucky scores. I really felt it could have gone either way. Great game to watch.

DanaC · 09-23-2007, 05:55 AM

It was a good game. I think this years' England team did really well to get so far.

lookout123 · 09-24-2007, 03:46 PM

I've got it on the DVR but haven't watched it yet. i'd like to see Waumbach(sp) and Lilly go out on top. bring on the youth.

DanaC · 09-25-2007, 07:33 AM

I think the British womens' game has really stepped up a notch the last two years. It is getting a higher profile in the sports roundups than it used to and I have noticed in my own area what amounts to a minor explosion of footballing girls :P So I would say watch this space. In a few years I think the British team will be a serious contender.

The American team seems to me to be streets ahead of the rest right now. I think its a much more mature scene over there. Perhaps because the mainstream (male) game didn't have such a foothold there. In the big footballing countries it's been an exclusively male preserve for a long time, its entire history. Big doors for our lasses to break down.

lookout123 · 09-25-2007, 10:41 AM

IMO, the US women's soccer program has been so successful because women's international soccer has really only sprung up in the last couple decades as a popular sport. Most nations really started putting focus on the program at about the same time, so a large country (US), with significant assets devoted to play (US), generally equal opportunity for the sexes (US), and a competitive nature (US) would tend to spring to the front of the line.

The exact opposite is true in the men's program. The rest of the world focused on it for 100 years before the US even managed to put together a viable league (MLS). It takes awhile for a country to cultivate it's homegrown talent and bring it up to speed. I feel that the US men's program has about 15 years before it will even be competitive. But our new generation of youngsters looks promising. Adu is overhyped, but good, Michael Bradley, Benny Feilhaber, Josey Altidore, Jay Demerit, Clint Dempsey... These guys are earning their stripes playing in England, Spain, and Germany. I look forward to the day they push Onyewu and Donovan out of the squad.

TheMercenary · 09-27-2007, 07:19 PM

Well, just goes to show you, don't get to cocky:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports...,1490194.story

09-27-2007, 07:33 PM

I heard the US coach benched a popular US player and upset some people.
S-all I know.

TheMercenary · 09-27-2007, 07:45 PM

yea, he substituted the goalie, less experienced one for the more experienced one. I am not sure it would have done anything other than made the score 2-0 instead of 4-0.

lookout123 · 09-27-2007, 09:49 PM

actually the coach should be kicked squarely in the balls for that brainless move. he benched a keeper that has had fantastic chemistry with her back four, they were working intuitively together. He benched her for the old keep who hadn't been good enough to see a match in 3 months, because she had been between the sticks against brazil before. stupid. stupid. stupid.

he disrupts team chemistry and more importantly he has damaged the confidence of the best keeper he has for the foreseeable future. jackass. unfortunately, the US soccer federation is so full back slapping BS that nothing will change.

09-22-2007, 06:45 PM	#1
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	USA beat England in the Womens WC Soccer Good round ball this am. England was strong and the US had some lucky scores. I really felt it could have gone either way. Great game to watch. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

09-24-2007, 03:46 PM	#3
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	I've got it on the DVR but haven't watched it yet. i'd like to see Waumbach(sp) and Lilly go out on top. bring on the youth. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

09-25-2007, 10:41 AM	#5
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	IMO, the US women's soccer program has been so successful because women's international soccer has really only sprung up in the last couple decades as a popular sport. Most nations really started putting focus on the program at about the same time, so a large country (US), with significant assets devoted to play (US), generally equal opportunity for the sexes (US), and a competitive nature (US) would tend to spring to the front of the line. The exact opposite is true in the men's program. The rest of the world focused on it for 100 years before the US even managed to put together a viable league (MLS). It takes awhile for a country to cultivate it's homegrown talent and bring it up to speed. I feel that the US men's program has about 15 years before it will even be competitive. But our new generation of youngsters looks promising. Adu is overhyped, but good, Michael Bradley, Benny Feilhaber, Josey Altidore, Jay Demerit, Clint Dempsey... These guys are earning their stripes playing in England, Spain, and Germany. I look forward to the day they push Onyewu and Donovan out of the squad. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

09-27-2007, 07:19 PM	#6
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Well, just goes to show you, don't get to cocky: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports...,1490194.story __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

09-27-2007, 07:45 PM	#8
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	yea, he substituted the goalie, less experienced one for the more experienced one. I am not sure it would have done anything other than made the score 2-0 instead of 4-0. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

09-23-2007, 05:55 AM	#2
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	It was a good game. I think this years' England team did really well to get so far.

09-25-2007, 07:33 AM	#4
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	I think the British womens' game has really stepped up a notch the last two years. It is getting a higher profile in the sports roundups than it used to and I have noticed in my own area what amounts to a minor explosion of footballing girls :P So I would say watch this space. In a few years I think the British team will be a serious contender. The American team seems to me to be streets ahead of the rest right now. I think its a much more mature scene over there. Perhaps because the mainstream (male) game didn't have such a foothold there. In the big footballing countries it's been an exclusively male preserve for a long time, its entire history. Big doors for our lasses to break down.

09-27-2007, 07:33 PM	#7
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	I heard the US coach benched a popular US player and upset some people. S-all I know.

09-27-2007, 09:49 PM	#9
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	actually the coach should be kicked squarely in the balls for that brainless move. he benched a keeper that has had fantastic chemistry with her back four, they were working intuitively together. He benched her for the old keep who hadn't been good enough to see a match in 3 months, because she had been between the sticks against brazil before. stupid. stupid. stupid. he disrupts team chemistry and more importantly he has damaged the confidence of the best keeper he has for the foreseeable future. jackass. unfortunately, the US soccer federation is so full back slapping BS that nothing will change. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

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