Someone claimed USA have tons of World Class players and people asked him to name them.
I'd be pleasantly surprised if they do win it all. I hope they do make the final though, I reckon they'll give USA a tougher match than Sweden.
Having experience of winning a major final should help you'd think.
That post was full-on sarcasm and the poster hooked plenty.
I know fans will argue about almost anything but I like to think this amount of pettiness shows how far the women’s game has come. There seems to be a lot more people getting emotional about it than ever before!
For a second it seemed we were transported to June 2010 when posters were taking the piss out of English fans for drawing against us Yanks after all the shit talk leading in.
I know, It's a sorry sight when South Korea & Australia are more innovative than you. Someone like Van Gaal you would think would be very well received over there. His tactical structure & experience would do wonders for them, especially with their young squad like you have highlighted.
Likewise .. I think the 1921-71 Fa Ban on woman's football left it with quite a bit of catching up to do. USA had their universities to coach and prepare youngsters and they have had a professional game since 2000 I think.
Apparently half the team will turn down a invitation to the White House if they win
Don't blame them one bit.
This is why I’ve never been one for trash talking even whilst supporting Man Utd through the glory years where we seemed pretty invincible. It’ll always come back to bite you one way or another. I think they're still the best team but the gap is closing rapidly.
Think the gap in starting XI might be closing but in terms of depth it’s still a monster gulf. USA could probably field a second side that would at least make the semis.
help me decide who to root for in the other semi. which team is the hottest?
Hope you re wrong. If they are the better team, they re the better team of course, but It d be good for women's footie for another country to win this time.
It isn't quite as simple as that. America had a free run at developing the women's game. Participation has been high among girls at school level for decades in America and they've had a professional league since 2000.
Maybe take this discussion about USA men’s football vs England/Ireland etc in another thread, rather than derailing the World Cup thread?
Just levelling the playing field when it comes to investing in the infrastructure for kids football, will do a whole lot. Professionalization will do a whole lot more. And media awareness will help things along when these things are in place.
When the cat was away, the mice played!
They have been talking about this on Talksport this morning and it was brought up about schools having a girls team. That girls should be able to play football if they want rather than being restricted to netball and hockey.
We are either posh or cheerful cockney chimney sweeps. The rest of the country doesn't exist.
It was classless just like their celebrations over Thailand at 10-0 up. Can't think of another country that would behave in such a way. Even though it wasn't that offensive to the English celebrating in a mocking fashion of your opponents is very typically American
They still don't have girls teams! I just assumed they would by now.
There could be schools that do, but I presume it is funding, that if the girls have a women P.E. teacher, can she coach footbaI think at the primary schools you sometimes see girls in the five-a-side teams, but it will be more of a problem at the senior schools.
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