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US - Women's soccer gets dirty
« on: November 11, 2009, 07:12:07 PM »
OMG!  :o I can't believe this player was allowed to stay on the pitch for nearly the entire game.http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=4629837

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Re: US - Women's soccer gets dirty
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2009, 07:27:39 PM »
Ah, yes, I saw this a day ago. Absolutely ridiculous. I'm extremely surprised she didn't get a red card for ANY of those assaults. Was the ref blind or something?
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Re: US - Women's soccer gets dirty
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2009, 07:40:04 PM »
Ah, the art of making sure the ref is looking the other way............
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Re: US - Women's soccer gets dirty
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2009, 09:27:06 PM »
she's been suspended indefinitely by the new mexico women's team.  charges are forthcoming by the FA.  She may very well never play again, nor should she. 
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Re: US - Women's soccer gets dirty
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2009, 09:13:27 AM »
I'd kick her a$$ in the car park after the game if she pulled my hair like that.  [smiley=smash.gif]


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Re: US - Women's soccer gets dirty
« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2009, 09:23:20 AM »
she's been suspended indefinitely by the new mexico women's team.  charges are forthcoming by the FA.  She may very well never play again, nor should she. 

So she should. What kind of example is that setting for the young ones watching?

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Re: US - Women's soccer gets dirty
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2009, 07:19:19 PM »
I read this story in one of the Metro papers at work today... I couldn't believe it when it said she was from the UNM Lobos team... that was the university I was studying at last year :P!


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Re: US - Women's soccer gets dirty
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2009, 08:54:38 PM »
I read this story in one of the Metro papers at work today... I couldn't believe it when it said she was from the UNM Lobos team... that was the university I was studying at last year :P!
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Re: US - Women's soccer gets dirty
« Reply #8 on: November 12, 2009, 11:43:52 PM »
I had to laugh at the Fox News take on this, about how Jim Rome (a well known "soccer" hater, sometimes he seems to protest too much!) once said somthing along the lines that "soccer exists to provide an outlet for thugs" - he obviously doesn't watch much ice hockey!
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Re: US - Women's soccer gets dirty
« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2009, 12:11:37 AM »
I had to laugh at the Fox News take on this, about how Jim Rome (a well known "soccer" hater, sometimes he seems to protest too much!) once said somthing along the lines that "soccer exists to provide an outlet for thugs" - he obviously doesn't watch much ice hockey!

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Re: US - Women's soccer gets dirty
« Reply #10 on: November 13, 2009, 12:16:14 PM »
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I'd kick her a$$ in the car park after the game if she pulled my hair like that.  [smiley=smash.gif]


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Re: US - Women's soccer gets dirty
« Reply #11 on: November 22, 2009, 02:11:47 PM »
Proof that no one watches soccer in America.   ;D


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Re: US - Women's soccer gets dirty
« Reply #12 on: November 22, 2009, 02:24:36 PM »
I read an interesting take on this (on some physic's blog, oddly enough, I think) that it's actually at least partially beneficial because, while some misbehaviour by male athletes is attributed to testosterone and even celebrated (ice hockey fights etc), women in sports are still expected to be cute pony-tail wearing sweethearts who never do anything impolite or aggressive.
The writer was pointing out that, at the top levels, women's sports are just as competitive and aggressive as men's and that they deserve attention as athletes, and that this player, by showing that *gasp* women sometimes play dirty, was doing everyone a favour by at least bringing it out in the open. As a girl who played a number of sports, I thought it was an interesting take.

I'd also have to say that women's soccer has always been fairly...physical.  I have very faint scars down the back on my legs from a girl deliberately scraping me with her shoes, and hair pulling and shirt grabbing (and illegal slide tackling) was not all that unusual.


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Re: US - Women's soccer gets dirty
« Reply #13 on: November 22, 2009, 02:56:24 PM »
This type of behavior is absolutely horrendous!  Being abusive to someone and hiding behind the fact that you are on a field "playing" a sport is despicable.  It doesn't matter if you're a man or woman...there is no excuse for this type of thing...ever.


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Re: US - Women's soccer gets dirty
« Reply #14 on: November 22, 2009, 03:36:02 PM »
This type of behavior is absolutely horrendous!  Being abusive to someone and hiding behind the fact that you are on a field "playing" a sport is despicable.  It doesn't matter if you're a man or woman...there is no excuse for this type of thing...ever.

Totally totally agree. These people are professionals (or at least adults) and young children look up to them and try to emulate them. I'd rather my son emulate David Beckham than Vinnie Jones (ok maybe out of date but then I am).

But illegal moves are illegal for a reason. They can cripple people. And that ain't sport in my book.

If they want to beat 6 bells out of each other, then they should take up something like boxing or cage fighting.


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