I pit you, US womens soccer goalkeeper!

The BBQ Pit
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99% of people reading this won’t know what the hell I’m talking about but…

Look missy, its obvious to anyone who knows what soccer is that the coach made a bonehead move by pulling you. No, not because you’re so great, but because the concept of changing goalkeepers to fit an opponent is unheard of in the annals of soccer- you change strikers, or defenders, depending on your opponent, not goalies, because goalkeepers all should have one skilll- the ability to stop shots of any type and then kick the ball downfield. You change based on skill or how you’ve been doing in games, not tactics.

The problem with you, you pissy little girl, is your complete unfamiliarity with a thing called class, or grace. It was a senseless move to pull you, to be sure, but the key is, everyone who watched the game- all fifty of them- can see it was wrong. Therefore, its not necessary for you to point it out in your cuntish little post match tirade. How about a “no comment”? Or some praise for the Brasilians who made your entire team look like pathetic lazy fatass Americans, not just the goalie? It doesn’t matter if the sub let in none or 100 goals, becasue your team scored a goal for the opponent and didn’t score for yourselves at all! Your years of domination are over, and you, miss goalkeeper, will never win a World Cup, because in four years you’ll be the older sub goalkeeper- how ya like them apples?

Trashing anyone on your team is bush league, but one can maybe, possibly,understand your anger at the coach, but why trash the other gal in your post match piss fit? What should she have done when told she was starting- turn it down in deference to your vapid ass?

And even funnier, which you probably have taken too many penalty kicks to the head to remember, was your piss poor play in game one that could’ve cost the team even getting past the first round- you let in two goals that were utterly hilarious! One was coming at you at about 5 mph and hit you in both hands- I didn’t fucking hear the sub goalie say after that game that she would’ve caught that one, did she?

A big ha-ha and fuck you to the little tittybaby, and the Brasilians would’ve rolled over you too sweetie, just like the North Koreans did, don’t kid yourself. Every one would’ve been on your side if you had kept your trap shut, now you’re gonna be known as a whiner like Danica Patrick.

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I know what you’re talking about, and it was stupid and immature to say what she said. But she was right.

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True, true, but I can’t even recall the worst regarded athletes ever trashing a coach and/or teammate ten seconds after the game! Terrell Owens at least waits till they’re traded or retire, and Barry Bonds has never done anything close to this- I would be disappointed if her image didn’t take a big blow for it.

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Weren’t they technically over 4 years ago when Germany beat them in the World Cup?

Spot on with your rant though. I can’t stand athletes who go whining to the media when they feel they shouldn’t have been dropped from the team, or if a teammate dropped the ball. There is such a thing as behind closed doors.

Much as I can’t stand David Beckham, he does deserve some grudging respect for always being professional in regards to his teammates and coaches in public, even with the pub outfit he’s currently not playing for.

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Youtube.

Hafta say, “I could have made those saves” sounds kinda tacky to me.

And “you can’t live by big names”, obviously referring to star Scurry, also sounded tacky.

And not just second-guessing the coach, but second-guessing the coach by saying, basically, “If he’d’a put ME in, I’d have saved his ass, but NOOO he puts his STARRRRR in there”, is also tacky.

So yeah, triple tacky.

Even if she is right.

When you get stomped, the sportsmanlike thing to do is smile into the cameras and say, “Hey, we got stomped–but y’all better look out next time!” Not whine to the media about how if only your dumbass coach had put YOU in, you wouldn’t’a gotten stomped.

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Well, they came back a year later and won the Olympic gold medal which, unlike in Men’s soccer, is fairly close to as prestigious as the world cup. Plus they were #1 ranked going into this WC.

(But they really didn’t seem to deserve that Olympic gold, as Brazil basically outplayed them… and Brazil got their vengeance today.)

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Soccer? What’s that? Sounds like domestic violence – I’d be against that. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Also, there’s probably other members of the US team that didn’t get in the game or didn’t start who probably thought they would’ve won if they had played as well, not only the goalkeeper- I’m sure there’s are quality non starters at all positions, but none of them said anything like that.

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I’m pretty sure Owens was trashing Jeff Garcia and Donovan McNabb before he left those teams. And Bonds got into a shoving match with a teammate once. Not that it particularly matters here.

As a sports fan I know this is supposed to bother me, but it just doesn’t. She was the starting goalie. She’s supposed to believe that she can go out there and do the job, although I gather that she wasn’t playing great in the games leading up to the semifinal. And since she got pulled for one game and that one game turned into a big loss - how upset would you be? A lot of people thought the coach was an idiot even before the game was played, and even if she’d said nothing, you know she agreed. The only part I think was really tacky were her implied comments about Scurry. By the accounts I’ve read, Scurry was rusty and really didn’t play well, but Solo could’ve been more respectful. The change wasn’t Scurry’s fault.

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I will add that if the coach were a real adult he would’ve put her in in the second half- it was clear to anyone the sub didn’t have it, and he only left her in to save face. It’s that move to me that’s worse than the initial benching- he had to have known the only chance for them to win at that point was that a change would spark a fire, and that the sub was rubbish.

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How would you rate the move where he starts Scurry in the bronze medal game? No way is he going back to the original starter now.

I’d read that Solo wasn’t playing all that well early, but apparently the US was 3-0-1 and she hadn’t allowed a goal in the tournament, so that’s a pretty hard change to defend.

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You never do what this one here did. You don’t throw your teammates, or your coach under the bus because you don’t agree, even moreso after a loss. Not that I’ve ever played any team sports at the professional level, but shit, my 6th grade hockey coach would have bounced my ass right out the doors of the rink if I had ever even had a look on my face that suggested that I was thinking the things that she said.

You really feel that way? Quit the team without saying a word and let the others say them for you. Descretion is truly the better part of valor, you know?

Also, to ESPN, stop playing this clip. Nobody cares, it’s womens soccer. Let’s get back to watching my Bears and Cubs flame out instead of this wretched display of selfishness and poor sportsmanship, ok?

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Solo conceded 2 in the first match, the tie with North Korea, the first of which was due to letting what should have been an easy catch through her gloves.

I’ve had a chance to watch the goals from the Brazil match now and there’s no way she would have saved either the first (og) or third goals, and given that the US team was badly outclassed, reducing Brazil to only 2 goals wouldn’t have made a difference to the result. Of course that was never a red card, but these things happen and you have to play with the dice you’re given.

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I don’t play sports, but I work in musical theater, and I have zero patience for this kind of behavior. If a person has a problem with the decision of a coach, then you take it up with him or her. You don’t go complaining to other people about your leadership. That’s not how you work in a team. I’m a pretty easy-going guy, but when I’ve had cast members talk smack to my face in front of other people I get pretty furious.

If every team member went out on the news to complain every time their coach does something they don’t like, then you wouldn’t have a team left; everyone would have pissed off each other so much that they’d all quit. It’s your responsibility as a member of a team to maintain the integrity of the group. Otherwise the whole ship falls apart.

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I’d like to know how she would have stopped that first goal!

The most disgusting, disgraceful part of yesterdays game (IMO) was when a Brazilian player fell over herself and made it look like the American player was at fault. That by itself is bad, but not that noteworthy, it was her shocking celebration over the fact that she just got a player sent off. If I was in charge she would take no further part in the tournament.

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Nice to see that in some respects at least, the women’s game really is the equal of the men’s. The Americans should have tried to rip the red card out of the ref’s hand to stop her brandishing it - that’s the latest fad over here.

Anyway, isn’t being called “Hope Solo” punishment enough for the whiny keeper? I swear, I could never move back to America, I’d die laughing at names like that. Or die being kicked in the head for laughing at names like that. Sounds like she’s escaped from Star Wars Kids - The Animated Series.

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“We played our hardest today, and we need to hand it to the Brazilians who played a good game, and I’m disappointed I didn’t the start, but I stand by the coach’s decision.”

FUCK THAT!

When I see a person interviewed after a game actually SPEAK THEIR MIND, I find it refreshing.

Athletes come across as the most boring, stupid, thoughtless people in the public eye, and it’s because they’re forced to do the “sportsmanlike” thing. And, it’s all bullshit.

Every now and then, this stuff slips through, like when Dottie Pepper said, “Choking freakin’ dogs” or Nancy Kerrigan told Mickey Mouse, “this is so lame.”

I went to a storyteller’s series recently in Baltimore. One of the storytellers was a pro-boxer talking about his first pro fight. He was so psyched after winning it, he said “After that fight, I went to a bar and got drunk. Then, the next day, I went out and got drunk again.”

He sure the fuck didn’t say, “I just won my first pro fight, I’m going to Disneyland.”
(Oh, and that last goal the Brazilian scored was fucking awesome.)

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The US did have bad luck with the red card- the Brasilian girl was initially motioning to the ref like she thought that she, not the American, was going to be called for the foul! Cheering a red card, warranted or not, is standard though in soccer, and not really bad form. Falling when contact is made is standard in soccer- everyone does it, which doesn’t make it right, but its not like the US doesn’t do it.

Also puzzling was the US coach making a defensive sub in the second half when they needed goals, and the new defender was the one torched by Marta for the amazing last goal. No goaltender would have mattered, they whipped them totally and the US barely had a good shot on goal. The US needs speed at the striker position or they’ll continue to flounder.

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The US had some shots on goal, but I don’t think you can say that “no goaltender would have mattered”. Scurry got a hand or a foot on all three shots except the own goal. Well, on the 4th goal, she was close.

She looked terrible on two of them. And, who’s to say that Solo wouldn’t have been better positioned on the own goal, or had better communication with the defenders on Marta’s goal?

Maybe not, but she couldn’t have looked worse.

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I’m not sure I agree - it’s something I very rarely see, and would be pretty disgusted by. Perhaps you’ve seen this when a penalty is awarded? Players will almost always celebrate the penalty, and a red card is often shown at the same time. But for outfield reds, what I more frequently see is the dismissed player’s teammates mobbing the ref, while the other team back off and let their opponents talk their way further into trouble. You do certainly see players waving imaginary cards to demand a booking, mind you, and IMO that should warrant an instant booking itself. I really don’t know why FIFA or individual associations don’t take a harder line against this sort of crap, it’s truly sickening to watch.