# If U.S. women's soccer team played in the FIFA Men's World Cup **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 26, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-u-s-womens-soccer-team-played-in-the-fifa-mens-world-cup/928985 "2020-12-26T20:44:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2021, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-u-s-womens-soccer-team-played-in-the-fifa-mens-world-cup/928985/82 "2021-01-09T04:44:47Z")
Wouldn’t sports shooting be something that women should technically be on an equal level with men? We have a bunch of examples in history of women who were expert marksmen (err, markswomen) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2021, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-u-s-womens-soccer-team-played-in-the-fifa-mens-world-cup/928985/83 "2021-01-09T04:56:15Z")
Annie Oakley is the most famous sharpshooter I can think of from history, man or woman. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2021, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-u-s-womens-soccer-team-played-in-the-fifa-mens-world-cup/928985/84 "2021-01-09T05:25:38Z")
That might be very depressing or very uplifting to know that an over 80 year old dude would smoke me in a marathon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-u-s-womens-soccer-team-played-in-the-fifa-mens-world-cup/928985.md?page=4)