Anyone watching the US annihilate Japan?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The word choice in the thread title makes me uncomfortable. But, good for the team, and the coach who was subjected to such whiny criticism throughout.

Oh, pipe down. We did annihilate them. Eff them, with their penalty kick victory 4 years ago. You'd think they'd have learned - they may catch us the first time, but in the end, they get pounded.

Yeah, how dare they ... try to beat the USA. Why don't other countries understand that it's all about us?

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It is all about us as it should be all about them. I mean isn't that what the idea of competition for?

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Anonymous wrote:It is all about us as it should be all about them. I mean isn't that what the idea of competition for?

Exactly. That is what competition is!

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It's because of people like 8:18 that every kid gets something for participating.

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Anonymous wrote:It's because of people like 8:18 that every kid gets something for participating.

Um ... no. Quite the opposite. I'm saying victories have to be earned. Other teams don't say, "Oh, it's the USA. Let's just lie down and let them win."

Japan is a good, competitive team, which makes beating them that much more of an accomplishment.

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Anonymous wrote:Women showing the men how it's done.

Yeah? These same women routinely play, and lose to, teams of high school boys.

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Anonymous wrote:Ladies doing it for themselves. Fuck yeah.

"Annihilate" and the f word. Are you a mother? Do you talk like that around your children?

It's a bunch of girls kicking a ball. Get a grip.

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Anonymous wrote:Women showing the men how it's done.

Yeah? These same women routinely play, and lose to, teams of high school boys.

What? They won the World Cup. I doubt they lose to high school kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Just caught the end but it sounded like a good game and go USA for winning World Cup.

Shallow question from a non-soccer fan - why do most of the Japanese players have short/boyish hair?

My 9.5 year old son was absolutely convinced Japan's goalie was a male. It didn't matter what I said. He didn't believe me. He kept asking me why somebody didn't check .

What about the German goalie? She looks like Bruce before Caitlyn.

Omg! You are so right!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Women showing the men how it's done.

Yeah? These same women routinely play, and lose to, teams of high school boys.

What? They won the World Cup. I doubt they lose to high school kids.

No, they do. They've scrimmaged U16-ish boys teams in the past. Very good ones, though -- if they showed up at a random high school and asked to play the varsity boys, they'd probably win. But if they played an ODP selection, a top club or a title-contending high school team, they'd lose.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Women showing the men how it's done.

Yeah? These same women routinely play, and lose to, teams of high school boys.

What? They won the World Cup. I doubt they lose to high school kids.

No, they do. They've scrimmaged U16-ish boys teams in the past. Very good ones, though -- if they showed up at a random high school and asked to play the varsity boys, they'd probably win. But if they played an ODP selection, a top club or a title-contending high school team, they'd lose.

Right. I made the previous comment. It's nothing against the team, which I think is generally decent people (with a few exceptions). Celebrate their win, but for some people with a feminist bent, women's soccer is an excuse to shout grrrlpower and bash men. Shut up already and celebrate the team like any American team. They didn't beat men, they beat five foot Japanese women.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Women showing the men how it's done.

Yeah? These same women routinely play, and lose to, teams of high school boys.

What? They won the World Cup. I doubt they lose to high school kids.

No, they do. They've scrimmaged U16-ish boys teams in the past. Very good ones, though -- if they showed up at a random high school and asked to play the varsity boys, they'd probably win. But if they played an ODP selection, a top club or a title-contending high school team, they'd lose.

Right. I made the previous comment. It's nothing against the team, which I think is generally decent people (with a few exceptions). Celebrate their win, but for some people with a feminist bent, women's soccer is an excuse to shout grrrlpower and bash men. Shut up already and celebrate the team like any American team. They didn't beat men, they beat five foot Japanese women.

And, in all fairness, our ODP U-16 boy teams would get crushed by U-10 boys teams from Ajax, Barcelona, bayern, etc.

It's all relative, dude.