Who would win between US men vs. women national teams?

[Anonymous]

says Tom Cruise

[Anonymous]

My baseball team one state in high school, so did the softball team. The girls team "challenged" the baseball team to a softball match for the "ultimate" championship.

Boys batted first as they were guests since they had to pay softball instead of baseball. The girls team didn't even get to bat.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the women could hang with the men's team - could they beat them though?

I would love to see a friendly match between the teams....talk about hype!

It would only be friendly if the men act as gentlemen and let them women come across as ladies instead of incompetent teen boys.

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The women’s team has a terrible touch on the ball compared to the men’s team. Luckily they play different sports. Women’s soccer is not the same as men’s soccer.

Why is that? Do they need a smaller or softer ball or smaller field or larger goals? Or even different rules? I watch womens basketball but don't feel the players are less skilled.

It is silly to suggest that Zardes or Bradley have better touch than Tobin Heath.

But it’s really not.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the women could hang with the men's team - could they beat them though?

I would love to see a friendly match between the teams....talk about hype!

The current women's team would CRUSH the current men's team. Would love to see this go down.

[Anonymous]

How about a co-ed match? England vs. US. Top 7 women and men from each country, with three subs allowed.

US Team: Lavelle, Morgan, Dunn, Ertz, Sauerbraun, Heath, Mewis / Pulisic, McKennie, Altidore, Stefan, Ream, Miazga, Cannon

My money would be on the English team. Their men are just so much better than ours and that would overcome our women's less marginal edge over theirs. We could then play France and Brazil and also get beat. God … as I write this I realize how pathetic our men's team is in "relative" comparison to the women's team.

[Anonymous]

Have the US women beat any MLS club’s U17s and we’ll talk. But they can’t, and we won’t. There’s a reason that they’re two separate sports.

Please, just stop now. These athletes deserve to be celebrated for what they did achieve without your ridiculous fanboy/girl fantasies about what they will not achieve.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the women could hang with the men's team - could they beat them though?

I would love to see a friendly match between the teams....talk about hype!

The current women's team would CRUSH the current men's team. Would love to see this go down.

Oh Lordy.

As bad as they are, the men would beat the women 10-0 without even trying hard.

Biology is a thing. Men on average are taller and stronger and faster and that just in itself would be more than enough to make the game look like pros playing vs. teen boys.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the women could hang with the men's team - could they beat them though?

I would love to see a friendly match between the teams....talk about hype!

The current women's team would CRUSH the current men's team. Would love to see this go down.

Stop ruining this awesome accomplishment by our uswnt with your nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We've seen a couple of these type matchups. My daughter's very good U17 A team scrimmaged the U15 boys C team at our club and lost 14-1--we were surprised by how easily the boys ran by the girls. A very cocky coach of a U13 girls A team that destroyed all their competition challenged our son's U11 team to a futsal game and the boys won something like 30-5. And these girls were truly outstanding. Many have gone on to play D1.

The only time the soccer matchups are even is when the kids are all very young. After that the physical differences are just too extreme. I have seen college women basketball players destroy regular dudes in pickup games though.

Pretty much this.

I played D1 soccer in college and the men's team always destroyed us when we did our friendly pre-season scrimmage games. We dominated against other women's college teams, though, and won our conference as well as the championship.

After college I responded to a rec league Facebook group for soccer and I looked like a superstar out there against 99% of the guys. I could outrun, out dribble, and out score all of them except for the ones who had, like me, previous higher level soccer experience.

I'm a very fit, athletic woman... but I just don't have the muscle mass that the guys do. The only way for the women to even have a chance of keeping up in score would to be for women's team to have extra players and extra subs so that for the second half, they only had fresh legs out there. Basically, Team A plays the first half and Team B plays the second half, but both teams are made up of only the best and most elite women's soccer stars. Even then, I'm not 100% sure they could beat them. I think that way they'd definitely prevent a lopsided score of 2-15 or something.

[Anonymous]

There are only 2 coed sports in the olympics -- Equestrian and sailing. Both of these sports, while physical, do not rely on strength to the degree of other sports.

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Anonymous wrote:There are only 2 coed sports in the olympics -- Equestrian and sailing. Both of these sports, while physical, do not rely on strength to the degree of other sports.

It would be a novelty (entertainment item), nothing more … but still it would be interesting to see. Do it for charity. Anyhow … this thread is silly as is my idea of a serious co-ed game, but a for fun a charity co-ed match might be worthwhile.

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Anonymous wrote:There are only 2 coed sports in the olympics -- Equestrian and sailing. Both of these sports, while physical, do not rely on strength to the degree of other sports.

Equestrian makes sense.

Sailing I'm surprised, sometimes you need raw strength.

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Anonymous wrote:There are only 2 coed sports in the olympics -- Equestrian and sailing. Both of these sports, while physical, do not rely on strength to the degree of other sports.

Equestrian makes sense.

Sailing I'm surprised, sometimes you need raw strength.

I think the equipment has progressed far enough that it doesn't matter.

Also in sailing being light (or being heavy-- depends on the boat, the race and the conditions) can be a real advantage. So perhaps whatever women lack in strength is compensated by their size.

[Anonymous]

What I think would be fun would be a co-ed team vs co-ed team.