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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A Spanish football team in the final. What’s new? Can’t wait to be schooled by an American aficionado as to why our pay to play system is better tho[/quote]

Ha! You're grumbling so loud. No one will chime in to say that.

But still, the last 4 matches USWNT vs Spain USWNT has won 3 times tied once. [/quote]

Yes and the team that beat the US was Spain’s B team because of internal politics. Spain did not get serious about women’s game till 2019. That is when they started to make the investments. They did not have a professional women’s league till 2015. That is a pretty incredible rise. Their youth teams are at every level are dominated and getting better each years. Spain is scary. In terms of producing top players they have not reached their peak yet. Their star players talk about how the up and coming 15 years have better skills and understanding of the game because the development that is now taking place.

The US would be the 4th or 5th best team in the 2025 Euro. No NWSL team would made it out of the group stage if there was a Women’s Club World Cup. Love to see that with same paydays! The center of women’s soccer is now Europe. Chelsea just paid 1.36 million for a Canadian woman player. The crowd sizes and TV ratings mean more money and resources.

This is great thing for the women’s games. 
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US soccer has its issues and Europe will continue to get better as countries invest more in the women’s game which I agree is great for the women’s game but a lot of this complaining is nonsense.

US is ranked no 1 in the world and even if you think Spain is better there is no way there are four teams better than the US at the Euros.

Opta just ranked the NWSL as the toughest league in the world— so even recognizing that individual teams in Europe are better and that you might quibble with the rankings the league and its teams are strong.  Esme Morgan went from barely getting call ups to starting the Euro semifinal because of the experience she got playing in DC.

The funding for WSL teams is fundamentally different from the NWSL— it will be interesting to see long term which works better but for now the UK leans towards favoring a couple of top clubs willing to spend big while the US favors competitive parity. [/quote]

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