Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was a scrimmage. Who cares. (They've apparently also beat other boys teams in the past). Women play men to get better.

What might be really interesting is if they did co-ed teams at high levels like tennis has mixed doubles. That might be fun to watch.

No.

Yes.

Anonymous wrote:🇨🇭 The Switzerland women’s national team (ranked 23rd in the world) lost 7-1 in a friendly match against Luzern’s U15 boys team.

Thoughts?

https://www.goal.com/en-us/lists/alisha-lehmann-switzerland-euro-2025-hosts-thrashed-under-15-team/blt569915d6561b9a2a

Flo Jo's world record for women's 100m is also slower than the record from U15 boys.

I am not sure what point you are trying to make

There's a window around u11 where the girls are on average bigger, stronger, and faster. After that, they rapidly become uncompetitive against boys.

Anonymous wrote:My DD’s team just played a boys team same age and whipped up on them. And I mean whipped. Whats your point? What is your narrative? One boys team beat another woman’s team in a scrimmage? One data set does not make a rule. Otherwise my DD’s team spanking a same age boys team in an actual game makes a rule that refutes yours. Grow up. Stop trying to stir outrage to stoke your ego (which is clearly fragile).

Defeating the chess club does not count

Anonymous wrote:🇨🇭 The Switzerland women’s national team (ranked 23rd in the world) lost 7-1 in a friendly match against Luzern’s U15 boys team.

Thoughts?

https://www.goal.com/en-us/lists/alisha-lehmann-switzerland-euro-2025-hosts-thrashed-under-15-team/blt569915d6561b9a2a

I’m surprised it wasn’t worse than that.

The women must be improving

My DD’s team just played a boys team same age and whipped up on them. And I mean whipped. Whats your point? What is your narrative? One boys team beat another woman’s team in a scrimmage? One data set does not make a rule. Otherwise my DD’s team spanking a same age boys team in an actual game makes a rule that refutes yours. Grow up. Stop trying to stir outrage to stoke your ego (which is clearly fragile).

It happened in USA too.

https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/a-dallas-fc-under-15-boys-squad-beat-the-u-s-womens-national-team-in-a-scrimmage/

Anonymous wrote:It was a scrimmage. Who cares. (They've apparently also beat other boys teams in the past). Women play men to get better.

What might be really interesting is if they did co-ed teams at high levels like tennis has mixed doubles. That might be fun to watch.

No.

The sky is still blue

Anonymous wrote:🇨🇭 The Switzerland women’s national team (ranked 23rd in the world) lost 7-1 in a friendly match against Luzern’s U15 boys team.

Thoughts?

https://www.goal.com/en-us/lists/alisha-lehmann-switzerland-euro-2025-hosts-thrashed-under-15-team/blt569915d6561b9a2a

Happens all the time.

It’s always iffy.

A national team from a country like Switzerland sometimes is just going to need some warm bodies for a scrimmage to work on some things. You can use older guys - they are better for maintaining control and avoiding injury. But, they can be too fast and too big for working on things. The big risk with using younger players is their potential lack of control. A collision can blow a knee. So you set strict rules.

And, like pretty much every scrimmage you are there to work on things. It’s not a game. It’s a scrimmage. So, you might repeat a game situation 3-4 times to try things out.

I'm a local referee and one of the assignors was looking for referees to do a U23 girls team vs a U15 boys ECNL team. I think they were both VDA. How did that go? Anyone know?

Anonymous wrote:🇨🇭 The Switzerland women’s national team (ranked 23rd in the world) lost 7-1 in a friendly match against Luzern’s U15 boys team.

Thoughts?

https://www.goal.com/en-us/lists/alisha-lehmann-switzerland-euro-2025-hosts-thrashed-under-15-team/blt569915d6561b9a2a

You really want to push this narrative don't you? You're barking up the wrong tree here.

It was a scrimmage. Who cares. (They've apparently also beat other boys teams in the past). Women play men to get better.

What might be really interesting is if they did co-ed teams at high levels like tennis has mixed doubles. That might be fun to watch.

🇨🇭 The Switzerland women’s national team (ranked 23rd in the world) lost 7-1 in a friendly match against Luzern’s U15 boys team.

Thoughts?

https://www.goal.com/en-us/lists/alisha-lehmann-switzerland-euro-2025-hosts-thrashed-under-15-team/blt569915d6561b9a2a