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That entire team and coach need to be sent home to contemplate their sins.

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Originally Posted by CCCC
There are some very decent and worthwhile women on the US team that deserve better than to be painted with the Rapinoe brush. Alex Morgan is one of them.

In this tournament the team showed mediocre coaching/strategy, including very questionable use of available talent. For many situations there were some better players on the bench. A team's realization of this can strongly affect the attitudes and reactions of players and that has been reflected in weakened/unfocused play by a strong team.

Never have I felt that Rapinoe's abilities/performance lived up to the hype.

Soccer has been a great game for me throughout life and I still much enjoy spectating. We all have our likes and dislikes when it comes to types of sports. Some like to express their dislikes in derogatory terms. If it could happen on a logical basis without the slurs and rancor, it could be interesting to discuss the actual aspects and merits/demerits of the sport.

Rapinoe was living on past glory. With the game at 0-0 after 90 minutes, the coach felt pressure to put her in. He would have been hounded mercilessly, had we lost 1-0 and supposed star Rapinoe not played.

Her play was mediocre at best. She took 4 corner kicks, these need to arrive at the goal about 8 feet off the ground. Megan's corners were 3 feet high at best. two of them arrived at the box on the ground. Pitiful.
He picked his 5 best players for the penalty kicks and once again Rapinoe showed that she was washed up. Her miss cost the US the game.

America played the best game of their last 4, and if not for outstanding play by the Swede goalie, we would have won 3-0 and the game would have had nothing to do with the inept Rapinoe.

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Originally Posted by simonkenton7
Originally Posted by CCCC
There are some very decent and worthwhile women on the US team that deserve better than to be painted with the Rapinoe brush. Alex Morgan is one of them.

In this tournament the team showed mediocre coaching/strategy, including very questionable use of available talent. For many situations there were some better players on the bench. A team's realization of this can strongly affect the attitudes and reactions of players and that has been reflected in weakened/unfocused play by a strong team.

Never have I felt that Rapinoe's abilities/performance lived up to the hype.

Soccer has been a great game for me throughout life and I still much enjoy spectating. We all have our likes and dislikes when it comes to types of sports. Some like to express their dislikes in derogatory terms. If it could happen on a logical basis without the slurs and rancor, it could be interesting to discuss the actual aspects and merits/demerits of the sport.

Rapinoe was living on past glory. With the game at 0-0 after 90 minutes, the coach felt pressure to put her in. He would have been hounded mercilessly, had we lost 1-0 and supposed star Rapinoe not played.

Her play was mediocre at best. She took 4 corner kicks, these need to arrive at the goal about 8 feet off the ground. Megan's corners were 3 feet high at best. two of them arrived at the box on the ground. Pitiful.
He picked his 5 best players for the penalty kicks and once again Rapinoe showed that she was washed up. Her miss cost the US the game.

America played the best game of their last 4, and if not for outstanding play by the Swede goalie, we would have won 3-0 and the game would have had nothing to do with the inept Rapinoe.

Very good analysis/comment, sk7.


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Originally Posted by JGRaider
Glad the USWNT got what they deserved. Soccer in any form could vanish from the planet and I wouldn't care.

The USWNT has been beaten more than once, by male high school soccer teams.

And it wasn't close.

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I just watched the last 30 minutes or so. I do not mind a bit that Sweden won that match! Rapinoe is quite possibly one of the ugliest humans on this earth!
I believe that award goes to Lori Lightfoot
The Ugliest Human Alive award is restricted to humans, sorry.

Beat me to it. 😂

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Don’t blame the sport. It’s a beautiful game.

My daughter plays Division 1 women’s soccer at ETSU in Johnson City, TN.

Please tell me you wouldn’t be proud of that?

And she loves the USA and guns. She’s teaching her boyfriend how to turkey hunt and fly fish. She’s a good rifle shot and a better pistol shot.

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Simonkenton7: I am not sure if there are/were any true Americans on that team but if there was I feel for them - nice try.
But for that [bleep] desiring dyke - good riddance.
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Originally Posted by UltraMAGA
Most obvious "bought shot" Ive seen in a while.
Wonder what it payed?

That’s what I think, purposely missed the shot.

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The smile/smirk after the shot. There were some girls on my kid's volleyball team did the same. When did embarrassing yourself or failing become funny?

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They're doing a fine job of keeping her failure suppressed from the news.


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Another comical thread.


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Originally Posted by bluffview
The smile/smirk after the shot. There were some girls on my kid's volleyball team did the same. When did embarrassing yourself or failing become funny?

As much as I dislike MR and take pleasure in her failure to make that kick, I interpreted the "smile/smirk" as being rueful, not uncaring or satisfied.


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In my time, if you played soccer you lost your lunch money on a regular basis. It's a girly sport...Only sports women should play are beach volleyball and tennis.. And the ONLy reasons soccer is gaining traction in this country is part of the plan to emasculate our young boys and of course the influx the great unwashed

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Jeezus, Rapinoe looks like she has aged 20 years in the last 3 years.

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She is the sick joke that she spoke of after the elimination of the USW Team from the world cup.


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Originally Posted by Bwana_1
At least we still have Alex Morgan

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Yes, and she's very easy on the eyes.

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Originally Posted by Old Ornery
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Most obvious "bought shot" Ive seen in a while.
Wonder what it payed?

That’s what I think, purposely missed the shot.

You might be on to something. Rapinoe didn't play in the previous game. Rapinoe didn't play during the regular game vs Sweden, 90 minutes. The coach put her in only for overtime, which is 30 minutes. She did not play well. Her corner kicks were supposed to fly into the goal area, about 8 feet off the ground. Rapinoe's corner kicks were dribbling in on the ground. Her free kicks were even worse. I coach a little league soccer team and I have 12 year old kids who make better corner kicks than Rapinoe did..

She is 38, which is washed up for soccer. Four years ago she starred in the World Cup, but she was 34 then. Big difference.
She is hardly getting any playing time, and when she does play, she is clearly washed up. She knew that the coach wasn't going to play her in the next game.

Is she so narcissistic, that if she wasn't going to play next game, she figured the entire US team didn't deserve to play, so she missed the kick on purpose?

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