The gods of sports are a funny bunch. Sometimes they say thumbs down, and that’s the end of a team’s fortunes. Am I the only one who thinks they had enough of a team with these toxic attitudes?
On Sunday morning, the U.S. women’s soccer team lost on penalty kicks. As I recall hearing from the experts on Fox, the stunner is that this team had to do penalty kicks in the first place — i.e., zero goals during regulation time. After all, wasn’t this team presented to the country as the top candidate to win again?
So what happens now?
Let me add a couple of thoughts:
First, it was indeed a brutal loss. The missed kick was like magic, less than an inch, as we saw in the replay. That’s brutal. Second, the U.S. soccer leadership needs to disinfect itself of any woke attitudes. Players, and there are plenty to choose from, should be selected on their ability to play and gratitude about the country they represent. No respect for the National Anthem means you stay home and watch it on TV. This is about playing soccer, not promoting social causes.
Last, but not least, the era of Megan Rapinoe is finally over. She can now move on to advertising sandwiches or Biden’s re-election. Her attitude polluted this team and had many of her countrymen actually cheering that she missed the penalty kick.
Let me get back to baseball or the NFL, and I will consider another soccer post when the World Cup comes to the U.S.
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Oh, this was never about soccer–that was just the means to ulterior ends. If it had been about soccer they may well have won, or certainly done better. And yes, people who use sports to play politics by other means should not be taken for or treated as athletes, and they deserve to lose for playing under false pretenses.
The world is catching up to the United States in women’s soccer. The roster of the other nations are full of players that have played in the United States in college or in/and the USA professional soccer league. Other nations were also eliminated in the earlier rounds, such as the # 2 ranked team in the world Germany, the # 7 ranked Canada and the # 8 ranked Brazil. Then you have # 25 ranked Colombia making it into the final eight. By the way, USA lost on penalty kicks to Sweden, who is the # 3 ranked team in the world.