The US women have been knocked out of the World Cup!
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) August 6, 2023
Megan Rapinoe was a major reason they lost. She absolutely shanked her penalty kick. The keeper didn't have to make a save.
Pay them more. pic.twitter.com/1Tqk2j2I54
August 6, 2023
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I was staring at the clock at 6:30 thinking I better get going if I'm gonna catch the end.
A lot of commercials in soccer means the game's over. Overtime. 30 minutes. US way outplayed Sweden in overtime.
Skanked
I was soooo looking forward to Leftist Megan make her "Worship the wonderfulness of me" pose after a made penalty kick.
I'll enjoy watching the rest of the World Cup.
An appropriate time to mention Patrice Bergeron retired. The ultimate team player- a captain of captains who earned the respect of every player, not just his teammates. First on, last off, never forgetting a man, fought hard. The kind of player every coach wish he had the good fortune to have on his team.
There was a time when there was no bigger supporter of the US women's national soccer team. I watched every match, including the friendlies. Then Rapinoe showed up.
The last straw for me was when Rapinoe et al sued the US soccer federation for accepting a deal that Rapinoe negotiated as head of the players' union after rejecting the same deal as the men offered by the federation. The leftwing politics, the disrespect for the flag and the anthem...Rapinoe has managed to destroy decades of good will built up by previous players.
This was the perfect ending to this harridan's career.
US soccer needs to fire the entire roster and coaching staff and begin anew. Get Carli Lloyd or Mia Hamm to be the coach and return to the play and values that were successful in the past.
Oh, and way to go you fucking pheasants..
Couldn't happen to a better example of wokeness. Good Riddance, and GO AWAY little Blue hair. You suck.
“US way outplayed Sweden in overtime.”
Obviously. That’s why they’re advancing.
- Rafe
Why all the smiles after the shank?
So, not worth watching, then?
What an achievement by the US women's team, finally getting paid the same as the US men's team for the same disappointing performance with an early exit.
Jill Bidden hardest hit. She won't be able to take Australian junket on AF One to root for US women's team in World Cup finals.
Good news is that real football starts in just a few weeks.
Shanked it so bad the keeper didn't have to defend and laughed about it.
What an execrable person
I'm going to stick with boys U-17 soccer. Better athletes, better players. The ladies are...well, ladies.
Got paid like the men’s team, performed like the men’s team.
Pay them more?
For losing with a team of anti-American losers?
Good. They're not our team anyway, as their contempt for America makes clear.
How many ACL tears has she had? The knee can take only so much. She's finished.
"Pay them more".
Because that's how it works in Feminist Diversity Dream world. In Tyrannical Patriarch Colonizer world, you get paid for results - and the economy is something that the free market decides.
She should have demanded that an intact male that identifies as a she/them/it play in her place. For the team and for social justice!
Funny. First thing I saw this morning was a Norwegian friend breathlessly relating the end of this game. I couldn't give two figs about soccer, but for her this was glorious.
And my Swedes sing their national anthem.......
The "best" in all the land.
Pay them more.
Remember when they fussed and fussed and fussed until the contract that they originally signed was replaced by the same one the men had? Well, as I understand it under that new contract they will be paid less now that they’re out of the Cup. Perhaps someone can confirm?
They made sure everyone knew how much they personally disrespected the country they represented. Well now that they’ve been eliminated so quickly they will discover the value of having a little good will built up on their behalf.
@BudBrown, looking at time of possession and shots on goal, it’s easy to see that statistically the US women thoroughly outplayed the Swedes. But there are plenty of team sports where the statistically better team can still go home a loser. They needed to score goals and they didn’t.
I'm not happy my the national team lost because an unfocused, unprofessional roster wasn't reined in for the years leading up to this embarrassing performance.
Women's World Cup football is a complete joke. Even the players don't take it seriously. If a man blew a penalty shot like that and his team was eliminated, he would be crushed and it would show. He would also be reviled for it by his country. She laughs it off, and she is right to laugh. It really is trivial, the whole women's World Cup is meaningless.
I'm no soccer expert, but I've been watching this US team for many years. Veteran Rose Lavelle was inactive due to a second yellow card in their last game. IMO, she's their best player.
It sorta feels like a wrestling heel finally getting what they deserve. It is sad to think of a national team that way, but it feels appropriate, especially after running up the score on Thailand last time.
From a pro wrestling perspective, the question is when to execute this humiliation. Not escaping group play, which almost happened, is a greater embarrassment, but it seems almost anticlimactic. Probably the proper way to build it up was for the team to make the semifinals, just escaping elimination prior to that through luck and/or cheating, and then have the luck/cheating backfire and get relegated to the consolation round where they would also lose and not get a medal as a sort of punchline. Alternatively, have them make the finals, make it seem like the heel would win, and then lose in some humiliating fashion at the last minute, then refuse to attend the award ceremony, perhaps being ejected from the facility.
Sports karma has a bitchy, equal-pay side that abhors performative politics. https://www.thebulwark.com/an-open-letter-to-megan-rapinoe-from-america/
- The Skank Shank -
Glad they lost. If protest is so awesome, and criticizing your country when you think it is wrong is so great, then praying an "American" soccer team loses is patriotic as well.
Cheers.
Sorry, but they still haven't made me care about soccer
Esteban said...
Got paid like the men’s team, performed like the men’s team.
Thread winner!
Why do people who have no respect for the United States want to play for a team representing the United States?
Scoring 1 goal in 4 games shows a team that sucked pretty bad. Three botched penalty kicks this morning also sucked pretty bad. Rapinoe missed one of those, so yea, hate her if you got to but it was a group effort.
Why was Rapinoe even on the field? Was there something in her contract that forces the coach to give her play time?
Finally, get rid of men coaches of women's sports teams. It's fucking creepy.
Done with Sunday rant and it's still early.
“US way outplayed Sweden in overtime.”
Obviously. That’s why they’re advancing.
Actually, they did outplay Sweden by quite a bit, which was more than you can say about the Netherlands or Portugal matches. They had multiple chances to score, and still could've won it with a goal in the shootout...and then they lost by the tiniest margin imaginable.
That's soccer, folks. (FIFA can't be pleased: now Americans are going to ignore the rest of the tournament, especially with most of the matches being played in the middle of the night anyway...)
‘I mean, this is like a sick joke. For me personally, this is like dark comedy that I missed a penalty,’ Rapinoe said as she blinked back tears.”
The joke is only made sick by hubris. Humility is always a more stable foundation and prevents the bitterness of this crusty, bitter irony. It might even be a benevolent universe, hoping that you’ll learn something far more important than soccer.
“This is the balance to the beautiful side of the game. I think it can be cruel.”
It’s only cruel if you don’t learn something from it. if you do, then, it’s actually very kind.
Big Mike said...
Remember when they fussed and fussed and fussed until the contract that they originally signed was replaced by the same one the men had? Well, as I understand it under that new contract they will be paid less now that they’re out of the Cup. Perhaps someone can confirm?
They still have their same contract, which the courts found actually paid more since the USWT gets salary, health insurance, injury insurance and have severance agreements. They also get paid for playing friendlies during the off season and get a cut of ticket revenue. The USMT has a lump sum contract, largely dependent on World Cup performance, because most of them play in professional leagues and get all of the above benefits through their teams. Rapinoe was actually smart in negotiating the WMT's original contract.
The fuss was about the USMT getting larger World Cup lump sum payments than the USWNT did. The reality is that those payments are based on USSF's cut of each team's respective World Cup revenue. The Women's Cup has averaged about $300 - 400 Million in revenue, the Men's averages about $6 Billion. The men ended up getting strong armed into giving some of their cut to the USMT to shut Rapinoe up, but I doubt anyone's going to see much since we're still a ways off from the USMT making a spectacular a showing in the Cup and the heftier payments don't come until they make the finals or win.
I had an inkling that the USWNT would lose. But what surprises me is that our host visits Citizen Free Press.
DEI mandates ties. What happened, Megan?
Not just this game. Haven't they seriously underperformed in 3 of their 4 games? Seems like there's some housekeeping to do (can I say that?).
Knocked out?
Yay!!!
Besides no self-respecting male would ever want to knock up Rapinoe.
Most sports are designed around traits in which men are better than women (on average and at the extreme). _Of course_ men's teams are going to be better than the women's, and apt to attract more fans willing to pay to watch.
If you want women's sports teams competitive with men's ask: Can there be sports with enough action to attract fans, which rely on traits in which women are equal to or better than men? If so, try to boost those.
(I use the classic definitions of men and women, not the unusual fashion of our nominal betters.)
Oh, no!
Anyway, ...
Lol. They totally failed. They are losers. “Pay them more.” Lol. No.
Skank shank.
On the upside people in the US can stop pretending to care about soccer until the men's world cup in 2026.
Once having been a big supporter of the US Women's Team, I'll have to say I am neither surprised nor unhappy with this outcome. I have had a big interest in this sport for over 30 years, as my younger daughter was a great player and one of the great joys my wife and I had during her middle and high school years was being involved with girls soccer and watching her and her teammates. Now in her early 40s, she is still the greatest offensive player in her school's history, male or female, and earned nearly every accolade available to her. And the discipline and good habits she developed persist to this day. I would say she could probably step on the field with any high-school age-level team and still put on a pretty good performance.
But this interest died when Megan Rapinoe showed up. The team's arrogance and anti-Americanism were enough for me. Can they recover after this debacle? I'm not sure. The rest of the world has caught up. The rest of the field looks pretty interesting, I might start watching now. There could be some great stories come out of this World Cup.
Oh - and my daughter, through her entire career, never missed a penalty kick. Not once. Not even close to missing one.
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This was a brilliant move by the USWNT to avoid having to listen to the US National Anthem again.
Can you imagine how scarred the psyches of the USWNT members would be had they been forced to hear that tune again?
No wonder they take a knee as it decreases the distance they might fall once they pass out from the horror of potentially honoring America on the world stage.
Wow. ESPN sure has gone low key with their "coverage" of the chick's soccer team....they are treating the loss like it was found on Hunter Biden's laptop.
I saw one tweet with video of a team scoring a goal for the other side in the most embarrassing way.
I'll bet a fifteen year old boy soccer player would have made it.
In golf, we have a saying for badly missing an easy putt:
She "didn't even scare the hole".
Adios, muchacha!
Insert “Oh, no. Anyway…” meme here.
I said here last week I hope they get their asses handed to them early on. And they did. There really is a god!
Because these chicks are nothing but a marketing vehicle.
Meanwhile, Rapinoe will be paid way more as the female (?) Kapernick.
I got the answer to my question posed at 8:49, and it shocked me. Despite losing in the round of 16 the USWNT will make $4.3 million more than they’d have made under the old contract. All that extra money comes out of what the men earned on the international stage. Wow. No wonder Rapinoe didn’t seem to care very much that she badly blew the penalty kick.
As a golfer, that miss is technically not a shank.
A more appropriate description might be a wank.
Oh no!
Anyway…
US public education system teaches US citizens to hate the US. Then they graduate to MSNBC.
Shave off the skanky pink hair and give her a lobotomy. She'll play better next time.
blue haired leftist woke B loses? hooray! Not that I follow soccer at all. don't care one way or the other, really.
I'm rooting for ... uh... France! and Mars.
Karma may not be instant, but eventually it shows up.
Id be gleeful except why waste good glee on women’s soccer?
If you're familiar with Citizen Free Press on Twitter, you'll know that "Pay them more" is sarcastic.
I have rarely felt so good about an American team losing. Shout out to Sweden's goalkeeper. I wish I could thank her personally.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
"Shanker" Rapinoe is leaving the sport, which is why she's willing to support men getting in it.
So fuck her, fuck them, the entire America hating team of scum.
I sure hope "pay them more" was a sarcastic joke
I think I could play this on an endless loop to the end of time.
I guess liberals no longer have to pretend they like women's soccer any more.
-Not an original thought thanks to the Babylon Bee.
I wouldn't put too much emphasis on her laughter after her missed shot.
Remembering back fifty years, when I dropped an easy end-zone catch in an important game, I will attest that such laughter is a normal and common defensive reaction to public humiliation. Nothing to do with any perception of humor.
What really happened. LOL!
we NEED to Remember! that:
a) Rapinoe is SO F*CKING GREAT, that She should be paid As Much (or MORE!) than ANY GUY..
b) a bunch of 14 guys beat the sh*t out of her team..
c) she Can't Even make a penalty kick..
d) she CAN'T EVEN HIT THE GOAL penalty kick.. She MISSED the Broad side of a barn!!
From childhood, American taxpayers footed the bill for this hag's training, surgeries, travel, competition opportunities, education, travel, and coaching.
She repays us with a big FU.
She should be banned and asked to repay all taxpayer dollars that went to supporting her and all her sleazy peers who did the same.
To report this story, the SF Chronicle sports section ran a front-page picture of Alex Morgan kneeling in grief. Megan Rapinoe - hailed in all previous victories - was not mentioned, and only briefly, until paragraph 14 deep inside. Huh.
The US Women's team is a unique institution that denies that both "The US" and "Women" are definite, material, exclusive concepts.
Hopefully they will not go for the hat-trick and make a show of doing the same for "defeat"
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