You are entitled to your own opinions. You are not entitled to your own facts. Her rating was and is 2.
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Then it was changed back. Maybe because of blowback from commentsYou are entitled to your own opinions. You are not entitled to your own facts. Her rating was and is 2.
USWNT ratings vs. Sweden: Rapinoe, Smith, Morgan struggle in exit
The United States went out of the World Cup on penalties to Sweden and its forward line let it down when it mattered most.
Whose miss was left out? Megan Rapinoe and Sophia Smith - the latter apparently escaped your notice.
Stop. It’s embarrassing. Her miss was the most pivotal point of the game. Period.
That there is some hilarious irony.
Hell, one guy wished Rapinoe would die. Apparently, it's a capital crime not to think like that guy. We're all gonna have to start wearing body armor around him in case we ever disagree with him about something. LOL
Those short corners were set plays - to think she can't reach the goal is just dumb. She did misplay that long ball though.
I've read two articles this morning by MSM (including dbag Politi) and the gaslighting is strong, the talking point is Americans who are sick of Rapinoe's ******** are nothing but bullies, it never occurred to them that maybe she's a narcissistic *******.
It's not fun having politics stuck in places we just want to get away from reality and enjoy something like sports, is it?That there is some hilarious irony.
We were talking nothing but soccer in here and a bunch of CE "regulars" hopped in to get their angry obsessive hate on over some players they don't like. Just like they do all day on the CE board about everything.
"Ooooh, those girls don't think like us - they suck and I'm soooo happy they lost."
For sure somebody's angry in this thread but it sure ain't the guys discussing soccer.
this started out as a discussion of what the ladies were doing on the pitch. names were called out because of what htey were doing, not because of anything else. until the CE folks decided to come in and pollute the thread.
She hasn't "stunk" for the last few years, as she played quite well for the US team in 2021-2022 in friendlies and the She-Believes/CONCACAF tourneys, plus she was our best player in the 2019 WC and played very well in the 2020 Olympics, so your bias against her is pretty clear. The only time she hasn't played much or that well is in 2023, largely due to injury, as you know. And yes, I've also watched just about every USWNT match for many, many years and have been playing soccer weekly for most of the past ~15 years (and coached for 8 years), which is far more involvement in soccer than you've had, based on your CE post about only lately having come to soccer to watch your daughters.
She is likely already set for life off her "brand" of disrespect for everyone not among the alphabet soup "alliance". America has given her so much and she pees on it over and over.
Smith is young and didn't laugh off missing her PK. I do wonder if all her media attention and marketing deals will ruin her. I hope not, she shows a lot of talent in spots. But, damn, was that defender Grima was pretty awesome. I have to wonder how many current players should have been replaced with no-names like Grima.
But that's the point I'm trying to drive home, just like liberals have done with sports, pollute it with politics.
I don’t hate her. I think she in her present form, sucks and shouldn’t be on the team. You only like her because she’s a whacko. She has every right to be A whacko. But after last World Cup, she put being a whacko in front of being a pro athlete. And my daughters have been playing almost daily for for over a decade. I’ve been watching the highest level of youth soccer in the country for the last 6 years. They’ve played in tournaments as far as Italy. Played with multiple girls on national teams from U20 on down. And they’ve played against all these girls who are starting to skip college to go pro at 18. My oldest may start playing for Italy and my youngest is still getting looks for US team. She also has multiple P5 offers. There is zero doubt I know more about what’s going on in US women’s soccer than you do because you play in a beer league on Wednesdays. Probably a wheat grass league knowing you.
I can completely understand not liking certain players (although not liking them for their politics just seems silly to me), which we all do. What I could not understand was most of the CE righties rooting against the USWNT in the WC, because of their hatred for one player, for the most part. I'm glad to see you at least didn't join them in rooting against the USA.
No liberals I know of polluted this thread, though. It was purely about soccer until the RWCJ showed up with their usual political nonsense. Surely you can see that.
What you are missing is that she stunk and because she stunk people opposed to her political agitators BS took the opportunity to insult her for stinking and had to question why she was on the team at all AND given the 1st sub position. There are likely dozens of players who didn't make the team that would have added more value (in terms of soccer).
there were no political sides to this thread. until the CE folks came in. we were talking about results and performance on the pitch. until the CE folks came in and decided to talk about rapinoe and national anthem and all that. i still want to discuss what happened on the pitch. things that are worth discussion:
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I've never actually weighed in on "liking" Rapinoe, as far as I can recall. I think she's a great player on the downward trend and she didn't play well in this WC at all - if I thought she'd play like she did, I would've wanted someone else on the roster instead of her, although I still don't think anyone could know she'd play this poorly. I respect her protestations related to the anthem and gender/equality issues and respect that others might not be fans of that, but I don't like that so many on the right have moved from disagreement with her to hatred of her. And while I respect her protestations, purely from a team perspective, I don't love that she has called extra attention to herself, as I think teams generally don't need such distractions.
Are you saying you can't be proud to represent America and want to beat the snot out of other teams unless you sing a song? Is that really what you want to go with? Do you think Jesse Owens in 1936 "loved" this country that didn't recognize him as a full citizen? I can't imagine he did, but that didn't stop him and countless other black Americans from giving their all for the USA for decades. Rapinoe has been quoted many times saying how proud she was to play for the USA.
Ahhh, the TIC (troll in chief), who started all this crap back on page 3, is back. With nothing of value as usual. The point isn't whether Rapinoe has taken political positions or not - the point is the thread was 100% about soccer until you and your Neanderthal buddies began polluting the thread.
I never said they did, that was never my point. I'll say it again - you can't have it both ways, you can't champion athletes bringing politics into the game and then get pissy when people react to it. You're being a 100% hypocrite.
I'll be stunned if he isn't canned in the next week or so. Can't hide an abysmal record with the #1 team in the world. I would have fired him today.
You're delusional. The football board, in theory, is supposed to be free from politics, as Richie has stated many times. Surely, then, we should expect people to not inject politics into a World Cup thread and let it just be about the soccer, but that didn't happen and it didn't happen because righties derailed the thread with politics. That's crystal clear.
Jesse Owens? Really? You hear me complaining about the black panther salute guys from Mexico City? There were actual racist laws back then... worthy of protest. But all this now is a distraction for political purposes. Show me women kneeling because men are allowed to call themselves women and play against them, taking away their opportunities for scholarships and so on and then you might find me in agreement with the kneelers but STILL I'd suggest they stand and honor the flag and nation they are representing and use their personal time to protest.
You're making my point, this is the same frustration the right has had with sports ever since Kaepernick started kneeling and the left decided to make sports political, we just want to talk and watch sports, nothing else. But that's been taken away, and as I've stated to you before it's an unhealthy development, Americans deserve to enjoy what they love without the stress and ugliness of politics being tosses into the mix.
Oh the irony.
I think she was on the team for her skills and leadership, as the coach (and many other players) said. I don't think she thought she wasn't ready and very few athletes late in their careers really know it before they've started declining. Also, Carli Lloyd complained bitterly in 2019 about not starting and playing the entire games and while she played well in a sub role, I doubt she would've played nearly as well playing full games at her age (she was a year younger then than Rapinoe is now), so I don't really think she knew she wasn't quite the player she was when she was younger.
And you still miss the point. Of course she injected politics into women's soccer, but that's not the point. The only point evolution and I are arguing is related to how this board is supposed to function, i.e., without politics in the threads. And the ones who usually (not always, but yes, in this case) violate that are the righties from the CE board. Do you not see that?
