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If the 2020 T-Rex Memoji does not have feathers…. me and a lawyer friend are suing Apple.
I don't know soccer well enough to know if the person the foul was committed against has to be the one to take the penalty shot, but at the time the score was 0-0 in a championship game, and she had already scored as many goals as anyone else in the tournament, and she had also scored the only goals in the U.S. win over France just a few days earlier. In short, if she wasn't required to take the shot she still was the most logical person to assign the task to. And by scoring that goal, she won the trophy legitimately.
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Thanks. I'm more of a college hockey person, including women's teams, but they are going through a tough time right now. Even the North Dakota F'N Hawks, one of college hockeys mainstays, has cut women's hockey. The Minnesota teams have to carry most of the burden now.
He had a point though. The majority of her goals are from penalty kicks which earned by other players. None earned by herself. If Alex Morgan proceeded to take that second penalty (in Spain match?) she’d get the golden boot instead.
I never like it when this kind of award go to whom the majority of their goals are from penalty spot be it’s the woman or the man team in World Cup so I’m consistent in my thinking. That said she still had to endure a lot of pressure to convert those so good for her.
Probably a lot. Proper football has a much greater appeal to younger generations. When I was in high school in the early 90s, it was largely referred to with derogatory homophobic terms, but as each generation of kids rejects a little bit more of their idiotic parents dumbest BS, the appeal of American football is rapidly decreasing and the appeal of European Football (wait, isn’t it actually South American football?) is eating up those numbers. At this point there’s a narrower and narrower demographic of the public that American football appeals to, as its marketing materials will tell you. Its increasingly old, poor, uneducated, and “rural” (not actually rural, but the codeword), and Apples work culture promotes itself to people pretty well opposite of all of that. Among people who reject the largely aging & fading subculture, euro football & cycling have among the largest numbers, though almost zero mass-media presence, since mass media is fading out as well, clinging on to the same limited generational appeal.
TV, advertisers, and politicians, anyone trying to sell you some BS, likes to present the country as a homogenized culture, but that really only exists in lazy advertising, & couldn’t be farther from the truth. In a country with no philosophy, there is no real social cohesion compared to a culture that had such a well-defined one like your recent British Empire had & largely still has. Most people here have absolutely nothing in common & live wildly different & completely separate cultures of their own imagining. But multiply that by 350 million people, and you name it, you can find millions of scattered people into it. Euro football, huge, cycling, polo, shuffling, wacky cults worshipping all the world’s gods and demons, we even have a contingent of empire guys too, obsessed with tanks and planes, running around sticking bases everywhere and flooding the world with weapons. You name it, we got it, and enough people that your first 10-20 million followers are free.
I hope women football ends up more popular around the world.
At least football has a chance, looks like the ladies snooker may take many years to be shown in TV etc.
At least football has a chance, looks like the ladies snooker may take many years to be shown in TV etc.
Nope not toxic to me. I'm not the one with the insecurityToxic?
Sorry, I'm just not petty enough to want my home country's team to lose because one of them won't stand for the special song that makes the magic sky cloth go freedom ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My opinion differs. I believe that ColdBeaver's point was to minimize the contributions of Ms. Rapinoe because he doesn't approve of her for some reason. I didn't reach that conclusion in a vacuum, witness his sarcastic comments concerning her.
Concerning the soccer (which is what should be the topic here, not personality or politics):
You're correct about penalty kicks - there's a lot of pressure and while it is high-percentage, it is by no means automatic. In the semi vs. England, the US goalkeeper saved a penalty kick, underscoring that point. Rapinoe gets chosen to take those shots (vs Spain and in other matches as well) precisely because she us up to the pressure and has the best chance of converting the chance.
She scored 6 goals, along with 3 assists and in about 100 fewer minutes of play than Morgan. She also won the MVP trophy. She's a co-captain and a leader for the team. She is most definitely deserving of the accolades - all of the accolades and it's not really that debatable.
You're not really making an informed argument concerning soccer here. It seems to me that you've got an axe to grind concerning Ms. Rapinoe and so you have chosen to diminish her accomplishment - and more egregious than that (at least as far as it pertains to soccer, which is what should be the topic of discussion here), you make obvious sarcastic remarks concerning her character ("quality traits") - and that has nothing to do with soccer (insofar as there is literally no soccer context whatsoever in that remark).
She's a team co-captain, a champion, an MVP and the leading goal scorer in the 2019 Women's World Cup competition. All of which was earned.
I have never heard someone honestly complain that the top all-time leading scorers in American football are kickers, who collect points from field goals and PATs.
I can’t recall an honest suggestion that NBA points totals should omit free throws.
It makes me wonder if there’s something else behind your criticism of Rapinoe’s goals.