USA has an established women's football (or soccer as they say) development project. Changing guards will come very soon. We should not merely look at the USWNT side because other countries have also been better than ever. This is good for women's football (or soccer as they say) ...and last, but not least, .... You cannot blame on any individual player because football (or soccer as they say) is a team sport.
Am 🇭🇲, all true, but relatively recent. Grassroots women's football needs a lot more structural funding. With our success while hosting this world cup there has been a groundswell of calling this out, hopefully the work continues to grow after the cup is over. Painful loss for us last night but making the final four for the first time (men's or women's teams) is a great achievement and the players have done 🇭🇲 proud. Fair play to England, they were the better team on the night.
This podcast is getting several thigs horribly wrong. 1. It is not just Megan Rapinoe it is the whole USWNT 2019 generation. Alex Morgan, Lindsey Horan, Carly Lloyd, Rose Lavelle,Becky Sauerbrunn, Alyssa Naeher etc etc Soccer is a team sport . And they also acted as a team in their activism for equality. Individuality and by extension stardom, is a comfortable simplification, a bias. In soccer as in life, the collective wins or loses together. 2. The world was already caught up in 2019 , in terms of just the technicalities of soccer. The USWNT had a tough run that year, advancing 2-1 over France, 2-1 over England and winning 2-0 over the Netherlands. The unfair, sexist, criticism was raining down on their coach Jill Ellis, because the team was "not dominant enough". But they have prevailed because they had the best collective, players and coach. 3. The big European soccer clubs do not spot young talent at 6 years of age ! It is like everywhere else: the parents, the phys. ed. teachers, the local clubs and the kids themselves who train themselves into footballers. The level would never have advanced to where it is today if the little girls had waited on Barcelona, Madrid or Bayern to invest !! And if some kids do get the chance now to train at a "big boys" club, it is due to the dedication - and activism - of the players and coaches who have come before them !!!
USA has an established women's football (or soccer as they say) development project. Changing guards will come very soon.
We should not merely look at the USWNT side because other countries have also been better than ever. This is good for women's football (or soccer as they say)
...and last, but not least, .... You cannot blame on any individual player because football (or soccer as they say) is a team sport.
Thanks, Michael and team
In Australia women's football is a big deal, soccer, Australian rules, rugby union and the very tough, rugby league. It gets prime time coverage.
Am 🇭🇲, all true, but relatively recent. Grassroots women's football needs a lot more structural funding. With our success while hosting this world cup there has been a groundswell of calling this out, hopefully the work continues to grow after the cup is over.
Painful loss for us last night but making the final four for the first time (men's or women's teams) is a great achievement and the players have done 🇭🇲 proud. Fair play to England, they were the better team on the night.
This podcast is getting several thigs horribly wrong.
1. It is not just Megan Rapinoe it is the whole USWNT 2019 generation. Alex Morgan, Lindsey Horan, Carly Lloyd, Rose Lavelle,Becky Sauerbrunn, Alyssa Naeher etc etc Soccer is a team sport . And they also acted as a team in their activism for equality. Individuality and by extension stardom, is a comfortable simplification, a bias. In soccer as in life, the collective wins or loses together.
2. The world was already caught up in 2019 , in terms of just the technicalities of soccer. The USWNT had a tough run that year, advancing 2-1 over France, 2-1 over England and winning 2-0 over the Netherlands. The unfair, sexist, criticism was raining down on their coach Jill Ellis, because the team was "not dominant enough". But they have prevailed because they had the best collective, players and coach.
3. The big European soccer clubs do not spot young talent at 6 years of age ! It is like everywhere else: the parents, the phys. ed. teachers, the local clubs and the kids themselves who train themselves into footballers. The level would never have advanced to where it is today if the little girls had waited on Barcelona, Madrid or Bayern to invest !! And if some kids do get the chance now to train at a "big boys" club, it is due to the dedication - and activism - of the players and coaches who have come before them !!!
Go Sweden, beat Japan too, cool!