Notice in this video Syd still calls Canada home. The country still means so much to her despite the disrespect she is getting from her fellow countrymen. That's class.
In the end it comes down to this...whether you're a proud Canadian or a resentful one. I've seen Americans play for other countries and when I see them flourish there I am proud to still call them an American. I'm proud because they represented not only the country they play for well but our country as well and in that have shown the world that we can produce talented people. You sir are a resentful Canadian...not to mention quite bitter.
Well I thank you for being civil about it at least. Many people say that Sinclair did the same, I have to disagree. Sinclair did not formally hold a spot in the Mexican development program, she did not leave her country for another and then score a meaningless goal against that country and flash the crest on her jersey to rub it in for the fans. I didn't agree with Craig Forrest on the "Too American for me comment" but I do agree with classless, classless all the way.
Canadians hating on Syd, really? If you could play for the BEST womens team wouldn't you. Why would anyone sell themselves short? If she's wearing a U.S jersey it's bc she wants to be on and represent the best team womens soccer has to offer.
even as a little girl she always wanted to play for team us. she played baseball in the earlier years. she always wanted to live in the us with her dad. she moved to a "Us highschool and played for two years, when to us college
They both have duel citizenship so it's basically the same situation. Leroux was 14 years old when she came here. It's not like she came when she was 20 or something. That teenage part of your life is where you do the most learning. She must've left her stupidity and rudeness back in Canada with people like you. Like I was saying, Sessleman also had duel citizenship, chose to play for Canada and we don't give a crap as long as she's happy and succe
I care about fair play and how Sydney Leroux came to be on the American team flies in the face of what international sport is about. It's not about playing for who you think is the best, it's about playing for YOUR country and Canada was Leroux's country. She only has an American passport by way of an estranged father who also hasn't lived in the US for almost 30 years. I'm glad she's happy, it only took her turning her back on her country to be that way so bravo.
When you have a dream and want something so bad you will do anything to achieve it. Syd loves soccer and wants to play where she will be happiest. I don't think she was thinking "oh i am going to ditch my country and go play for the us" I think she just wanted to be happy
Actually you should get your facts straight. She was actually very torn between staying in Canada or coming to the U.S. In the end it was her mother who told her that if she wanted to be a world class player she should come to the U.S.
hi dan, i appreciate that you've opened up a dialogue with valid points, however, I don't agree with your idea that Leroux shunned her home country for "quick glory." She took a risk and it paid off. The US is the top team in the world, it's not an easy task to break into the national team. Leroux had to work her butt off to earn a spot on a team that has a lot of depth. She made that decision at a young age that in order to be the best she had to play with the best which helped developed her
We'll agree to disagree. Leroux has love for both countries and I don't think just because you choose to represent one country doesn't mean you can't love both. If the situation was reverse, I'd be upset too, but on the same token, I'd be proud of what she's accomplished and respect that. The commentator said her reaction was "classless," i say it was human. She's proud to represent the US and she shushed all the boos, much like Sinclair did (search 2010 concacaf canada)
Sidney Leroux was on the Canadian Youth Development team. Have Leroux might not mean we'd beat the US or anyone else for that matter but our chances with a player of her caliber on our team would be a lot better and since Canada only lost by a goal against the US in the Olympics in what many see as a horrible call it's not impossible to think that Canada can beat the US.
Celebrating that way for a pro club is very different then at the national level. To have a player come up in early development in our system knowing in her heart she would never play for Canada and then scoring the last goal in a game in the final minute in a game they had all but already won and popping the American logo in our face to rub our nose in it is very different.
Exactly and I have no problem with that, if you don't make your national team and want to play at that level I see nothing wrong with it but when you're good and turn your back on your home country and team you would've easily made that's a different story. I never booed Brett Hull for playing hockey for the American team because he was cut from the Canadian team so good for Brett, I'm happy for him. Canada's population is smaller so when players leave they're a lot harder to replace.
Who are you to define what the purpose of international sport is? Just because YOU think one must play for their birth country doesn't mean everyone should hold that belief and it certainly doesn't mean you should hold it against any athlete who disagrees with you. Allow these athletes in a position to choose between countries do so for their own reasons because there are PLENTY of respectable ones out there doing so.
Not true, she has said that even as a young girl she wanted to play for the USA and had no intention of playing for Canada at the National level as an adult and yet took a spot on our national development team as a youth. A spot no less that could've went to someone that gave a damn about Canada.
Great game!! Those Canada fans that have a problem with Syd's celebration, tough. The better team won, and If you taunt someone, don't hate on them for getting you back.
At the expense of everyone in her homeland, good for her. We need that kind of self centered attitude in our society. Going to school or playing for a pro team or going where the work is when there is none in your home is very different from turning your back on an equal opportunity in your home country at the sporting level.
Yes i was aware that Leroux was on the canadian youth development team but at 16 she started playing for U.S. youth teams. And yes the U.S. did only win by one goal and I am it's possible for Canada to beat us but the one thin is that only sinclair scored goals for Canada in that game. The U.S. had three different players score goals.
Exactly the point Herb615. She say's she loves Canada and considers Vancouver home she just doesn't love it enough to contribute to HER countries team being great and improving the system in the country that raised her. she'd rather exploit a loop hole through an estranged father she hardly knows and who also lives in Canada and hasn't lived in the US for 30 years so she can have an easier path to a gold medal. Everyone wants to be for a winner so show some character and make your team a winner
So young? She was 15 and even then she didn't live in the States with family, she just went to school there and would often go back to Canada for holiday's and visits. She's only 23 now so it's not like it was ancient history or something.
She is born and raised here, took a spot on our youth national development team knowing in her head full well that she'd never play for Canada at the national level as an adult, a spot that could've been used by someone that gave a damn about her home country and she jumps ship for the chance at an easier path to an Olympic gold medal and you expect Canadians to just be cool with that? How would you feel if the situation were reversed?
So instead of helping to make her country the best the answer is to sell out? At the international level it's not about playing for who you think is the best, it's about representing YOUR country. Sydney was born in Canada and lived in Canada most her life, her entire family lives in Canada including her estranged American father. How does that make her American? She could've been a hero in her home country and she's pretty much thrown that away for an Olympic Gold medal.
Damn it I said I was done for the day. Anyway...I try to be as civil as possible when I have discussions. I'm big on trying to see things from someone else's perspective whether I agree with it or not because I was taught to be respectful. It's not always easy because some people are complete a**holes but I do try because I'd want the same even if someone thought I was being an a**hole. That was to say you are welcome and thank you too :-).
I feel so bad for the Canadians who actually do respect Leroux but are being overshadowed by their ignorant fellow countrymen who've dismissed her. Anyways, I personally think Syd deserves MORE credit from people. With her talent she would've easily made the CanWNT, but because she was on a mission to achieve a childhood dream, she decided to forgo that option in favor of trying out for a team much, MUCH more difficult to get on given the vastly talented player pool the US has.
Anybody who says Syd's celebration was classless either: A) Doesn't know why she did it B) Is Canadian OR C) Is one of the hypocrites that was criticizing her. She had every right to prove the Canadians wrong. They just weren't expecting her to be able to shrug off the insults... THINK AGAIN, CANADA! Once again, we have beaten the Canadians.
It's a different situation when the US players you spoke of wouldn't have made the US team which is why they are playing for Canada now whereas Leroux would've made the team for sure and been a star. If you're from the United States I wouldn't expect you to understand since our athletes win medals for you all the time.
I do feel bad for Sinclair that she has to basically do it on her own. I do feel spoiled for having so many people to look up to on the u.s. team and we don't really know if Leroux would equal wins for Canada because of the depth of the u.s.. I don't really know how Canada's youth programs are but improving them won't hurt.
There's a reason the Canadians hate Syd- she's awesome and a great player. This may sound cliche, but its true-- they're only jealous they don't have her. Keep it up, Syd!
Home is where the heart is but up till when she moved for her last two years of high school she had never been to the US any longer than a day trip. Her whole family including her estranged American dad live in Canada. I might feel different if she'd been born in the US and spent half her childhood and had family there but that's not the case at all.
The taunts weren't the result of scoring a goal. It was the result of people boo-ing and hatefully belittling her and her family with racial slurs amongst other things. I've seen Americans play for other teams in other sports and I have never heard the magnitude backlash that I've heard from the Canadians over Leroux.
You don't know the story. He is right in that statement but Sydney has flat out said that she never had any intent of playing for Canada at the national level, she said she had wanted to play for the USA since she was a young child because she saw them win the world cup on TV. It had nothing to do with Canada where she was given every opportunity to succeed.
Many Italian Canadians play hockey for Italy because they wouldn't make the Canadian team and want to follow their dream of playing at the international level and every Canadian wishes them well. Get the background on Brett Hull who in spite of being born in Canada played hockey for the USA and no Canadian said anything about it because Brett was cut early on in the Canadian system. It's a totally different story with Leroux.
She has said in every interview that she loves Canada and considers Vancouver, BC to be her home. Yep she loves Canada alright, she just doesn't love it enough to contribute anything to it, only take. She took a spot on the national development team when a young woman who gave a damn about Canada could've played here. If she loves Canada and considers Vancouver home she should've thought of that before she rubbed our noses in that victory. She's no longer welcome here.
It's not a double standard when that player wouldn't have made their own national team. I've said from the beginning I'm supportive of that, I never had a bad word to say about Brett Hull playing for the USA when he was cut from team Canada. Big difference here, Sydney could've easily made the Canadian team and instead chose the easy way to a gold medal instead of uplifting her homes national team. No class, you can have her.
For once I agree with you. It was her right to choose to turn her back on her country, just as it's the right of Canadians to let her know that she was wrong for doing so.
and as far as Syd s tweet is concerned that is the result of years of abuse the same reason for her celebration she needed to get all that off her chest and move on instead of keeping silent about it. i am proud of her im sure she will move on as should you.
You Canada fans wrote a check that your team couldn't cash and Sydney made you pay for it. Sydney got 1 the hard way. She out ran your players and went around the keeper. Total domination. Deal with it haters.
I don't quite understand why there is such a high level of hate from some Canadians to Sydney. It's not like players switching allegiances in uncommon, there are 3 or 4 Players on the Canadian roster who played their whole youth Carreras in the American youth system. One just recently won the u-20 World Cup with the US and is now part of the Canadian national team. It happens all over the world all the time, you can look at the Boetang brothers or the German-Americans on the USMNT. Calm down
If Sydney really wanted to be challenged as an athlete she should've tried to win a gold medal for Canada, nothing would be more challenging then that since many of our best jump ship at the chance to win and our national program never improves or very slowly improves as a result.
To me bottom line is: She grew up in Canada, she moves like normal people do. She is faced with a hard decision and chooses one side the other side of course will now hate her. Just play game we all love. Soccer needs to bring peace not racial
yeah and those American hockey may play in Canada but they always play for team USA at the national level, those artists and sculptors are always considered by the country of the nationality. Many Canadians go to the states to be actors or singers, I have no beef with that, that's where the industry is. Sydney left Canada not because there was no team but because she wanted an easier path to a gold medal simple as that.
My point exactly. What kind of difference would it make to have Sinclair and Leroux as a one two punch? How does a program develop when a countries nationals shun their home countries in favor of quick glory?
Fair enough, I can't say if they did or didn't happen because I wasn't at every game or around her 24/7, it just seemed like it may have been an excuse to take some of the heat off of her for her actions
Says who? Says you? Not everyone thinks like you. Not everyone sees the world as you do. Painters and sculptors flee to France and Italy to perform their art. People who want to surf and live in Texas or Lousiana flee to Hawaii or abroad. Young American hockey players flee to Canada and other countries to play hockey. I chose an out of state engineering school over an in state one. People go to places where they feel they will be most challenged and are better able to hone their skills.
Nope I didn't say Canada wasn't good because she left, I may have said that team Canada would be better with her on the team. Pretty big difference there. I also said it's hard to improve the program when players go else where.
Kudos to her though, she had a goal and a dream and stuck with it until she achieved it, it's just too bad it came at the expense of the future development and status of the National team for the country in which she was born and given every opportunity to succeed. She could've been the hero to every Canadian girl and now she'll be known as the one who turned her back on her country for fast glory. That's not a very good legacy.
All I'm saying is that I'd want to train with best and play with best in the hopes that I could become the best or at least one of the best. I get that it isn't really the RIGHT choice but honestly no one would care if she wasn't good. Plus she went to college at UCLA and played for them that's why she got called into the national team. It's not like she was just living in Canada and decided to play for the US.
And speaking about being Classless not one positive word was said about the US' performance by anyone representing Canada. Even after a loss or a tie the US always has something respectful to say about their opponents
Holy eff, Canadians need to calm down about this. I mean, it was embarrassing that this game was billed as a chance for revenge for supposed wrongs and you lost, and it sucks that a talented player decided to play for another country (which she moved to like 7 years ago), but let it go. Focus on your player development. You have the world cup in 2015, that's something to be excited about. Calling her a Judas and a traitor is stupid and immature.
Let's put this in perspective because your own national coach did so why aren't you: “Before we start giving Sydney any grief, we’ve got to look at ourselves,” John Herdman, coach of the Canadian team, said. “What did we do to let such a talent slip over the border?” I'm sure he knows more about football and talent than you do.
Rossi born and raised in US played for Italy soccer national team. American woman's basketball player Becky Hammond played for team Russia in the olympics. Just to name a few. No backlash on them. The US teams play who they have simple as that. Just remember a large number of foreign athletes train live and compete in the US and dont play for the US Olympic or national teams.
How is she just as American as Canadian? She was born in Canada and raised here until she left for her last two years of high school and university. Her whole family lives in Canada and before she moved she had never been to the US for longer then a day trip. The only reason she has US citizenship is because of an estranged father who is American and has lived in Canada for the last 30 years. She almost didn't get a passport for those reason. She's hardly Betsy Ross.
Yes they were Americans that didn't make the American team so to follow their dream of playing at the national level they had to play for Canada, so that's a lot different. Just as I had no ill will towards Brett Hull for playing for team USA in hockey as he didn't make the Canadian team or any of the Italian Canadians that play hockey for Italy because they didn't make the Canadian team. Miss Leroux would've easily made the Canadian team. Big difference!
Actually buddy I do know about that and that's part of the beef is that she said she knew at a young age that she never had any intention of playing for Canada and yet she took a spot from someone else on Canada's national development team while someone who actually cared about Canada could've had that spot. I'd suggest you get your facts straight.
No I'm sorry to inform that Canada was ranked #1 in the world for the past 3 years in Education while the USA wasn't even in the top 10. The USA does have good Universities and it has more Ivy League Universities but that's just because of a wide gap in population.
International sports is not about playing for who you think is the best, it's about playing for YOUR country. To jump the fence and play for any country you choose flies in the face of what international sport is. How does any team around the world get better if everyone strives to play for the US? This isn't professional or club level soccer.
Sesselman, Quon and Stewart grew up and were developed here in the U.S. before going to the Canadian national team. It's only because Sydney is good and could possibly be great that you're pissed. If she wasn''t any good, you wouldn't give half a week old piece of a hamster sh*t where she played.
Really? So all the coaches she had in Canada until age 15 did nothing for her? No they just gave her the opportunity and taught her the fundamentals that's all, yes let's have the USA take all the credit like they always do.
Canada had no right to act the way they did but syds celebration was not the best either she didnt have to act in a cocky way, americans are no better they are now attacking Lauren Sesslemen like canadians did to syd, everyone needs to grow up and be grateful that the sport is growing and support there country
How many Canadian-born athletes have switched allegiance to America and won medals? Please name them besides Leroux. If anything a vast number of American athletes choose to represent another country mainly bc they were not good enough to make the US team. We don't look down on these individuals just because our country is already dominant in many sports; if anything, we respect them for even having American ties. Thus, you should be proud of the Canadian Leroux regardless of who she plays for.
Yes he is and he has been estranged from his daughter pretty much since her birth so it's not as if they're close family. Add to that he also lives and works in Canada and has done so for the past 30 years or more.
She brought that on herself when she turned her back on her country and countrymen. According to her she still calls Vancouver home, she might be surprised to find that after her little display on the weekend that people don't welcome her back. Instead of actually show love to her country and not just say it and help develop her national team she chose the easy way and rubs our noses in it. With exception of racial slurs and the B and C words thrown around she deserves every bit of criticism
Wow, you really have to bone up on your reading comprehension. Of course she would make Canada a better team, she's got great skills. That does not mean however that we would take her back.
Why can't she still be a hero? Leroux saw a hero in Mia Hamm. My neice (my sister took her to the game) happens to idolize Sinclaire (and Alex Morgan). She can still be a hero to little girls if they aren't poisoned against her because of the adults around her. My dad hated Michael Jordan (HATED) and I grew up disliking him because my dad did but when I got older and really into sports, I realized how hardworking and talented he was and I couln't hate him anymore.
Don't forget that she is both a Canadian and an American and maybe when it comes down to it she feels just a little more American. Can't fault her for that.
Notice in this video Syd still calls Canada home. The country still means so much to her despite the disrespect she is getting from her fellow countrymen. That's class.
America loves you Sydney!
In the end it comes down to this...whether you're a proud Canadian or a resentful one. I've seen Americans play for other countries and when I see them flourish there I am proud to still call them an American. I'm proud because they represented not only the country they play for well but our country as well and in that have shown the world that we can produce talented people. You sir are a resentful Canadian...not to mention quite bitter.
Well I thank you for being civil about it at least. Many people say that Sinclair did the same, I have to disagree. Sinclair did not formally hold a spot in the Mexican development program, she did not leave her country for another and then score a meaningless goal against that country and flash the crest on her jersey to rub it in for the fans. I didn't agree with Craig Forrest on the "Too American for me comment" but I do agree with classless, classless all the way.
So proud of Leroux! I love her!
Canadians hating on Syd, really? If you could play for the BEST womens team wouldn't you. Why would anyone sell themselves short? If she's wearing a U.S jersey it's bc she wants to be on and represent the best team womens soccer has to offer.
good she is welcome in the U.S.A. we love and respect her more then you ever would
even as a little girl she always wanted to play for team us. she played baseball in the earlier years. she always wanted to live in the us with her dad. she moved to a "Us highschool and played for two years, when to us college
Americans don't judge Sessleman for playing on the Canadian team cause we have class
xavier church You idiot! Sessleman is Canadian, but she was born in the US, Leroux was born and raised in Canada, she's a traitor...
They both have duel citizenship so it's basically the same situation. Leroux was 14 years old when she came here. It's not like she came when she was 20 or something. That teenage part of your life is where you do the most learning. She must've left her stupidity and rudeness back in Canada with people like you. Like I was saying, Sessleman also had duel citizenship, chose to play for Canada and we don't give a crap as long as she's happy and succe
xavier church Sessleman isn't a traitor like Leroux, she plays for the country she was raised in
+xavier church LOL, why on earth would we judge Sesselman? She's not GOOD enough to play on the USWNT!
That was a great game.
Go Syd Go! Pretty sure it has silenced the haters.
I care about fair play and how Sydney Leroux came to be on the American team flies in the face of what international sport is about. It's not about playing for who you think is the best, it's about playing for YOUR country and Canada was Leroux's country. She only has an American passport by way of an estranged father who also hasn't lived in the US for almost 30 years. I'm glad she's happy, it only took her turning her back on her country to be that way so bravo.
It's her life, her job...she can play wherever she wants to.
When you have a dream and want something so bad you will do anything to achieve it. Syd loves soccer and wants to play where she will be happiest. I don't think she was thinking "oh i am going to ditch my country and go play for the us" I think she just wanted to be happy
Actually you should get your facts straight. She was actually very torn between staying in Canada or coming to the U.S. In the end it was her mother who told her that if she wanted to be a world class player she should come to the U.S.
hi dan, i appreciate that you've opened up a dialogue with valid points, however, I don't agree with your idea that Leroux shunned her home country for "quick glory." She took a risk and it paid off. The US is the top team in the world, it's not an easy task to break into the national team. Leroux had to work her butt off to earn a spot on a team that has a lot of depth. She made that decision at a young age that in order to be the best she had to play with the best which helped developed her
We'll agree to disagree. Leroux has love for both countries and I don't think just because you choose to represent one country doesn't mean you can't love both. If the situation was reverse, I'd be upset too, but on the same token, I'd be proud of what she's accomplished and respect that. The commentator said her reaction was "classless," i say it was human. She's proud to represent the US and she shushed all the boos, much like Sinclair did (search 2010 concacaf canada)
Sidney Leroux was on the Canadian Youth Development team. Have Leroux might not mean we'd beat the US or anyone else for that matter but our chances with a player of her caliber on our team would be a lot better and since Canada only lost by a goal against the US in the Olympics in what many see as a horrible call it's not impossible to think that Canada can beat the US.
Celebrating that way for a pro club is very different then at the national level. To have a player come up in early development in our system knowing in her heart she would never play for Canada and then scoring the last goal in a game in the final minute in a game they had all but already won and popping the American logo in our face to rub our nose in it is very different.
can't wait until 2015
Exactly and I have no problem with that, if you don't make your national team and want to play at that level I see nothing wrong with it but when you're good and turn your back on your home country and team you would've easily made that's a different story. I never booed Brett Hull for playing hockey for the American team because he was cut from the Canadian team so good for Brett, I'm happy for him. Canada's population is smaller so when players leave they're a lot harder to replace.
Who are you to define what the purpose of international sport is? Just because YOU think one must play for their birth country doesn't mean everyone should hold that belief and it certainly doesn't mean you should hold it against any athlete who disagrees with you. Allow these athletes in a position to choose between countries do so for their own reasons because there are PLENTY of respectable ones out there doing so.
Not true, she has said that even as a young girl she wanted to play for the USA and had no intention of playing for Canada at the National level as an adult and yet took a spot on our national development team as a youth. A spot no less that could've went to someone that gave a damn about Canada.
Great game!! Those Canada fans that have a problem with Syd's celebration, tough. The better team won, and If you taunt someone, don't hate on them for getting you back.
Love you Sydney, the Canadians can sulk all they want.
I love Leroux!
"That's bread and butter for me" 😂😂
At the expense of everyone in her homeland, good for her. We need that kind of self centered attitude in our society. Going to school or playing for a pro team or going where the work is when there is none in your home is very different from turning your back on an equal opportunity in your home country at the sporting level.
I'm not talking about team Canada I'm talking about since she first learned the game when she was a little girl until age 15.
Look on the bright side. We know who won't be on the front lines defending Canada against the enemy.
i was not able to watch it live though.... :(
but at least they won
Yes i was aware that Leroux was on the canadian youth development team but at 16 she started playing for U.S. youth teams. And yes the U.S. did only win by one goal and I am it's possible for Canada to beat us but the one thin is that only sinclair scored goals for Canada in that game. The U.S. had three different players score goals.
USA taught her how to play, they trained her
Exactly the point Herb615. She say's she loves Canada and considers Vancouver home she just doesn't love it enough to contribute to HER countries team being great and improving the system in the country that raised her. she'd rather exploit a loop hole through an estranged father she hardly knows and who also lives in Canada and hasn't lived in the US for 30 years so she can have an easier path to a gold medal. Everyone wants to be for a winner so show some character and make your team a winner
The moral of the story is, do not boo Leroux.
Tom better keep Tobin in the starting lineup after all those perfect balls she played
So young? She was 15 and even then she didn't live in the States with family, she just went to school there and would often go back to Canada for holiday's and visits. She's only 23 now so it's not like it was ancient history or something.
She is born and raised here, took a spot on our youth national development team knowing in her head full well that she'd never play for Canada at the national level as an adult, a spot that could've been used by someone that gave a damn about her home country and she jumps ship for the chance at an easier path to an Olympic gold medal and you expect Canadians to just be cool with that?
How would you feel if the situation were reversed?
So instead of helping to make her country the best the answer is to sell out? At the international level it's not about playing for who you think is the best, it's about representing YOUR country. Sydney was born in Canada and lived in Canada most her life, her entire family lives in Canada including her estranged American father. How does that make her American? She could've been a hero in her home country and she's pretty much thrown that away for an Olympic Gold medal.
No you should not bully someone because of a choice they made to have a happy life.
Damn it I said I was done for the day. Anyway...I try to be as civil as possible when I have discussions. I'm big on trying to see things from someone else's perspective whether I agree with it or not because I was taught to be respectful. It's not always easy because some people are complete a**holes but I do try because I'd want the same even if someone thought I was being an a**hole. That was to say you are welcome and thank you too :-).
I feel so bad for the Canadians who actually do respect Leroux but are being overshadowed by their ignorant fellow countrymen who've dismissed her.
Anyways, I personally think Syd deserves MORE credit from people. With her talent she would've easily made the CanWNT, but because she was on a mission to achieve a childhood dream, she decided to forgo that option in favor of trying out for a team much, MUCH more difficult to get on given the vastly talented player pool the US has.
fun game
I know I'm just saying she had an opportunity to play for the U.S. and she took it. Home is where the heart is and maybe she felt like it was America.
Anybody who says Syd's celebration was classless either: A) Doesn't know why she did it B) Is Canadian OR C) Is one of the hypocrites that was criticizing her.
She had every right to prove the Canadians wrong. They just weren't expecting her to be able to shrug off the insults... THINK AGAIN, CANADA! Once again, we have beaten the Canadians.
It's a different situation when the US players you spoke of wouldn't have made the US team which is why they are playing for Canada now whereas Leroux would've made the team for sure and been a star. If you're from the United States I wouldn't expect you to understand since our athletes win medals for you all the time.
I do feel bad for Sinclair that she has to basically do it on her own. I do feel spoiled for having so many people to look up to on the u.s. team and we don't really know if Leroux would equal wins for Canada because of the depth of the u.s.. I don't really know how Canada's youth programs are but improving them won't hurt.
There's a reason the Canadians hate Syd- she's awesome and a great player. This may sound cliche, but its true-- they're only jealous they don't have her. Keep it up, Syd!
Home is where the heart is but up till when she moved for her last two years of high school she had never been to the US any longer than a day trip. Her whole family including her estranged American dad live in Canada. I might feel different if she'd been born in the US and spent half her childhood and had family there but that's not the case at all.
The taunts weren't the result of scoring a goal. It was the result of people boo-ing and hatefully belittling her and her family with racial slurs amongst other things. I've seen Americans play for other teams in other sports and I have never heard the magnitude backlash that I've heard from the Canadians over Leroux.
No one is arguing about the game. People are commenting on the actions of a player on the American side.
She's American. Her dad is American. Her mom is Canadian.
Yes I do actually it was 2001.
You don't know the story. He is right in that statement but Sydney has flat out said that she never had any intent of playing for Canada at the national level, she said she had wanted to play for the USA since she was a young child because she saw them win the world cup on TV. It had nothing to do with Canada where she was given every opportunity to succeed.
She wanted to play for the US her whole life. She did it. End of story.
Many Italian Canadians play hockey for Italy because they wouldn't make the Canadian team and want to follow their dream of playing at the international level and every Canadian wishes them well. Get the background on Brett Hull who in spite of being born in Canada played hockey for the USA and no Canadian said anything about it because Brett was cut early on in the Canadian system. It's a totally different story with Leroux.
She has said in every interview that she loves Canada and considers Vancouver, BC to be her home. Yep she loves Canada alright, she just doesn't love it enough to contribute anything to it, only take. She took a spot on the national development team when a young woman who gave a damn about Canada could've played here. If she loves Canada and considers Vancouver home she should've thought of that before she rubbed our noses in that victory. She's no longer welcome here.
the yellow card was worth it. I was there and I absolutely hated what they did you Syd.
It's not a double standard when that player wouldn't have made their own national team. I've said from the beginning I'm supportive of that, I never had a bad word to say about Brett Hull playing for the USA when he was cut from team Canada. Big difference here, Sydney could've easily made the Canadian team and instead chose the easy way to a gold medal instead of uplifting her homes national team. No class, you can have her.
For once I agree with you. It was her right to choose to turn her back on her country, just as it's the right of Canadians to let her know that she was wrong for doing so.
and you need to learn about individual freedom and respecting peoples choices and not hating them just because they don't do what you want them to do.
and as far as Syd s tweet is concerned that is the result of years of abuse the same reason for her celebration she needed to get all that off her chest and move on instead of keeping silent about it. i am proud of her im sure she will move on as should you.
Leroux deserves the celebration. Getting booed, people deserve to be hushed
Syd leaving Canada is not like Lebron leaving Cleveland (where I was born and raised). She was so young when she left. It is very different.
You Canada fans wrote a check that your team couldn't cash and Sydney made you pay for it.
Sydney got 1 the hard way. She out ran your players and went around the keeper. Total domination.
Deal with it haters.
I don't quite understand why there is such a high level of hate from some Canadians to Sydney. It's not like players switching allegiances in uncommon, there are 3 or 4 Players on the Canadian roster who played their whole youth Carreras in the American youth system. One just recently won the u-20 World Cup with the US and is now part of the Canadian national team. It happens all over the world all the time, you can look at the Boetang brothers or the German-Americans on the USMNT. Calm down
If Sydney really wanted to be challenged as an athlete she should've tried to win a gold medal for Canada, nothing would be more challenging then that since many of our best jump ship at the chance to win and our national program never improves or very slowly improves as a result.
To me bottom line is: She grew up in Canada, she moves like normal people do. She is faced with a hard decision and chooses one side the other side of course will now hate her. Just play game we all love. Soccer needs to bring peace not racial
Actually, she's stated it. Otherwise I wouldn't be saying it. I'll email you the article if you're interested.
yeah and those American hockey may play in Canada but they always play for team USA at the national level, those artists and sculptors are always considered by the country of the nationality. Many Canadians go to the states to be actors or singers, I have no beef with that, that's where the industry is. Sydney left Canada not because there was no team but because she wanted an easier path to a gold medal simple as that.
My point exactly. What kind of difference would it make to have Sinclair and Leroux as a one two punch? How does a program develop when a countries nationals shun their home countries in favor of quick glory?
Fair enough, I can't say if they did or didn't happen because I wasn't at every game or around her 24/7, it just seemed like it may have been an excuse to take some of the heat off of her for her actions
Says who? Says you? Not everyone thinks like you. Not everyone sees the world as you do. Painters and sculptors flee to France and Italy to perform their art. People who want to surf and live in Texas or Lousiana flee to Hawaii or abroad. Young American hockey players flee to Canada and other countries to play hockey. I chose an out of state engineering school over an in state one. People go to places where they feel they will be most challenged and are better able to hone their skills.
Nope I didn't say Canada wasn't good because she left, I may have said that team Canada would be better with her on the team. Pretty big difference there. I also said it's hard to improve the program when players go else where.
Kudos to her though, she had a goal and a dream and stuck with it until she achieved it, it's just too bad it came at the expense of the future development and status of the National team for the country in which she was born and given every opportunity to succeed. She could've been the hero to every Canadian girl and now she'll be known as the one who turned her back on her country for fast glory.
That's not a very good legacy.
All I'm saying is that I'd want to train with best and play with best in the hopes that I could become the best or at least one of the best. I get that it isn't really the RIGHT choice but honestly no one would care if she wasn't good. Plus she went to college at UCLA and played for them that's why she got called into the national team. It's not like she was just living in Canada and decided to play for the US.
She always wanted to play for team USA and say she has really turned her back on anything, she just as American as she is Canadian.
And speaking about being Classless not one positive word was said about the US' performance by anyone representing Canada. Even after a loss or a tie the US always has something respectful to say about their opponents
Holy eff, Canadians need to calm down about this. I mean, it was embarrassing that this game was billed as a chance for revenge for supposed wrongs and you lost, and it sucks that a talented player decided to play for another country (which she moved to like 7 years ago), but let it go. Focus on your player development. You have the world cup in 2015, that's something to be excited about. Calling her a Judas and a traitor is stupid and immature.
Sydney has the right to decide where she wants to play....don't use her as a scapegoat for losing
Let's put this in perspective because your own national coach did so why aren't you:
“Before we start giving Sydney any grief, we’ve got to look at ourselves,” John Herdman, coach of the Canadian team, said. “What did we do to let such a talent slip over the border?”
I'm sure he knows more about football and talent than you do.
definitely true. Canada has to rely on Sinclair to win games. Syd was suppose to be their new star...but she's ours so bam lol :)
Rossi born and raised in US played for Italy soccer national team. American woman's basketball player Becky Hammond played for team Russia in the olympics. Just to name a few. No backlash on them.
The US teams play who they have simple as that.
Just remember a large number of foreign athletes train live and compete in the US and dont play for the US Olympic or national teams.
How is she just as American as Canadian? She was born in Canada and raised here until she left for her last two years of high school and university. Her whole family lives in Canada and before she moved she had never been to the US for longer then a day trip. The only reason she has US citizenship is because of an estranged father who is American and has lived in Canada for the last 30 years. She almost didn't get a passport for those reason. She's hardly Betsy Ross.
Yes they were Americans that didn't make the American team so to follow their dream of playing at the national level they had to play for Canada, so that's a lot different. Just as I had no ill will towards Brett Hull for playing for team USA in hockey as he didn't make the Canadian team or any of the Italian Canadians that play hockey for Italy because they didn't make the Canadian team. Miss Leroux would've easily made the Canadian team. Big difference!
Actually buddy I do know about that and that's part of the beef is that she said she knew at a young age that she never had any intention of playing for Canada and yet she took a spot from someone else on Canada's national development team while someone who actually cared about Canada could've had that spot. I'd suggest you get your facts straight.
If the country means so much to her than why doesn't she want to play for it. Seems like that's completely nothing but words.
You tell 'em,Syd!!
No I'm sorry to inform that Canada was ranked #1 in the world for the past 3 years in Education while the USA wasn't even in the top 10. The USA does have good Universities and it has more Ivy League Universities but that's just because of a wide gap in population.
International sports is not about playing for who you think is the best, it's about playing for YOUR country. To jump the fence and play for any country you choose flies in the face of what international sport is. How does any team around the world get better if everyone strives to play for the US? This isn't professional or club level soccer.
Sesselman, Quon and Stewart grew up and were developed here in the U.S. before going to the Canadian national team. It's only because Sydney is good and could possibly be great that you're pissed. If she wasn''t any good, you wouldn't give half a week old piece of a hamster sh*t where she played.
Really? So all the coaches she had in Canada until age 15 did nothing for her? No they just gave her the opportunity and taught her the fundamentals that's all, yes let's have the USA take all the credit like they always do.
Canada had no right to act the way they did but syds celebration was not the best either she didnt have to act in a cocky way, americans are no better they are now attacking Lauren Sesslemen like canadians did to syd, everyone needs to grow up and be grateful that the sport is growing and support there country
How many Canadian-born athletes have switched allegiance to America and won medals? Please name them besides Leroux. If anything a vast number of American athletes choose to represent another country mainly bc they were not good enough to make the US team. We don't look down on these individuals just because our country is already dominant in many sports; if anything, we respect them for even having American ties. Thus, you should be proud of the Canadian Leroux regardless of who she plays for.
So you're saying if you get bolero you shrug it off?
Yes he is and he has been estranged from his daughter pretty much since her birth so it's not as if they're close family. Add to that he also lives and works in Canada and has done so for the past 30 years or more.
She brought that on herself when she turned her back on her country and countrymen. According to her she still calls Vancouver home, she might be surprised to find that after her little display on the weekend that people don't welcome her back.
Instead of actually show love to her country and not just say it and help develop her national team she chose the easy way and rubs our noses in it. With exception of racial slurs and the B and C words thrown around she deserves every bit of criticism
Wow, you really have to bone up on your reading comprehension. Of course she would make Canada a better team, she's got great skills. That does not mean however that we would take her back.
Why can't she still be a hero? Leroux saw a hero in Mia Hamm. My neice (my sister took her to the game) happens to idolize Sinclaire (and Alex Morgan). She can still be a hero to little girls if they aren't poisoned against her because of the adults around her. My dad hated Michael Jordan (HATED) and I grew up disliking him because my dad did but when I got older and really into sports, I realized how hardworking and talented he was and I couln't hate him anymore.
Don't forget that she is both a Canadian and an American and maybe when it comes down to it she feels just a little more American. Can't fault her for that.