Rapinoe appeared to me to almost start crying a couple times in her Fox interview afterwards.

But she's always been the smiley, positive not gonna show any stress type of personality. That's just her.

That was actually on the IG I posted but the caption didn't show up here

Colombia beats Jamaica 1-0

We are about to see our first ass kicking of the knockout stage...France up 3-0 inside of 25 minutes.

Crushing dreams.

Spain
Japan
France
England

Those are my predictions for semi-finalists

Spain
Japan
Australia
Colombia

Probably wishful thinking with those final two, but honestly England hasn't impressed me overly and Sam Kerr coming back for the Matildas might spur them to an upset of a cruising France team.

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It wasn't the miss. It was the smile like she didn't care. I know that everyone handles pressure differently, but I have watched hundreds of pks. That was abnormal. Usually they are pissed at themselves and feel they let down their team. They turn and their team has to help them hold it together.

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She's laughing all the way to the bank. Ironic that a year after the women help themselves to the men's share, they abruptly dump out of the biggest tournament at the earliest stage every. Coincidence?

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I mean they would have made even more money if they'd won…

Also the men's players association voted to approve that revenue sharing agreement.

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I think you're missing the point: the timing.

The women's team has been trending down, they make a deal to "share" (steal) money from the men's team, they suck and generate less revenue than they have in the past.

One might think they knew what was gonna happen and did something to minimize the trauma. They hedged their bet, and it looks like it was a shrewd move on their (commie) part…

7 of the 8 Group winners advanced in the round of 16. Only Switzerland did not.

I'm not sure I'm able to process what I just read

Talk about assuming the worst out of people. wow

Even under an "equal pay" structure, the WNT has zero incentive to do worse in the biggest money making tournament. You are giving the "commies" way too much credit instead of chalking this performance up to what it really was, incompetence.

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jeffk said:

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carl spacklers hat said:

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dallasiteinsa02 said:

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It wasn't the miss. It was the smile like she didn't care. I know that everyone handles pressure differently, but I have watched hundreds of pks. That was abnormal. Usually they are pissed at themselves and feel they let down their team. They turn and their team has to help them hold it together.

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She's laughing all the way to the bank. Ironic that a year after the women help themselves to the men's share, they abruptly dump out of the biggest tournament at the earliest stage every. Coincidence?

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I mean they would have made even more money if they'd won…

Also the men's players association voted to approve that revenue sharing agreement.

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I think you're missing the point: the timing.

The women's team has been trending down, they make a deal to "share" (steal) money from the men's team, they suck and generate less revenue than they have in the past.

One might think they knew what was gonna happen and did something to minimize the trauma. They hedged their bet, and it looks like it was a shrewd move on their (commie) part…

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Wow.

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Even under an "equal pay" structure, the WNT has zero incentive to do worse in the biggest money making tournament. You are giving the "commies" way too much credit instead of chalking this performance up to what it really was, incompetence.

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The simplest explanation is the most likely 99.99% of the time.

But conspiracy theorists believe in the .01%.

So, there is a chance he's right.

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The women's team has been trending down, they make a deal to "share" (steal) money from the men's team, they suck and generate less revenue than they have in the past.

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that's bull*****

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The U.S. team's 1-1 draw against the Netherlands averaged 6.43 million viewers on Fox, making it the most watched contest in the group stages of any Women's World Cup in the United States. The prior record was 5.34 million viewers for U.S.-Chile in 2019. The U.S. women's first game this year ranks third with 5.26 million viewers.

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They suck? They've won 4 out of 9 World Cups and were attempting to be the first team, men or women's, to win 3 WC's in a row.

And of course they'll generate less revenue this year. The teams make more money when they win, duh. However, because the men haven't sniffed at least the quarterfinals in almost 100 years, the women have generated more revenue from their World Cup wins than the men's team.

So what narrative are you trying to tell, again?

TL;DR version - We're going to retool and reload after we get rid of the coach.

Here's the assistant to the semifinal schedule:

Spain vs Netherlands - Thurs 9 pm ET
Japan vs Sweden - Fri 3:30 am ET
Australia vs France - Sat 3:00 am ET
England vs Colombia - Sat 6:30 am ET

I'm guessing I'll watch Spain-Netherlands and England-Colombia live.

Quarterfinals

Right… because there's four games left.

Wow. Lauren James got a 2 game suspension for her stomp. She won't be eligible to play until the Finals (if England makes it there).

That was expected I believe.

She could have gotten 3. They reduced it to 2.

Spain dominating the Dutch so far but have nothing to show 32min in. Should have had 1 but clanged twice off the post. However they are playing such a high line the Dutch are able to get behind them. Fun match so far

What he said. The winner of WWC got a higher % of the total prize money than the men's do. That's a fact and look it up. They want to make more money, get more people to attend and more people to watch so they can increase the prize money for their WC's.

Men's WC 2022 - Total Prize Money: $440M, Argentina received $42M, less than 10% of total prize money.
Women's WC 2019 - Total Prize Money: $30M; US received $4M, more than 10% of the total prize money.

Spain's jerseys look like the numbers are taped on lol

Oh man

Netherlands give away an incredibly dumb handball penalty. Spain puts it away

VAR giveth and VAR taketh away.

Dutch draw a penalty called in the box during the run of play for a pk. VAR overturns the call and rescinds the yellow. No PK.

Then VAR gives Spain a handball that wasnt called originally on the field. Spain converts penalty.

Spain leads

Brutal

Also, I find the Spanish women just as annoying as their men's team