Women's World Cup

somerfrost · #1 07-10-2011, 02:39 PM

All I can say is wow! What a victory for the US women in the quarter final match with Brazil! Down 2-1 with seconds left a perfect pass and a header into the net tied the game which we then won going 5-5 in penalty kicks! The US won this despite a bogus red card that made us play 10-11 players, a terrible call against our goalie when she blocked the penalty kick that followed and an off sides that wasn't called enabling Brazil to get their second goal. This is a storybook ending for an American team that refused to quit against all odds!

Dahoss · #2 07-10-2011, 03:10 PM

I love exclamation points!!!

clyde · #3 07-10-2011, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by somerfrost

All I can say is wow! What a victory for the US women in the quarter final match with Brazil! Down 2-1 with seconds left a perfect pass and a header into the net tied the game which we then won going 5-5 in penalty kicks! The US won this despite a bogus red card that made us play 10-11 players, a terrible call against our goalie when she blocked the penalty kick that followed and an off sides that wasn't called enabling Brazil to get their second goal. This is a storybook ending for an American team that refused to quit against all odds!

I enjoy your posts very much.

Looking forward to the Synchronized William Tell sports season.

SCUDSBROTHER · #4 07-10-2011, 08:08 PM

Germans and the Brazilians are out? Who's left? U.S. , Sweden ,Japan?

somerfrost · #5 07-10-2011, 08:38 PM

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Germans and the Brazilians are out? Who's left? U.S. , Sweden ,Japan?

and France. US plays France in semis.

slotdirt · #6 07-11-2011, 10:58 AM

Caveated with the admission that I just don't watch women's soccer, but on a slow sports day, I tuned in and have to say the official yesterday made the fellow in last year's US-Slovakia look like the Durwood Merrill of soccer officials. The PK "rekick" was awful, there was a clear offsides on Brazil's second goal, and a straight red for a shoulder-to-shoulder challenge is virtually unprecedented.

rpncaine · #7 07-11-2011, 11:39 AM

Anybody got a link to the video highlights of this game?

MaTH716 · #8 07-11-2011, 11:50 AM

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/report/_/id/323673?cc=5901

rpncaine · #9 07-11-2011, 12:21 PM

Thanks...awesome result!

dagolfer33 · #10 07-11-2011, 02:37 PM

I can't believe in a million years ESPN is ranking this 5th all-time most dramatic moment in sports. Then again, maybe I can believe it.

slotdirt · #11 07-11-2011, 02:38 PM

ESPN or a stupid ESPN survey? One of those dumb surveys also had this as a superior moment in US Soccer history to last year's Algeria game, which is pure poppycock. Women's World Cup garners like 1/50th the viewers of the real World Cup.

That being said, it was a pretty exciting moment.

MaTH716 · #12 07-11-2011, 02:45 PM

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I can't believe in a million years ESPN is ranking this 5th all-time most dramatic moment in sports. Then again, maybe I can believe it.

Maybe they are just trying to generate ratings for the rest of the tourney.

ateamstupid · #13 07-11-2011, 03:32 PM

I don't care if it was men, women or dogs playing that game, that was the most exciting goal I've ever seen live. Considering what they were up against, it's most definitely a more amazing goal than Donovan's. Poetic justice that it came during the extra time granted by Erika's completely bogus injury. These chicks kick ass.

Antitrust32 · #14 07-11-2011, 03:40 PM

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I don't care if it was men, women or dogs playing that game, that was the most exciting goal I've ever seen live. Considering what they were up against, it's most definitely a more amazing goal than Donovan's. Poetic justice that it came during the extra time granted by Erika's completely bogus injury. These chicks kick ass.

agreed. i havent been this excited about soccer since 98 when the women came through.

dagolfer33 · #15 07-11-2011, 03:50 PM

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Maybe they are just trying to generate ratings for the rest of the tourney.

Good angle. I'm not hating on the sport or what happened, we have been glued to the tube at work watching. This is one of those "now" things, IMO.

slotdirt · #16 07-11-2011, 04:16 PM

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agreed. i havent been this excited about soccer since 98 when the women came through.

99...

Bigsmc · #17 07-11-2011, 04:28 PM

Exciting goal/finish or not, it will be just a footnote in Women's Soccer history if they don't close the deal and win the whole thing.

Great quarterfinal games between two teams that did not win the cup are not remembered for long.

Antitrust32 · #18 07-11-2011, 06:09 PM

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99...

yeah i realized I made an error on the year. figures someone would correct it..

btw, so far phillies pitching staff is meeting / exceeding expectations.

Indian Charlie · #19 07-12-2011, 01:22 AM

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yeah i realized I made an error on the year. figures someone would correct it..

btw, so far phillies pitching staff is meeting / exceeding expectations.

Phillies should be capitalized.

slotdirt · #20 07-12-2011, 07:03 AM

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yeah i realized I made an error on the year. figures someone would correct it..

btw, so far phillies pitching staff is meeting / exceeding expectations.

They are? I'm not even sure their rotation is the best in baseball right now, let alone best of all time as folks were predicting preseason.