Olympic all inclusive football thread.

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Canada takes gold after penalty kicks

 

[MrCurry]

Canada takes gold after penalty kicks

Yeah, sucked Penalties is never a good way to settle a match though, someone always feels like they were robbed.

 

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Yeah, sucked Penalties is never a good way to settle a match though, someone always feels like they were robbed.

Ya, Hubby thinks they should have both won gold

 

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It's a good read and goes into the history of fight for equality in the sport.

Opinion | Trump's women's soccer tirade is wrong about literally everything

Whether winning or losing, women’s soccer has always been a place where players from all nations can speak truth to power. And they do.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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What's going on with Brazil seeming to play something like national team while I'd understood other countries were only basically playing under-22s?

 

[Maltin]

What's going on with Brazil seeming to play something like national team while I'd understood other countries were only basically playing under-22s?

It’s under 23 with 3 exceptions for all as it has been for quite a while.

 

[Maltin]

It does seem a little unusual though that Brazil’s overage players were 28, 31 and 38 but not sure how beneficial that is. The age cut off is at a certain date before the Olympics (1 Jan 2021?) so quite a few players in all squads were 24.

 

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Ah ta, hadn't realized that.

 

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I suppose that means they have a particularly good young team then. It's going home but .

 

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Trump did not like the lady with the purple hair.
Now she may lose her sponsorship.

Subway franchisees want to give U.S. soccer star Rapinoe the boot

Megan Rapinoe is quickly racking up yellow cards in the court of public opinion

torontosun.com

And now, according to the New York Post, a group of Subway franchisees are pressuring the fast-food giant to give her a red card and expulsion from the game.

Rapinoe became a pitchwoman for the sandwich shop last spring but in the overheated American political climate, the franchisees are claiming the 36-year-old athlete/activist is alienating customers.

Rapinoe kneeling at the Tokyo Olympics didn’t help. Getting defeated by arch-rival Canada didn’t help. Or maybe the tone of her commercials caused indigestion.