2015 women's world cup

Japanese team selection left to Greek referendum obv

just gonna make a pledge in writing now that these are the only comments I'm gonna let myself read about this game

so, 70 minutes of seppuku jokes?

A real shame this happened in the final. Just awful from Japan. Feel so bad for them nonetheless.

genuinely have that yank at lb ahead of

well ahead of any lb I've ever had tbh

anti-defending from Japan

xp not sure Japan could even manage a straight line across the middle at this stage tbrr

gonna make it clear that i absolved the usa of antifootball a full 4 seconds before the first goal

oh how cute!

peachy!!

good finish

on yr p close to the line and if I'm telling u...

Japan have made two unforced first-half substitutions. I'm scared

aw came here to zing imago only to find that he'd absolved the us of antifootball a full 4 seconds before the first goal

the fuck is that Jodie Taylor goal doing in a best of? gtf

LOL i'm watching eurosport, england didn't get anywhere near their compilation

nor did dany n'guessan tho :(

ooh

4-2!

own goal

Oops

Hold on!

game non-ironically on

welp

was it over the line before

cross

the defender hit it

game off

Defend Japan ffs

not since Golgotha etc etc

I absolved my post of seriousness four seconds before the fifth goal, nothing to see here

trying to keep the ball in the corner when you're 3 goals up in injury time = pure, pure savagery. the true heart of this usa team revealed

desperate late lunge from LJ

Tactics

was kinda boggling at that xxp

5-2 is a scoreline which resonates down the ages and is probably a reasonable summation of the game, in that it followed the pattern of every first-half bloodbath ever

poor lj

http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/listen-to-all-five-u-s-goals-as-called-by-telemundos-a-1715908057

The call of Lloyd's 3rd was something else, sounded like he was going to die

we all died

the keeper especially

Reasonable damage limitation effort from Japan, after beig 4 down in fifteen minutes, but Jesus, those fifteen minutes...

Can't understand how a team with that sort of experience, full of world cup winners and olympic finalists can possibly freeze like that. Wouldn't be too surprised if it comes out that there was some Ronaldo-in-1998 type clusterfuck prior to the game.

on sunday i went to a national women's soccer league game. it was really fun, plus much better quality than the majority of the world cup games that i caught on tv. Seattle Reign v Portland Thorns, so a derby game. world cup winner megan rapinoe plays for seattle, christine sinclair was up front for portland. $15 a ticket, so economical. a franchise record attendance of over 6000 were there. the crowd contrasted with most men's sporting events you'd go to in that it's mainly women, families, and there's lots of gay couples. nice change from the rowdy-hetero-bro vibe. 3-0 win for Seattle, i managed to miss the final 2 goals waiting to buy kettle-corn :/ but for sure would attend regularly if i lived in a city with a team, maybe they'll expand to vancouver one day.

I've been to a few Chicgo Red Stars games, otm as far as crowd composition, but less ppl overall at their games. Christen Press is a great player, and Julie Johnson in defense is like retroactively awesome bc the games I went to were all pre World Cup.

http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/kim-little-finishes-hat-trick-by-making-mincemeat-of-ho-1725795630

Kim Little is awesome

I love having the Pride in my city. Morgan had a beautiful chip goal tonight.

also SAnderson is an up-and-comer

there was a great goal in the uk fa cup final yesterday too

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/womens-soccer-lifetime-1201975617/

nwsl has a new media deal, will have a game broadcast every weekend of the season starting April, on lifetime.