2015 women's world cup

anyone else? canada's goalie looks competent

incredible red ponytail on one of the defenders too

i swear canada's goalie just shot from a free-kick on halfway

ponytail'd defender is kadeisha buchanan, already a world cup hero and it seems a damned good centre-back to boot

if the opening game ends up being 0-0 it's not exactly going to do wonders to hold a homeland audience which I imagine is made up of curious ice hockey aficionados

Kaylyn Kyle is an abysmal real name

^thought that before you posted it

if not quite Kayky Brito

luckily enough that cl final has put me off football for long enough that i wont get into ilx trouble by being tempted to watch this

that's a bizarre dive

softest penalty call ever but good to know the powers that be are relaying my posts to the ref

Just getting the Simpsons' "he's already dead" video ready

I used to go to the same church as Sue Smith

irish co-commentator all 'i don't think the ivory coast know the offside law'

trying to work out whether this is more racist than sexist

n.b. this is coming from a woman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAUY1J8KizU

the biggest disparity between the men's and women's game on this evidence is the reffing

also less biting

i'm going to see canada - nzl / china - netherlands on the 11th in edmonton.
i'm going to see japan vs. ecuador and another game?? in winnipeg on jun 16.

i've never been to a soccer game.

europe vs africa again, let's see how eurosport's irrepressible co-commentator manages to offend everyone this time

oh it's a different co-commentator. but she IS the chelsea manager so

this will not be 10-0

sweden have ian harte at left-back, i.e. can't run, can't really defend, best set-pieces in the tournament

might be 10-0 if they score with every corner

nigeria have dominated this

nice goal, game on

yes!

sweden with a brilliant passing goal, 3-2

aha!

keeping the ball in the corner when sweden are practically begging for the killer blow wtf

It's fine, they've got two easier games coming up to get the points. Oh.

I'm ready

cameroon just had 3 players offside from open play, wtf is this, i'm switching to the colonies game

fucken Hope Solo eh

great goal, deserved equaliser

Playing this tournament on fieldturf is disgraceful fwiw

otm

this ref is a loose cannon, expect controversy

Woohoo Press, woohoo Chicago Red Stars

rapinoe is so ooooooo

Playing this tournament on fieldturf is disgraceful fwiw

― dan m, Tuesday, June 9, 2015 1:13 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm x 1 000 000 000 000

the other disgrace is the officiating. check out japan's winning penalty decision, complete fucking joke

Fun fact: Canada's only competition in bidding for the tournament was Zimbabwe.

god that ws like watching England men

somewhat amusing miss from spain there

Screamer from montoya

watching the wrong game

spain are missing some v gratifying chances though, plus a ripping save just now

was wondering who this sprightly young talent (formiga) bossing the brazil midfield was…she's 37, runs better than any of 'em

BBC's alleged full match coverage has felt pretty patchy and hard to follow to me

Injury time winner for Mexico ruled out, a diabolical decision. Great to see the women's game attaining the same standards as the men's in one area at least.

this was an ideal opportunity to trial a video review system, not least because female players striving to attain higher standards is one thing, but referees being substandard is entirely another, and completely unacceptable

germany ffs

cross

I'm just gonna put the halfway line goal down as a mishit cross tbh

this is incredible

Lloyd's face on the replay :D <--- artist's impression

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.