Re: Women's World Cup - a bit of griping
I watched the whole game with my oldest son, who was a competitive soccer player over a decade. My husband is a soccer coach. My youngest still plays competitively. In case it matters.
Admittedly, my son is not a huge fan of American soccer, but it was important to him to support our women, so we watched together. We supported them during the last world cup and saw many of these women play in person a couple of years ago. We love this team.
However.
My son was embarrassed by how the goals were celebrated. The celebration behavior of our women was not up to the international standards. I think it made us look like, "Oh. Those typical 'Muricans." Which, I presume is exactly what Rapinoe (who has been my fav on the national team for years - when I agreed with her politics and even now that I don't) would like to avoid.
I'm sad about their behavior and I hope they'll tone it down in future matches.
And, if the men's team was doing the same thing, my son and I would have been just as put off. Nope - correction. He just said, he'd be more upset if the men's team behaved that way.
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Allison
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Grateful for GCM since 2004
Last edited by Allison; 06-15-2019 at 09:05 AM.
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