We win!

[Husar]

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,...803763,00.html

Since most people only focus on male soccer/football, I thought I might post this in honour of our female team who just won the World Cup.

Haven't really followed the whole thing to be honest, but I'd like to see some female world cup sometime, I guess they are at lest as interesting as the male version but until yesterday I didn't even know that the worldcup was running which is quite a contrast to the male worldcup.

[seireikhaan]

Congrats to the German women's team, Husar!

Although I still can't stand to watch 'football' myself...

[Louis VI the Fat]

Congratulations to my Teutonic friends! I haven't been really following the women's World Cup, but I must say that from what I've seen, the level of play is high, very high.

The passes are not as far, the pace is slower, etc. But the technical skills are there, and tactically they play a very mature game. I wonder if women's football will ever catch on just like women's tennis did. Should be good, double the tournaments, double the chances of winning.

Oh, I played some footy with a Brazilian girl in the park this summer. I've never been so pwned in my life before. Bugger, she was good...

[woad&fangs]

So, the US coach benching our starting goalie and then having the goalie talk bad about the coach wasn't a winning strategy? Congratulations Deutschland!!!

[InsaneApache]

Oh, I played some footy with a Brazilian girl in the park this summer. I've never been so pwned in my life before. Bugger, she was good...

So that's what they call it in Gallicland.

[Rodion Romanovich]

but I'd like to see some female world cup sometime, I guess they are at lest as interesting as the male version

I can recommend beach volleyball

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Congrats!!!

I've watched a little bit of it, but not much. I have to say that women's soccer doesn't seem to go quite as quickly as men's, but they are still excellent athletes and made some really good plays, so I'd say it's probably about as enjoyable to watch as men's soccer. A boring game will be a boring game whether women are playing, or men are...

[Csargo]

I win?

[Decker]

Gratz to you guys.

I do think tho, that the coach for the US team should've had our starting keep in tho as it was working, but hey, that's life.

[scotchedpommes]

Had been following the tournament, though had successfully managed to sleep
in and miss the final. [Typically, for me.] Had expected Brazil to score, but I'm
glad the Germans won [note that down and save it for posterity, yes] purely
because I was disgusted with the Brazilian's reaction after the American woman
- Boxx - was so wrongly sent off in the semi.

There were some excellent goals, particularly long-range strikes, though it has
to be said that some of the goalkeeping was nothing short of shambolic at times;
Argentina's offerings in that department being the obvious examples, but I think
it could have been said of goalkeeping across most of the teams. Reaction to
crosses and corners were often shaky, and twice [or three times?] I saw
different goalkeepers throw or pass a ball out directly to a striker, to put them
in a one-on-one situation. Perhaps you could say they were merely overeager
to demonstrate their confidence and under-pressure shotstopping ability, but I
don't think that was the case.

[naut]

Well done. Some of the women are huge though!

[Csargo]

Women who can kick your @$$ are hott.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Most of the attacking play I've seen has been ok-the defending though was shocking, by and large, with loads of own goals and goalkeeper errors, and that takes the fun out of it a bit. The reason Germany won was that their defence wasn't as absolutely woeful as everyone else's.

[Rodion Romanovich]

Congrats!!!

I've watched a little bit of it, but not much. I have to say that women's soccer doesn't seem to go quite as quickly as men's, but they are still excellent athletes and made some really good plays, so I'd say it's probably about as enjoyable to watch as men's soccer. A boring game will be a boring game whether women are playing, or men are...

In all honesty, women's football is likely to be better than men's football in a few years if the current developments continue. The women are getting better and better at the sport, while the men, due to total degradation of the rules and the reffing, are getting better and better actors and worse and worse athletes.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

In all honesty, women's football is likely to be better than men's football in a few years if the current developments continue. The women are getting better and better at the sport, while the men, due to total degradation of the rules and the reffing, are getting better and better actors and worse and worse athletes.

That could well be. From what I saw the English play the cleanest football, but I only watched the Champions League and European Cup so I don't know if the relatively fair play exhibited by those teams is anything to go by. All in all football is in a bit of a sad state of affairs, and the men should definitely clean up their play.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

That could well be. From what I saw the English play the cleanest football, but I only watched the Champions League and European Cup so I don't know if the relatively fair play exhibited by those teams is anything to go by. All in all football is in a bit of a sad state of affairs, and the men should definitely clean up their play.

Mmm, I know what you mean. Did you hear that our cherished 'Most goals' record recently got broken by someone who was on performance enhancing drugs? Can you believe that? There was that horrible incident with Stevie G running that dog fighting ring too.

Oh, wait a minute...

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Mmm, I know what you mean. Did you hear that our cherished 'Most goals' record recently got broken by someone who was on performance enhancing drugs? Can you believe that? There was that horrible incident with Stevie G running that dog fighting ring too.

Oh, wait a minute...

Well I did mean on the field itself, not in terms of drugs and so on. I merely meant that the English seem to playact at being hurt less often than the others.

Oh did I mention that I don't follow football very closely anymore? Pretty much since I came back to the US and started having trouble finding stations that broadcast the games.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Bah. Maybe next time the US coach won't bench a great goalie, and the ref won't send one of our players off for what was definitely not a foul.

Glad Germany beat Brazil, though.

CR

[Rhyfelwyr]

While I'm sure that women could be just about as good as football as men, for the greatest tournament on earth some of it was pretty laughable. It's too easy to sit and laugh at teams like Argentina, but even some of the better teams still to me look like they would struggle to survive in even semi-professional mens' football.

Some of the better womens teams, in particular the USA and Germany, were very well organised, they obviously have a great understanding of the game and can play some nice football. But even watching Germany playing, they just don't look comfortable on the ball. They're always having to take a couple of touches just to get control of the ball, a lot of times they trip over it, they still make too many mistakes considering how slow a pace the women's game is played at. They might have the discipline, but they lack basic skills really.

And of course half the teams in that tournament had neither.

The one team that did really impress me was Brazil. Even if they were slightly less organised than Germany, they looked comfortable on the ball. They played fluent football, and the skills of some players like Marta are brilliant to watch. And of course some of the goals they scored, particularly in the game against China, were absolutedly fantastic and would be top-drawer stuff even in the mens World Cup Finals.

What I'm trying to say is that teams like Brazil show women have the potential to play, bar some physical disadvantages, just as well as men. But the sport has a long, long, long way to go yet.