England were the better team against Japan. Are you sure you were watching the right match?
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England were the better team against Japan. Are you sure you were watching the right match?
So Canada, who only reached the Quarter Final after being knocked out by England, put in a "powerful performance" (even though from what I and everyone else saw of them they were crap, tedious and stank the place out), yet England, who knocked Canada out and reached the Semi-Final after never having won a knockout match in the tournament before, and ended up exceeding everyone's expectations by finishing third, were "Loserettes". Is that what you are saying in all seriousness?
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The team are just about to arrive back on English soil and they are sure to get a heroes' reception. They've done themselves and their nation proud.
English education.
Well they are much better than the Englash men's soccer team that's for sure.
As for the Final: I don't know if anyone's noticed that the last three major finals in women's football were all USA vs Japan: the 2011 World Cup; the 2012 London Olympics; and the 2015 World Cup.
Now this shows how little competition there is at the moment in women's football, and the USA and Japan have only been winning the major trophies in recent years because the level of competition in women's football is very low. Now this has changed. With the emergence of up and coming teams like England, who will almost certainly be competing for major trophies in the coming years, Japan and USA will start to find it more difficult to win major trophies and will win less of them when other teams like England start to give them more competition.
Women's internation football at the moment is like Scottish football: just one or two teams competing for the same trophy each time with very low levels of competition from the rest. But things are changing, and teams like England are coming through.
Now this shows how little competition there is at the moment in women's football, and the USA and Japan have only been winning the major trophies in recent years because the level of competition in women's football is very low. Now this has changed. With the emergence of up and coming teams like England, who will almost certainly be competing for major trophies in the coming years, Japan and USA will start to find it more difficult to win major trophies and will win less of them when other teams like England start to give them more competition.
Women's internation football at the moment is like Scottish football: just one or two teams competing for the same trophy each time with very low levels of competition from the rest. But things are changing, and teams like England are coming through.
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As I said before last night's match: You should thank yourselves lucky you only played Japan in the final and not England.
Japan's defending was absolute shocking and was not a good advert for women's football. England would have given you much more of a game and you wouldn't have found yourself 4-0 within half an hour against England, not with the likes of typical blood-and-guts, defend-as-though-your-life-depended-on-it English defenders like Steph Houghton - who was brilliant against Japan - at the back. She's like a female John Terry. In fact, the co-commentator on the match on BBC Two last night, who is an English women's footballer, said that England would likely have beaten the USA had they reached the Final. After all, if they can beat Germany - the No1 ranked team on earth - they can certainly beat USA. USA were only made to look good by Japan's shocking display.
Your team sucked... only managed to score once on Japan and the USA scored 5.
If the US played England it would have been 7-0 easily.
She doesn't know much about soccer then and was mostly likely suffering from her bruised pride.
The US beat Germany as well fool.
Damn Brits are dumb as well as salty.
USA > England
Why didn't we play Engerland?
Oh, yeah, because Engerland was out of it. Just like the men's team in 2014, only slightly less pathetic.
Because Japan's defending was amateurish. The Slug and Lettuce's team would have been able to score five against Japan last night.
Also, remember that in the 2011 World Cup England were the only side to beat Japan, who went on to beat the USA in the Final.
If the US had played England last night I beleieve England would have won.
Bruised pride? She'd just seen her team finish third in the World Cup after beating the pre-tournament favourites and the best team on the planet, Germany.
I don't give a ****. They would not have found England as easy as they found Japan last night. England would have defended much better.
ENGLAND, ENGLAND, ENGLAND! ENGLAND, ENGLAND, ENGLAND!
World Cup: England's women welcomed at Heathrow
BBC News
6 July 2015
The England team have been welcomed back by fans at London's Heathrow airport after finishing third in the Women's World Cup.
Captain Steph Houghton and teammate Fara Williams said they were proud of the way the team had played in Canada, and that they were overwhelmed by the support they had received from fans back home.
World Cup: England's women welcomed at Heathrow - BBC News
That's the difference, Blackleaf. Engerland holds some ugly guy aloft. Here's what the USA holds aloft:
In case you don't recognize it, that's the World Cup.
Best goal of the entire tourney scored here:
It's a shame that the goal scorer didn't receive an award for this precision goal.
The best goal of the tournament was, in my opinion, that scored by England's Lucy Bronze (who, funnily enough, ended up picking up a bronze with her teammates) in their 2-1 win against Norway in the Last 16:
That's the difference, Blackleaf. Engerland holds some ugly guy aloft. Here's what the USA holds aloft:
In case you don't recognize it, that's the World Cup.
No. I don't recognise it. I've never followed a Women's World Cup before.
But don't you worry. The USA may be able to win the odd World Cup in women's football, where the quality of opposition is low and in which most of your opponents are, let's face it, semi-professional or part-timers, but you don't have much opportunity to win World Cups elsewhere in other sports - i.e. real sports, with top quality, professional opposition. The Rugby World Cup starts on 18th September and I'm looking forward to England, the tournament second favourites after New Zealand, winning it for the second time (England is the host nation). Before that, we've also got Murray winning Wimbledon and England winning the Ashes to look forward to this summer.
Pfffffttt.... No other goal can match the skill and precision of what is arguably on par with Pele's bicycle kick goal he scored during his hey-day.
This goal was nothing short of surgical in it's exactness..... I'd say that only 1 in a thousand professional players could have pulled this off on their best day.
Just look at the exacting placement of the shot... Top shelf, just barely missing the cross-bars making it squarely into the back of the net with resounding authority.
Picture-perfect
This goal was nothing short of surgical in it's exactness..... I'd say that only 1 in a thousand professional players could have pulled this off on their best day.
Just look at the exacting placement of the shot... Top shelf, just barely missing the cross-bars making it squarely into the back of the net with resounding authority.
Picture-perfect
No biggie. You'll never see one again, except when somebody else hoists it.
Our ladies also got the Golden Ball, the Silver Boot, and the Golden Glove. How did your sows do in the individuals?
Erm, we've got Wimbledon, the Ashes and the Rugby World Cup to look forward to this year, all of which we've got a good chance of winning (the USA may win the women's singles title at Wimbledon but the quality of opposition in that is also poor). This summer and autumn will very likely see a Briton win Wimbledon (and that's the MEN's singles title), England's cricketers win the Ashes and England's rugger lads win the World Cup on English soil. And all of these wins will be against top quality, world class, professional opposition; not against a bunch of semi-professionals and amateurs who provide poor quality opposition like the Women's World Cup. Britain and England has got another THREE major trophies up for grabs this summer and autumn.
Seriously, if winning the Women's World Cup is seen by Yanks as the pinnacle of sporting achievement, then you do have serious sporting problems. There are some REAL tournaments this year - Wimbledon, the Ashes and the Rugby World Cup - that we will likely ein.
We finished third in the World Cup when you thought we'd get knocked out in the Group Stage. Our English girls are national heroes.
I can see why. After the national embarrassment of your performance last year, third place must seem pretty nice. Certainly the best you'll ever do.
Have you noticed your sows are better than your alleged men?
Third place is pretty nice for a team that had never previously won a knockout match in a Women's World Cup; who get paid a miniscule amount compared to the US professional players; and who are still considered a semi-professional side.
Remember: women's football is professional in the US and is a huge sport there. Whereas it's semi-professional in England and is a minor sport (only 2.5 million or so people in the UK watched England's Semi-Final against Japan). Yet England still finished third. Just imagine what will happen when the sport becomes professional in this country and more girls take up the sport as a result of the England women's side's World Cup success. A few years from now and England will be world beaters.