With the Women’s World Cup in full stride, I watched this video of a Japanese goalie whiffing the ball in what has to be one of the worst displays of goal tending I’ve ever seen.
Odd that the over/under was 2.5 and with her team leading 2-0, she let this one go past. This inevitably leads to the question, at what level are these women playing? A cone could have made this save.
I found a thread in an old soccer forum that said that the US Woman’s national team played the Under-17 Men’s team in a scrimmage back in 2012…and lost 8-2. A few tweets from the match.
Beat the women’s national team today , and scored two goals. Sorry hope solo 😜
— Junior Flores (@Floresjr_) April 23, 2012
What a day. Scrimmaged U17 USMNT. lets just say i can barely walk tnite. Day ended amazing. Great meeting with @steveshenbaum. laughed a ton
— Shannon Boxx (@ShannonBoxx7) April 24, 2012
I found a game like this fascinating for 3 reasons:
1) It must be difficult for one of the best female team’s in the world to find competition outside of their nation thus having to play better teams to hone their skills.
2) Under 17 year old men are far better players than our national team. If you asked me to place my money on a team before it started it would have been a complete guess.
3) If I was a 17 year old kid I would be all over Alex Morgan
The caption “When you forget you can use your hands” isn’t even accurate. I could have stopped that thing with my dick, let alone my hands.
Lol’d at the cone.
Women’s sports are a constant battle. With a sport like soccer, men will ALWAYS have a huge advantage due to their physical build and ability. The best man will always be better than the best woman.
With other sports, like pool or bowling for example, raw physical talent isn’t as huge a part, and therefore women compete. But for any sport where men are at a distinct advantage because they’re more physically gifted, it makes watching the women’s side of that sport less entertaining, because you know it’s not the best product on the field.