Dubious Domination
Taki´s Magazine,
by
Steve Sailer
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
7/10/2019 11:38:44 AM
Why has the American national women’s soccer team won its version of the World Cup four times, while our national men’s team hasn’t made it past the quarterfinals since 1930?
It’s not that the American women are better in an absolute sense than the American men. In 2017, for example, the U.S. women’s team was beaten 5–2 by a team of Dallas boys no older than age 15. But Americans aren’t sophisticated enough soccer fans to notice how much worse the quality of play is in women’s soccer than in men’s soccer.
No, America dominates women’s soccer for the
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/10/2019 11:40:41 AM (No. 119648)
We are not soccer buffs, but watched some of the American team’s competitions. Boring even to us. Just running up and down the field, no obvious plays or strategy, rather a lot of pushing and shoving.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
rosefenn 7/10/2019 12:12:03 PM (No. 119673)
Nobody cares. Truly, nobody cares at all.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Clinger 7/10/2019 12:12:59 PM (No. 119674)
Solid analysis.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 7/10/2019 12:13:36 PM (No. 119675)
Never could get into soccer but I am sure the Europeans think baseball is boring. I don't understand people like that butch chick Rapinoe. I would have proudly played for my country and honored my flag even when Obama was President. I would even have gone to the WH. This just makes them look hateful, petty and and intolerant.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 7/10/2019 12:45:11 PM (No. 119700)
I have essentially zero interest in soccer, and eventually the details of how the world "does soccer" became too boring to continue, so I didn't finish the article. Very informative in the portion that I did
read.
The bottom line is Title IX government mandated insanity bribes many thousands of young women who really don't care for sports much to try soccer in the USA. In the rest of the world, women don't much play soccer, and therefore their soccer teams are even less skilled than the "victorious" US team, which would be easily destroyed by a teen boy's team. So, the reason real soccer fans don't watch women's soccer is apparently because even the very best women's soccer team is a really crummy team, not even remotely comparable to a real men's team.
Since I really don't know...or care, I'll buy it. So not only is the foul mouthed purple haired lesbian punk a rotten person, but apparently, also a pretty pathetic soccer player, too. Sucks to be a loser, and that purple haired, foul mouthed, rude, lesbian harridan is a real loser in all ways.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Newtsche 7/10/2019 12:52:39 PM (No. 119711)
The loud mouths on the US team have shown a shocking/predictable ignorance of our country's history. This article lines out facts about the sport that expose those same people's ignorance of women's soccer.
In a nutshell, why has the US team dominated? "..because the rest of the world hasn’t cared much about women’s soccer".
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
winmag 7/10/2019 1:08:05 PM (No. 119724)
I always wondered what level high school boys basketball team it would take to beat a WNBA team. Another sport that is unbearable to watch.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
gramma b 7/10/2019 1:18:09 PM (No. 119732)
FTA: "The NBA . . . has wasted a lot of money on the WNBA since the late 1990s. A particularly costly mistake has been letting lesbians take over the culture of the WNBA, a fate that the much more lucrative sport of women’s tennis has largely avoided. .This year, the media appeared newly intent on lesbianizing the image of women’s soccer as some sort of triple-bank-shot ploy in its War on Trump. This would not be good for women’s soccer’s popularity." Amen. When our city had a WNBA team, promoters repeatedly came to our downtown office trying to give away tickets. No takers. A primary reason is that nobody wanted to watch -- or have their kids watch -- a bunch of in-your-face lesbians in the stands engaging in public displays of affection.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46 7/10/2019 2:09:58 PM (No. 119765)
A splendid narrative on the confused and confusing state of women's soccer and women's sports as a whole in the USA (ahem- with the single exception, of course, of women's beach volleyball- Nuff said!). Although, Steven did not bring up the one most aggravating factor of women's soccer- It is as boring as watching snails crawl across your lawn in Georgia - like men's soccer! Any sport that takes 90 minutes of play to give a score of 1-0 is boring! Same as one that goes four 15 minute periods and ends with 103-102! Argh!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Wary American 7/10/2019 2:10:09 PM (No. 119766)
See what happens when you live to be older?
I watched as the NBA was criticized mercilessly for not having enough blacks in the league. And just like the inept EPA, the rubber band of change snapped and now all you have in the NBA is TATTOOED rich spoiled blacks and a league I cannot watch anymore. I am not a racist. I just hate corn rows and tattoos where one cannot see what the desired result is...and they hate America...at least the self-promoting LeBron James does. And MILLIONS a year to throw a ball through a hoop. There are NO woman's sports I can bear to watch...life is just too short.
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