#2019 World Cup

[fictionalwomenenthusiast]

Currently wishing for my favorite group of girls to come back

[lewanarta]

Just Hille enjoying his big moment 🥳 [Lake Placid, 11.02.2024]

[morgansohara]

everybody moved on i stayed there etc etc

[c-23-p]

[that-soccer-guru]

Si una selección europea juega de manera física, lo está haciendo tácticamente... Si una selección sudamericana o africana lo hace, es conducta antideportiva

"When a European team plays a physical game, they're being tactical.... if it's a South American or African team, it's reprehensible behavior"

I want to hear the outrage against the English now. I want to hear, after that gross conduct from James, that ALL of the English team are disgusting, aggressive, and don't belong in this game.

We all know WHY we're only gonna hear the player condemned and not the whole team.

[duchessofostergotlands]

2019 // 2023 → Princess Estelle with members of Sweden's women's national football team. She and her father watched the team play at the 2019 World Cup in Nice and later she joined her mum, brother and uncle to greet the team after they came third in the 2023 World Cup. This makes Estelle one of the longest standing royal supporters of women's football!

[justinssportscorner]

Ken Schultz at Outsports:

Megan Rapinoe has had a rough couple of days. Ever since her penalty kick miss played a significant role in the USWNT’s elimination at the FIFA Women’s World Cup, a seemingly endless online troll parade has made her into the symbol of the team’s failure this year. If you search “Megan Rapinoe” on Twitter, it’s like asking, “Hey Siri, show me what it looks like when the internet’s worst people are happy.” I never knew so many eagle avatars rooted for the USA to fail. Even former President Donald Trump weighed in, taking a victory lap while America lost and leveling a bit of smack talk in Rapinoe’s direction. Clearly he has nothing else going on. As I wrote a few months ago, when Pride pisses off the right people, that means it’s doing its job. Based on the type of people who are celebrating one of Rapinoe’s few public defeats, she’s one of the greatest representatives of Pride in sports history. Instead of destroying her reputation, the alt-right backlash only serves to affirm it.

These politically motivated attacks were inevitable after Rapinoe willingly accepted the mantle of athlete activist, fighting back against Trump during the USWNT’s victorious World Cup run in 2019, advocating for transgender rights, and kneeling during the national anthem to protest systemic racism. [...] Yes, the USWNT’s lackluster play was dispiriting to watch over the last month, and the results of this World Cup were alternately depressing and maddening. It’s OK to feel those emotions in the wake of such a stunning disappointment.

[...] Add in the backlash she’s now facing largely from conservatives and it’s understandable that this is a very difficult moment for Rapinoe. That’s why choosing gratitude is not only better for our mental health as fans but also the best way to shout down the cacophony of howling nonentities who are trying to dim her light.

This Outsports article sums it up: Megan Rapinoe, despite that costly penalty kick miss that helped cost the Americans the game against Sweden on Sunday, has given the USWNT plenty of good moments over her career.

Off the field, Rapinoe has fought for LGBTQ+ rights (and trans rights in particular), kneeled during the National Anthem for racial justice, criticized Donald Trump, and helped usher in equal pay for the USWNT, which made right-wingers angry as heck.

See Also:

Pink News: Bitter right-wing bigots take aim at Megan Rapinoe after US crashes out of Women’s World Cup

The Guardian: The Megan Myth: what critics and fans get wrong about Rapinoe

[grapefruit-personified]

Can I just say Jessie during the Canada vs New Zealand match at the 2019 world cup is just chefs kiss.... gosh I love that woman.

[figureskatingcostumes]

Junhwan Cha skating to The Fire Within for his free program at the 2021 World Championships and 2019 Cup of China.

(Sources: Ester Ayerdi Photography and David W. Carmichael)

[red-flagging]

JANJA GARNBRET F1 ERA THIS IS NOT A FUCKING DRILL

[invisibleicewands]

Michael Sheen for HMC 2019

[l0n4t1csfan65]

brazil dinner

[tvmusiclife]

I cannot believe that the last [women's] world cup was in 2019, just before the pandemic...and now the next one is in 8 hours

[studiomd]

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By the barest of margins….

[that-soccer-guru]

Now I'm not saying it's going to happen or anything, but we all know that football is weird....

Portugal has the opportunity to do the funniest fucking thing in the world. We'd be moving into a Round of 16 without the reigning Olympic champ and the defending World Cup champ.

It's unlikely, but the World Cup Math dictates it is a small possibility.

Again, I'm sending nothing but great juju to every team, but my dislike for the sheer lackluster reign of Vlatko kinda has me rooting for this to happen if only to get him booted out with his shitty uncreative formations, poor sub management, and ugly senior team development and all.

[kylewalker-peters]