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soyelgatocallejero · 5 years

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La Final de la Copa Mundial Femenina 2015: Nada que envidiarle a los equipos masculinos.

**Subimos este artículo de nuevo, como antesala al del 2019.**

By: Kyroski

Llego a su fin quizás el mejor torneo que hemos tenido en el transcurso del año, la Copa Mundial Femenina 2015, y es lamentable que en Latinoamérica no le brindemos la atención que se merece (Opacada por torneos como la Copa Ámerica y el Mundial Sub-20). En gran parte de Europa, Asia y Australia es un evento magistral tal y como lo sería uno de tipo masculino.

Las estadounidenses después de una participación pulcra y envidiable se alzaron con la Copa del Mundo (Muy merecida por cierto) después de 16 años desde la última vez que pudieron acariciarla de la mano de figuras tan emblemáticas como Mia Ham y Kristine Lilly, leyendas del deporte.

Virtuosas como Megan Rapinoe, Tobin Heath, Megan Klingenberg, Sydney Leroux, Hope Solo, Ali Krieger, Alex Morgan, la ya legendaria Abby Wambach y la figura del torneo Carli Lloyd nos dejaron con la boca abierta en el transcurso de todos los 7 partidos hasta el arrollante marcador final de 5-2 contra las vigentes campeonas hasta ese momento, las japonesas.

Esto era prácticamente una revancha luego de que en la final de la copa de 2011, fueron las niponas las que se alzaron con el preciado trofeo en una tumultuosa ronda de penales por encima de las estadounidenses. Esta vez “las gringas” venían preparadas para finiquitar todo desde el principio del encuentro, y para muestra el triplete de la majestuosa Carli Lloyd en tan solo los primeros 16 minutos del partido (El "hat trick" más rápido que se haya observado en la historia del Mundial, en categorías de hombres y de mujeres). Todo lo demás fue un despliegue de una táctica efectiva y glamorosa por parte de las ganadoras. Los goles de Holiday y Heath llegaron solo para adornar más el marcador, mientras que Johnston (USA) en un movimiento de infortunio metía un sexto gol pero en portería contraria. El gol nipon llegó del pie de Yuki Omigi.

Ahora, ¿qué significa esto para el deporte más hermoso del mundo?, al menos en EEUU un lugar donde no era tan visto o aceptado como otros, esta final se convirtió en el evento deportivo de mujeres u hombre más visto en la historia en un país donde se supone no se veía fútbol.

Las crecientes ligas, MLS (Liga Masculina) y la NWSL (Liga Femenina) han contribuido al creciente apoyo por este deporte, una disciplina que al menos en USA es más exitosa la selección femenina del mismo. Pero por otra parte, los varones siguen ganando 10 veces más que ellas. Ahora, es cierto que la liga masculina llena más estadios y por ende gestiona más boletería; sin embargo la disparidad económica es abismal. Mientras los chicos reciben millones, las chicas deben conformarse con unos pocos miles, inaudito. Este logro ha abierto el debate precisamente en este tema, los equipos femeninos no exigen la equidad de salarios, porque la demanda francamente no está a la par todavía, pero un salario más justo debe estar en las conversaciones de la FIFA y de la NWSL. No solo para ellas, sino para todas las selecciones femeninas alrededor del globo.

¿Y en Latinoamérica? Como fieles seguidores del sistema estadounidense espero que esto sea una de esas cosas que tomamos como ejemplo para mejorar. Nuestras chicas, en especial las colombianas, ticas y mexicanas que se lucieron en la Copa, merecen una mejor plataforma en este deporte, mayor apoyo de parte de las instituciones y sobre todo de la fanaticada. Sé que es inevitable ser opacadas por un evento como la Copa América, con Messi y compañía; cuyo mercadeo patriarcal es mucho mayor vendiendo más camisetas y entradas; pero por lo que pude ver en este torneo, hay selecciones femeninas que dejan regados a varios equipos masculinas...yassss.

Mientras tanto, allá en EEUU le han dado la bienvenida a sus guerreras como se lo merecen, desfiles en L.A., New York, llaves de la ciudad de la última; además de estar inmersas en una fuerte gira de la victoria en medios y canchas. Ellas creyeron (#SheBelieves), el pueblo creyó (#OneTeamOneNation) y al final el trabajo rindió frutos. Cuidado las demás porque se acerca Rio 2016 y las gringas vienen con todo por el oro. ¡Felicidades a las chicas, son un ejemplo para todos!

*Actualización, en las olimpiadas las suecas les dieron un “maracanazo” a las gringas en cuartos y las dejaron* *No hay que dormirse!*

#Copa Mundial Femenina 2015 #Abby Wambach #USWNT #Fútbol Femenino #random

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flauntpage · 5 years

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John Boruk Wrote a Post Comparing the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team to Donald Trump, and it was Not Well-Received

John Boruk is a conservative, but you already knew that.

The former NBC Sports Philadelphia anchor and Flyers reporter has previously tweeted about topics such as Colin Kaepernick, and why he wouldn’t let his son wear the color pink, the latter take resulting in a public apology.

I personally don’t care about the guy’s political views, but left wing Twitter does, and Boruk got “ratioed” for this tweet and Facebook post, which compared the United States Women’s National Team to President Donald Trump:

They were bold They were brash. At times, controversial and offensive, but they were also unapologetic throughout.

How the @USWNT took a page out of the @realDonaldTrump playbook in winning the World Cup https://t.co/SOokrN1V7W#USWNT #OneTeamOneNation

— John Boruk (@johnborukNBCS) July 7, 2019

Hmm…

It’s an interesting premise. The U.S. women pretty much loathe Donald Trump. Donald Trump loathes them. However, are they actually alike?

“Holy shit what an awful take. Delete this,” wrote Twitter user @williamzabka42. “This is one of the dumbest things I’ve read in a while,” said Parker Molloy of Media Matters.

John in PA chimed in:

Oh, please. They don’t lie, associate with criminals, kiss dictators’ a$$es, declare bankruptcy or solicit foreign help. They won with skill, hard work and team effort. Those are not Trump qualities.

— Johninpa (@JWH100) July 8, 2019

Right then, let’s take a look at the Facebook post and decide for ourselves. Writes Boruk, after the jump:

THE US WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM WAS VERY TRiUMPhant IN WINNING THE WORLD CUP

They were brash.

They were emboldened.

And they brought a certain American bravado into this year’s tournament in their quest to become the first US team to win back-to-back World Cup titles.

The French air was filled with American arrogance, and whether they approve of the comparison or not, it was very Trumpian in nature. It was the same style and manner in which the 45th President of the United States has navigated his way through his affairs in the White House.

Ok, you have my attention. Let’s take a look at the next part:

The women didn’t tiptoe their way onto the World Cup stage, but rather trounced all over Thailand as if they had picked grapes off the Bordeaux vine and stomping out the seeds – turning the Thailand team into their own fine wine, a 13-0 demolition, where the sweet taste of the most lopsided loss in women’s World Cup history was met with criticism.

Why? Because there’s a certain feeling that we have to apologize for flexing our muscle when the rest of the world is watching.

https://twitter.com/TaylorTwellm…/status/1138551898259243008

“This was disgraceful for the United States,” said former Canadian national player Clare Rustad. To which one could reply, “Then how would you have described Canada’s 18-0 ice hockey win over Slovakia in the 2010 Winter Games?”

Yes, how quickly they forget.

Of course, the USWNT made no apologies, nor should they. They gave Thailand everything they had. It would have been a slap in the face if they had half-assed their way to victory.

It was reminiscent of when the 1992 Dream Team chased Angola into Olympic oblivion, winning by 68 points, a game in which Charles Barkley elbowed an opposing player and was unapologetic in doing so. � Perhaps Barkley’s antics were unwarranted as the US team was labeled as ‘bullies’, but it was a reminder then as it is now that we expect athletes to act and behave in a certain way all the time. American supremacy is under attack even in America.

Still, the competitiveness and emotion have a tendency to dictate otherwise.

So Boruk is basically saying that the USWNT showed “American exceptionalism” in the way they beat the stuffing out of Thailand. He uses the word supremacy, but it’s the same thing. Variances of the phrase have been used ad nauseam in the corny political argument over whether America is the best country in the world or whatever.

I do agree when he says that the Dream Team and the U.S. women have nothing to apologize for. They talked some shit and backed it up on the field. They kept their foot on the pedal and didn’t let up, not for “sportsmanship” or any other contrived reasons. I was honestly most impressed with the way they talked a big game and then followed through in their performances – which they did under enormous amounts of pressure by the way – which ultimately solidified their uber-elite status on Sunday afternoon. It was the ultimate example of talking the talk and then walking the walk, which is very American, in my mind.

The thing that bugged me and others was not goals 11, 12, or 13 against Thailand, it was the way they celebrated those extra goals, as if it was even a challenge. That rang a bit hollow for me, since this was a team that had, indeed, been there before but was acting like they hadn’t been.

Anyway, I digress.

Here’s the rest of Boruk’s post:

Then there was outrage over Alex Morgan’s ‘tea cup’ celebration in a 2-1 victory over England in which she trolled the Brits with her celebration coming off the eventual game-winning goal.

Moments like these come once-in-a-lifetime, and will be talked about for years to come.

Morgan said, “I feel that there is some sort of double standard for females in sports.”

“Wah, wah, wah. It’s like, we’re at the World Cup. What do you want us to do?” Rapinoe said Wednesday in response to criticism, according to The Wall Street Journal’s Rachel Bachmann. “We work hard, we like to play hard.”

And perhaps they’re both right. Collectively, maybe we don’t expect women to bring a level of braggadocio to competition.

But it was refreshing.

This is the World Cup – like the Olympics – an event that comes around once every four years. The hours, days and weeks spent training and practicing for this moment are countless. If there was ever an occasion to “whip it out” so to speak and be less “lady like”, this was the moment in life to do so.

Thankfully, they left their political correctness and mlld-mannered (sic) behavior behind once they landed at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris last month.

They were the team the world was shooting for coming into the tournament, and they took everyone’s best shot. In fact, they’ve taken the media’s best shots for the past 20 years ever since Brandi Chastain whipped off her jersey to reveal her sports bra at the 1999 Women’s World Cup.

This was America’s team regardless of Megan Rapinoe’s ill-timed comments regarding a visit to the White House.

Collectively, they may be taking a stance against the POTUS, but everything about their performance in France seemed to come right out of Donald Trump’s playbook.

It’s an interesting column.

Of course Boruk got blasted into the high heavens by people who were appalled that he would ever consider comparing the U.S. women to a president that they revile. Then, on the other side, you have pro-Trump conservatives who hate the U.S. women because they think Megan Rapinoe is a loudmouth Kaepernick clone, because they won’t go to the White House, and because they have LGBT players and blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda. So I get what Boruk was trying to say here, but I think he probably just pissed off everybody instead. If he had left Trump out of it and just said, “this World Cup win was very American” or whatever, it would have resonated.

Unfortunately he was inundated with comments like this, from “Bomark Padgett” –

I personally believe that’s a little harsh, to invite somebody to eat your feces. But you tell me – good column? Bad column? Good points? Bad points?

At Crossing Broad, we report the facts in a fair and balanced way, then our readers can make informed decisions. And sometimes we use satire.

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