Well that was one of the freakier goals you'll see. Keeper may have been shielded from following the ball by the oncoming traffic.
Extremely powerful jinx. She overanticipated Kerr getting a touch on it and smacking it near post, so she hesitated and got beat...not even far post, basically center of the goal.
If this own goal is ruled good, it's all the evidence I need that the offside rule needs to be scrapped and re-written. Kerr is obviously active in the play. The defender doesn't need to make a play on the ball if the offside Kerr isn't there. Edit: and it counts. That rule is ********ing awful.
Yes. But the defender made a deliberate play on the ball because of the offside attacker. If Kerr isn't there, the ball rolls to the goalkeeper. The call was correct because the rule is poorly constructed.
I vaguely recall the German women wearing the men's stars before they won their first in 2003. EDIT: It just so happens I've been working on my photos from Portland from WWC03. Here's a shot of Birgit Prinz before she and her teammates crushed the U.S. in the 2003 Semifinal.
Agreed. Wonder how the Brazilian fans would feel if the US men started putting 3 stars above their crest?
For the longest time, neither Norway, nor the United States women had stars on their chests. The USWNT traditionally had theirs on their sleeve. (photo Scott Bales/YCJ)
Uruguay men’s team officially has 4 stars above theirs. Apparently they count their two Olympic gold medals from the 20s.
Yep, the 1924 and 1928 Olympics that were played before the first World Cup. I mean UNC claims it's pre-NCAA basketball championships*, and I know they're not alone. *and those didn't even involve tournaments for the most part, often just random rankings done decades after the fact.
Their argument is those two Olympics were de facto World Cups. I can live with that. The teams that won in 1920 and prior obviously feel differently, and probably Uruguay would, too, if it didn't have the two World Cups to go along with them. 1920 - Belgium 1912, 1908, 1900 - Great Britain 1904 - Canada
Abysmal goalkeeping on the 1-0. She basically moved out of the way and appealed for an offside rather than attempt a save.
Was it actually Great Britain or the UK in those early Olympics, ie with Ireland (then a political whole) fielding its own team?
Ireland first participated in the Summer Olympics in 1924. They were under the Great Britain banner before then. Participation was a lot less formal back then, though, so there were a lot of Irish participants who got to the Olympics independently, said they were competing for Ireland, but were still formally considered representatives of Great Britain.
I know that team sports in the Olympics haven't always been what we currently thing of as national all-star teams. I believe back in the 50s, the US basketball team was often one of the top collegiate teams with a few other players added in. The modern era of jet setting national team programs in various sports is change from the past.