From the players twitter account is likely the only place to get information regarding the ColOmbia women's national team.
Let's also not forget they weren't sure if Lady Andrade was at the game. The same Lady Andrade who plays for WNY Flash. The Colombian team has at least 2 Americans on the team who started too. There are plenty of ways to get into contact with the women with a couple degrees of separation.
Well, if you're thinking of Native Americans, that's a misnomer too, since this wasn't America until relatively recently. Canada's First People might be better. Having done some legal negotiations with a Tribe, I asked their attorney (a very experienced Indian law specialist, on the tribal side) what was the appellation most preferred by his clients. He said that generally, they referred to themselves as Indians.
No, I'm thinking of the original inhabitants of the continent we live on. Despite some US Citizens thinking so, North America is not a continent consisting solely of Canada and the USA.
I enjoyed this game's rare [albeit brief] glimpse of Captain Heath, especially since she was deprived of that honor for her 100th cap through a series of unfortunate events. Surprised Lloyd didn't just hand off the armband to the oncoming Krieger. Not sure how often both Lloyd and Sauerbrunn will be off the field in the future.
Of course I never said that. She didn't verify anything. She read some tweets. There was no special experience necessary for that. Nobody on the broadcast was even sure if Lady Andrade was at the games or not. Are you familiar with "MonGo's" regular sideline reporting?
Some would argue the Spanish got the name Hispania wrong, which is what the Latin speaking Romans named it, and what the Visigoths who united the peninsula under Reccared (Ricardo) called it. But of course the first people there had their own names for their respective regions, and before it became Espania it was Al Andaluz for the Arab residents that didn't speak Castillian. I won't get into that Some Galicians, Basques, Catalonians, Lusitaneans, etc consider themselves other than Spanish. You'll have to excuse other peoples if they don't follow the Spanish convention that a word can't begin with two consonants. They even change SpiderMan to Espiderman. As to the fellow who "discovered" the West Indies, he signed his first name alternatively as Cristóvão, Cristóbal, Cristobal, and Cristoforo, and documents have his surname as Corombo, Colombo, Columbus (all great people latinized their names for some documents), Colón, and Colóm. Interestingly, Corombo, Colombo, Columbus, and Colóm all have etymological origins in the name for dove. ( see: Saint Columba) He tended to follow the convention where he was residing at the time. The Document used to place him in Genoa ( Arenzanno, actually, in the region of Liguria, the capital city of which was Genoa, - and it wasn't Italian at the time) actually has his name as Cristofora Corombo. ( an alternative church document listing him as Cristóforo Colóm has him born and raised on the island of Majorca) I wouldn't be at all surprised if he used Christopher when he visited Galway. Though he was born Corombo, he was married first as Colombo and was Admiral of the ocean sea and died as Colón. His son, who was named the second viceroy of the Indies ruled as Diego Colón. The variations are such that historians still argue whether they are all the same guy.
In conclusion: while it is understandable that someone may spell "Colombia" incorrectly, we should spell it correctly.
Agreed, that's why I repped that comment. But "Americans" isn't really the right reference either, since Vespucci came by way late in the game. I wonder what the right reference would be. Anyone speak Mayan or Incan?
I have a differing opinion. I have no problem. You seem to have a problem with my opinion although I have already explained some of my issues with lauding her as she was. I am very familiar with her work. I am familiar enough to know nicknames that have been used during broadcasts.