I have absolutely no idea what that has to do with anything, but I've been playing since I was about 5 or so. Longer than most of the USWNT has been alive. Given we're approximately the same age (almost exactly, in fact), I trust you've been playing that long, too? I thought you were leaving per this: Were you lying?
I would love to put your Grateful Dead resume up to mine, or your summer stock theater resume, or your adobero resume, or your two-stepping resume, or any other completely irrelevant resume... And I wonder if you can understand why characterizing Rapinoe as a "lady" is mildly offensive? I imagine your daughter will in a few years...
Kyle Rote Jr. was born December 25, 1950. That makes him about 68. I can remember seeing him play in Dallas when I was back there visiting and that was over 40 years ago, closer to 45 I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Rote_Jr. I am not really sure why his age matters but it is pretty well documented.
The first Thank you, sir, for getting the parity correct. I deny it. I deny you. Sometimes he does a "this is my house" gesture at the ground instead. But yes, this is part of his genius, and he needs that edge to be him. A meek Ronaldo probably would have meekly flamed out as a youth, and become a nameless factory worker somewhere. (Mathematically, hundreds of them probably do every year.)
Well it says he's 41 now; no DOB though. Either it didn't say that earlier or I didn't see it when I was specifically looking for it...
Begging the colonel's pardon, but I seem to recall Chastain kick a World Cup-winning penalty kick, then remove her jersey and flex her muscles wearing only a sports bra on top. Since I expected her to do that were she to score the winning goal, I was not surprised, but my lack of surprise does not detract from the memorability of the display. I'm not a Rapinoe fan off the field, but on the field she plays hard and well. It seems to me her celebration of either goal on Friday did not match Chastain's for exuberance or arrogance or flamboyance or whatever similar word one might choose to use.
Well, if we're talking about age and how long posters have played soccer as demonstrating futbol wisdom, I'm thinking that I must really know what I'm talking about in comparison to almost all other posters and maybe all. But, the premise that either demonstrates futbol wisdom is doubtful, to put it mildly.
Summer of 1967 I was sixteen, and went to my boarding school's summer hockey camp. The other guys there were mostly older and drunks or trying hard to become drunks, or else hanging around the streets of town pestering girls. I wasn't particularly interested in either activity, and the school's hockey coach and soccer coach played on a semipro soccer team sponsored by a local resort; and I started going to their games and practices for something to do in the off-time. The rest of that team were kids from Hong Kong, Singapore, Cambodia, and Thailand enrolled at US colleges, who were employed as waitstaff at the resort. Back home they were sxhlubs, but in the US they were the next thing to Pele-- but they couldn't all be spared from shifts at game time, and the team had trouble making the minimum roster a lot, and usually by a single player. So the coaches decided to roster me since I was there all the time anyway, and could run forever-- not fast, just long. I even played a few minutes in a couple of games. So I've been a semipro level soccer player for 52 years, I must know all about it by now.
I have you beaten by a couple of years because I graduated HS in 66. However it was at 16, just before that, when I knew "everything" now I have regressed to where I know very little but I have learned a lot.
I figured FoF was an oldie, and maybe TJ. We're all same generation, but I've got some years on both of you -- started my youth futbol in 1958.
That was first grade PE class for me-- we did a different sport every week, and played soccer sometime in April. But we had to use dodge balls, there weren't any soccer balls in the state school system... or maybe they were those playground balls, the ones used for four square, the springy red rubber balls...
No rain in Boise in the 50's. I gather irrigation upwind has changed the climate there now. By the time I was in precipitation it was with modernish soccer balls. I remember catching late 40's style leather footballs in the rain-- the kind with the rubber inflation tube that you tucked under the laces, The ball would get all soaked and heavy and wet and when you caught it the spin would cause sheets of water to come off it into your face...