You could use that theme with either set of opponents. The actual final couldn't end in a draw though!
In honor of the Canadian women making it this far, what if NFL logos were made more ... Canadian? http://www.fastcocreate.com/3047665...eate&utm_content=cocreate&cid=ps101cocreate#1 My faves:
Women's soccer has come long way since McGill's first team in 1950 http://montrealgazette.com/sports/s...ome-long-way-since-mcgills-first-team-in-1950
Great story, I've seen McGill play dozens of times and never realized their history. I'd love to see someone do a soccer version of "A League of Their Own."
Definitely Mila Kunis. Emma Watson as Meghan Klingenberg. Reese Witherspoon as the last-chance veteran. Emily Blunt as Ali Krieger. Noomi Rapace as the Icelandic terror. JLaw as the team sh*t disturber. Ronda Rousey cleaning up in the back as Steph Houghton. Jodie Foster as the intense gay coach. Lindsay Lohan as the drug-addled Gazza. Maybe Parminder Nagra for consistency but definitely not Keira Knightly.
Interesting article! I have a 1950 McGill Yearbook that I inherited from a relative and hoped I could find a picture of the first team but it wasn't in there (perhaps the first team started in the 1950-51 academic year and would have been in the next yearbook). There were a number of women's sports back in 1950: badminton, tennis, archery, field hockey, squash, basketball, ice hockey, swimming, modern dance and fencing. There was a men's soccer team pictured in the book, but not a women's one, yet.
Anja Mittag is closer to Danny Devito than Diane Krüger. Antarctica makes your whining about Germans spontaneously combusting from the heat pretty funny.
Nothing like catching the @BBCSport pundits off-guard when they're watching England in the #FIFAWWChttps://t.co/zG4uNlPBSR— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) June 28, 2015
To be filed under miscellany, England are going to be a well travelled team at this tournament. By the end, they will have played in five of the six host cities - Winnipeg being the only city they did not play a game in. (Speaking of which, I'm not sure why Winnipeg did not get any game past the group stage?)
I think the CSA and FIFA thought that it would be easier for the European countries to attend games on the East coast. I don't think they were expecting many fans from CAF, maybe more from COMEBOL. They knew that other than the host nation, the USA would bring the most fans. Winnipeg is not an easy place to get to -- but they were confident that if anybody was going to make the trek to Manitoba, it would be the Americans, and they were right. Maybe they thought that by not having the Americans in Ottawa or Montreal, there would be "more room" for the other countries to fill the seats. Montcon was too small to place the USA, Edmonton is not close to the US border (may not fill that stadium much in group play), and Vancouver was the place for Canada. Once the group stage was over, they used Vancouver, Ottawa, and Edmonton for two games in the Octofinals -- so they only needed two more spots -- Montreal and Moncton. Thus there was no need to go back to Winnipeg.
After 8 days that was what I thought too. ;>) Actually I was there about 17 years ago and might make it back on a similar interval -- or sooner on the way to somewhere else, probably to fish. Unless the 2022 MWC is rebid and ends up in Canada on turf ...
It's all about tv ratings and ticket sales. Having the two groups with two European teams on the east coast allows for kickoff times more suitable for European viewers, and the same with Japan on the west coast. Edmonton is really far away from most US cities, whereas Winnipeg is much closer.
Interesting data from 538 re: the growth of women's soccer: http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/why-is-the-u-s-so-good-at-womens-soccer/ The article is titled: Why the US is so good at women's soccer. The more relevant question, given those numbers, is Why isn't the US better? Altogether, though, good to see the numbers crunchers at 538 take on the issue of the women's game.
While we talk about doppelgangers I always thought the coach of Germany Looked like the dad from the OC Lol
In a world in which some countries and their families may struggle to even feed the first born son (who the family is counting on for manual labor and income) is it a wonder why most of the top 10 teams are the economic juggernauts of the world? Some of the countries in FIFA barely have enough money to support a men's side (which had the luck of the draw of being started first).
I was trying to convey the idea that men's teams were started first and some countries had to follow suit in order to be involved in the world competitions. Not trying to ignore sexual equality rather hinting at the reason why so many things evolve for men first. We're manual laborers who at times were needed and sometimes preferred for our increased muscle mass and relative expendability.
This may be of interest in the debate over whether castigating Sesselman was acceptable morally or not http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/03/s...world-cup-brings-tears-and-sympathy.html?_r=0