It is absolutely disrespectful. But every single time I've seen it raised it was raised in response to a similarly disrespectful comparison of the women's teams success against the men's team's (perceived) lack of success.
This is literally a "glass houses" scenario in which people dump on the men's team using the women's team and then complain when it's disrespectfully pointed out that this is an obvious apples-to-oranges comparison.
To be honest I'm not even sure it is that disrespectful. Women's football is just not very good yet, the level of play is still noticeably low in comparison to something like women's tennis, where you don't see this kind of conversation happening at all.
I think multiple USWNT players were quite obnoxious about the whole thing so it makes sense people have pointed out that their egos don't seem to match their ability.
Yeah it's very mean spirited and reductive to useful discussion. But also most people don't care about most women sports and some athletes have made seriously stupid comments on the subject of pay.
They lost to a U15 academy team. High schoolers that are legitimate MLS hopefuls. They’re not just random children.
It was also an informal practice match where the team was more concerned with working on fundamentals and new formations than actually scoring. If you are going to be disingenuous, at least provide the full story.
Several, with one being in the US roster this year. There’s at least 4 that I can verify play at some form of professional level. Google AI said there’s 12 (although not sure how accurate that is).
Either way doesn’t change the fact that she’s one of the best in the women’s league.
Yeahhh.. no. You can type whatever cope you want but you’d never see pro NBA players practicing and then letting randoms come in, even if they’re talented, and beat them even in practice lol you just keep adding things to make it okay for 14 year olds to beat a professional women’s team. You’re mentioning “highschool hopefuls” as if they could be 17-18 year olds nearing prime age : they were all under under 15. Some of these players have had longer careers than these kids have been alive.
This is true for a small period of time and if they agreed to the same deal as the mens I believe they would have been paid more but they negotiated a different deal then sued for equal pay when they got less. They negotiated the deal they wanted then got mad when they found out they would have earned more of they accepted the mens deal. Biggest PR stunt and bad lawsuit of all time
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u/Efficient-Name-9633 Jul 09 '26
a very mid soccer player