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Grimson posted:Could someone do a quick tl;dr post of the NWSL report, and the whole saga I guess? Since most of the websites talking about it are either blocked for me (a combination of gdpr and/or subscription services), and the rest expect you to remember details and names from years past which is a bit difficult when its not a league I follow closely. Off the top of my head: So the main antagonist in the report is the Portland Thorns. Their former coach Paul Riley Basically all of the other teams in the league had coaches who were verbally abusive at "best" or had similar sexual/inappropriate relationships with their players at worst. At best the clubs quietly let the coach go/asked for their resignation without actually saying why (if it happened before the Athletic article) and at worst they silently condoned the coach's behavior (looking at you Chicago). All of this while the players were fighting to be paid an actual goddamn living wage and not be forced to live in apartments owned by the owner of the team who also served as the handyman (again, Chicago). And it wasn't just the rank-and-file who were affected, as some of the USWNT regulars were in the chorus of those who brought up issues regarding the coach to the front office and were met with deafening silence (Christen Press and, for a third time, Chicago, comes to mind). edit: There is also a Wikipedia article on this. whypick1 fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Dec 17, 2022 |
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Nybble posted:https://twitter.com/dannypage/status/1234249502187384832?s=46&t=zoPlzPdlVN20nTKR5QU5nA
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Crazy Ted posted:Just the nature of women's sports. IIRC female basketball players tear ACL's 4-5 times as often as their male counterparts. Woman's ACL is a third the size, and so probably strength as well of man's. Can't remember where I read that. I could quote a horror anecdote about a women's college coach's opinion on ACL tears...
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# ? Dec 17, 2022 01:25 |
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whypick1 posted:Their former coach Paul Riley was basically trading sex for favors with two of his players, Mana Shim and Sinead Farrelly Jesus gently caress that's a really gross way to describe a years long pattern of abuse. Like what in the actual gently caress?
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# ? Dec 17, 2022 06:19 |
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You're right to call me out on that. Oversimplification/spotty memory. I've edited my post but still left my shame there.
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# ? Dec 17, 2022 06:48 |
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highme posted:Jesus gently caress that's a really gross way to describe a years long pattern of abuse. Like what in the actual gently caress?
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# ? Dec 17, 2022 08:07 |
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gently caress off with any and all of that. Victims of abuse are not getting “favors” and minimizing their abuse just victimizes them all over again.
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# ? Dec 17, 2022 09:09 |
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“We ArE AlL AdUlTs HeRe” So we should dance around the topic? We might hurt Pat Riley’s feelings if we actually use the “A” word, and hasn’t he suffered enough?
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# ? Dec 17, 2022 09:26 |
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highme posted:gently caress off with any and all of that. Victims of abuse are not getting “favors” and minimizing their abuse just victimizes them all over again. Does this need to be spelled out further? When someone says it's raining cats and dogs do you literally think it's raining cats and dogs or something Crazy Ted fucked around with this message at 11:42 on Dec 17, 2022 |
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Crazy Ted posted:Just the nature of women's sports. IIRC female basketball players tear ACL's 4-5 times as often as their male counterparts. Mr. Mambold posted:Woman's ACL is a third the size, and so probably strength as well of man's. There was an article in the British Journal of Sports Medicine late last year that looked at ACL injuries in women athletes and argued that the problem wasn't caused by their gender, but rather the way society treats them based on their gender. quote:This analysis, the authors write, should take into account the way extrinsic factors such as access to facilities (fields, gyms), staff (qualified physiotherapists, strength and conditioning coaches), equipment (footwear, warm-up programs), as well as wider systems and structures such as healthcare and medical insurance, youth development pathways, contracts, and professional standards all contribute to the increased risk of ACL injuries in women athletes. They go on to highlight a few things like the different toys they get during childhood: From day one, "gendered parenting … for example, purchasing different toys or allowing greater independent mobility for boys … could manifest as altered movement patterns in sport later in life," the study says. And how girls/women are told to look at their body and training: For example, ACL research overwhelmingly suggests resistance training and increasing muscle mass is one of the primary methods for strengthening knees and preventing ACL injuries. However, cultural expectations and stereotypes around femininity and how women's bodies should look often affect girls and women's participation in these kinds of activities. Not to mention that women are, in a lot of cases, using secondary or tertiary fields and pitches to practice on which are rarely up to standard: "The number of teams I see that train on the second field as a female team, but then the male team trains on the main pitch, so when we start to look at landing technique, they're landing on potholes.
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Grimson posted:There was an article in the British Journal of Sports Medicine late last year that looked at ACL injuries in women athletes and argued that the problem wasn't caused by their gender, but rather the way society treats them based on their gender. Hadn't thought about how gendercstereotypes themselves could factor into it.
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Grimson posted:There was an article in the British Journal of Sports Medicine late last year that looked at ACL injuries in women athletes and argued that the problem wasn't caused by their gender, but rather the way society treats them based on their gender. The stats for soccer and basketball injuries for men and women would point to anatomical differences, sometimes, the same person having one ACL smaller, therefore more prone to injury ACL, than the other. https://aclstrong.com/female-and-ac...these%20sports.
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# ? Dec 17, 2022 16:52 |
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NWSL bringing out the big guns and issuing a bunch of permanent bans/suspensions/fines. Looking at the list, this all seems about right, although it seems like the people in the "temporarily suspended/can be re-instated under certain conditions" list are effectively banned because no front office in their right mind would touch them with a 10 foot pole...I hope
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whypick1 posted:NWSL bringing out the big guns and issuing a bunch of permanent bans/suspensions/fines. Looking at the list, this all seems about right, although it seems like the people in the "temporarily suspended/can be re-instated under certain conditions" list are effectively banned because no front office in their right mind would touch them with a 10 foot pole...I hope The only one on the list that I can't quite remember what they did to get their punishment was OL Reign. Was it their initial hiring of a manager with a long history of misogyny? I can't remember his name but I specifically remember that he had a history of being a dick when they hired him. Otherwise yeah everything on that list looks about right. Surprised there's nothing about North Carolina owner Steve Malik too - guy willingly employed Paul Riley for those years because the Courage were a juggernaut, and during that same time he self-relegated North Carolina FC from D2 to D3, which as a nice gently caress you to those fans, so he could focus resources on a Courage team that was coached by an unreconstructed sexual predator. There's no way he didn't know what was going on. Crazy Ted fucked around with this message at 01:12 on Jan 10, 2023 |
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Crazy Ted posted:The only one on the list that I can't quite remember what they did to get their punishment was OL Reign. Was it their initial hiring of a manager with a long history of misogyny? I can't remember his name but I specifically remember that he had a history of being a dick when they hired him. Farid Benstiti and it was one part lack of due diligence and one part what he did during his time with the Reign: Sounder at Heart article about these punishments posted:As the Joint Investigative Report found, Benstiti had instances during the 2020 Challenge Cup and 2021 season where he negatively referenced what players were eating and their weight — culminating in a teamwide speech about diet that led players to submit a formal complaint. That speech included Benstiti saying, “If I see you [eat] snacks, I will kill you.” There were multiple reports as well of players noting that Benstiti mentioned Lindsey Horan by name [referencing his past verbal abuse regarding her weight and diet while at PSG], saying he would do the same thing and “I don’t care if it’s in the paper.” Swell guy
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whypick1 posted:Swell guy
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https://www.espn.com/soccer/lyon-ly...se-against-clubquote:FIFA published the results of the lawsuit against the club and ordered Lyon to pay Gunnarsdottir's full salary of more than €82,000 plus interest. Under rules approved by the decision-making FIFA Council in 2020, players must be given 14 weeks of maternity leave and clubs will be obliged to reintegrate them afterwards and provide adequate medical support. Watch clubs take all the wrong notes from this.
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# ? Jan 18, 2023 00:30 |
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wonder if we'll get a perfect hat trick of own goals again
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# ? Jan 18, 2023 04:10 |
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63' in and I kinda doubt it, but at least the US 1) is leading and 2) has scored multiple goals. Fake edit: Holy poo poo that ball over the top for #3 Fake edit 2: I'm really not used to Pugh being called "Swanson", especially since that means no more "PUGH PUGH PUGH"
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# ? Jan 18, 2023 05:28 |
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Doctor Teeth posted:wonder if we'll get a perfect hat trick of own goals again close to the first!
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whypick1 posted:63' in and I kinda doubt it, but at least the US 1) is leading and 2) has scored multiple goals. It took me until the second half to realize Swanson was Pugh lol
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# ? Jan 18, 2023 16:06 |
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i thought andres cantor was losing his ability to do the gooooooooooooool thing but he did it just fine for that ashley hatch goal
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# ? Jan 21, 2023 04:31 |
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He still has a voice after seeing Argentina win the World Cup? I'm surprised. Also, that was a sweet finish by Lavelle. Sure thought she had no chance of getting on the end of that cross, but welp.
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# ? Jan 21, 2023 04:47 |
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(a thread) https://twitter.com/ScoutRipley/status/1617947592952016896 Soubrier is Crystal Dunn's husband btw And another for good measure:
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# ? Jan 25, 2023 03:18 |
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peyton place-rear end league
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# ? Jan 25, 2023 03:48 |
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Non-WTF news for a change: NWSL getting VAR this season, which should help bring equality with the men's leagues in the field of fans griping about the referees.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 17:42 |
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whypick1 posted:Non-WTF news for a change: NWSL getting VAR this season, which should help bring equality with the men's leagues in the field of fans griping about the referees.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 21:07 |
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NWSL plans to expand to Boston and ex-CyberRays area in 2024, with a return to Utah in 2025.
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Edward Mass posted:NWSL plans to expand to Boston and ex-CyberRays area in 2024, with a return to Utah in 2025.
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 22:03 |
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Oakland Coliseum might be empty in the not-too-distant future and the Arena doesn't have any permanent tenants currently. Yes, those are in fact a baseball stadium and an indoor arena, but those are probably still the best choices in the area sadly enough. (Oakland Roots play at a college football stadium that seats 5500, which I'm sure the league would straight up reject)
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 22:16 |
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There's CEFCU Stadium is San Jose if PayPal Park is unavailable - it should be fully redone by 2024.
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Edward Mass posted:There's CEFCU Stadium is San Jose if PayPal Park is unavailable - it should be fully redone by 2024.
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# ? Jan 29, 2023 07:29 |
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That’s probably not good https://twitter.com/equalizersoccer/status/1620147977682558986?s=46&t=PkgiH3Ljt3tPwV2wsmtSgg
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# ? Jan 30, 2023 20:54 |
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Not being content with screwing over the men's team after they qualified for the World Cup, the Canadian Soccer Association is now seeing the women's team go on strike months before their own World Cup due to broken promises and shady financing.
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# ? Feb 11, 2023 01:37 |
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Short-changing their women's team shortly after winning a major tournament? Who do they think they are, US Soccer?
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# ? Feb 11, 2023 02:34 |
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Nevermind, they're worse apparently: https://twitter.com/rwesthead/status/1624487684214255617 Someone with art skills combine and plzkthx
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Today is the start of the SheBelieves Cup, a 4 team tournament between the US, Canada, Brazil and Japan, taking place in the US. All games air on HBO Max in English with some combination of Universo/Peacock/Telemundo App for the Spanish broadcast. Schedule: February 16 - Exploria Stadium, Orlando, FL Japan vs. Brazil - 4PM EST USA vs. Canada - 7PM EST February 19 - GEODIS Park, Nashville, TN USA vs. Japan - 3:30PM EST Brazil vs. Canada - 6:30PM EST February 22 - Toyota Stadium, Frisco, TX Canada vs. Japan - 4PM EST USA vs. Brazil - 7PM EST Reminder that you are all morally obligated to root against Canada because their federation is a dumpster fire.
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# ? Feb 16, 2023 16:21 |
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This weekend is also when the playoff for the last WWC spots will start (along with some friendlies involving Argentina and host New Zealand and losers matches so that everyone plays at least 2 games in this window). 3 spots up for grabs, 3 group winners to take them. Group A: Portugal vs. Cameroon/Thailand winner Group B: Chile vs. Senegal/Haiti winner Group C: Chinese Taipei/Paraguay vs. Papua New Guinea/Panama (shouldn't this be Group P with Portugal in it instead of Taipei? )
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# ? Feb 16, 2023 16:33 |
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The Canadian federation is so damned bad. I feel like you kinda gotta pull for the Canadian players given the poo poo they're going through - but at the same time they're being forced to play in the tournament so perhaps it's better not to.
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Canadian players say that they haven't been paid for 2022. I imagine we'll see some sort of in-game action/protest, especially given that the first game is against the US who know all too well about this brand of bullshit.
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