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Soccer is a rough sport that takes a ton of stamina, lots of heart, enormous skills, and a modicum of luck.
The object of the game is to run up and down a field, known as a pitch, and move the ball along to your opponent's goal without using your hands, and try to kick it past a goalkeeper who is allowed to use hands to stop the ball from getting into the goal. Each team has eleven players, just like in American football.
There are two halves of 45 minutes each and the clock never stops. Extra time is added onto the end of each half, depending on the referee's discretion, based on overall injury time.There is no time for commercial breaks during play and this is the main reason for the sport not catching on in the United States--it doesn't generate the money that the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL does and sponsors aren't interested in only showing their wares during halftime.
Some folks, particularly those on the left who see something wrong with every aspect of American life, think it's unfair and sexist that women are paid less than men for playing the same game. Women's USA soccer players make between $25,000 to $85,000 per season, with the average being around $40,000.
But it isn't sexist. It's an indication of the relative commercial earnings of men's versus women's soccer and each one's ability to draw a consistent audience. If you understand that sports are part of the entertainment industry, you can see the relevance to this merit-based fact.
When judged on their merits and ability to generate money and interest, the Women's World Cup teams don't merit the same pay as their male counterparts. This is an inconvenient truth that people don't want to hear--especially the "everyone gets a trophy" crowd.
Athletic-wise, the women's teams aren't nearly as good as the men's teams--this is a fact, although not a politically correct fact, because there are biological differences between the sexes whether feminists want to believe it or not.
Check this out: the U.S. women's team has been ranked in the top three women’s teams internationally for much of the last several decades. Yet, in 2017, an under-15 professional men's academy team, an American club's team, beat them 5 to 2. Teenage boys beat the women's top players in the world. It wasn't even close.
That isn't the fault of the women's team and wasn't cause for alarm regarding their abilities to be beaten by boys. It didn't even indicate the women weren't highly skilled. It simply shows that even the best women soccer players do not have the same physical abilities with speed, strength, size and skill as the men's soccer at lower levels.
That's nature, not sexism.
Many more people throughout the globe watch men's soccer than the women's game and thus, they bring in much higher revenues. In fact, if you paid the men along the same percentages the women are paid relative to the money they bring in, the men would be paid many times higher than the women.
But two members of the U.S. women's team, Kelley O'Hara and Allie Long, were arrogant enough to put the needs of business owners aside and post on Instagram a call for them to give their employees the day off so the fans could watch the U.S. team's game against France [which they won].
They began by insulting the employers saying they were "living under a rock" if they weren't aware of the importance of the women's soccer team.
Sounds a little self-serving and inconsiderate of the employer's needs if you ask me.
Here's what the note said:
Dear Bosses & Supervisors: In case you're living under a rock, this Friday, June 28 is our World Cup quarterfinal versus France and it's gonna be a Big One! We kindly ask that you give every employee the day off so that they can eat a hearty lunch, get emotionally ready, bust out all their USA gear, and mentally prep for what will be an EPIC GAME! They will be back on MONDAY. MAYBE.
The Daily Mail noted, “In the Instagram caption, the team's social media manager wrote: ‘we want you with U.S. tomorrow, no matter what, so Kelley and Allie wrote you a totally legit excuse note.'”
They forgot to add: "Hand over your heart during the National Anthem is optional."
Which is why I don't care a fig how much money they make, and while I'm a very patriotic guy, and I hate to say it, but I really don't care if they win or lose.
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I think soccer is very important! Especially if she is wrong, then most certainly you should sock-her!
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