Not-so bright USWNT Lindsey Horan says American fans "aren't smart" now sorry

U.S. women's soccer ball kicker Lindsey Horan pissed off a lot of people recently when she made a dumb statement saying that American soccer fans "aren't smart" and don't understand the game. 

Horan never realized at the time, that Americans are generally not interested in the soccer mainly because it's rarely broadcasted on mainstream tv because it doesn't allow time for commercial breaks. The clock always runs until half-time. There are more people on the roof of a busy Indian train than go to soccer games.

Americans love sports, but soccer is not one of our main pastimes. Baseball, football, basketball, hockey and even tennis have bigger viewerships. But soccer is boring to the Americans so why should we know the rules of the game?


Now Horan is sorry she made her stupid remarks and is walking it back.

Horan issued an apology to reporters Thursday ahead of the first CONCACAF Women’s Gold Cup slated to begin next week, as if anyone cares.

"First and foremost, I would like to apologize to our fan[s]," the 29-year-old sub-genius said on ESPN. "Some of my comments were poorly expressed, and there was a massive lesson learned for me."

Hopefully the lesson she learned is that she isn't that bright and should think of what she's about to say and then not say it.

"When I think about our fan, I love her so much. This team loves her so much, and I can't begin to explain how much she means to us. Every time we step out and train, every time we step out and play in games, we play for her, and she is our inspiration, she is our motivation, and seeing her wearing our jerseys and seeing her screaming our names and chanting 'USA,' that's what we play for."

She does not love her fan. That is a lie. She doesn't know her by name, her hopes, her dreams, or what she's really screaming at the games.

She continued, "And I never wanted to take any of that away. And continuing on that, the soccer culture in America is changing and growing so much in such a positive way."

Especially for the pink hair community.

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Rapinoe misses free kick, cries, the USWNT loses to Sweden and goes home

"Boo hoo"

As a patriotic American I never rooted against my country's team in any sporting event until now. The US Women's National Team, the women who take a knee at the US national anthem because people died to give them that right, lost to Sweden on Sunday night in Melbourne. Sweden's national women's soccer team won the game and the world is a better place for it, in my patriotic humble opinion.

Lin Hurtig booted the winner in penalty kicks that came off Alyssa Naecher's hands and just crossed the line before it was swept away by the keeper.

After the goal was confirmed by technology showing the ball went in by a silly millimeter, the Swedish team ran to the corner in jubilation, a 5-4 win on penalties in hand after a scoreless 120 minutes. It's amazing how most of the world loves soccer.

The U.S. Women's National Team has dominated soccer for years, but not on Wednesday. Some of the American women cried because leftists tend to cry easily when they don't get their way, and Megan Rapinoe, who missed a free kick, bowed her head and aqua colored hair, with a smile of disbelief. No worries for her, she will be coddled by the left for hating the country, the flag, and the freedom she has to do so. I imagine CNN or MSNBC will snap her up as a female version of Al Sharptongue.

I don't know who on the team stood for the national anthem and who took a knee, but overall the team can go to hell in a hand basket.

For the first time in the 32-year history of the Women’s World Cup, the U.S. is out before the quarterfinal and it feels like karma to me.

I want an American team that not only represents the USA, but loves it. So adios, adieu. aufwiedersehen, ta ta.  

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College soccer player got benched for not kneeling for BLM--now she's getting big bucks

Kiersten Henig, former VA Tech soccer player refused to kneel along with her teammates, in support of Black Lives Matter and now she's collecting a decent wad of cash because the school benched her and hassled her over her First Amendment rights.

In a report by The Roanoke Times, Ms. Henig agreed to a $100,000 settlement to drop her lawsuit against the school. This was also confirmed by her lawyer, Cameron Norris who explained that neither party had to admit to any wrongdoing, but if you are reading this post, you know who is in the wrong.

Kiersten was a starter on the team in her freshman and sophomore seasons but said she was benched after she chose not to kneel during a pregame ceremony that was planned to honor the racist and violent organization soon after the death of the thug known as George Floyd. [This is not to say that Floyd deserved to die for trying to pass a counterfeit twenty dollar bill or hold a loaded gun on a pregnant woman while his cohorts robbed her home, not exonerate the cop who held him down with his knee on Floyd's neck. But Floyd was not a model citizen and BLM tried to make him out to be godlike.]

Henig blamed the women's head soccer coach, Charles “Chugger” Adair, saying that he had scolded her during halftime at that game. After the no-kneel event, he limited her playing time and she said she was punished for exercising her First Amendment rights. 

Since she was not getting any real playing time and was allegedly targeted by Adair in a “campaign of abuse and retaliation” against her, she quit the team.

The suit was filed in March of 2021. It asked that Henig be put back on the team and also be awarded an undisclosed amount in damages, but Henig had graduated by the time the suit was filed and she doesn't plan to finish out her eligibility. 

The lawsuit stated that Henig supported social justice initiative [everybody gets the same grades, a trophy and a cookie] but added that she does not support BLM as an organization because of its “tactics and core tenets of its mission statement, including defunding the police.”

"Chugger" [big beer drinker?] is still head coach for Virginia Tech's women's soccer and he released a statement after the settlement. He claimed to be vindicated and adding, “I am pleased the case against me has been closed and I am free to move forward clear of any wrongdoing … It’s unfortunate, but this ordeal was about a disappointment and disagreement about playing time. Today, we have clarity that this case lacked any standing, and without evidence, the truth has prevailed.”

If you believe Adair that this case was about playing time, you might also believe that Joe Biden founded Mensa.

Meanwhile, the  settlement is not final until state officials and officials at Virginia Tech have reviewed and approved it.

But hey, it's Virginia Tech--at least nobody got shot. And let's face it--all lives matter.

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Ex-VA Tech soccer player benched for not kneeling, allowed to go forward with her lawsuit

The two most difficult thing in sports is to score a goal in soccer, and the second is for Americans to watch a soccer match.

Kiersten Hening, a former Virginia Tech women's soccer player has sued her former coach after he allegedly benched and pressured her for refusing to get on her knees during a pregame oxymoronic social justice demonstration. A judge has ruled that she can go forward with her lawsuit.

Ms. Hening, who was a midfielder/defender for the Hokies from 2018 to 2020, sued coach Charles "Chugger" Aidair in 2021 on First Amendment grounds, which federal Judge Thomas Cullen announced on Dec. 2 can proceed to trial [because he violated her First Amendment rights if this really happened].

Hening alleged that Adair was not a fan of her conservative political views as did many of her teammates, especially on one-way social justice issues during the zenith of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.

Hening further explained in the lawsuit that while she "supports social justice and believes that black lives matter," she "does not support BLM the organization," citing its "tactics and core tenets of its mission statement, including defunding the police."

After Hening declined to kneel during a reading of a "unity statement" before a game against UVA on Sept. 12, 2020, she said Adair "verbally attacked her" at halftime, claiming she was "bitching and moaning" while jabbing a finger in her face.

Actually, it was Adair doing all the bitching and moaning, it seems.

Adair continued to berate Hening until he benched her and ultimately made things so intolerable that she felt compelled to quit the team, according to the suit. 

"Hening, who had been a major on-field contributor for two years prior to the 2020 season, also asserts that Adair removed her from the starting lineup for the next two games and drastically reduced her playing time in those games because she had engaged in this protected First Amendment activity. As a result, Hening resigned from the team after the third game of the season," Cullen noted in his recent ruling.

Hening's time on the field dropped off following the incident, the judge noted.

"As a freshman, Hening averaged 76 minutes of playing time; as a sophomore, nearly 88," Cullen wrote. "But during the Clemson game [the next game after the kneeling incident], Hening only played 29 minutes, and, at the UNC game, just 5."

Adair, a card-carrying a-hole, argued that two other players who declined to kneel did not face reduced playing time, moved to dismiss the lawsuit, which was denied.

"Ultimately, Adair may convince a jury that this coaching decision was based solely on Hening’s poor play during the UVA game, but the court, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to Hening, cannot reach that conclusion as a matter of law," ruled Cullen, who said the issues in the case are fundamental.

"While the U.S. Supreme Court and the Fourth Circuit may not have addressed the novel factual circumstances presented here—i.e., a college coach allegedly retaliating against a player for refusing to kneel with her coaches and teammates in support of perceived unity and social justice—the core constitutional principle is both clearly established and fundamental to a free society, and especially to an institution of higher education," Cullen wrote.

Adair is hoping that one day his women's team can compete against an all-transgender woman's team and get woke points and possibly risk a few serious injuries to his woke girls.

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Iran takes its soccer seriously: kill Iranian who cheered when US won

Mehran Samak, 27, an Iranian man who honked his horn in celebration of the U.S.'s 1 -0 defeat of Iran at World Cup was murdered by local authorities in the city of Bandar Anzali, Oslo-based Iran Human Rights reported.

When Iran's team returned home, the welcome was as cold as a well-digger's butt in February due to their loss to the United States while ongoing anti-government protests were in full swing in Iran, the number one sponsor of global terrorism. But when one man cheered the U.S. victory by a simple horn honk, that was too much for local sharia enforcement to tolerate and they shot the driver dead.

Anti-government protesters, considering the team a symbol of Iran’s clerical rulers, had celebrated the loss in some Iranian cities with fireworks and cheers all while many Iranians protested the killing of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who was taken into custody by the ironically-named morality police for not wearing a head covering known as a hijab.

Recently, the family home of Iranian rock climber Elnaz Rekabi had been demolished because she competed in South Korea without wearing a hijab in protest of Amini's murder. OMG! Her hair was showing and it drove Iranian men into a sexual frenzy.

In this latest case, in which even the Iranian soccer team refrained from singing the Islamic Republic's national anthem during the World Cup opening ceremonies, the government will be looking into the situation, although the team did sing the anthem in subsequent matches.

A few dozen fans greeted the national team’s return at Tehran’s international airport late Wednesday, with people cheering and waving the Iranian flag. It was too noisy to ascertain whether they were chanting "Death to America!" "Death to Israel!" but it shouldn't surprise us if they did.

The players have also faced fierce criticism from anti-government protesters who were angry with them for not being more outspoken over security forces violence toward protesters. Human rights groups estimate over 400 protesters have been killed in the crackdown, with thousands more arrested.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has likened protesters to “flies” and dismissed the movement as a foreign plot, without offering any proof, much like the mainstream legacy media and the women of "The View."

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Ex-CIA spook who worked for DNC spied on US citizens to help Mid East gov.

Kevin Chalker, a former CIA agent working for Qatar, spied on top soccer officials as the tiny Middle East country sought to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, according to the Associated Press. [H/T Western Journal]

The AP said Chalker was contracted to help give a country that was not his own an advantage in securing the tournament by using spies and malicious software. 

It sucks, but at least it isn't treason.

“Qatar sought an edge in securing hosting rights from rivals like the United States and Australia by hiring Chalker, who became a private contractor, to spy on other bid teams and key soccer officials who picked the winner in 2010, the AP’s investigation found,” the AP’s Alan Suderman reported.

“Chalker also worked for Qatar in the years that followed to keep tabs on Qatar’s critics in the soccer world, according to interviews with Chalker’s former associates as well as contracts, invoices, emails, and a review of business document,” Suderman wrote.

Chalker's surveillance work included hiring someone posing as a photojournalist to spy on rival countries and their respective bids to win the rights to host the 2022 tournament. The USA was one of those countries which came in second behind Qatar, according to the AP.

Under his company, Global Risk Advisors, Chalker agreed to accept $387 million for his work for the Qatar government, but it isn't known how much Global Risk Advisors was finally paid.

The ex-CIA spook also promised he could assist Qatar as it sought to “maintain dominance” over foreign workers who were used to build the facilities needed for the World Cup, the report said. So not only would they get the rights as host, but they would also get the labor rights as well.

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Although the AP cited many sources and strong verification efforts on all published information, Chalker claimed the documents were forged and denied all findings.

Chalker was employed by the CIA for five years before spying on behalf of Qatar, the report stated.

“The CIA declined to comment and does not usually discuss its former officers,” Suderman wrote. “But the agency sent a letter to former employees earlier this year warning of a ‘detrimental trend’ of foreign governments hiring former intelligence officers ‘to build up their spying capabilities …'”

But whether it's true or not, at least he wasn't at the overthrow of the entire US government on January 6th and Trump.  

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2nd place US women's soccer team now rejects equal pay deal" calls it a PR stunt and "not good enough"

"Can you believe it? We came in 2nd, played poorly and they agree to pay
us the same as the men. Something's fishy. What a bunch of suckers. Hahaha!"

They lost to a 16-and-under boys soccer team in a scrimmage game and only came in second behind Canada at the Tokyo Olympics this year in a rather suck-worthy performance. Still, the U.S. women's soccer team has been demanding "equal pay" to that of the U.S. men's soccer team, in spite of the comparable monetary pittance the women bring in. 

Earlier in the week, the U.S. Soccer Federation offered the men's and women's teams identical contracts, and thus, equal pay in spite of the differences in their skill levels and their money-earning histories.

But the union representing the mediocre women's national team attacked the soccer federation's equal pay offer calling it a "PR stunt." Based on the athletic differences between men and women in most sports, soccer being a standout in ability, it's almost a believable claim because hardly anyone is interested in women's soccer until the olympics rolls around, and even then, not so much. Women's soccer takes in a mere fraction of what the men's teams do.

The union said that the offer was not "fair" nor made in "good faith," possibly because the federation refused to kiss the cleats of the female players. Forward [that's a field position in soccer] Alex Morgan said Wednesday that the female players "still need to chat" about the equal pay offer, and suggested that equality wasn't the team's primary goal after all. 

The goal may actually be to promote the LGBTQ+1.4 community and a pink-haired lesbian player on the women's national team who is clearly overpaid and her team is unable to defeat a team of 16-year-old boys who play for fun.

"We need to look line by line at what they're actually providing, because if you have equal but it's not even what we got before, or to the value that we are, then we still consider that to be not good enough," Morgan said.

In response to the women's national team's balderdash, the U.S. Soccer Federation said clearly that its offer of "identical contracts to the USWNT and USMNT, and to discuss equalizing prize money, is real, authentic and in good faith. A publicity stunt is a 90-minute one-sided movie."

The latter sentence about a 90-minute publicity stunt refers to LFG, the recently released HBO Max documentary (produced by propaganda news, CNN Films,) about the women's team's struggle for equal pay. The Wall Street Journal described LFG as a "good-looking" but "very politicized" film full of "outrageously one-sided arguments."

Perhaps the new contract should stipulate that salaries of players be based on a percentage of the proceeds the seasonal games collect at the gates. That would be fair and equitable, since equity is so important to the left.

Since Joe Biden [his Indian name is "Shines Through Both Ears"] was sworn into office, the women's soccer team has spiraled into decline in performance. While slated to "win it all" in Tokyo, they got humiliated by Sweden in a humiliating 3-0 ass-whooping and then were booted out of gold medal contention by Canada.

In 2019, the women's team sued the U.S. Soccer Federation for gender discrimination and more, in a $66 million lawsuit, which was dismissed by a federal judge who evidently saw the ridiculous suit as frivolous. 

Meanwhile, the U.S. men's soccer team defeated Mexico to win the CONCACAF Gold Cup, further undermining the crybaby argument for "equal pay."

Fill more seats, bring in more revenue, and then you can talk turkey.

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The Economist too woke for most folk: upset that Italian soccer team composed of Italians

Woke joke The Economist, not known for its sports commentary, on Wednesday said that the Italian championship soccer team's lack of diversity the most "striking" feature of the squad. Apparently this embarrassment of a media outlet is more interested in skin color, gender identification, height, intelligence, and physical attributes than their ability to play the game.

Italy beat England in the Euro 2020 final on Sunday in penalty kicks to take home the championship trophy.  While fans went wild, The Economist went woke and was most concerned about the lack of black and brown players on the Italian team. There was also a lack of Asians, midgets, gays, lesbians, and paraplegics, Jews and Muslims, the latter causing Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to have a cow.

"The most striking aspect of Italy’s 26-man squad before it took to the pitch was that, alone among the main contenders, it did not include a single player considered as being of color," The Economist tweeted. However, there were indeed several players who identified as being black women in spite of their genitalia but the outlet did not report on that. Also, there was one player from Calabria who identified as being a transgender woman with chronic testicular engorgement--she goes by the name of Bruno.

"THE EURO 2020 final between Italy and England was striking, not just for the clash of footballing styles in the match itself, but for the socio-political undercurrents that swirled between the two sides and touched on issues that included nationalism, internationalism and racial sensitivity," the Economist wrote in the accompanying piece.

The outlet went on to note the squad received criticism for their "ambivalent" approach to taking a knee as a gesture of opposition to racism and that the sporting event "favored" the country's right wing.

"Since when has a knee done botz to stop racism?" Vito DeGennaro, Team Italy's kicking lefty coach said. "You gotta do more than a knee to keep a da people from saying a bad tings about people of a da color," he added. "Fahgeddabowdit."

Normal people were confused by The Economist's narrative and mocked the premise of the silly tweet.

"BREAKING: Italian team was comprised entirely of Italians. More at 11," The Daily Caller mocked.

Based on the Economist's narrative, others wondered whether the outlet would publish similar analysis of African soccer teams.

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Girls volleyball coach rejects school district's boys inclusion policy

Hawaii -- a girls volleyball coach in sunny Hawaii is finally standing up to the lunacy of the left and the LGBTQR2D2 yadda yadda community by refusing to go along with the Hawaii High School Athletic Association (HHSAA) policy of allowing dudes to play in female sports as long as they call themselves girls.

By the same token, the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is allowing male athletes who identify as discuses to be thrown at track and field competitions by both male and female discus throwers. The same is true with thin females who identify as javelins.

According to LifeSiteNews, the HHSAA adopted a policy in 2017 declaring that students are "presumed eligible to participate in HHSAA activities in a manner consistent with their school registration records, even if that differs from the sex assigned at birth."

Sex that is "assigned at birth" is actually assigned by a higher authority, if you know what I mean. You don't become a woman or a man because you believe you are if you're not--sadly, you are delusional and might benefit from psychiatric intervention, which is much less trouble than surgically cutting away your genitalia and reshaping it to give it that "look" you want. And hormones don't change your gender.

Men [of the XY chromosome variety] are on average significantly stronger than YY females. That is a phenomenon known as basic biology. And it isn't fair to young women who are hoping to gain a sports scholarship in their sport who have to compete with transgender women [aka biological guys] and lose to them.

This poor coach chose to remain anonymous because the media is crazy and will do what they can to assist their colleagues on the left to destroy him or her.

"In my opinion, it's very irresponsible for the league to place these young women, who are minors, in an elevated level of risk," the coach told the Maui News. "They all sign off on an assumption of risk form for an understandable amount of risk. Now, there's an elevated level of risk their daughters are going through and being put through without any notification to the parents at all."

But the worst part, aside from injury, is that the transgender "girls" that compete and win were generally very mediocre as boys.

An under-15 boys soccer team bet U.S. Women's National Team in a scrimmage prep for the women. The score was 5 - 2.

Tiare Sua, a man who thinks he's a woman and who works at the Maui AIDS Foundation, told Maui News that it's ultimately sexist to believe that men are inherently stronger than women.

No, moron, it's biological-ist.

It used to be considered a mental illness known as gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder, but the American Psychological Association bowed to political pressure from the left and now it's simply fashionable to have the disorder.

You can't even watch a Netflix movie or series without at least one gay or lesbian scene that often has nothing to do with advancing the plot.


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The Caliphate Is My Oyster

There are no borders in a caliphate. There is no Iran, Iraq, Syria or any other name to differentiate one place from another; there is just a Caliphate. So when thirteen Iraqi youths were shot and killed by the Islamic State (which is not Islamic nor a state) for cheering on their Iraq team in a soccer match against Jordan in the Asian Cup, it made me think about what the world would be like if we had to live in a world caliphate under Islamic State rule.

First, there would be no Asian Cup or any other kind of athletic competition because everyone would be living under the dominion of Islam. That is, everyone who would be permitted to live. This would happen very soon after a caliphate was established.

The Jews would all be slaughtered as prescribed by the Koran. No more Jews and that would be a loss for the world. If you think about the contributions Jews have made to society, it's obvious that scientific growth and inventiveness would suffer.

Beheading in Brazil Over Soccer Game: Obama Doesn't Take Sides

Brazilian soccer referee Otavio Jordan da Silva de Catanhede, 20, got into what turned out to be a rather heated argument with soccer player Linda dos Santos Abreau, 31. It resulted first, in Abreau being ejected from the game, then the two of them getting into a physical altercation, then Jordan pulling a knife and stabbing the player who died en route to hospital. By the way, Linda was a dude (pictured left).