[Magdalen] Women's World Cup

[Jay Weigel]

Actually, Roger, the European teams are simply a bit more advanced, which
is why they qualified so many. The African and Latin American teams are
farther behind in their development. I was encouraged by the presence of
teams from Cameroon, Nigeria, and Cote d'Ivoire, and by the fact that
Cameroon got as far as they did. I note the rather significant absence of
teams from eastern Europe and, of course, the Arab countries. I'm a bit
surprised that the traditional powers in Latin American men's soccer lag so
far behind in the women's game.....particularly Argentina and Uruguay.
Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Brazil at least showed up and gave a
decent account of themselves.

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> I hadn't noticed Holiday but I had noticed Rapinoe as an inspiration on
> the field.  She will be major loss in the next round.  As for
> representation of different international federations, Europe is bigger
> than the rest which is why they had eight teams in the group stage - a
> third of the totasl qualifying teams.
>
> Roger
>
>
> On 25/06/2015 17:56, Jay Weigel wrote:
>
>> The US will play without two of its stars, Holiday and Rapinoe, who both
>> "earned" their second yellow cards the other night, thanks to some dubious
>> refereeing on the part of a French ref. This should force some creative
>> coaching on the part of coach Jill Ellis, though I for one am not at all
>> confident that she is capable of such. And saying that one team from North
>> America is "surely enough" is like saying one team from Europe or Asia is
>> enough. Don't start. I really don't want to go there.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Roger Stokes <
>> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Are we going to have sports wars on the list?  One team from North
>>> America
>>> through to the next roiund is surely enough.  Incidentally one of the
>>> leading lights in the US team got a yellow card in the last match.  Does
>>> that bring a one game suspension?
>>>
>>> Roger
>>>
>>>
>>> On 24/06/2015 19:43, Jay Weigel wrote:
>>>
>>>  Go Canada!
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, June 24, 2015, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com
>>>> >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   We Canadians are rooting for Canada.  Now we must beat England, who
>>>> beat
>>>>
>>>>> Norway last night.  One match at a time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>>>>
>>>>>
>