[CelticJourney]

YES!! if it were men, I'd be just as upset with the lack of sportsmanship. If we want our children to engage in sports for anything other than trophies and bragging rights, we had better be concerned about character development and winning with honor.

Originally Posted by Virginia

I think there is a big difference between the World Cup and anything that any of us or our kids have competed in. It comes once every four years and is what these women have been working towards their whole careers.....

First, many of the women whose behavior was tacky have been here before. ... four years ago to be exact. Not first-timers. Not the goal of their entire careers. The newbies that scored their first WC goals, I totally get their excitement.

Second, It was Thailand....not France, not Germany, not even Brazil...'just happy to have been invited' Thailand. The US team are the returning champions and highly favored to win against the best in the world...which is definitely not Thailand.

The degree to which they celebrated made them look .... actually I'll repeat what Lexi Lawless said today. Basically his opinion was that they did nothing 'wrong', but since they are the highest ranked team playing such a low ranking team, celebrating the way they did made them look like bullies and the villains of the tournament, automatically making the target on their backs that much bigger. "No one likes it more than seeing a bully punched in the face and, on the world stage, even better if the bully is America"

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Originally Posted by Mother of Sons

... I don’t care how big the competition is or how long a team or person has trained sportsmanship doesn’t change.

This.