Posted on 08/08/2012 5:34:37 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Canadian head coach John Herdman is asking for empathy ahead of the Olympic women’s soccer bronze medal match.
Not from Canada, a country that rose up in a rage usually reserved for hockey when it felt it’s team was wronged by a Norwegian referee, but from FIFA, the imperious governing body of world soccer, which announced Tuesday afternoon that it is “analysing incidents that occurred after the conclusion,” of Canada’s controversial 4-3 loss to the U.S. on Monday in a semi-final match in Manchester. The unspoken threat of suspension or fine thus hung over the team Tuesday as it attempted to regroup ahead of Thursday’s bronze medal match against France.
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I know next to nothing about soccer and its rules, but the Canadian goalkeeper was previously warned about hanging onto the ball for longer than the rules dictate. Then she admits she was warned, but thought they would never actually enforce the rule. So, you feel even if you break a rule, it shouldn’t be enforced because it’s rarely done? I remember Charles Barkley complaining about being called for a charging foul in a big game. Barkely clearly knocked down the man guarding him, but thought the ref calling him for charging was “taking the ball out of the hands of the players.” This sounds like a similar situation where a player is upset that they’re not allowed to violate the rules.
Add to that - the Canadians were playing a good game. The goalie didn’t need to hold on to the ball those extra seconds.
Some people just can’t stop themselves from being pricks.
I know a lot about officiating sports, and the ref in this match was horrible.
Even though McLeod was verbally warned at half time, the next step should have been a yellow card. That would have made the point that the ref was serious. Going straight from a verbal warning to awarding an indirect free kick is inexcusable.
The ref also allowed way too much rough play throughout the match.
Haven’t been a soccer fan for long, have you?
Nobody, and I mean nobody, makes that call without dragging the keeper out, giving him/her a stern warning face to face, and then later on watching them deliberately look at you and still abrogate your commands.
And yes, I am a soccer referee.
And for the record, talking about a women’s team being pricks is laughably stupid.
The goalie holding onto the ball more than the allotted time is technically a handball in the box ... ref could have awarded a penalty shot instead of an indirect.
The goalie admits she was warned at halftime. She can now only blame herself. Let me know when you are an Olympics referee.
So, a female soccer player can’t be a “prick”?
Interesting. What does your psychiatrist say about that?
Maybe it’s the same school of thought that claims Sarah Palin can’t say something “ballsy”?
Incorrect.
The laws of the game state that the keeper’s infraction will generate a restart with an indirect kick.
Considering this referee, however, she probably could have made something up on the spot, especially since Abby Wambach had been needling her by counting “1..2..3..4..” every time the Canadian keeper picked up the ball. Wambach admitted that her team needed some kind of edge, and as such was unapologetic about the way she baited the referee into a ridiculous call.
Also,the ref missed a Canadian player intentionally stomping on the head of an American player.
Any team whose players deliberately stomps on the face of their opponents should be disqualified.
Brilliant, Sherlock.
Try to deflect your obvious lack of New York understanding about a game other than baseball into an ad hominem attack.
And yes, I have refereed with men who have done World Cup games where players like Pele have been involved (he was an inconsequential little player for Brazil, doncha know) although I’ve never had the privilege myself.
I’m worried about you. The psychiatric terms “projection” and “transference” seem to apply to your obsessive usage of the term ‘prick’ in reference to women.
Is there a problem we know about?
And I suppose that supports my contention that the referee was undeniably bad, and that her calls altered the course of the game, eh?
More flames from you while you cry like a baby.
Look how that is working out for the Canadian team, which is what this tread is actually about!
Too funny, hahaha!
Some of you people will just never learn, EH?
And you say you are a referrer - psss.
True,we would have won without a penalty shot.
I will watch the U.S. men’s and women’s teams in the Olympics, but that’s about it. Every time I try to watch this “exciting” game, it seems I’m watching players get the ball, lose the ball, get the ball, lose the ball, get the... you know what I mean. Shots on goal seem like every other blue moon. Too many players, the field’s too big, and some of the rules are too stringent.
Perhaps, but the referee is never supposed to insert himself/herself into the overall outcome with controversial and marginal calls.
Sort of like your American football refs, before instant replay, which causes a number of game-changing calls to be reversed.
As to you winning without a penalty shot, how did the kicks from the mark go for you in last year’s Women’s World Cup?
USA made it to the Final.
How did Canada do?
(oh yea, they were the first kicked out)
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