On June 27 2015 07:39 sharkie wrote: How sad is it that women shoot better pks than men?
Probably because men actually became worse in PK
In all fairness, a well placed ball close to the goal post will always be a goal, this is not the case with a male goalkeeper.
yeah, this is true. It's not hard to shoot a hard penalty like, within half a meter of the post in one of the lower corners. any professional football player should manage that like, 95+% of the time? but for guys, that's not a certain goal, it has to be even closer to the post than that, or the goalie has to go the other way, or it has to be ~1 meter above ground level. With those variables it becomes much more difficult. If a girl knows that if she just shoots hard in one corner and it's a goal, then there's no point in mixing it up.
But most of the penalty takers yesterday didn't even go for a hard shot towards the lower corner.
The quality of goalkeepers might indeed be the weakest aspect of the women's game, but these two goalkeepers are actually decent. (just watch the French goalkeeper save Maroszan's freekick)
As much as he may be an evil bastard, he is either standing down or he is not. Holding a special election with him running again should even be beyond Fifa levels of stupidity.
I saw this quote like a week ago, but I think a FIFA official cleared up the confusion by essentially saying that Blatter is still president (As in hasn't stepped down yet until a new one is chosen).
Lol apparently England coach made a comment to the media about Canada getting all the calls this tournament. So far in this game it's like 11 fouls called on England and 3 on Canada
How do you spill that out as a keeper. I guess at least we have a game
Her fault for saying that, the refs always favor the home nation. Oh and this is a tournament where the draw was rigged for the home nation(s)... so what would you expect
Nice to see that the English goalies are equal to their male colleagues tho :p
Hahaha. So funny how much everyone jumped on band wagon with England now they in semi finals. They played Japan twice recently and won and drew vs them so the interviews after game they all think they can win xD
Be fun i guess ill see if i can catch the semi finals but at midnight on a weekday will have to be something special to entertain me.
Warner Bros. and Oscar winner Ben Affleck will make a movie about the FIFA scandal, people familiar with the situation said.
The Burbank, California-based studio acquired the rights to “Houses of Deceit,” the story of Chuck Blazer, the FIFA executive turned whistleblower, said the people, who requested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
Warner Bros. is banking on doing better than FIFA’s own film account of the global soccer federation’s history. “United Passions,” released in the U.S. on June 5, has taken in less than $200,000 in worldwide ticket sales, according to Rentrak Corp. data.
Affleck, Matt Damon and their production company, Pearl Street, are among the producers, according to the Hollywood Reporter, which reported on the plans earlier Friday.
The film is based on the writing of Ken Bensinger, who published an article last year for BuzzFeed titled “Mr. Ten Percent,” an account of Blazer and his role in the scandal.
Bensinger said in a June 25 tweet that Simon & Schuster would publish his coming book on the scandal, with the working title “Houses of Deceit.”
Blazer -- a former FIFA executive committee member and one of global soccer’s most powerful figures -- said in testimony made public this month that he accepted bribes to influence voting on the host country for the 2010 World Cup, among other schemes that included accepting bribes from sports-marketing companies and tax evasion.
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