OT: USA Women's and Men's Soccer Team

[kets]

Actually, the women drew more per game than the men.

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But does that mean they made more than the men? There are ticket prices to be factored in, ads, , and income from worldwide tournaments. And worldwide the men's game is so much bigger than the women's game. I didn't watch 60 minutes, so maybe they addressed all this. Fair pay should be on par with how much the sport makes, IMO.

[Foxbatkllr]

Saying pay should be based just on how much the sport makes continues the cycle of sexism. A main reason women's soccer is not as popular worldwide is because of sexism (which I think the US is not as bad as most other countries even with the recent prez elect). That sexism results in good pay for crappy teams like the USMNT. Pay should take the performance of the professionals into account and for quite some time the women's team has been running laps around the men's team. We should reward performance.

[Bolt-O]

Well, the 4yr cycle for the USMNT is looking like a possible short cycle, the way they are playing. There is no excuse to getting blasted by Costa Rica (yeah, it was 'away'... but 4-0 was inexcusable.)

There are some other things besides pay, like flying in coach vs. first class, hotels, fields (Women's World Cup played on artificial turf, vs natural grass) that are unequal.

[sandiego17]

Pulisic with a goal and assist in the Champions League, developing well.

PSG should just retire as a club. Wow.

[Bolt-O]

USMNT winning v. Honduras in the Hex. They really need to fix their goal differential.

[sandiego17]

Fantastic first half hour. Love Pulisic' game.

[sandiego17]

Pretty good start to the second half. Damn!

[Bolt-O]

The pass from Pulisic to Dempsey was sick.

[sandiego17]

You asked for goal differential! Pulisic playing the 10 has been unreal, Dempsey appreciates it, looking like his Fulham days.

[chargerkdb]

Pulisic looks like the real deal and not just hype. Would like to see Bobby Wood out there and get Altidore out. Dempsey found Pulisic way too late in USMNT career. Would love to have seen these two have a decade working together.

[Bolt-O]

My concern was with Michael Bradley. Sometimes I wonder what the hell is going on when he's on defense and in a couple of touches, there is a shot on our goal. He did have a nice left footed goal, though.

I'm not sure that the Panama match is a must win, yet, but it looks like a rough road to just get into the top 3.

[chargerkdb]

I know the pundits like to build up the drama but we are going to qualify. If by some chance we don't finish at least 3rd in the Hex we will finish 4th. I'm pretty sure we could win the home/away to advance. I'd say less than 1% chance we don't qualify. If we don't finish in top 3 in Hex we sure as hell don't belong in the World Cup.