That may have been a watershed match for women's football, tbh. Despite the outcome, it was surely a classic that may have done a lot to legitimize the women's game as a sport. (And I say this as a regular follower of women's football at the international championship finals competition level.)
This may well be a match they will talking about many years from now.
We'll see. Canada going to the gold medal match, and having not beaten the USA since 2001 or whatever, something like 26 matches or something 22 losses and 4 draws - now a win, that would have been a watershed moment for football in Canada, period. This country needs to medal/win some significant international events, to build interest amongst youth, put our names on the map, so to speak. Also so we stop bleeding players to other countries... like Sophie Leroux, ahem, because they don't feel that staying in Canada gives them a good chance to win anything.
Canada deserved this match, that's all there is to it. Delay of game call on the keeper, without so much as an official warning from the referee? Indirect free kick in the box, with 10 minutes left in an Olympic semi-final against the top ranked nation in the world? Still find it unreal. That is sheer nonsense. We're talking about usually one or too verbal warnings first, then a yellow card. And the first US goal was garbage from Canada.
Would have been so huge.
Yeah, but she wasn't as good as my favorite lesbian athlete, Megan Rapinoe. Rapinoe was clearly WOM.
A hand in all goals, and while the last goal wasn't direct it was a result of her touchline hustling that kept the ball moving up the pitch and created a last-minute chance.
Rapinoe's solid, isn't she? But no, you surely realize that the WOM was Christine Sinclair, with her hat trick.
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You all are making me jealous. I saw some recaps though. The French guy was kinda cute. He was no Nemov though. I had a mad crush on him back in the day.
Ouch.