Critiques against the U.S. women's soccer team for scoring too many goals and celebrating too much, are layered with sexism.
Even when the U.S. women’s soccer team triumphs—they just can’t win. At least not in the eyes of various sportscasters, commentators, and soccer diehards who claim there is a right way to win, criticizing the U.S. team for scoring too many times and for celebrating too much as the goals tallied up. The discussion surrounding yesterday’s game has conflated so-called sportsmanship with gendered expectations of what it means to be “ladylike.
ADVERTISEMENT On the other hand, the idea that the Thailand team can’t handle defeat is infantilizing and misogynist. Obviously it sucks to lose, but tears, disappointment and sadness are common in World Cup losses across the board. The Thai team is not especially weak or emotional and can certainly manage what happens in every, single sport—you lose.
Many sports aficionados claim that it is common, particularly in soccer, for dominating teams to hold back from completely annihilating the opposing team, when the win is already guaranteed. Within soccer culture, this is typically considered good sportsmanship, and it often happens where the winning team will pull back, and kick the ball around midfield to run down the clock, without making many aggressive advances to score. However, the key word here is “typically.
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