quick news round up

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

Chatter from the sidelines

• Messi rejected the award at Copa America So they decided to eliminate it


• FIFA Blatter 'not going to take the risk of travelling' Oh, behave


• FIFPro, the world footballers' union, is to welcome female players as direct members in a bid to fight inequality in the sport. Good news, right?


• Inter should be relegated for Salah debacle - Panerai Wow this is getting messy


• Tebas maintains La Liga will start on 15th August Hah, we'll see


• Who will catch the armband? The search for Real Madrid's next captain


• "Guardiola has destroyed Götze" Eurgh, but Götze is better than Messi, dude


• Barcelona ready to beat Manchester United and Chelsea to Arda Turan's signature How can Barcelona sign players if they're still banned- where will the player play?


• Tottenham Hotspur close to completing Toby Alderweireld move Not so fast because Southampton is threatening to sue. Atletico Madrid has left it too late, according to a clause, and Saints had first option to get him, as understood by contract (they'd pay about £6.8 million for him), but Aletico is all, "Really? I don't understand the question


• Is this Tottenham Hotspur's 2015-16 third kit? It's a nice purple


• Southampton threatening legal action over Alderweireld transfer to Tottenham Better overview here


• Galaxy introduces newest addition Steven Gerrard to fans at halftime He's gotten stuck in immediately. In training, will be playing his first game July 17


• Bastian Schweinsteiger told to make decision on future This piece of news keeps popping up

Pictures
Women's World Cup USA 5- 2 Japan

Credit to the yanks for getting the sport before it was even a 'thing' world wide for women. Title X, right?

All 16 national federations for the teams that failed to get out of the group stage at the 2014 men’s World Cup received $8 million from FIFA. That was $6 million more than the winning national federation will receive at this year’s Women’s World Cup, and that is just the start of the disparity.”

I thought the match was today, LOL at me. Anyway, just as well, the scoreline suggests a slaughter. Not Germany vs Brazil type, but still, if I'd stayed up for that I'd have been annoyed

USA got a hat trick against Japan in sixteen minutes, and The Daily Mail calls it 'a thriller'. LOL

OP: Done! Any cheers, jeers, corrections and commentary pushback, you know the drill! Cheers

Comments

[koyuki]

Also, the4thjuliek asked me a week or so ago why I wasn't more patriotic about national sports.

it's garbage like this. USWNT wins two WWC in 16 years and some US outlet is trying to argue they're the ~greatest World Cup dynasty of all time, comparable to the great Brazil / Germany / Italy men's teams of old.

lawd.

It's so embarrassing. The women's field is less competitive and they still couldn't take it home more than half the time they played. If any women's team is a dynasty, it's the German women's, who's won 8 of the 9 European championships they've participated in.

[the4thjuliek.livejournal.com]

FIFA plays a third-place playoff between the two semifinal losers, but since many soccer fans ignore it, our system will too.

Um, what. We don't (at least, I don't) ignore third place playoff at all. Yeah, it's a battle of losers but third place is still an achievement (and a medal).

And no one ever looks at 'dynasty runs'. It's all about titles.

[koyuki]

I think maybe 538 recently wrote an article about the Blackhawks "dynasty" (they're a hockey team based out of Chicago) but it makes more sense because they play for their cup yearly instead of every 4 years... though fuck them. I fucking hate the Hawks thinking about them makes me froth at the mouth in rage. It takes a special kind of fandom to make people *outside* of your fandom hate your team so viciously.

[the4thjuliek.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think it would make more sense if they wrote about a club dynasty like Arsenal winning the FA Cup or Barca winning the treble.

[meliadoul.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the hilarious article.

"Dynasty points" wtf.