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snoodletuber t1_jdoww41 wrote

Reply to comment by TreeRol in "Women's football is reaching newer heights and the Barcelona effect" - Twitter erupts as The Roma vs. Barcelona match in the UEFA Women's Champions League at the Stadio Olimpico is the highest attended match in the history of Italian women's football by Ragnarok_619

The us women’s national team has been beaten by a team of 15 year old boys

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TreeRol t1_jdpxhca wrote

That is due to athleticism, not skill.

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mooninuranus t1_jdr2nlz wrote

The two are inexorably linked.

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TreeRol t1_jdr51xv wrote

You think being a good athlete automatically means you can find a striker's head with a cross? Man, you should tell the Olympic decathletes that, because they're leaving hundreds of millions of dollars on the table!

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mooninuranus t1_jdrnvlr wrote

Way to miss the point.

But if you don’t understand that skills differ between sports and that athleticism enhances them then there’s not much I can do to help.

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