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in other news I just wasted 45 minutes of my time typing up a long reply to someone who was WRONG on the INTERNET (about women's soccer)
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this is a fucking mood
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lol their take is that nwsl is bad and does nothing to help the uswnt and should just be disbanded so players can be unleashed to play in ~Europe~
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that's a hot take but also wrong
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spoken like someone who has never watched a Euro league
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I mean also because FA Superleague is very hard to watch
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"NWSL has found mostly useless non-essential players like Adrianna Franch" HOLD ME BACK, etc
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it's not NWSL's fault the USWNT has mismanaged goalkeeping going back to the days of only giving Hope Solo starts
July, July
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am I being summoned to my own plurk?
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lmao I'm too onbrand
July, July
...wow thanks phone
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but yeah that is an AMAZINGLY bad hot take.
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did they really refer to franch as "useless" and "non-essential"
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yes lol that's the only kind of player that the nwsl "develops"
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i hope this person steps on a knockoff lego
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you know why they could call up ali krieger after… seemingly forgetting about her for two years? it's because there was a domestic league for her to play in
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domestic leagues are important for soccer even if we don't put as much focus on the sport here in the US, my god.
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yeah, like—
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okay the situation with women's sports is that no one gets paid enough
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'everyone should just play in European clubs' is dumb as an argument with the men's side as it is! it doesn't magically gain credibility for women!
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however, there are like five european teams owned by ultra rich dudes who have realized they can (relatively) cheaply field a women's side and get good brand pr out of it
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as they have realized that "while I'm paying 20 mil for this one male football star, I can also throw in an additional 1 mil and field an entire team of women full of internationals"
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but this is like, five teams in europe, and the leagues they play in are full of amateur squads
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I'm frankly all for european billionaires driving up salaries b/c I hope it inspires NWSL/USSoccer to up their game, but even if they can't do that, it's still good to have a domestic league
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I have another rant about MLS fans who won't watch women's soccer b/c it's an "inferior product"
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but they're… MLS fans…
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especially since the American women's team kicks ass on an international level while our men's team is lukewarm at best.
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and the best female american players play in the domestic league
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update: i've swayed their thinking via tl;dr