2023 World Cup Soccer: anyone watching?

U.S. women shouldn't get a g.d. dime for beating up on Vietnam either; if Rapinhoe is so "woke" (sic) she'd be donating her pay as reparations to the Vietnamese for real.

And they are missing a lot. But don't worry. She will be on American TV quite a lot once she joins Duke next fall.

Rapinoe was horrible. It's probably father time finally catching up. Morgan had a really bad PK.

Lavelle is also coming back from a recent injury, but she played much better.

Don't worry about Rapinoe "getting her way." That won't happen. And Team USA will be great next time with Smith, Rodman and Thompson.

China v Denmark is just as exciting as most men's games; no score 60 minutes in but lots of action and an engaged crowd.

Lol at losers coming on here to seethe about Pinoe on their Friday night.

Pinoe is past her prime but has experience.

The US weren't clinical. I enjoy the women's game but not when everyone is having problems sticking it in. I kind of miss the one-touch game that the top men's teams have, not sure why you can't implement that in the women's game.

US vs. Netherlands on Wed. should be good.

Japan beat Zambia 5-0 in their first participation.

Anissa Lahmari an French/Algerian/Moroccan that has chosen allegiance to Morocco in the world cup.

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Anissa Lahmari

Anissa Lahmari (en arabe : أنيسة لحماري), née le 17 février 1997 à Saint-Cloud dans les Hauts-de-Seine, est une footballeuse internationale marocaine jouant au poste de milieu de terrain. Biographie Carrière en club Anissa La...

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US only beat Vietnam 3-0? Yikes. I'm calling a quarterfinal shootout loss in devastating fashion. Hopefully a more deserving and also more aesthetically pleasing team such as Australia or France wins this. Those are national teams to actually be proud of.

I thought US would score more also, but during the match the announcers did say VN has had some good results lately, including a 2-1 loss to Germany. So although this was VN first WC match it wasn't like the last WC where the US waxed some noobs. Plus VN really packed in on defense and executed it well. Not saying the US wasn't a bit sloppy but they are turning over the roster pretty heavily. Netherlands will be a better gauge of the teams chemistry.

It's taken 50 years, but with Women's World Cup as background noise, Lionel Messi drilled a 94th minute curling free kick for a Miami win last night in his debut in front of LeBron James, Serena Williams, Mr and Mrs Beckham, Kim Kardashian and their soccer fan kids, plus a packed house.

Soccer has finally made it in America. Still to do is to elevate men's pro league and find a way to make CONCACAF more interesting and competitive.

Nope

How might one watch these actual matches, not in Spanish? It’s great Peacock airs the games, but totally in Spanish. My Espanol is at a basic level

Japan looked good in 5-0 win, but maybe it was just poor oppposition

I had several friends, all of whom are huge soccer nuts, who watched the Inter Miami game simply due to Messi.

When I said "But the US Womens National Team is playing at the same time and they're in the World Cup!", almost every text back was"Yeah but it's Vietnam, who cares, esp when Messi is making his debut in America".

I've long been in favor of having the bigger CONCACAF teams join up with CONMEBOL as a single confederation. It'd provide a greater challenge for your US, Mexico, Canada, Costa Rica, etc. CONCACAF can remain a collection of small islands and small nations and such, the way the OFC is (even Australia ditched that and plays in Asia for soccer purposes, so it's not like the confederations actually have to make perfect geographic sense). With the expanded World Cup, they're actually giving the OFC 1 full bid to the World Cup, and you could probably grant 1 or 2 to the micro-CONCACAF. That'd be interesting to see what the intermediate countries like Jamaica would do -- go to CONMEBOL for a chance at better development or stick with CONCACAF and battle the likes of St. Vincent and the Grenadines for a WC spot? Probably most would want to be big fish in a small pond but you never know.

Yeah, I watched a little of both and I just wonder if there aren't really 32 "world class" soccer teams in the women's game. I saw the graphic that said the shots were USA 26, Vietnam 0... not shots on goal but shots period, they didn't manage a single one! Maybe they're more competitive against Portugal next time but it just seemed a little absurd.

I equate to the women's NCAA basketball tournament. Does there really need to be 64 teams in that tournament? No, but there are.

I firmly believe Vietnams entire mentality going in was "Well as long as we don't lose 14-0, we won't be laughed at like Thailand was in 2019". Mission accomplished!!

If we play a draw against Netherlands, and they manage to blow out Vietnam, we could be behind in the goal differential. I hope that doesn't happen.