bad americans wrote:
I hate Rapinoe. She bashes America and disrespects the flag during the anthem. If she hates America so much, she should stop representing America on the national team. Give your spot to someone who loves the country.
I will never watch the team as long as she is on it.
Found the big government shill.
So what? The under 15 boys team is not playing in the Women’s World Cup. They women are popular and make a lot of revenue. Males have physiological benefits that make it easier for them to compete against women in almost all sports. That’s why XY shouldn’t be allowed in women’s sports. It doesn’t mean the Women’s World Cup isn’t entertaining. US men’s soccer team loses to developing countries and they still get paid.
The point is that it is illegal to discriminate based on sex, age, race , religion, or sexual preference. Yet, men are not allowed to compete for a spot on the women's team. This is clearly illegal sex discrimination. Next they will say that blacks are not allowed on the team.
This Fridays game against France has tickets selling for $11,000 a seat on the secondary market:
Guess there are some people interested in watching women's soccer after all OP.
Ha ha, and I’ve sometimes heard there are 1 or 2 other things to do in Paris besides watch women’s soccer, so it must be a big deal.
not unimpressed wrote:
How many people pay to watch some U15 boys team?
Hell, I'd pay to watch the U15 boys team whip the women's national team.
How funny would that be.
Would you pay $11k per seat?
Yes, there may be a ticket available for $11K but there is also several available for Eng/Nor for $6 (See image link below). It is difficult to get MLS tickets at this price in the NYC Metro area.
So about 1,833 times as valuable! (France is also the local team in Paris.)
joedirt wrote:
Would you pay $11k per seat?
I'd pay the $6
not impressed wrote:
I'm starting to get tired of them. They act obnoxious and look like they aren't motivated to win.
Now they want equal pay, but lost to a U15 team from Dallas. Come on, you need to realize the issue with women's sports is no matter how good the best player is, a 15 year old boy can probably do it better. And as for being paid more than the men? Ridiculous.
Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/nov/21/uswnt-60-minutes-equal-pay-us-soccer-disputehttp://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/a-dallas-fc-under-15-boys-squad-beat-the-u-s-womens-national-team-in-a-scrimmage/
That is irrelevant.
I wood wrote:
joedirt wrote:
Would you pay $11k per seat?
I'd pay the $6
Wrong game Moran. US vs France tickets start at 160 euros (@ $180), or about 4 times more than USMNT tickets would cost you in the gold cup (you know, since our men’s team can’t seem to qualify for the World Cup unless we host it). Still nothing compared to champions league final tickets, but still better than the USMNT.
joedirt wrote:
The TV ratings disprove your premise:
https://the18.com/soccer-entertainment/uswnt-vs-thailand-tv-ratings50% MORE viewers than the men's world cup last year (you know, the world cup that the USMNT didn't qualify for).
Go crawl back in your little boy cave.
Wait. What? 50% more viewers than the men's World Cup??? Are you high? Pretty sure the ping pong world champs get more viewerships than the womens world cup. I had no idea it was even on. No one I know is even watching this. At my company, we had a big screen TV playing non-stop with the real world cup going on, and at times had a 100+ people gathered. No one is even talking about the womens.
Do even more than 10 nations have a womens team? Who cares about womens soccer? People were packing the friggin streets watching at any bar they can. Bars, restaurants, clubs, hotels, everything was full watching the real world cup. No one is watching the womens.
Right, because your anecdotes are more persuasive than actual tv ratings.
joedirt wrote:
I wood wrote:
I'd pay the $6
Wrong game Moran. US vs France tickets start at 160 euros (@ $180), or about 4 times more than USMNT tickets would cost you in the gold cup (you know, since our men’s team can’t seem to qualify for the World Cup unless we host it). Still nothing compared to champions league final tickets, but still better than the USMNT.
He's clearly incapable of thought.
joedirt wrote:
The TV ratings disprove your premise:
https://the18.com/soccer-entertainment/uswnt-vs-thailand-tv-ratings
There’s something indecent about this picture
Sorry, it was the Fox live Twitter postgame show that had 50% more viewers than last year's men's world cup:
"Fox's live Twitter postgame show also had a record day with 424,000 views, an increase of nearly 50 percent over the daily average from the men's World Cup last year in Russia."
Plenty of people are talking about the women's world cup, sorry there are almost no women where you work or drink. I was at a sports bar for the last WWC game and the men's gold cup game on separate days. The WWC game was on most of the TVs. I had to request for them to turn on the USMNT gold cup game vs T&T.
USA beat France today 2-1. Trump must have hated it as Megan scored both goals.
Despite this the women's team brings in less revenue than a Men's team. Advertising rates are a lot less for the women's game than the Men's. The revenue just isn't there in the Women's game. If I am a salesperson bringing in 1.5m in sales a year and another salesperson is only brining in 800K a year, who do you think should be paid more? Should they both be paid the same?
joedirt wrote:
The TV ratings disprove your premise:
https://the18.com/soccer-entertainment/uswnt-vs-thailand-tv-ratings50% MORE viewers than the men's world cup last year (you know, the world cup that the USMNT didn't qualify for).
Go crawl back in your little boy cave.
Maybe in the USA but not in the rest of the world. Not even close.
Women's Game Doesn't have World Appeal.......yet wrote:
joedirt wrote:
The TV ratings disprove your premise:
https://the18.com/soccer-entertainment/uswnt-vs-thailand-tv-ratings50% MORE viewers than the men's world cup last year (you know, the world cup that the USMNT didn't qualify for).
Go crawl back in your little boy cave.
Maybe in the USA but not in the rest of the world. Not even close.
The British Premier League alone generated $7 billion in worldwide revenue last year.
How much do American women create and what is their world wide audience apart from the rare world cup competitions.
The American men were knocked out of the world cup qualification by tiny Trinidad!
No wonder nobody watches them.
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