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World Soccer XXX: We Have Men Too!

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I was worried that Pelé on Netflix was going to be blasé but I was very wrong - a wonderful watch and it did his legacy the justice it deserves.
 
CONCACAF looking to start Women’s Champions League after 2023 World Cup

Or, how North Carolina Courage and Portland Thorns destroyed everyone on their way to a two leg final while a Mexican team maybe puts up a fight.

Granted, that’s not too different from the Men’s Champions League. At least CONCACAF is finally doing something, now if they can do a real World Cup Qualification so we can see the WNT sucking wind after 10 minutes at Azteca or complaining about field conditions in the Caribbean (and they thought FieldTurf was bad...).
 
Kepler said:
Is there any professional women's soccer outside of the US above the level of a Catholic Middle School?
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Don’t the Premier League and a lot of top UEFA clubs have a women’s counterpart? Seems like the entire English and French teams played for Chelsea or PSG.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Don’t the Premier League and a lot of top UEFA clubs have a women’s counterpart? Seems like the entire English and French teams played for Chelsea or PSG.
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I know they exist: for every EPL team (including their ute feeders) there's a chick equivalent. But I got the impression it was a joke and a 30-seed or so women's college team would destroy any of them. I'm not sure they're even dykes. They're unattractive, but that could just be they're British.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Don’t the Premier League and a lot of top UEFA clubs have a women’s counterpart? Seems like the entire English and French teams played for Chelsea or PSG.
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Yeah, a lot of the top clubs have begun investing in women’s teams the last few years and have been courting American players.

And yes there’s a UEFA Women’s Champions League.
 
Kepler said:
Is there any professional women's soccer outside of the US above the level of a Catholic Middle School?
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Yes. Europe, France, England, and Spain especially, have good teams. Japan and Australia have had decent leagues for years (many Americans would go to Australia during the winter months between NWSL seasons). Mexico is investing heavily as well.

It’s difficult to compare the NWSL to them though because there’s almost zero competition between them. The only barometer we have is the two Women’s International Champions Cups in 2018 and 2019. They were summer friendly tournaments played in the US and North Carolina and Lyon played in both finals, NC winning in 2018 and Lyon in 2019.
 
I will say, it’s a coin flip between North Carolina and Lyon over who’s the best Women’s team in the world with Portland and Wolfsburg not far behind.
 
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Costa Rica, Mexico, and the US all in the same group, with one of them guaranteed to not qualify.

It’s also crappy they can’t use the actual best U-23 team (well U-24 team in this case).

bUt ThE mEn ArE tErRiBlE because they can’t qualify for the Olympics...
 
Kepler said:
Per FIFA rank,

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 9 Mexico
22 United States
50 Costa Rica
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Yeah, CONCACAF seeds the Olympic Qualifying based on the results last time, meaning Mexico and Honduras got the seeds because they were the two countries to qualify directly (the US lost a playoff to Colombia). So the other group is Honduras, Canada, Haiti, and El Salvador.

And the tournament is in Mexico.
 
Jimjamesak said:
Yeah, CONCACAF seeds the Olympic Qualifying based on the results last time, meaning Mexico and Honduras got the seeds because they were the two countries to qualify directly (the US lost a playoff to Colombia). So the other group is Honduras, Canada, Haiti, and El Salvador.

And the tournament is in Mexico.
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Are FIFA ranks ELO-like and reflect ongoing international competitions? Are there just not enough data points outside the qualifiers?

In other words, is Costa Rica that bad? They sure don't look tough on paper.
 
Kepler said:
Per FIFA rank,

Code: 
 9 Mexico
22 United States
50 Costa Rica
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Those are the senior team rankings, though. Doesn't quite translate to this tournament being U23 + 3.

There are some random countries, like Mali, that are mainstays at the U20 World Cup, but that success never seems to make it to the senior level game.

Side note: I have no idea if TV was taken into consideration when building this stadium, but these shadows are brutal. At least the ball is white so you can sort of track it when it plays to the far side.
 
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