Yet another well informed American blogger elects to enrich us with his opinion about women’s football.
On his site, John Lewandowski writes on 14 June,, 2010:
“the American women’s soccer team recently won the World Cup, but nobody cared. Why not? Because soccer sucks.”
With that statement alone Mr. Lewandowski brutally assassinated his own credibility.
John, recent? It was 11 years ago!
RIP
Oh how ESPN viewers’ habits and interests have changed.
In 2008 FC Indiana had two South African players, Lena Mosebo and Veronica Phewa, on its roster. Both were members of South Africa WNT and close friends of Eudy Simelane, 31, who was murdered by five men on April 27th, 2008 in Kwatema, east of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Within 2 or 3 days after Eudy’s murder I noticed sadness in Lena’s and Veronica’s faces and a change in their behavior. After talking with both I learned about Eudy’s murder and about Veronica’s very close friendship with Eudy.
It was a sad moment for me.
As a small club we decided to do whatever small thing we can to honor Lena and Veronica’s friends memory.
We notified Indianapolis as well as national soccer media.
Indianapolis media had no interest in this story. Then, even LGBT media ignored it.
In May 2008 ESPN could not care less about this tragic story. Why?
According to ESPN, they were “a sports network and their viewers would have no interest in this story.”
I understand, the World Cup was still 24 months away.
Two years on, just one month before the World Cup, ESPN had a documentary analyzing this tragedy. Draw your own conclusion.
Tough 2:3 loss at home to league leaders Rossiyanka. Three individual errors were swiftly punished by very efficient Rossiyanka and their captain Skotnikova who scored a hattrick (17′, 36′, 59′).
We missed a glorious opportunity in the second minute when Daria Apanaschenko missed from 10 meters out.
Down 1:2 at half we played very direct, fought bravely but just could not find the equalizer. Goals for us were scored by Olesiya Kurochkina (18′) and Ksenia Tsybutovich (72′).
Satisfied with the effort but not the result.
A match to forget. Up 3:0 at half, we were mediocre and managed to win 4:1 in Zvenigorod. The win combined with Izmailovo losing 2:3 at home to Voronezh keeps us in second place.
Friday we host runaway league leaders Rossiyanka, it will be very difficult for us and only a superb effort will give us a chance. Rossiyanka right now are the in-form team and are dominating the league.
Good fightback!
We went down 0:1 in the 4th minute as Energia’s Elena Danilova scored on the far post.
For 86 minutes we ground out three goals (Apanaschenko (2) and Kurochkina) and won in a very, very blue collar manner.
6 wins and 2 losses, we are second.
This was a very tough game for us and thanks to fine performances by Olesya Kurochkina (2 goals), Valya Savchenkova and others we won 2:0 over Ryazan.
Ryazan played 4-5-1, were well organized, combatative, difficult to breakdown and very dangerous on the break. At halftime it was 0:0 and my players showed great grit and character to get 3 points from this one. Very happy to get three points and with our second half performance.
We tied Izmailovo 1:1 during pre-season in March and felt that we needed to change things tactically against them.
It worked, as we beat them 2;0 in Moscow on goals by Sveta Zangieva and Dasha Apanaschenko. We did not play well but with 6 key players out with injuries, points are more important than performances at this point of the season. We need to win every game. Every game will be very difficult but we have to win and still hope that Rossiyanka will drop points. Rossiyanka has played well so far but all teams will experience injuries and loss of form. Once we have Nadia Baranova, Lena Suslova, Lena Mosebo and Busi back, we will be stronger. All we can do right now is continue fighting.
RT @OShaughnessyK: Really nice to see 3 of my Women`s North Leinster squad in the Ireland U17 squad at a World Cup and 7 in the Ireland U19 squad. Proud
