Who knew women's soccer could be this rough?

[Neroon]

Link to clip

One girl in particular seems to have a yearning for ultimate fighting. As one of the announcers for the story says, "this has an almost MMA-like quality to it". All jokes aside, I honestly have never seen anything quite like this in a women's sporting event.

 

[Wicca who Wonta]

The video can't be shown in my country due to copyright restrictions.

I follow a lot of different women's sports and I've never personally seen any violence except for the usual fighting for the ball. But I've heard stories about it so I guess it happens from time to time.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Yeah, I saw that on ESPN. There should have been about 6 red cards handed out in that game. They finally yellow-carded someone for tripping a girl and then kicking the ball in her face, but the refs should be fired for allowing sportsmanship to degrade like that.

 

[Roger Wilco]

The only really bad foul in that clip was the hairpulling imo, everything else may warrant a yellow card but no more.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

The blatant elbowing and punching?

 

[Roger Wilco]

The punch was borderline, it was more a shove imo.

 

[Chaos Descending]

Kassidy Shumway (the girl that got hauled down by her hair) was tugging on Elizabeth Lambert's shorts just before she got pony-tailed.

Doesn't excuse it, not one bit, but I just find it funny that it didn't come out of no where, someone DID do something to piss her off, she just way over-reacted.

 

[Iasius]

The video can't be shown in my country due to copyright restrictions.

I follow a lot of different women's sports and I've never personally seen any violence except for the usual fighting for the ball. But I've heard stories about it so I guess it happens from time to time.

I assume the clip is about this game:
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4628040&categoryid=null

I get the same message with the youtube video, but I can watch that stream.

 

[Pegaritaville]

Didn't the gal doing the hair pulling (among other things) get suspended? I thought I read something about that.

Not into soccer at all, but that clip was pretty entertaining.

 

[Chaos Descending]

Yes she was indefinitely suspended.

 

[Wicca who Wonta]

The video can't be shown in my country due to copyright restrictions.

I follow a lot of different women's sports and I've never personally seen any violence except for the usual fighting for the ball. But I've heard stories about it so I guess it happens from time to time.

I assume the clip is about this game:
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4628040&categoryid=null

I get the same message with the youtube video, but I can watch that stream.

Thanks for the link! That was a terrible display of sportsmanship throughout the clip!

 

[Michael Chris]

Yeah, that was horrible. With this and Coach Locksley's insane behavior, UNM really needs to do something about it's athletics programs. I feel sad that my school is the news for all this crap.

 

[Neroon]

Thanks for the more accessible link, Iasius.

And yeah... I figured there was some extra activity that we didn't see which probably precipitated the pull-down .... but still, I hadn't ever seen something like that in women's college sports.

 

[Canadave]

While this is all obviously a bit much, I'm not terribly shocked at the fact it's in women's soccer. I've watched a fair bit of it, and it can be astonishingly rough, much more so than men's, I'd say. I've seen our university women's team play some very physical games in the times I've watched them.

 

[Mallory]

Well it's certainly a change from last year's college highlight clip of those two girls on the opposing team carrying the girl with the broken leg around the bases after she hit a home run.

 

[Dude]

And yeah... I figured there was some extra activity that we didn't see which probably precipitated the pull-down .... but still, I hadn't ever seen something like that in women's college sports.

If you put two of the clips together, you can see that it's one stream of action from one of the egregious take-downs through the hair tugging. Specifically, the New Mexico player more-or-less tackles the BYU player, elbows her on the ground and pulls her leg up backwards at an awkward angle, then the BYU player gets up and is expressing disbelief towards the general direction of the ref about the call. The New Mexico player then walks up and basically stands right behind the BYU player and kind of pushes her with the front of her shoulder. Then, the BYU player grabs the shorts of the New Mexico player while the New Mexico player is still touching her back. That's when the hair pulling drag down occurs.

The New Mexico player is the clear aggressor throughout that interaction.

 

[Tim]

I follow a lot of different women's sports and I've never personally seen any violence except for the usual fighting for the ball. But I've heard stories about it so I guess it happens from time to time.

You've never been to a women's ice hockey game, then. I went to one in college...holy crap.

 

[Wicca who Wonta]

^ That's actually a sport I don't follow but I think the no tackling rule in women's ice hockey feels out of place and it might be difficult to play a game like that without at least some rough contact.

 

[Canadave]

^ That's actually a sport I don't follow but I think the no tackling rule in women's ice hockey feels out of place and it might be difficult to play a game like that without at least some rough contact.

It's also ridiculously sexist, if you ask me. Most women hockey players I know would prefer to play with checking and full contact.

That's another debate, though...

 

[Wicca who Wonta]

^ That's actually a sport I don't follow but I think the no tackling rule in women's ice hockey feels out of place and it might be difficult to play a game like that without at least some rough contact.

It's also ridiculously sexist, if you ask me. Most women hockey players I know would prefer to play with checking and full contact.

I agree!

And it isn't very interesting to watch without full contact either.