women's soccer world championship

BaldJean wrote: Friede and I just watched the second match of the women's soccer world championship, Germany vs. China (Germany won 1-0). the Chinese women had quite a robust style of play; there were a lot of fouls, sometimes real brutal ones, by the Chinese. after one of these fouls one of the German players said something to one of the Chinese women, and this was shown in slow motion. though there was no sound to that scene it was clear what the German player said (at least for anybody who speaks German well). she said: "willst du mich verarschen"? this phrase is hard to translate because there are many meanings to it which all come through at the same time in German. literally the phrase means "are you trying to arse me?"; the meanings that are in there are "are you trying to make a fool out of me?", "are you trying to deceive me?" or "are you f**king around with me?".  Friede and I really had to laugh when we saw that slow motion. the commentators in the studio made a few remarks about that scene after the game too, including quoting the phrase; it really was obvious what she had said. the phrase is very colloquial and generally only used when you are really pissed off at someone

 

BaldJean wrote: verslibre wrote: BaldJean wrote: I am always torn between 2 camps for such world cups. one half of me routes for the USA, my former home country, the other half roots for Germany   I must have missed that! Where are you from originally? I am originally from Oakland, CA. I came to Germany in 1993

 

Edited by BaldFriede - June 22 2019 at 08:16

Norway - Australia was the best match so far

well, the USA won 2-1 against Spain, but this victory was anything but convincing. both goals were scored with penalty kicks, and the second penalty decision was pretty borderline. this performance will certainly not be enough to beat France

Tomorrow is be the day that I will watch The Netherlands for the first time this tournament. My former hometown The Hague was one of the first cities in The Netherlands were women soccer was stimulated, since The Eighties, and the Dutch coach Sarina Wiegman is from The Hague. In 2017 she became European Champion with the Dutch soccer women. We are now #7 on the FIFA list, I think one of the serious outsiders, Germany and the USA are favourites. But we have some great players who play in the best competitions in the world (like Spain, UK and Germany). Tomorrow we will see how they handle the pressure and expectations, against the tough Japanese women. 

Edited by TenYearsAfter - June 24 2019 at 12:32

the Netherlands were extremely lucky; Japan deserved to win. the new hand penalty rule sucks

an early goal for the USA, but the French team really invited it. Friede and I couldn't believe how the French defense positioned itself for that free kick of Megan Rapinoe. the goal was to be expected after such a catastrophic defense mistake

Edited by BaldJean - June 28 2019 at 15:01