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Nigeria's Game
by From A Left Wing
posted July 1, 2011 at 9:53am

I fell in love with the Super Falcons during the 2008 Olympics, watching them slug out the ultimate group-of-death: Germany, Brazil, Nigeria and North Korea. None of the games in that tournament were as exciting as those Nigeria played in this group.Never...more

Women’s World Cup – Things We Learned: Day 5
by All White Kit
posted July 1, 2011 at 3:14am

It was the best of the women’s game, but it was also the worst of the women’s game Thursday at the Women’s World Cup. We saw France pick what appeared to be a more athletic Canada side apart with better ball control, more precise passing, looking...more

Six Things That Happened on the Fourth Day of the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup
by All White Kit
posted July 1, 2011 at 3:07am

Canada got bowled over in Bochum – and it was brutal. It was a performance that seemed completely out of character. Carolina Morace’s side set up in its favored 4-3-3 with a battle-worn – and face mask-wearing – Christine Sinclair fronting t...more

2011 Women's World Cup: perspective on Equatorial Guinea's "controversies"
by From A Left Wing
posted June 30, 2011 at 12:26pm

When sports journalists describe Equatorial Guinea as an unknown quantity, I wonder if that's just their way of saying they haven't wanted to look too closely at the team and the country's football association.Since they upset Nigeria in the 2008 African ...more

Dispatches from Deutschland, Pt. I
by All White Kit
posted June 30, 2011 at 10:54am

A longtime Freundin of the blog is currently in Germany as part of a covert operation launched by AWK enjoying the soccer and taking in the sights and sounds of the World Cup. She’s been kind enough to send us a few tidbits from her travels. We h...more

By Now We’ve Seen Everyone Play, So Here Are a Few Notes
by All White Kit
posted June 30, 2011 at 10:44am

It’s anyone’s knockout round. After eight group stage fixtures, there haven’t been any lopsided results. Not even close. The highest goal differential stands at merely two goals – and that was in just one game. In each match we’ve watched ...more

Women Footballers: A Credit to the Game
by Women in Sport International
posted June 30, 2011 at 10:40am

A post by JoJo Rennie. This years Women's World Cup has already shown itself to be an impressive contest; highlighting the tournament's ability to show the flair and skill of women in the footballing world. Having seen all the teams in action we can app...more

Quebec teen told she can't referee soccer with hijab on
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted June 30, 2011 at 10:32am

The Canadian PressMONTREAL — A Quebec teen who has been told she can no longer referee soccer while wearing her hijab says she's going to fight the red card.Sarah Benkirane, 15, said her Montreal-area soccer association informed her she could no longer...more

Less equal than others
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted June 30, 2011 at 10:27am

By Namita BhandareIn the photograph they are just numbers: 3, 14, 7. But their headscarves, covered necks and full-sleeved shirts do not mask their cheekiness. The one with #3 on her jersey has her chin up and eyebrows raised. The goofball is clearly #14,...more

Women’s World Cup – Things We Learned: Day 4
by All White Kit
posted June 30, 2011 at 1:04am

Sometimes the real world can be a cruel, cruel place. Australia and Equatorial Guinea began Wednesday’s action as underdogs, teams that would likely have to get very lucky to get a result against Brazil and Norway, respectively. As it turned out, the...more

Mark my words: Christine Sinclair will play against France
by Bench Warmer
posted June 30, 2011 at 12:45am

In Canada's first game of the Women's World Cup, Captain Christine Sinclair suffered a broken nose when German defender Babett Peter elbowed her in the face early in the second half. She quickly went down and was taken off the pitch. Her nose was crooked ...more

What to do When the Rules of the Game and Human Rights Laws Clash: Will We See A Test Case in Canada?
by Women in Sport International
posted June 29, 2011 at 9:36pm

FIFA has been running full speed into a legal nightmare since it decided in March of 2007 to ban religious items from team kit. In a decision of the International F.A. Board FIFA decided that "The basic compulsory equipment must not have any political, ...more

Homophobia and Sexism in Soccer
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted June 29, 2011 at 2:04pm

This is an excellent article commenting on homophobia and sexism in soccer. Given the start of the Women's World Cup games and the recent anti-lesbian rant from the Nigerian women's coach, it is both relevant and right on target. I particularly want to ca...more

A Brand New Vintage USWNT
by All White Kit
posted June 29, 2011 at 12:20pm

The following is an exchange a friend and I had during the opening minutes of the U.S./Japan game in Columbus back in May. He’s a big MLS and USMNT fan, but this was his first time watching the USWNT play. *Japan begins pressuring immediately...more

Buzzwords for the USWNT/North Korea Game
by All White Kit
posted June 29, 2011 at 11:28am

Let’s try something new. Instead of doing player ratings after each USWNT match (because each player would have gotten a 1 after the first half [kidding] and a 10 after the second [kidding again], we’ll try thinking of buzzwords that help sum up e...more

2011 Women's World Cup: Thoughts on Team USA/North Korea
by From A Left Wing
posted June 29, 2011 at 11:21am

What to say about yesterday's game? A first half to make you want to give up on life, a second which chastised you for all that cynicism and negativity.It isn't that the second half was so glorious that it made you forget the first. It was pretty scrapp...more

Women’s sports links, June 28
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted June 29, 2011 at 12:14am

The United States takes on North Korea in its Women’s World Cup opener today (11:45 a.m., ESPN), and the center of attention is in the nets. Perhaps the most memorable moment in U.S. women’s soccer since the 1999 World Cup was Solo being dropped in C...more

Comments on the Women's World Cup from a Football Rookie
by Women in Sport International
posted June 29, 2011 at 12:14am

I have to admit at the outset that I know next to nothing about football. I grew up playing sports in rural south eastern Ontario in the early 1990s when football (or soccer as we call it on this side of the pond) was just starting to become popular. But...more

A Few More Notes from the Second Day of the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup
by All White Kit
posted June 28, 2011 at 10:22am

New Zealand simply couldn’t go the full distance. Last night Ray Curren pointed out the fact that Canada’s performance on Sunday would have made Blackpool manager Ian Holloway proud. And another dubious EPL comparison: did anyone catch New Zea...more

Women’s World Cup – Things We Learned: Day 2
by All White Kit
posted June 28, 2011 at 12:22am

The “group of life” took center stage today, but anyone who thought Japan was a little bit of a soft No. 4 in the world may think differently after they handled New Zealand much easier than the final 2-1 tally would indicate. Meanwhile, England loo...more

Allez les Nudes: French national team's World Cup promo
by From A Left Wing
posted June 27, 2011 at 8:06pm

Here's, the FFF-produced video for the French women's national team: Yikes. I mean, parts of it are cute, I guess. But not so much the parts where individual members of the team lip sync.Members of the national team also posed nude in 2009, for an FFF...more

Day 1 of the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
by Bench Warmer
posted June 27, 2011 at 1:55pm

Day 1 of the 2011 Women's World Cup comes to an end. 4 goals, 2 expected wins and 1 broken nose.Group A action got underway today in the 6th Women's World Cup. France faced Nigeria in the first match. Nigeria wasn't expected to come out with three points ...more

Three More Things We Learned on Day 1 of the Women’s World Cup
by All White Kit
posted June 27, 2011 at 2:27am

Germany looked pretty darn good today Despite missing several chances in the second half, Germany looked very solid in it’s 2-1 opening game win over Canada. The hosts were off to a quick start when 6-foot-tall Kerstin Gerefrekas rose above her defen...more

Women’s World Cup – Things We Learned, Day 1:
by All White Kit
posted June 27, 2011 at 2:23am

Jenna and the finest women’s soccer website on the planet has been nice enough to ask me to add my two cents (or $2) on the Women’s World Cup. I spend most of my time writing on MLS and the men’s game, but I am a big fan of the women’s game. In ...more

2011 World Cup: France & Nigeria
by From A Left Wing
posted June 27, 2011 at 2:14am

Well, I'm not in Germany. I know this because even though the country I'm in (France) has a good team in the World Cup, and even though that team was on the cover of more than a few of the weekend papers and Sunday magazines, no one cares that they scored...more

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