Perspective | As women’s soccer rises, so has an age-old tactic: Flopping. Diving. Crumpling to the ground in agony, Candace Buckner writes.
kept going with what looked like a bloodied and broken nose. England’s Alex Greenwood, after taking an elbow to the face during the Lionesses’ quarterfinal against Colombia, spent a few minutes on the ground checking for all her teeth. That same match, Colombian teenage sensation Linda Caicedo’s pursuit of the ball led to so many trips and shoves that I was genuinely surprised she didn’t need to borrowI’m starting to love about soccer.
“I don’t know, like, it’s never been a thing. So I just think that we just play as we want,” Bennison said, then she added with a sly smile and laughter: “And maybe we are tougher, I don’t know.” Complain all we want, but that’s just competition, and the higher the stakes , the greater the necessity to maybe not“[Women] have always played for their love to play soccer. The men’s [players] did from the beginning, but then there’s a lot of money [involved now] and you have to win because you’ll get a lot of money,” said Magnus Wikman, an assistant coach with the Sweden women’s national team. “That way I think women’s soccer, they just want to play. They want to play soccer.
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