✨dea✨ is forever blowing bubbles 🇵🇸

@Courtstar413 @jackiedigital being fined for saying the truth is crazy

@jackiedigital Is she going to be the first NWSL coach fine of the season we think? I’ll have to listen later lol

Filipa Patão just mic dropped re: the refereeing in the league & the calls they’re making In short: NWSL needs to move past calling the soft fouls in order for teams to play a fluid and more beautiful game. Soccer is a contact sport.

FUCKIN FINALLY, this is genuinely why i struggle watching it most of the time

Pretty incredible scenes here in Denver for an inaugural game. Team jerseys are already everywhere, and the merchandise line in the stadium has been literally hundreds deep for an hour-plus. The place is filled up to the upper deck. #NWSL

good god that’s a crowd

No es un día cualquiera para el fútbol femenino. Por primera vez, Les Marseillaises (el equipo femenino del OM) jugará en el Vélódrome. Las gradas del estadio han cambiado su nombre por el de ellas y se prevén más de 50.000 espectadores. Y habrá vídeo en @El_Patio__.

@joshysmom29 @allie__voss this is my fiance (a man) you fucking nut lmao

@declatom @allie__voss Says the cross-dressing man whose only company is cats. Hairiest leg ever. x.com/declatom/statu…

Getting called a pick me for factual statements is always the funniest thing The digital version of saying "Nuh uhhh!!!!"

“Women’s soccer has allowed men's soccer to have more visibility here, and I think it's also allowed the men's teams to step up.” Assia Grazioli-Venier, an investor in Washington Spirit, explains how NWSL is making soccer popular in the U.S., not MLS. 🗣️ “Actually, one of the things that has grown the intention and interest in soccer in this country is women's soccer,” she said via an interview with Front Office Sports. “You know, no judgment for MLS, but it just hasn't been able to compete with European soccer or be respected for much of its existence.” “And on the flip side, women's soccer is very well respected by the Europeans.” “You're hard pressed to ask anyone in Europe with a women’s league if they have any issues with NWSL.” “The talent is best in class. And in fact, there's this give or take of who's going to steal one athlete from one coast to the next. And you don't have that with MLS.” “So I actually think that there is going to be more of a growth in soccer in this country, but I think that's just natural progression of what's already been happening around women's.” “I always say that one of the unsung heroes of the growth of women's sports is actually girl dads, because they're the ones who have a daughter and go, ‘Well, sh*t. Now how do I entertain this thing?’ And then you go to women's soccer game, because you think you'll connect, and that's when you'll discover it's actually a really great game. And these women are really, really talented.” “So I actually think that it has grown. Women’s soccer has allowed men's soccer to have more visibility here, and I think it's also allowed the men's teams to step up. Not sure if they would admit to that.” “I do think that it has sort of forced some innovation in the men in MLS as well. And I'm really excited about the U.S. soccer space.” “When I first moved back to LA or back to the U.S. and I was talking about Juventus, and [Cristiano] Ronaldo. People were literally like, what’s Juventus?” “Now I mean, I watched it before my very eyes to see the interest and knowledge people have here about European football.” Grazioli-Venier is a venture capitalist, businessperson, and media executive. Born in Rome and raised in New York City, she’s been investing in women’s health, entertainment companies, and sports businesses in both the U.S. and Europe. She was a member of board of directors at Juventus for nine years.

his face when i sing "bowen's on fire" to him 😍

@1895cg yeah, it's just momentum, never a red

Bit reckless & careless considering it's a friendly but I just hate the thought of people thinking these incidents are red cards. It's not even a 'games gone soft' thing it's just how are you meant to stop yourself from following through?

@hobocouture0 @WillieTheBee @allie__voss actual good players only got to ODP through academy and club, like i did. why are you explaining something you didn't do to someone who did?

@declatom @WillieTheBee @allie__voss ODP doesn’t mean shit and basically anyone could get into the lower levels of the program lol. Actual good players are spending more time with their clubs and academies training than ODP. It’s an afterthought. A way for mediocre kids to say they did something “Olympic” related.

I’m sorry, but if you’re a girl who grew up in the United States in the early 2000s….please be serious No one told you that

good lord, i love this so much

@AlexanderRodd @rumBaKnight @allie__voss keep up -- not talking about children

@declatom @rumBaKnight @allie__voss Which youth sports leagues have ceased to exist?

@NowhereTOR22 @allie__voss "sloppy strawman" "or cared about it really"

@declatom @allie__voss I'm not gonna engage in your sloppy strawman argument. The point was about girls playing sports, not playing professional sports. Also most American men didn't play professional soccer at any level either... or cared about it really in 2000s.

@WillieTheBee @allie__voss ok well while you were sucking your inhaler like a pacifier, i was doing olympic development program -- so maybe we're not really working with the same set of tools here :)

@declatom @allie__voss My parents also told me I couldn't become a professional athlete. Because I have asthma and am less than six feet tall. 99% of men and 99.9% of women lack the natural gifts to play professional sports.

@NowhereTOR22 @allie__voss oh sick what pro league did they play in?

@declatom @allie__voss This movie literally exists and proves the point you're fighting against.

only the tiny middle portion of the venn diagram of west ham supporters and goalkeepers will understand #GoalkeepersUnion

@NukemRaoul @user2898710220 @allie__voss when something is considered "entertaining" it is decided upon by culture and power structures so yes, it's systemic actually

@user2898710220 @allie__voss @declatom Yes, slower, not as physical, not as technical, not as entertaining. If you disagree with this come back to Earth. Women have their own sports leagues because they can’t compete at the same athletic level as men. It’s not an insult or even a bad thing, it’s just basic reality.

@rumBaKnight @allie__voss again, we're not talking about pastimes and hobbies

@declatom @allie__voss Girls have played HS soccer long before you were born. It started simultaneously in my state for both boys and girls in 1977. Nobody buys your invented drama.

@NukemRaoul @allie__voss nobody was referring to "market interest"

@declatom @allie__voss Yeah, way to virtue signal the ridiculous position that we should lie to girls about market interest in professional women’s sports and then respond with a dumb personal attack when called out on the ridiculousness of that position.

@GodfreyAll69957 @twiggieangell @allie__voss cool what was it in the early 2000s?

@declatom @twiggieangell @allie__voss Wnba player minimum rn is like 100k so it definitely is a viable career (for the 0.1% that can make it) but a wnba player will never make more than LeBron just like a male model will never make as much as the top female models. Its not a systemic thing its biology