Japan Name their squad for FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup 2012

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Permalink Reply by 2xehxtxemyk65 on August 15, 2012 at 5:54

@Gromit -- 

"For you, Football and particularly Women's Football is a brand, a business before everything. For me, it's a Sport and a Game before everything."

   Not "women´s football"; "professional womens´ football". Professional. I may not always type it but we are talking about the professional game, not the purely amateur game,

   Once you are professional, the business has to make ends meet. Like that quote from Dickens:

   "Income one pound. Expenses 19 shillings and 6 pence. Result? Happiness. Income one pound. Expenses 20 shillings and six pence. Result? Misery."

Permalink Reply by Gromit on August 15, 2012 at 12:13

@Lars - No, Lars, "you" are talking about professional and only professional women's football all the time. Even when it is not concerned, you take it back to that. Professional WF doesn't encapsulate the whole game, far, very far from that.

You have the full right of being interested  by this aspect of Women's Football world only of course. I am in some way and I participate to the discussions. But to turn to it even when it's not the matter of debate is something else.

And you already know what I think of constant (and here repeated) quotations in discussions.

Permalink Reply by 2xehxtxemyk65 on August 15, 2012 at 13:29

@Gromit -- as I have written elsewhere in the forum earlier today, the Swedish ladies football club LdB Malmö faces bankruptcy, according to the main newspaper for the Malmö region. The club is in serious financial difficulty. It is the most successful ladies football club in Sweden in recent years.

   Part of the problem is lack of spectator support. According to the paper, last year their attendance was 1400 per match and they based this year's budget on 1500 per match. So far it has only been 900 per match. Even their critical home CL matches were badly attended.

   The German ladies´cup final used to be played as a curtain raiser for the men´s cup final, that is in the Olympiastadion in Berlin. Three years ago it was decided to start playing the ladies´ match separately. It has been played in Köln (Cologne) which is centrally located and easy to get to. The attendance figures have been falling: 26 000 to 20 000 to 16 000. If it continues like this, soon no-one will be there.

   This is the reality in which ladies are trying to play their football. No support from their fellow sisters. Maybe it is better in France? I cannot tell. Following this years lack of success in London, might it get tougher for women playing soccer in France?

 

Permalink Reply by Gromit on August 15, 2012 at 16:36

@Lars - Lack of success ? First appearance in Olympics, SF for the second consecutive times in an international tournament after the 2011 WC and the QF at 2009 Euro (it was the first time France went through a stage group). I won't talk about lack of success but about confirmation that Les Bleues are amongst the 5 or 6 best teams in the World (Germany wasn't there and I count Sweden amongst the best).

It's curious that, amongst the various reasons of attendance decreasing here or there, nobody entered the economic crisis. People have less money and have to chose between priorities. To paraphrase Paul Weller, to either cut down on women's football match ticket or the kids new gear, it's a big decision in time of crisis.

Permalink Reply by 2xehxtxemyk65 on August 15, 2012 at 17:36

It is all about image. France came into this tournament having taken Japan apart 2-0. France had had a couple of other decent victories also. Many considered them the team that might give USA a run for the title.

   France took a 2-0 lead against USA but lost 2-4. One of the biggest scores of USA (the USA beat Canada 4-3 in AET).

   France lost to Japan 1-2. The only team to beat Japan was the USA (in the final -- with some interesting refereeing, as you have pointed out) and 2 teams drew against Japan -- Sweden and South-Africa in let's call it a peculiar match.

   France lost 0-1 against Canada.

Most teams performed about as they were expected to. A couple exceeded expectations, like New Zealand and Canada and also Japan. The USA got the job done with some fortunate decisions. To travestise Oscar Wilde: "To lose one bronze match is unfortunate. To lose two seems like carelessness."

Gromit said:

@Lars - Lack of success ? First appearance in Olympics, SF for the second consecutive times in an international tournament after the 2011 WC and the QF at 2009 Euro (it was the first time France went through a stage group). I won't talk about lack of success but about confirmation that Les Bleues are amongst the 5 or 6 best teams in the World (Germany wasn't there and I count Sweden amongst the best).

It's curious that, amongst the various reasons of attendance decreasing here or there, nobody entered the economic crisis. People have less money and have to chose between priorities. To paraphrase Paul Weller, to either cut down on women's football match ticket or the kids new gear, it's a big decision in time of crisis.

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