[NetBehaviour] Women's soccer - protest the playing conditions!

[Alan Sondheim]

I shared on Facebook and there's a discussion w/ video etc. as a backdrop. 
FIFA is to blame in a LOT of ways for the denigration of woman athletes. 
Horrible.

- Alan


On Mon, 29 Jun 2015, Johannes Birringer wrote:

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> agreed, its disgraceful and awful. I watched some games and enjoyed them, but not
> the forcing of players to play on artificial turf. Injury risks are much higher. Certainly FIFA would not ask men to play on
> the surface. The german goalkeeper, Angerer,  tried to sue them but without success. The whole "world
> organizations" and national sports agencies in many sports seem corrupt to me. awful.
>
> JB
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> Subject: [NetBehaviour] Women's soccer - protest the playing conditions!
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> (Apologies for off-subject)
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> Does anyone else feel a sense of outrage at Canada's decision to have the
> Women's Soccer World Cup (FIFA) on a turf surface covered with rubber 'gravel'?
> This might seem minor - but shoes are melting, women are being injured. Men
> don't have to do this - and there have been numerous protests by the players -
> but FIFA continues its discrimination against women. Not only are the women
> subjected to literally bleeding bruises, but they're breathing in the rubber,
> which also gets embedded in the skin. If you have a chance, watch some slomo
> and see the rubber kicked up into the players' faces. It's horrible, wrenching,
> and no one outside of soccer seems to care. It's an outrage to treat anyone
> like this!
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