Oh mass media, how we love thee. Why is it that we love to indulge ourselves in watching and reading about other’s wrongdoings? Is it the shock factor that reels us in? Possibly. The recent vicious attacks made by New Mexico soccer player, Elizabeth Lambert, against players on BYU’s women’s soccer team received national news coverage and the videos on YouTube had over six million hits. I personally watched it at least three or four times, each time in awe of not only Lambert, but how she only got away with one yellow card the whole game! Ridiculous.
Lambert finally gave an apology, two weeks later, claiming it was all just a misunderstanding. Mmhmm.
"I look at it and I'm like, 'That is not me,'. I have so much regret. I can't
believe I did that. I think the way the video came out, it did make me
look like a monster. That's not the type of player I am. I'm not just
out there trying to hurt players. That's taking away from the beauty of
the game. And I would never want to do that."
Oh really Miss Lambert? Please, go on.
"I definitely feel because I am a female it did bring about a lot more
attention than if a male were to do it. It's more expected for men to go
out there and be rough. The female, we're still looked at as, Oh, we
kick the ball around and score a goal. But it's not. We train very hard
to reach the highest level we can get to. The physical aspect has maybe
increased over the years. I'm not saying it's for the bad or it's been
too overly aggressive. It's a game. Sports are physical."
Yes, blame the negative attention on being a girl. Nice failed attempt to explain/apologize.
If you haven’t seen the video yet, indulge and be shocked by some of the poorest sportsmanship you’ll ever see.
Here's the article I got the quotes from: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/post/Vilified-New-Mexico-soccer-player-breaks-her-sil?urn=top,203447
2 comments:
Elizabeth Lambert is a junior at the University of New Mexico, and plays for their soccer team the Lobos originally from California (too bad for California). So, this loser knows they are going in to a game that they will most likely lose and since they do not have the talent to score they resort to this kind of play, it has very minor thought to it than let’s say passisng the ball through your opponents defense and scoring a goal.
The other issue is the where were the referees, were they all older white men with their tongues out, enamored and unable to call the game objectively (this game had so many penalties that did not get called), I mean what are they getting paid to do. Who has paid these guys off? Do we have to change the game where only women referees can call women games. After watching the video someone was paid off, that is my conclusion.
And Lizzy, watch you back and please stay out of soccer (you real should be banned, the game does not need people like you in it), so many will be gunning for you now. Who knows maybe you were just drumming up business for your “Occupational Therapy practice”, yah good luck with that, I doubt your bed side manner is any different from your sportsmanship.
Girls and their ponytail fights........
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