"It appears that Canada may now catch a rebound beating — cheated by the ref one game, stripped bare by her bosses just ahead of the next."
Terrific. FIFA may suspend Canada's best player from the bronze match for her gripes after the semi. How to make a bad situation worse.
During the second half, Wambach began counting aloud in the ref’s vicinity every time McLeod took hold of the ball. She got to 10 on the play in question.“You can says it’s gamesmanship. You can say it’s smart. But I’m a competitor,” Wambach told Yahoo Sports’ Dan Wetzel on Tuesday.Wambach may be the instigator, but she isn’t at fault. Faced with the ire of one of the best women’s players in history, Pedersen folded. She made a nervous call that fundamentally altered this competition and likely derailed her officiating career.
It's the 2nd call that determined the game. Here's the best sense about it I've read:
Norwegian soccer great Hallvar Thoresen, now a sports commentator, told Norwegian papers that the initial delay of game call wasn't so bad, but he disagreed with the ensuing handball call which led to the U.S. penalty kick.
"In general, I think she judged very good, but she has the crucial situation with the penalty, which I think is wrong. To give a penalty there must be a degree of wilfulness in the picture," Thoresen told the Oslo-based Dagbladet newspaper.
He said the ball was launched into the hand of Canada's Nault via some other players and that her arm wasn't in an unnatural position.
"It happened so fast, [Nault] could not possibly get away," Thoresen said.Plus not calling USA for same thing only minutes earlier.
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