Turns out that when it comes to sports injuries, women aren't faking it.
Female soccer players are half as likely to fake an injury as their male counterparts, according to
a study from the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
Published in the July edition of Research in Sports Medicine, the study reviewed 47 televised
matches from two international women's tournaments, dividing all apparent injuries into "definite"
-- those when a player left the field within five minutes or was visibly bleeding -- with the rest
being classified as questionable.
Back in 1950, Harry Keough perhaps summarised best the general attitude toward the quality of
the American game that might still hold true in some quarters of the international football
community. After the postal worker and semi-professional defender considered England's now
legendary 1-0 loss to the US in Belo Horizonte, he quipped, "Boy, I feel sorry for these
bastards.
It's now less than two weeks until the 2011 Women's World Cup starts in Germany, and over the
next couple of weeks we are taking the time to bring you a quick run-down of the teams that are
taking part in another of the groups of this year's competition. We have already presented Group A
and Group B, so that must mean we have arrived at Group C.
Some of Germany's finest international women footballers have thrown themselves into a different
kind of strip — in a shoot for PLAYBOY.
International women's soccer seems to grow quite a bit between every Women's World Cup and
this summer's tournament in Germany will set some new milestones.
On the topic of TV coverage, this is a press release that FIFA put out today. Pretty cool
stuff.
The FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 Germany from June 26 to July 17 is poised to mark a milestone in
competitive women's football with unparalleled coverage on television in terms of both production
and distribution.
In what is a clear sign that somebody within U.S. Soccer is still buying what former USWNT head
coach Tony DiCicco selling, Sunil Gulati announced appointed April Heinrichs as the Technical
Director and Jill Ellis as the Development Director for the U.S. Women's National Teams.
In an interview with National Soccer Examiner DiCicco rightfully called out U.
