Does she get paid for playing? Do people pay to go watch (ok not a lot but apparently enough). She gets paid to play a sport she is a professional. She is at the very top league and level for her sport. It may not be nearly the same as men's football but she is a professional.
The Flames matter only to us lol just like Canada matters to us so we are discussing how we feel they got hosed. Dismissing it just because it's Women's football for the only every 4 years Olympics and you feel it's amateurish is really a moot point since in the end you can say the same thing about all sports. I think more people around the world would remember this event more than our non-goal from 04.
Amateur ref or not doesn't really matter. There have been thousands of top level women's football games and that call is basically never called and I have no doubt the slow down tactic is used in almost everyone of those games where someone is leading. But ok she was influenced and made the call since it's "technically" a rule. Then to follow with that handball call was unforgivable. You already made a super controversial call then to make an even worse one right after? Fail. If you compare that handball compared to the non handball call on an American earlier in the game in the penalty area I think everyone would have called the American over the Canadian American every time.
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