Women soccer goalie

[Enrique Diaz-Alvarez]

I am surprised noone here has commented on the media treatment of black
US women soccer goalie, Briana Scurry. She is by far the best player on
the team, much, much better than Mia Hamm, a fairly run-of-the-mill
forward who runs up the score against punching bag teams but sort of
disappears against stronger rivals (at least based on her World-Cup
performance). Scurry is singlehandedly responsible for the US victory,
which came on the back of a mediocre semifinal and awful final game by
the (white) forwards that are getting all the attention. In spite of
that, she has received very little attention, and during the medal
ceremony, while she was receiving hers, ABC cameras switched to yet
another shot of Hamm.

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