This is my impression too. After all, she blocked the free kick, which seems to these untutored eyes to be a lot harder than scoring one.
michael yates
Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote:
>
> 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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