Women soccer goalie

[Brad De Long]

>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.

It is rare that any one soccer player is singlehandedly responsible 
for the victory. Usually all eleven people--plus many 
substitutes--touch the ball during the course of a game.

It's a team sport.


:-)

Brad DeLong