Bryan Armen Graham was on the scene and has filed this report:
On that note, I’m going to substitute for myself and take a break before I come back to see another team on a mission to stay atop a sport it long dominated – men’s basketball. This will be a barnburner. See you in an hour and change.
Kári Tulinius: “It would’ve been lovely to see Marta bow out with an Olympic gold after bringing so much joy to spectators around the world. She was constantly compared to Pelé, though their styles never seemed that similar to me, but both of them, in their prime, seemed like players from the future digitally inserted into old footage.”
Indeed – Marta is really in that mold, a brilliant playmaker and scorer.
Peter Oh: “Instead of a sweet Marta swan song winner, the women’s football world got a Swanson decider.”
Now I want a Swanson TV dinner.
Ronald Vopel: “Hi, nice reporting but the sport is called football not soccer.”
Because I’m neither English nor 150 years old, I am not responsible for the sport being named association football and shortened to soccer.
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