There’s no fun in destroying an opponent. It was the same with the 7:1 victory by Germany against Brazil in the world cup finals some years ago. Up until then, Germany had never beaten Brazil in a world championship. Brazil was the favorite and Germany, without a tournament win in decades after mediocre performance in the early matches, didn’t expect to win. When Germany scored the first two goals they were extatic. Celebrating like they had just achieved the impossible. After the 3rd goal, the celebrations became more muted. Supposedly the team was instructed to take it easy in the second half, so as not to cause further humiliation and possibly riots to Brazil, which was on the brink of social unrest anyways over the government’s corruption and waste of money on the tournament.
The last two goals were celebrated like here, with handshakes and muted enthusiasm.
When a match is so completely one sided, a victory feels hollow. Sport is about competition, and if your opponent can’t compete, then it’s just exercise.
The guys in the male team above were taking it easy. If they had really pushed themselves, it would have been closer to 24 : 0 or more. In a 45 minute game. A full game with fatigue setting in would have been 60:0.
And football is a sport that doesn’t require much upper body strength. It’s mostly leg strength, where women aren’t too far behind men. But coordination, tactical thinking, body mass, bone density etc all come into play, and women are just outclassed there. There was a study somewhere a while back comparing female to male strength, and they found that only the top 10% strongest women were stronger than the bottom 10% of men.
Of course there are exceptions with athletes, powerlifters, weightlifters, crossfit girls, martial artists, and sometimes just genetic (and steroid) freaks like Gabi Garcia, who could take the average man. But generally the differences are vast.
Which is why trans athletes shouldn’t compete with females (or males for that matter, they should have their own league)
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