While hockey and football get most of the non-UFC attention as far as violence in sports go, it’s high time to salute the orgy of thuggery that is girls’ soccer.
The big breakout bad-girl – the “Vinnie Jones with the double-X chromosome”, if you will – is the Univerisity of New Mexico’s Elizabeth Lambert, who recently punched and kicked and tripped and slapped her way through a NCAA west conference semi-final game against Brigham Young University.
Though all she received during the game was a yellow card, Lambert has been suspended indefinitely by her team, and been dubbed (albeit cheekily) “America’s Greatest Villain” by Deadspin.com.
Obviously, the video is a lot of fun to watch, and some of her hits are just shy of out-and-out assault, but the reaction to her antics has more to do with people’s ignorance of the realities of soccers (and perhaps of young women).
Blogger and soccer dad Tbogg adds some perspective …
