Bob and Melissa Mewis can still picture the scene in their Hanson, Mass., living room on July 10, 1999. They and their daughters—8-year-old Kristie and 6-year-old Samantha—were glued to the TV as the U.S. women’s soccer team outlasted China on penalty kicks to win the World Cup.
“The couch we had at the time was a fold-out,” Bob Mewis recalled. “So everybody was sitting on that fold-out couch, watching the game, and the girls were very excited.” Like many of the roughly 7 million American girls playing soccer at the time, the Mewises dreamed of playing for the U.S. team. Each had a 0.00031% chance of making the Tokyo Olympics roster.
They both made it. Kristie, now 30 years old, and Samantha, 28, are the first sisters to play together for the U.S. women’s soccer team in a world championship at any level. Even with the recent expansion of the U.S. squad to 22 from 18 under pandemic rules, Team USA is 9% Mewis.Wednesday [July 21] against Sweden, which knocked them from the 2016 Rio Olympic in the quarterfinals. Team USA aims to become the first to win Olympic gold on the heels of a World Cup title.
If you want to get on in life, choose your parents well. 😉
Maybe “white privilege” got them there Could just be their ability too
what a waste of time lol they could have skipped rope on youtube and been less of an embarrassment
About the same odds of dying from Covid at that age, or being the victim of police brutality.
Did their parents teach them to kneel and disrespect our flag? Disgrace.
thanks
I know so many parents that want to be there for their kids, to help them join the sport they like. But they have no time and no money to support their kids that way. Trust me, that's a feeling of failure, that haunt parents. It is fantastic to see some manage to be there.
I hope they stand for the flag
From the comments it seems that a pay wall separates the many of the potential players much like access to the article. PayWallStreetJournal
Please...those parents are the exact same thing as stage moms. They see dollar signs and accolades for themselves. F*ck them.
$$$ probably helped a lot.
After the 3-0 loss disrespect of the flag.....
The only question I want to know - are they kneeling?
Hang on! Weren't these girls two of the punks who took the knee before the game? Disgusting!
Unless the Tokyo roster was chosen by lot from among all girls who played soccer in 1999, each DID NOT have a 0.00031% chance of making the Tokyo Olympics roster. I expected a newspaper that covers the stock market to understand numbers, but apparently they do not.
News flash, they're not the favorite.
How many L's can they rack up?!?
science says it's..politics
they kneeled, so no
Sorry girls but I was very happy when I heard Sweden won. Not a fan since some of your teammates decided they were too good to represent USA.
'Here's how their parents helped them.' Money!
This is a horrible strangulation of statistics.
were these 2 of the girls that stood and honored their parents and country, or kneeled and disgraced us all?
Terrible use of stats. Did you really just take the of players on the team / 7mm as if the chances were uniform? how you have fallen.
still not winners
Did they teach them to kneel for the national anthem.
Have good genes?
Thanks this promoted article reminded me to block WSJ
Coming up: How to be a millionaire. 1) Get a million dollars.
And the pinball wizard showed everyone how to reach enlightenment.
Long journey for the USWNT to no show their first game.
I don't think they are the favorites anymore after an abysmal loss in their first game. We still hope they can pull it out.
Didn't they lose?
Was it money? I bet it was money.
says who?
The fact that these parents somehow think they should tell other parents how to do stuff. . . .
Proving that wsj has no understanding of probability, which is odd for a newspaper that claims to have the finest financial journalism in the world.
Apparently they wasted time! LOSERS
These statistics are making far too many assumptions. Not accurate at all.
Where did they learn how to kneel to protest a mythical 'systemic racism'?
they all had an equal chance of .00031% , eh? lol
'Each had a 0.00031% chance of making the Tokyo Olympics roster.' Pretty sure that's not how it works. Some, like Megan Rapinoe, had much better odds than others.
1) be white
Cool do you best don't break a leg.....
I'm starting Kristie next game
Let me guess💰💰💰💰💰💰
Yes the Yanks looked pretty good until the Swedish girls came along and spoilt the party.
Wait a second. Odds of making the team is real real low. Nevertheless, Probably 1,000's were capable of making the team, who gets chosen is the real story. USA could possibly put together another 20 plus teams to compete at their level. Just Kick Ball, Cmon.
How disheartening then, if a man saying he is a woman, takes their place on the team.
Sara Bareille
Step 1: be white and come from an upper middle class background.
Wonder how happy they really are with that wage gap hanging over their heads and all.
'Each had a 0.00031% chance of making the Tokyo Olympics roster.' The Olympic team was chosen by lottery?
I see you're 'promoting' yourselves, but how is demonstrating your innumeracy promotion?
Were they taught to take a knee? Somehow I doubt it.
The woke mob is coming for these privileged girls
I hope these Woke crybabies lose every game.
As a group americans just arent interested in soccer. Its boring.
Any assistance at all would be greatly appreciated during this difficult period for my family
Hopefully they can do well in The Tokyo Olympics.
what is the average net worth of the family of Olympic athletes? Now compare it to average Americans. Wall Street journal can't do the simple math that tells the crux of the story.
salute to parents
Thats a weird statement to make which definitely implies a misrepresentation of what sports are all about, everyone who plays absolutely does not have an equal playing field to being one of the best, sports were never about equality actually quite the opposite.
They lost in their first game. US Womens soccer team sucked ass. They took a knee then laid on their backs as they got railed.
Do the same analysis on Venus and Serena. are you guys crazy?
The parents should have taught them to respect the American flag and anthem and to not kneel to blm....
practice?
Nobody cares about womens soccer
What an odd WSJ way to approach. Hey, you aren't good enough and will never make it and we celebrate the winners because we believe in competition to the ultimate degree. We don't have values; we go for the ones who won.
Success is always rare.
one of yours? MoneyGrabFC
aaaaaaaand they dominated 3-0
And then they got their asses kicked by Sweden
Short answer:
without even clicking on the link here's a spoiler: have rich parents
They're no Roldans.
Not fair, they should be replaced by a faster boy.
they spent a ton of money............
Everyone didn't have the same chance, you idiots. Along with the privilege of being supported and having the facilities, some people are better players than others. They didn't pull names out of a hat.
1 rule - have athletics parents
Dad is the coach?
StopTokyoOlympic We Japanese hate Olympic. We disagree The game start. Go back to your country!
Don't swing at the high ones.
The Oly games are for the rich , by the rich .
Fuck you wall street's endless greed - the root cause of almost all evils across the globe.
That's how you tweet your story. Social Media users will definitely click to read. TokyoOlympics Olympics
Women's soccer, second most exciting sport behind Watching Grass Grow.
Long story short? 'The Mewises spent between $10,000-$12,000 a year on the girls’ soccer starting in their mid-teens.' Right on target for WSJ. Soccer is a rich person's sport in America, unfortunately.
322 Skull and Bones ☠️
big balls
'The high price of playing on competitive squads is the chief criticism of youth soccer in the U.S., with costs including club and tournament fees and increasingly distant travel. The Mewises spent between $10,000-$12,000 a year on the girls’ soccer starting in their mid-teens'
Happy story but US women and girl's soccer is not at all diverse. The chances to succeed are not even close to being equal for all backgrounds and ethnicities. Contrast soccer female white ethnicity in USWNT = 75%, with female basketball = 25% in WNBA. It's about access
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Arizona's forensic audit proved what we already knew Trump won easily,there is no such thing as a perfect crime there is a poorly investigated crime Trump is the president of the United States although courts refuse to recognize evidence of electoral fraud
Fuk and win a genetic lottery - sell your souls to a sport ? I mean I’m not gonna waste my time reading the article but this has to be just about it - right?
So glad they didn't dye their hair purple.
It’s money isn’t it
In short, ambition is a symbol of achieving dreams
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Lesson one - genetics.
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