Commentary on the scoring debate: USA defeats Dominican Reublic 14-0

Immense impassioned discussions will always remain at the core of sport fan’s devotion.  Debates raging from the US Women’s National Soccer team’s 14-0 victory over the Dominican Republic have twisted a myriad of ethical spirit of the law issues with aggressive instilled desires for triumphs. To pronounce an unbiased judgement as to whether the actions of US Women’s National team coaches and players were “in the right” or if their actions were amiss seem unfeasible. Perhaps the only novel discussion is the speculation as to whether the scoring margin would even be an issue if Brazil’s men’s team defeated Aruba 14-0. (In men’s soccer, Australia defeated American Samoa 31-0 in a qualifying match for the 2002 World Cup) 

What is the genuine source of the rage—the USA or CONCACAF? Should supporters (and non supporters) of Women’s Soccer be questioning the Olympic qualification process established by CONCACAF? Furthermore, are the enraged the same as the ones who argued that the European Olympic qualifying procedures were unreasonable after Germany failed to qualify? 

Recently, Germany defeated Kazakhstan 17-0 during a Euro Qualifying match.  The basic stats of the game are posted below followed by the stats from the USA match. 

Germany Goals against Kazakhstan 11-19-2011:

1:0 Okoyino da Mbabi (3.)

2:0 Popp (5.)

3:0 Okoyino da Mbabi (10.)

4:0 Popp (11.)

5:0 Okoyino da Mbabi (14.)

6:0 Okoyino da Mbabi (16.)

7:0 Laudehr (23.)

8:0 Popp (31.)

9:0 Behringer (36. Foulelfmeter)

10:0 Laudehr (41.)

11:0 Bajramaj (51.)

12:0 Popp (59.)

13:0 Peter (62.)

14:0 Peter (65.)

15:0 M. Müller (74.)

16:0 M. Müller (85.)

17:0 Peter (89.)

USA Goals against Dominican Repbulic (1-20-12)

USA -- Abby Wambach (Heather O’Reilly)   1st minute
USA -- Carli Lloyd (Abby Wambach)           5
USA -- Rachel Buehler (Abby Wambach)     7
USA -- Heather O’Reilly (Ali Krieger)          17
USA -- Abby Wambach (Carli Lloyd)          19
USA -- Tobin Heath (Heather O’Reilly)        30
USA -- Heather O’Reilly (Lauren Cheney)    31
USA -- Amy Rodriguez (Lauren Cheney)     46
USA -- Amy Rodriguez (Lauren Cheney)     48
USA -- Amy Rodriguez (Unassisted)           58
USA -- Lauren Cheney (Heather O’Reilly)    64
USA -- Amy Rodriguez (Lauren Cheney)     69
USA -- Amy Rodriguez (Alex Morgan)        75
USA -- Heather O’Reilly (Amy Rodriguez)   78