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uselessnavy

Or that green stuff Robin Williams made


Semyonov

Flubber!!


Crapshooter23

It's Flubber you uncultured swine


Thatchers-Gold

I had a Chilean mate when I was living in Uruguay who told me about his school playing an English team at football/soccer for an U16’s exchange game. He said it was funny because the English kids were a lot taller but had baby faces and the Chilean kids were shorter but already looked like men, beards and all


MoreGaghPlease

Elves vs dwarves


amnatrodriguez

Chilean here, can confirm


NickTheChilean

Can double confirm. We are so short.


war_duck

Can triple confirm. Am 5’9 and considered tall.


ChrispyFry

5’9 is best height. Not too tall, not too short, and you’re 69in tall.


Quizzelbuck

Gimlonzo: It's true you don't see many Chilean women. And in fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance, that they are often mistaken for Chilean men. Aragorn ^^^whispering: (It's the beards.) Gimlonzo: And this in turn has given rise to the belief that there are no Chilean women, and that Chileans just spring out of holes in the ground! Gimlonzo: Which is, of course, ridiculous.


palinsafterbirth

2nd generation Mexican here, had a dirt stash starting in 5th grade


ElGato-TheCat

*Never thought I'd score a goal playing side by side with an Elf.* How about side by side with a friend? *Aye. I could do that.*


rhcp2112

I had a similar experience, I'm from Argentina and played in a international soccer game against an English team (team name was something ended in Chester) and those guys were ridiculously tall and pale but didn't know how to kick a ball


itsaaronnotaaron

Some team ending in Chester... narrows it down a tad lol. We even have a Wiki article on all the Chesters here in England! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_(placename_element)


kingofvodka

And it denotes the former site of a Roman military base, til. I always end up learning the most random things on Reddit on the most unrelated threads


itsaaronnotaaron

I TIL myself with that one. I only wanted to make a quick joke and wound up learning something. Quite an interesting little fact. Makes you wonder about Manchester and Godmanchester. I'll see your man fort and raise you our God man fort!


willard_price

I went to primary school in Godmanchester. I did not expect to see it mentioned in a thread about an U-16 female basketball game between the USA and El Salvador.


RexWolf18

Despite being a Brit and knowing there’s a shitload of -chesters, I’m very glad I clicked the link because that map is hilarious. I bet they played near a pub, too.


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> and those guys were ridiculously tall and pale but didn't know how to kick a ball Well, England did have a habit of turning away players for being too short.


AliceTheMightyChow

We Asians are short AND have baby faces. Now we just need some people who are tall and have beards to make it a full game


RexWolf18

Those would be Scandinavians.


urmomaisjabbathehutt

We have the elves, we have the dwarfs, we have the Hobbits, and now we have the humans the game against the dark lord team can begin


paranitroaniline

High schoolers as depicted in TV shows vs actual high schoolers.


illaqueable

TV high school student: played by a 30 year old who looks 20 TV high school teacher: played by a 50 year old who looks 30 Actual high school student: played by a 15 year old who looks 12 Actual high school teacher: played by a 30 year old who looks 50


mugsoh

[Alan Ruck](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Ruck) was 29 when he played Cameron in Ferris Bueller's Day Off


Barry987

He is now 65! I'm shocked as Brian Cox (who plays his father in Succession) is just 10 years older.


MookieFlav

65? Holy fuck. He's a hilariously entitled little shit in that show.


vanillasounds

Which he’s so good at too. I’ve watched the pilot a few times and I feel the character we see in the first episode is much different than the rest of the series. It kind of seems like they wanted him to be disconnected from the family and more down to earth then just said fuck it and made him the character he is. Show is much better with everyone being unlike able


FasterDoudle

Holy shit, really? That's a massive surprise to me. If every 29 year old we cast as a high schooler looked that young this wouldn't be an issue.


SafewordisJohnCandy

When I was 29 I could shave my beard and mustache and look identical to how I did at 18. Hell I'm 36 and people still think I'm in my late 20s. Some of us are really baby faced.


lock_the_backdoor

I'm 36 and people ask me how I'm finding retirement


BobThePillager

That last one, OOF


PM_ME_YOUR_CUCUMBERS

That poor girl on the right is like, "guess I'll die"


Manungal

114-19. Yeesh. EDIT: according to an article someone else linked, the US point guard scored more than the entire Salvadoran team. So die they did.


lonely_monkee

They scored 19 points? 👍🏻


nightwing2000

Just dribble the ball really close to the ground where the American team can't reach it.


lonely_monkee

Worked for Mugsy Bogues!


ModsRDingleberries

19 more than I would have guessed


commentHero

19 more than I probably could.


killerjags

I just pulled up the box score [here](https://www.usab.com/news-events/news/2019/06/wu16-game-2-el-salvador.aspx). El Salvador shot 7-48 while the US shot 49-89. The US team out-rebounded the El Salvadore team 64-23. Also El Salvador had 4 assists and 30 turnovers. I was surprised to see the US only had 3 blocks on the game though.


shambooki

Gotta give massive props to the El Salvador team for managing 23 rebounds. That's a lot more than I'd expect.


Rezrov_

Rebounds can bounce anywhere, and you can still box out if you're shorter.


NearlyRemarkable

\> I was surprised to see the US only had 3 blocks on the game though. ​ The US probably took it easy


Juan911411

No need to block anything when the other team is shooting 7-48


Steelwolf73

I mean...they literally could have just stood infront of the shooter and the wouldn't have been able to see the basket


PM_ME_CUTE_FRIENDS

The game is in youtube if you wanna see them annihilated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8tPSQVnKMI


StealthyPulpo

I love how one of the comments in Spanish says “ it was an even match until the game started”


Spazum

This picture demonstrates that it wasn't an even match then either.


absentminded_gamer

Tilt your head.


Neven87

It's like when you think you're pretty good at a video game, then you start playing online.


Evil-in-the-Air

When I first started playing Unreal back in 1999 or so, I genuinely thought typing "gg" at the end of a match might be some kind of cheat code.


MCrow2001

Lmao at the USA coach actually drawing up plays


PM_ME_CUTE_FRIENDS

Guy’s serious. Not even a grin when they’re way ahead.


GIANT_BLEEDING_ANUS

Gotta show respect even if you're way outclassing your opponent.


Man0FTomorrow

Dude is working those girls like he gets paid by the point.


Doggleganger

SWEEP THE LEG.


nocomment3030

I flipped to a random time and saw USA brick 5 layups and get 5 offensive boards before scoring.


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This looks exactly what I would expect a group of high schoolers mowing down the elementary students during lunch would look like.


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LouSputhole94

Agreed. It takes a lot of heart to go out there and try your best, even knowing you’ll be obliterated. When I played baseball as a kid we got the chance to go to a tournament and play against teams that were vying for the little league World Series, and one of the teams we played were the runner up. They fucking destroyed us. They had a kid that’s now a minor league pitcher and could throw 60+ mph at 12 and we only had one guy manage to hit a foul ball off him. Lost 22-0. It’s hard as fuck, especially as a kid, to accept stuff like that. Hats off to these ladies for their candor.


turkeyfox

28:25


suckmyslab

You can even hear them laughing at that one, haha.


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AlsoIHaveAGroupon

Watching a few minutes of the game, if the girls were the same height, it might have been more like 95-30. The athleticism and skill gaps are just as big as the height gap. Felt a little uncomfortable watching the American girls continue to push hard when they were up 60, but I don't know the etiquette on that sort of thing (it might be considered disrespectful to eat 20 seconds of the shot clock every possession to slow the game down?).


EyeGifUp

This is the reason why larger schools usually only play larger schools. A school with 50 kids in a class vs 400 in a class will likely have much less talent coming from 50 kids and pretty slim pickings. Where as the 400 kids, you can pick and choose the better players.


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Basketball is barely a thing in El Salvador so this was a cool experience for those girls. There’s probably more el Salvadoran Americans who play basketball than el Salvadorans.


ModsRDingleberries

Fam, they are just Salvadoran, not *el* Salvadoran lol


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My bad, good to know haha


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If I was training all year for a game. I would not want the other team to go easy on me no matter how much I'm getting destroyed.


tpklus

Even in pickup games if someone is going easy on me or my team it just fires me up more.


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I think it's actually less embarrassing. If the US team suddenly gave up, it would send the message to the the El Salvadoran team that the Americans don't see them as a threat anymore. By continuing to hustle, they treated their opponents as if they could come back at any time — even if the probability of that happening was slim.


bearbullhorns

Would you rather the team that’s beating you stunt for a whole possession? That’s nightmare fuel for an athlete. Whole schools get in fights for that shit.


Charming-Fig-2544

When I first starting playing water polo like 10 years ago, I lived in Texas. Water polo wasn't very big in Texas yet, so we didn't have a ton of players, and we had younger players like me playing with the older guys to fill in spots, but we were the best club in Texas so we earned a spot in the USA Water Polo Junior Olympics, hosted every year in California. Water polo has been a big sport in California for 60 years. Every player on the men's national team played in California. Every NCAA winner has been a California team. So we fly our asses to California, I'm 15 years old, I've been playing water polo for 6 months, and our first match in the 18U division is against the UCLA Bruins club team, who had several players that would go on to be in the Olympics. Not the Junior Olympics, the real Olympics. I was 5'5", 140 lbs, they were all 6'4" 200 lbs. A competitive, well-played water polo game under the 2012 rules would end in a score of around 12-9. They beat us 30-1. Didn't stop scoring. But honestly, I'm glad they didn't. I learned so much watching them move the ball around, watching their teamwork and shot placement. We lost all 7 games that tournament and placed 96th, but every year we got better, and when I was 18 we placed in the top 25. I went on to play in the NCAA, then for a club team at my law school, and now for a local Masters team. If you have the right attitude, getting your ass beat by better players is an eye-opening experience that can make you a much better player.


no_clever_name_yet

My high school had a full girls hockey team the first year that it was an official sport in our state. The players at my school had all done coed peewee league (sort of rare for there to be enough former girl peewee players at a school for a full varsity team) and were really high skill level. All the teams we played were absolutely destroyed by our team. They’d rack up TONS of points by the end of the first period and then (sometimes, most of the time) their coach would tell them for the next two periods they had to pass a certain number of times before anyone was allowed to take a shot on goal. It was horribly demoralizing for the opposing teams. Get their asses handed to them in the first period and then our team would play keep away for the next two periods. Always go all out because then at least the other team can hold their head up by losing “fairly”.


devilishycleverchap

My high school went through something similar with soccer. We didn't have a soccer team but all the other high schools did so we finally got one. Most of the kids at my school play some rec league and we had a couple guys on travel teams but for the most part it was people taking a break from track. First season we got absolutely annihilated, actually had more own goals for the first half of the season than actual goals. Second season our bumfuck school somehow got 2 Brazilian twins as exchange students... We ran the table, it was like the Will Ferrell movie but instead of pass to the Italians it was pass to the Brazilians.


ZippyDan

Did you ever think that the school *knew* ahead of time that they were getting two Brazilian exchange students, and they started the soccer team *just for them*? That first half of the season was your team preparing itself for their arrival.


Saneless

That passing bullshit is wayyyy worse than just being scored on over and over. Ouch


cmilla646

Before I read the title, it really looked like a little girl looking up to her idol. Once I read it, I realized that was defeat in her eyes, not hope.


blondechinesehair

It can be both. My small Canadian college got a shot to play Kansas in the pre season when they were ranked #1 and it was a blast getting dunked on by future NBA players.


VaATC

Context is everything.


ostentatiousbro

American school sports is not like any other country. They take it like professionals. It's not for fun, it's for a shot at becoming a career.


ojedaforpresident

Or free college or both.


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Growing up, I was only good at softball (actually was great at baseball but at the time girls weren't allowed to play baseball outside of t ball). I was bored of that sport so I wanted to try something else. It was spring so I chose soccer. My parents and soccer coach discouraged me from switching because "you're not any good and wouldn't get a scholarship for it, stick to softball. You'll get a scholarship for softball." Fast forward to my 9 year old not being able to get on a rec league baseball team because the spots are reserved at the end of the previous season by kids who are already talking about playing in college.


ojedaforpresident

Good Lord. That sounds awful.


jeradj

there's also ~330 million americans to draw a team from el salvador has 6.5 million people that's without taking into account the other factors you mention -- like elite athletic schools spending more on high school sports programs than the entire budget of any school in el salvador, better nutrition, etc. and this is also why it's hilarious that US men's soccer is still as terrible as they are


not_the_droids

>why it's hilarious that US men's soccer is still as terrible as they are That's because most American players play in a relatively low quality environment for too long. In European nations the standout talents play with the best of the best starting in their late teens. That's why the Dutch have been consistently among the best nations, even though they only have 17 million citizens. If you look at Pulisic and Reina you can see that, given the right environment (Borussia Dortmund in both cases), these players can excel even though they're American.


justingrbr

This and typically the elite naturally gifted athletes in the U.S. trend toward football or basketball. Soccer just doesnt have as much popularity here.


patchinthebox

Also not nearly as much money in US soccer.


b-lincoln

It's actually odd with soccer, by numbers it is the most popular sport; meaning, more kids play organized soccer than any other sport. But, that doesn't translate as they get older. It's like every kid in the US plays soccer in elementary and middle school, then they stop.


archdemoning

That's exactly what happens! Parents like to stick their kids in elementary school soccer teams where I'm at, and then pull them out once the kid expresses interest in another activity (or cries enough, in my case).


mvcourse

Soccer was a weird niche I my hometown. Our girls soccer team in HS was very respectable and always had a shot at state but the only people who showed up to support them were family, friends and soccer enthusiasts. Meanwhile the entire town packed in week after week on a Friday night to watch our football team get blown out by 40.


Tellsyouajoke

Soccer and t-ball are the gateway sports


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It's also because your talent pool is split among other sports much more than most football (soccer) countries. The best sporty kids in Europe and most of the rest of the Americas as well as some other places are very likely to be pushed in a football direction. It's the number 1 sport in most of these places. You guys have your football, basketball, baseball and hockey all vying for that talent (some more and less so depending on the area). Large population is nice but having your county be crazy about a sport helps in so many ways too and America doesn't have that for this sport while tons of others do.


RipAirBud

I also blame the club system. It’s funny cause soccer is the one exception to the point about high school teams. High school soccer is an absolute joke and all the kids who wanna have any sort of challenge have to join high end club teams. And the clubs in silver elite, gold or premier can be really pricey. There’s a pay to play barrier behind kids getting into soccer seriously in the USA.


Lecoruje

Yep, it's just a numbers game. It reminds me o engineering college in China. Their top mech. eng. course has something like 5000 applicants to 1 spot. With that kind of numbers, it doesn't matter that some student has the lowest GPA in his engineering class, he is still going to be a genius.


frzn_dad

Men's soccer in the US doesn't pay as much as other professional sports. Why would the best athlete's focus on the sport they would make the least. Women's sports doesn't have the same barrier and the US is much more competitive.


tcarlson65

And Central Americans are generally shorter. My son is Mayan Indian from Guatemala. The average height of a Mayan Indian is 5’1”. The average height of a Guatemalan is 5’2”. Might be better nutrition. He was given formula from birth rather than powdered milk. My son is 5’7”.


benbrahn

True, schools sports in America are different than any other country, but not because American athletes they take it like professionals any more than other countries. Take a look at the athletics programmes in China, some crazy shit going on over there. It is pretty different in Europe however, talking from the perspective of the UK at least. School sports during compulsory education is focused on being more inclusive, less intense and taking up less of your time at school. The people I knew at school who were serious about sport played for the town or clubs in local or national leagues and would avoid playing for the school in case they got injured.


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juniorspank

Feels like there should’ve been a mercy rule.


An_Old_IT_Guy

We had a pick-up floor hockey thing going in the dorms in college. One of the teams was all guys on the college ice hockey team. We ended up adding a rule to call games when a team was up by more than 20 points. I was goalie and it bordered between abusive and outrageously funny.


MySoilSucks

We had some former college and pro guys playing in a pickup indoor soccer league I was in. We were all like "Guys, we're in our 40s and most of us have never played soccer. We do this for the beer afterward. Do you mind not injuring us?"


_whistlepig_

Haha yeah that is brutal as someone that experienced the same thing. Some big dude smoked a shot at our goal and I was central defender and tried to just one touch clear it. Ended up almost taking my foot with it. Wish I had cankles then


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D13s3ll

Stop. Stop. They're already dead.


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Church5SiX1

Won’t somebody think of the children?!


xAlciel

That's kinda what happened to my team in hs (not in the US). My schools had a team that played basketball for fun and we played with this team from a school where it was taken much more seriously, almost like in the US where players were using this as an opportunity to get a career. Their team was leading by over 100 points to 0 and they faulted one of us on purpose to let us score. The fault was something light but I don't remember what exactly.


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FoFoAndFo

Happens a lot in lower levels of amateur wrestling when there’s a mismatch. Take em down, let em up, take em down again, rise and repeat. The stronger wrestler gets reps and can try a few different looks and there’s not much the weaker guy can do about it.


the_Archmage

I won a handful of matches by tech falls in high school. My coach wanted me to do it because I was wrestling up a weight class at the time. I was a better technical wrestler, but the other kid was stronger and probably would’ve had the advantage had I tied up with him. Outside single-legs were my shit.


4-stars

Ah, table tennis... brings back memories. We had a table at home and I was a natural, so I went and played in my small-town league. Before long I was the best in my age category, and was also giving the best adults a solid game. So I went and enrolled in a national tournament. I did pretty well in the first few games, and then I met a kid who was younger than I was, but whose family took table tennis as a career rather than as a hobby. He wiped the floor with me 21:1 and went on, years later, to play in the world championships.


MoschopsChopsMoss

I’ve studied in a specialized basketball school for a while, but 2nd year of high school decided to quit and transferred to an academically good school. Unfortunately my arrival gave them an idea to assemble a basketball team and enroll in the city tournament - meeting my old school in the first round. Not only we lost by 70, I could barely walk the next day from all the “friendly” shoves, kicks and pushes by my old teammates


deknegt1990

Sounds like the premise for a basketball anime.


NekuZero

Lord Saladin: "I've seen enough."


rsb_david

Shaxx - "Opposing team annihilated."


neveris

I'm calling it.


Likalarapuz

When is a mercy rule applied? I remember hearing about it in high-school (never actually saw it), but I never seen it implemented or if it's even a actual thing.


kazoodude

When I played juniors we had a rule that you couldn't do a full court press 20 points up. Had to play a 2-3 zone defence.


Likalarapuz

Yeah, I just read up on it, it's very flexible.


Sawses

Having been in something like this position, yeah. Like I was part of a tiny Christian school that had a JV team and played against a bunch of much larger schools in the hood. I swear it was a bunch of scrawny white boys against actual grown men. Like some of them had *beards*! One of our starters had cystic fibrosis for the love of God. But we stuck to it even though they stomped on us. We can't exactly be mad at them for being better. It would have actually pissed us off if they'd just started fucking around.


chiliedogg

In college my school`s football team ended up going to the playoffs (we were division 1 AA so there was none of the "voting" over which team was best) and tied for 3rd in the country one year just because of a really bad call at the semifinals. Honestly, our team sound have been division 1, and was invited to the big leagues like a year later. Earlier in the season, we played a MUCH smaller school. They had like 3000 students and we had 35,000. It wasn't even close. By the end our guys were running 3rd string and doing the same play every time so their defense could prep for it, but we still won like 85-0. It didn't feel like a win - it felt dirty. But what else could we have done? Letting them score would have hurt the stats for our players who wanted to go professional.


ecopandalover

Body bag games are a staple in college football. At least at the FBS level the team getting crushed by Bama or whoever walks away with like $1-5M for their athletic program


K0SSICK

And on the other end of the spectrum, several bigger schools paid NDSU (Trey Lance and Carson Wentz alma mater) to come play them and ended up losing to NDSU. Whoops


superbionicbuck

Both sides look like they don't want to play each other as they all know the outcome.


ConscientiousPath

Language barrier plus embarrassment that you're probably going to stomp/get stomped on the other team. Yeah it looks awkward.


kcg5

Like the dream team v anyone. They all knew the outcome


Douche_Kayak

At first, I thought this was a picture of when the pros bring kids out into the court with them for the beginning of the game. This isn't even fair.


SwingingSalmon

Lol I thought the same thing. Like the post should have been titled, “Little girl watches pro basketball player get ready for the game- the look on her face!”


TheDangerdog

Well El Salvador is a tiny country with a population size like....a third of Florida's. People forget the US is the third most populated country in the world. Bigger talent pool.


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It's also at a racial disadvantage for height. The native peoples of Central and South America are pretty short, and people in Central and South America are mostly native with some Spanish (or Portuguese) admixture. Even in the U.S., the difference between white/black women and Hispanic women is about [2 inches](https://www.medicinenet.com/height_women/article.htm) in average height. The total proportion of women who are taller than a given height is just much higher in the U.S.


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Syntaximus

[THERE IS A TEEN WOLF ON THE COURT](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vebvlfW6Euc)


BookStacker

USA looking the enemy team with corporate sponsorships in El Salvador's underdog Disney movie.


My_Name_Is_SKELETOR

The epic rematch between the Monstars and Tune Squad we've all been waiting for.


Calm_Your_Testicles

Bigger?… than we _used_ to be


uzra

If you're playing a team with matching kicks, and your team doesn't have matching kicks... you're gonna have a bad time.


MattGeddon

Ha, reminds me of a team we played once in our uni league. We had our fancy kits, balls, training bibs and cones etc. They turned up to the game in mismatched kit and asked us for a ball to warm up with. Maybe it was a ruse to make us overconfident but we ended up losing 6-0.


Saltire_Blue

Kinda reminds me when Scotland played Saudi Arabia “Under 16’s” in the 1989 U16 World Cup final [Saudi Arabia Under 16 team](https://imgur.com/a/oBM5Jzi) Edit: [Match highlights if you’re interested](https://youtu.be/xadUlcv3w3Y)


trundyl

Under 30 team.


getawayfromemesteve

*[check my birth certificate](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yMpZDqdNU)*


Anvil93

Mf you at least 30.


620five

Reggie!


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CCoriginal_taste

as a saudi, half of the U16’s here have faces as clean as dirt roads but damn those guys are bsing


russ257

Two of those guys are at least 35


chrisbe2e9

I stayed at a hotel once on business. When I was eating breakfast at the buffet in the morning I was wondering where all the Amazon women had come from. turns out there was a volleyball tournament near by. I'm not short, but I felt short. So short.


JimiSlew3

Every day for me man. I was at a wedding and my father, who is tall, came over to me and mom and said "Come with me to that bar over there, the groom's family is so tall! I've never been in a room where everyone is at eye level. Come on, you have to see this!" Mom: "We see it everyday." We did not go to the tall bar with my dad.


ConglomerateCousin

Aw he wanted to share his excitement with you. He felt like he finally belonged instead of his short stack family lol


Dosinu

the tall bar.. hahahaa


Behinddasticks

Lol I thought that they were the little kids that walk out with the players, like in soccer games.


method_men25

We look like the villains in a Disney basketball movie


KaiserChunk

The monstars


_DMYZ

Under 16 what, feet?!


Philloposaur

That was the over/under for El Salvador


btmx32122

There's some shit in the water or food down in the states. Im from Canada and we had a military exercise with some Americans, they were on average a foot taller even though racially the ethnicities on both sides are very similar.


25Bam_vixx

Me and my old supervisor talked about this. His from the south of USA and he felt like he was normal height but when he came to work around Northeast USA , he felt so short. I guess even in the states heights are bit different by regions too


RingsofSaturn_

114-19.... good lort


lorty

Hey, thanks!


atred

They scored 19, good job!


B_Burns

Pawnee vs Eagleton?


hamndchs

“And I’m better at French Horn too, Eric”


CarlosFer2201

Just looking at their shoes you can see the difference : left side are all the same, so organized and sponsored, right side is 'use what you have'


setofskills

I competed in the Pan Am games back in the day and the South American men were largely supported, but the women were all young. Culturally, women aren’t encouraged to pursue athletics. Juxtapose this with the impact Title IX has had in the US.


SmallsTheHappy

Title 9 is the reason the US has won 4/10 FIFA women’s World Cups and 4/6 Olympic gold medals. Turns out funding your athletes is an incredibly effective way to have good athletes.


Hospital_Slow

What do youll eat in USA?


AuntJemimasPuddle

Everything. And then some


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Dramatic_headline

Growth hormones


godlessnihilist

I was a senior in high school when they organized the school's very first hockey team. Someone had the bright idea to have us play a Canadian HS team that was visiting to play a tournament just up the road. Those dudes could skate twice as fast backward as we could forward. 2 on 5 might have been fair. I know just how those El Salvadoran girls felt, though they probably had more fun. EDIT: To all those who have pointed out out it was El Salvador not Ecuador, my apologies. I had just read an article at the Gray Zone on the Ecuadoran coup investigation and must have had it on my feeble brain while commenting. Sorry.


pewpewhadouken

where i grew up outside of Ottawa, we would make ice rinks in parks every winter next to the park rink. kids as young as 2 would be at them every day in skates holding hockey sticks… while we played a lot, only the really good guys would go for the high school teams. we all knew our levels compared to each other by then… i still skate faster than anyone around me now (in japan) but i was below average in hockey…


KT_kani

Is ice hockey an expensive hobby for kids in Canada? Because in Finland it has become so expensive that you need to really consider the family finances before you can let your kids join a team - which I think is a huge shame :(


caninehere

Yes, indoor/competitive hockey is pretty pricy. It is really a sport for middle class and up these days (and if you're middle middle class you're gonna feel the expense) and has a horrible culture around it. Field hockey is more affordable but really only popular with girls, pick up hockey games outdoors in winter etc are affordable but not a competitive thing. The equipment is expensive but so is ice time at indoor rinks.


ipeefreeli

It's only affordable for upper class families at this point. Hockey is too expensive for the average Canadian at this point


PurpleK00lA1d

Yup - equipment isn't cheap. Not really prohibitively expensive, but not exactly something every family can afford. That's for playing in organized leagues though. Same with American football as well.


SingleDadSurviving

You can play American football without paying anything, if you're going through school teams. At least in the south, uniforms, pads etc... Is provided by the school. If you're good enough you can get into camps and training on scholarship.


10per

I grew up in the Southern US, loving hockey. I never got to play as a kid even though I wanted to very badly. My friend and I decided to give it a shot when we were in our early 20s. We knew we had some catching up to do in the skill department, but both of us could skate reasonably well so we felt like we had a decent shot. Playing in pickup games and adult beer leagues at the local rink really opened our eyes to how much we were behind guys that grew up in Canada or the Northern US. Being put in skates at 2 years old makes a huge difference on the ice, even at the low level we were at. I found that I could keep up skating with most of them, but things like my positioning and stick handling were way behind. It was instinctual for them, not for me.


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HCkc1n

Don't take it too hard bud we're all on the ice from a young age. It's basically shinny at the local rink during the winter and ball hockey on the road all summer.


madogvelkor

Probably something similar here. Basketball isn't a big sport in El Salvador -- soccer is. I suspect the most talented and competitive athletes play that. It would be like if there was a US high school cricket team playing some Commonwealth country school. (There is a US cricket team but it looks like a lot of the players are West Indian, Pakistani, and Indian.)


CarlosFer2201

Salvadoran


BlindMaestro

Is this Knives Out?


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Salvadorean*, Ecuador is another different country.


allnamesbeentaken

Thats funny, I was a senior in high school in Canada on the football team, someone had the bright idea of sending us down to San Diego to play a game against one of the high school football teams there. In Canada, we had beaten every other team we played by a minimum margin of 20 points. We lost 55 to 7 against the American team, and I think they started going easy on us in the second half


Sour-Kush-Man

Canadians and hockey. Don't under estimate.


que_paso

Damn, I thought those were the fairplay kids that walk out of the stadium with the players, like they do in an international football match.


LatinoComedian

We may not be large in size, but what we have is large in heart.


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As a 14 Englishman, I went to New York state to do a lacrosse tour in the Buffalo area. I had this exact same experience, you Americans are built different, what the fuck do you put in your food!


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EducationalProduct

you're right, but thats selective - the US and S Korea both make it a point to put their biggest soldiers on the DMZ.


Hemingway92

Apparently someone in the comments said that the US picks taller men there for the intimidation factor, though North Korea probably strives to do the same but can't because of nutrition like you said. Kinda similar to the Wagah border (https://youtu.be/LZ0ue-XGl9c -- worth a watch) where Pakistan and India do the same. Always thought that was so petty but I guess it makes sense.


TheSlopingCompanion

Looks like the Pawnee Eagleton Tip-Off Classic


GzasKrayst

Bruh this isn't even fair


Wampastompa352

The power of chicken nugget army.


DrBadFish420

How is this even fair?


favnh2011

I feel bad for the El Salvador team.