UPDATE: Looks like we have found the combatants in this battle royale–Mali and Tunisia–from a 2008 friendly between the two countries. Obviously, it was not very friendly. Many thanks to our super-sleuth commenters.
We stumbled across this women’s soccer fight that someone posted on youtube, but we can’t seem to identify the combatants.
We’re guessing this is at least one African side. And the other team is probably North African or Middle Eastern. We’ve tried Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain for the team in red. Tunisia has the best uniform match with the red/red/red combination, but perusing the FIFA site, their recent results don’t pair them with the team in white. Same for Egypt and Bahrain.
As for the team in white, it looks like they’ve got a red, gold and green color pattern on their jerseys. And that could make them any of about half the teams in Africa, which isn’t much help.
Maybe this is actually a really old fight that just went up recently (yesterday) and we’re going about this the wrong way.
But anyone who has better sleuthing skills, have at it. If not, just enjoy women beating the living tar out of each other.
I love the two women in red tag teaming the woman in white. One holds her while the other viciously and repeatedly kicks the woman in white. That’s some serious WWF ish there.
@TFA: Any Frangoes?
Pretty sure it’s Elon vs. Appy State.
@Anon: I don’t know. The keepers show up in a few shots of the fight, but I don’t know if any of their actions there would qualify for Frango status.
The TV station logo in the upper right appears to be TV7 from Tunisia.
http://henrypeters.info/0pagina03.htm
The Tunisian women have played Palestine, and Algeria in a home-away this year.
Andrew… the links in the post are for the FIFA results pages. So nice job with the logo, but if that’s Tunisia, none of the opponents match recent results. That would mean it’s either not Tunisia or the fight is old.
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I don’t see Liz Lambert anywhere!
Could the team in white be Ghana?
http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/students/events/images/ghana.women.jpg
I know those kits are different, but it could have been a different version at some point. Thinking the clue lies in the flag hinted across the top of the shirts.
There’s a chance they might somehow kiss:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wrL9z3Kvww
“Thinking the clue lies in the flag hinted across the top of the shirts.”
Or the name of the country on back of the coach’s jacket, or any number of things we can’t actually see in the crappy res video.
Judging from this picture of Mahamadou Diarra, I’d say the team in white is Mali.
http://losblancos.pl/images/news/Diarra.jpg
Find an Arabic speaker. Ask to translate. None of my friends are around ATM. When they appear, I’ll ask.
Following Andrew’s cue, here is the Mali away strip from 08-09:
http://blog.oldfootballshirts.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/malihome08.jpg
It’s looking like this might have been the Mali-Tunisia friendly in 2008.
Another video of the same fight is titled “Gender Coarse Tunisia and Mali”
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/4129770/gender_coarse_tunisia_and_mali/
The African Women’s Soccer Championship is going on right now (final is on Sunday), but it’s not from this event. Mali didn’t play any North African teams. That is the Mali kit though.
I have a little arabic, and it’s clear that at about 0:33, the announcer describes the two teams as the “team of tunisia” and the “team of mali.” Hope that helps to confirm the jersey analysis.
So, our commenters are better at the Internet and Arabic than we are. Good to know.
All in all, not a bad way to kill some time on a Friday afternoon waiting to get off work.
So, our commenters are better at the Internet and Arabic than we are. Don’t worry. Some of us still fail at life.
While scrolling down this comments section, I witnessed some beast researching.
@Tno: Usually it’s breast researching for this crew but not today. Or, at least not while at work.
I research breasts from time to time while working. Chicken breasts, in particular, but I can splurge and go the turkey breast route, as well.
/doesn’t have a job
@TFA – technically, since it’s a women’s team – it was one and the same today. But, yeah…
@MW: Excellent point. But those weren’t the breasts I am normally looking for.
These are not the breasts you’re looking for?
The absolute best part of this video is the announcer declaring, just prior to one of the massive kicks to the knee, about these women being the fairer sex.
@Trot: You should do a transcript of the announcers.
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