Elizabeth Lambert of New Mexico Lobos Suspended
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- Junior defender Elizabeth Lambert was suspended Friday, Nov 6th 2009, for her infractions the day before during a 1-0 loss to BYU in a Mountain West Conference semifinal. Lambert is seen in video from the game throwing elbows, colliding with several players and then yanking the ponytail of a BYU player (Kassidy Shumway) who went crashing to the ground
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The referees at this game should be all fired and never be allowed to referee another soccer game.
James Yu I agree should have been called much harder much earlier. First blatant foul and she should have been red carded
0:41If you pay attention you'll see she wanted to break her arm
If I saw that it would be immediate sending off
If I saw that it would be immediate sending off
If I saw that it would be immediate sending off
“I’m deeply regretful that my actions were recorded, and I got caught”
Exactly!
Yeah after she retaliated for getting elbowed and grabbed I see nothing wrong with lamberts actions
@elyssa.wasnothere punch or elbow them
@elyssa.wasnothere absolutely justified.
Yes ! (As long as you apologise) 😆🤣🤦🏼♂️
Fire the 3 refs too ...Good grief ..it's like there was nobody watching what was happening on the pitch
Who are the refs?
Right? She’s a defender so you have to figure at least the linesman should be looking at them the entire game.
@Windows Sucks.......... I totally agree, referee's were a total disgrace to allow this to continue. Lambert is a player, that has some serious issues too. She needs some type of treatment, if she plays to intentionally hurt other players. Commit a foul to stop play, allowing your team to regroup is one thing, doing it in a way to intentionally attempt to injure another player is hideous. Where was her coach? Allowed to play in this fashion? He/she should also be suspended for not pulling her from match. Not only a disgrace to women's soccer, a disgrace to all women.
Fucking Zebras!!👊🏻 🦓
Elizabeth, if you are out there, I love you. I always have. At least since I saw your antics in this video
Shout out to the cameraman (and as this was college women's soccer, I'm assuming he was only one) for wisely keeping Elizabeth in frame, even when she wasn't playing the ball. He knew he had lightning in a bottle.
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She's in the wrong sport, put her in women's MMA.
lol 😂😂😂😂
She seem like the kind of person that's only though when no one's standing up to her. I'm sure the woman in UFC would eat her alive.
Nope. She gets her butt handed to her in a real fight.
She probably would get her butt kicked im mma! The other girls were just scared of her. I bet shed be crying to mommy if someone actually stood up to her!
My daughters have been training for years in different martial arts and I can assure you she would be eaten alive. Her sneaky violence shows the kind of person she truly is. People like her don’t last long in gyms where real fighters train. I’ve seen it time and time again.
Heat of the moment? I see like 100 moments in that video! Those were not her actions, that was her personality! Plain and simple 😎
Absurd comment!!
@@billyphillips7204 hypocrite
She's perfect.
Why did the ref fail to stop this? The slide tackles alone.
There a least two assaults. That would have landed here in jail. She should banned from the sport. She could hurt or crippled another player.
@@donaldkelly65 yea like kicking that soccer ball into that girl's face when she hit the ground, that looked like it could have caused some damage
I notice the referee was an elderly gentleman. Maybe there was a bit of sucky sucky going on behind the scenes.
No joke. If I was the coach, I'd be chewing the refs' collective asses and probably get thrown out of the game. Lambert grabbed a girl by the ponytail, pulled her to the ground with it, and the worst she got in that whole game was a yellow-card? That in itself is worthy of serious investigation.
The bigger problem was the non action by the referees. They get paid to control things like this crazy player did. And she did attack players multiple times in the same game. Referees were totally worthless.
Yep. They were standing there watching the game and forgetting that they were refs.
😂😂😂
lol she's gonna be a hell of a soccer mom
@@christianpama4943 She's hot, and violent. Sexy as hell.
@@mikeanderson4346 proof
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My only regret is that I only have one like to give you.
Hahaha 😅😂
When did Rhonda Rousey start playing soccer?
Chinweuba Aninta 😂😂😂😂😂
Exactly that chick needs to be in MMA not soccer.
She would kick Rhondas ass
i love that flying fake shot punch at the end
FoxIslanderSteve **cough** Pepe **cough**
Sergio Ramos: I'm the cruelest defender of all time.
Elizabeth Lambert: Hold my beer.
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkk um Salve do Brasil como jogadora ela é uma ótima Lutadora kkkk
wtf was the referee doing on this game?
Fr lmao
He was probably enjoying it. She would work out great for roller derby
He was probably afraid of her 😂😂
Masturbating i suppose? This is so hot ! xD
Smooching her after the game.
Maybe she misunderstood the team's name to be New Mexico Locos...?
Elizabeth Lambert channeled Christopher and thought there could be only one in the end.
That had me in tears by far comment of the year!
Ha, I was embarrassed by the whole thing as I went to UNM and there was a de emphasis for sports in the 50's. Unfortunately, today's women want to prove they are just as good as men in such violence. No more manners for sure, no more team spirit, just want to win, win, win with no rules. Like cage fighting.
King
My oldest daughter plays high school varsity soccer. She has been playing for a decade now and girls who play dirty and nothing new. They need punished for real. These actions could end a players career. Very unsportsman like to say the least.
Thats the name of the game. Put your daughter in a bubble.
@@TroijanSkinhead , the intent of the game is to play with the “BALL”. It is called “FOOTBALL” not “ WRESTLING”. Only a 🐷🧠 wouldn’t understand this feature.
Karens
The referee is... Blind ?
Why does she bother with low end football when she could be pulling in gold doing MMA?
DURENDIN cause maybe she knows damm well that in football she has a less chance that the other player is gonna hit her back and that in mma they can really straight up beat her ass
>low end football
I'm "borrowing" that.
+leonel salinas What nobody talks about is how the other team was playing dirty, elbowing her, tripping her, crotch grabbing, etc. She just decided to retaliate.
DURENDIN well the difference is in MMA she would get hit back. She would then stop being a bully
😂😂😂😂😂😂
But the girl in white started it all. She first elbowed the girl in red
“I’m sorry...😪😢...that I got caught on camera!”
She was literally responding each time. I love the way they cut the edges of the video that show the stuff the entire other team was doing to her, and don't include the clips of her getting rocked first. She even stepped up after and apologized but none of the others said shit about kicking, shoving, elbowing, and headbutting her.
‘I’m deeply and wholeheartedly regretful for my actions. My actions were uncalled for. I let my emotions get the best of me in a heated situation.’ No you turned into Hulk!
I understand possibly missing some of the off the ball fouls (you tend to be able to get away with murder there) but how on earth did the ref not card her earlier and not give her a red for the fouls that were on the ball? That's insane.
There are a lot of people that needed to be fired for allowing this type of behavior to happen. The refs, coaches, and that psycho herself!!
Karens 😡
I get it that in the heat of the moment, an occasional lapse in judgment can occur. But continuously?? There is simply no excuse for that. Women's sports are competitive and exciting enough so that we don't need dirty and unnecessary tactics to heighten the drama.
Yep, everybody knows it's one of those lame non-apologies that you have to do to hopefully keep your NCAA eligibility. It's like the standard ballplayer "apology" after getting a DUI that nobody on planet earth believes or takes seriously. I honestly don't know why it's even done anymore. The NCAA, coaches, fans, and everybody else play this charade that only their grandmother takes seriously.
In the premier league that would be a straight red for each of her actions....she makes me sick
JACQUES You liked it
Agree but I’d like to see the entire game caz BYU initiated this also (the refs where morons) elbows to the gut, grabbing the crotch. Yeah she shouldn’t have retaliated as she did but BYU shouldn’t have either. Plus premier league they would’ve just dived n got Grammy awards lol
I keep bumping into you. Strange.
Between the hair yanking, the slide tackles where she was aiming for knees instead of the ball, and the Austin Powers-esque judo chop to the throat, she was clearly out there with the intent to injure. The refs should be fired for allowing this to happen, the NMU coach should be suspended for not pulling her from the game immediately, and that dirty piece of shit Lambert should be banned for life from NCAA competition, insincere apology or no insincere apology.
Hair yanking was warented..girl elbowed her in the stomach 1st
It was beautiful
@@redmanrm1 Absolutely glorious.
Everybody talking about the shitty punches, but the tackle at 00:37 is the most dangerous action by far. Could seriously injury the opponent
Seriously, I would've supported the BYU coach forfeiting the game and telling the refs, "If you guys aren't going to make intent-to-injure calls, we're done. None of this is worth people getting a permanent injury." This isn't whining about an out-of-bounds call that didn't go your way or a disallowed goal, this could seriously hurt somebody, permanently even. New Mexico's team whacko sure wasn't afraid of penalties or being thrown out of the game, she only caught a suspension when footage hit ESPN. It says a lot that UNM didn't outright cut her from the team, she came back the next year (her senior year), no word on how much she actually played. What do you have to do to get banned from a sport, kill somebody. I hope the NCAA took a serious look at their soccer refs. The refs for this game had no business being movie theater ushers.
Wow my daughter showed me this and I thought it was like over a whole season not just one game.....
She needs a frikin therapist in her life!! She makes me sick!!
Soccer and other physical sports are some of the best therapists. Elizabeth inspired me to take out my anger in soccer.
I think that's not the way you should take out your anger in sports
lol Thank God nobody's asking you
Billings Girl go play soccer or something, you need it 😂😂😂
i wanna curb stomp some bitch, if only i could play in a women's soccer team 8)
She has no business in competitive sports. Period. This is what happens when someone doesn’t have the SKILL to beat an opponent- they try to hurt them. This was clearly endorsed by the coaching staff and teammates as there is no way they didn’t see this. This woman lacked the maturity, coping ability, and skill to play at this level.
No offense but.....and let me be clear, I am not saying what she did was right.....but does or did anyone see all the things that were being done to her. She was elbowed in the stomach. They were stepping on her feet. Now if you never had your feet stepped on in cleats then you have no idea. Again I don't want to hear that it's part of the game, because its not. Sure Elizabeth L. was wrong for what she did but that goes both ways. Look at the video and AGAIN and you will see that BYU players were wrong and everyone is looking at them at the victims...........I don't buy it they were just as dirty but no one is calling a spade a spade.
@@UnicornGuru so accurate on the pony tail pull. Watch where her left hand goes before the yank. She clearly (although conveniently covered by ESPN banner) grabbed at Lambert’s crotch. Not fully exonerating Lambert, she went overboard in that game, but she was clearly provoked.
The refs and the UNM coach need to be catching some of this, they're clearly complicit.
@@BSample her left hand was not on her crotch unless her crotch is on her shorts
@@eharris019
I actually agree with most of what you said and I see no problem with retaliating with equal force, it's obvious that the refs weren't calling jack shit in this game, the fogies weren't seeing any of the extracurricular activities away from the play. What do you have to do to get a red card, destroy somebody's knee? Where Liz L went wrong was doing things that really aren't bad but look awful on video. The hair yank is just that. The other girl put on a show of laying face-down not moving like she was knocked out, and it worked for the viral replays later. I think the slide tackles and kicking one girl in the ribs when she was down were actually dangerous. Kicking the ball into a downed opponent's head was a fuck-you move, the kick was actually pretty weak, it was basically a diss that also looks REALLY bad on replay, especially when you do it and then don't go after the deflected ball, you just stand over her like, "Yeah, b*tch, eat that." The elbows and punches being exchanged were very weak, that was more taking a poke to see if you could get somebody riled enough to start getting future roughing penalties (didn't work in this game, the Geritol refs had tunnel vision on the ball).
There was no mention in that news report that player 15, Elizabeth Lambert had been provoked. Player 21 for example was trying to make something out of something she had instigated tackling player 15 from behind (making player 15 land on her clumsily).
It was when player 21 then tugged on player 15's shorts that player 15 got very upset and pulled 21 down to the turf via her pony-tail as if to teach her a lesson.
I do not regard player 15's behaviour acceptable by any means. I consider it deplorable. But it is wrong to attempt to present compiled material in a way that makes it seem 15 was doing all those assaults without provocation.
My initial view changed having watched it not just once, but many times. Since I became suspicious when I realised 15 was the entire focus.
Yep. If nothing is getting called, it quickly gets out of control. You have two kinds of players when this happens: the people getting more rough because they can get away with it and those who take a dive figuring it'll come out of their ass later, which is exactly what happened to Lambert. She only drew a yellow card in the game, but we all saw what happened when video hit Sportscenter and the sports commentators couldn't shut up about it. That's when suspensions came down and Lambert caught hell from all sides. She officially only drew a two-game suspension but she sat on the bench and was kept under wraps for the rest of the season. She came back the next year (her senior year) but barely played and was a total non-factor in anything. She practiced and played just enough to keep her eligibility and sports scholarship so that she could finish school, she was basically an un-person her senior year when that should be her time to really shine. I know she did wrong and all that, but I don't think she deserved the international hellfire and damnation that she got. Come on, it was one game, nobody got hurt, and I blame the refs WAY more then I blame Lambert. They're the ones that should've been out of a job.
Geez, that ponytail head snap was much worse than Zinedine Zidane's headbutt at the World Cup
Each action by Lambert was a reaction to the fouls being committed to her a split second before by the other players. Replay the vid in slow motion since none of you haters have any powers of observation.
@DonCervantes Says the one who voted for Trump.what type of hypocrisy is this.
I voted for Trump you salty bastards and yes it was back and forth from both sides. Both were wrong like the both of you are wrong.
If you react to fouls with disproportionate physical retaliation, you shouldn't be playing soccer.
she should be banned for life not to play any sorts of soccer of any form weather it is leege or club
Why does nobody point out about what the other girls did to instigate her???
She lightly elbowed her.... and Lambert tried to rip her hair off
Elbow to the back was from a previous elbow to the stomach. The ponytail grab was from the shorts/crotch grab.
amigi968 Yup true enough. I remember watching this on the national news and wondering to myself what the heck is going on with this girl. But after a bit the full version of the video was released and you could see that there were 3 other girls from the other team that instigated all of this by elbowing and grabbing her crotch during play. The media was at fault for "cherry picking" and editing out what led up and caused her to retaliate.
+S Sanata Before you start knuckle banging on the keyboard trying to bust out with wanna be internet tough guy/gal routine with an account that you just happened to create today ( because I guess you were one of the players that got bitch slapped ) why don't you bother to look up the full version of the incidents that transpired . This clip is just cherry picking portions of what went on .
Ya her kicking the ball back into the face of the player on the ground was uncalled for and ya her slapping the girl in the face when they both went up for the ball was bad. But every thing is was justifiable since 3 girls on the other team conspired to antagonize that girl.
And personally I don't give a toss about if the school in question is a sad, sad, sad team since it's not like I root for them anyways. But having said that it's so typical of people to cry like a wuss after they start something with someone and then the other person defends themselves by giving it better than what they got.But I thought I would leave you something from someone that explains the whole affair a lot better than myselfelizabethlambertfan.blogspot.com/2009/11/in-defense-of-elizabeth-lambert.htmlTo begin with, let's state the obvious: Lambert should have been given a red card in this game and been sent off. No one is arguing that fact! Lambert went over the line and should have been removed from the game.
BUT
There is a big difference between a soccer player who should have been sent off the field (red card), which happens routinely in competetive soccer, and a soccer player who merits the drive-by media lynching that has been directed at Lambert in the aftermath of the BYU v. New Mexico game! This was a rough game in which there were many fouls on and off the ball. The first actual blow struck, judging from the video available, was a hard elbow thrown unexpectedly to Lambert's sternum by BYU #7. The officiating team (which includes the head referee and both linesmen, who are supposed to signal fouls off the ball or fouls that the referee has not seen) displayed a complete and total lack of competence in losing control of the game from the very beginning, refusing to punish or sanction players for fouling and just letting the rough play slide. In this kind of game it is the role of the defensive "hard man" of the team, which is usually a central defender or defensive midfielder, to take on the part of "enforcer" and really get rough with opponents who are dishing out fouls in order to keep the team from getting injured and run over. This "enforcer" is an important role in any competetive soccer team, where play is often rough and injuries are common, and this "enforcer" role was the role that Elizabeth Lambert played for New Mexico! The game was out of control, the play was very rough, there were fouls going back and forth -- it was Elizabeth Lambert's job to be the "hard man" in this situation, and that's what she did! She played fiercely and did her job, shutting down the BYU offense (which scored only one unimpressive goal from an awkward header) and keeping New Mexico in the game physically by preventing the BYU fouls and rough stuff from rolling her team over. And if she gave a little better than she got then she should not be hated for it; it is not her fault for being the fiercest player on the field, in fact that means she was mainly guilty of doing her job TOO WELL.
The role of the officiating team in this situation should not be underestimated. For anyone who watches a lot of professional soccer (not including MLS), you will know that when the refs refuse to call fouls and sanction rough play the game will quickly degenerate into a brawl. This is when fist fights often occur in the men's game, not only at the professional, but even at the recreational level! If the players are not protected then they have to protect themselves. The principle is a simple one, it is what my favorite professional player, Robin van Persie of Arsenal FC, said once when teams used to always try to foul Arsenal out of the game and shut them down with rough play. When asked about it, Van Persie said, "Of course, other teams will be rough and try to keep us from playing, but the first thing I learned when I came here is that when they play you agressive you have to play them back double agressive."
BUT WASN'T ELIZABETH LAMBERT REALLY BRUTAL AND HORRIBLE, DIDN'T SHE TRY TO HURT THOSE BYU PLAYERS BAD AND ISN'T SHE SOME KIND OF EVIL PERSON? HARDLY!
Let me break this highlight reel down frame by frame showing all of the famous fouls that Lambert has been demonized for, and showing why they have been made out to be much worse than they really were. And let's also remember from the outset that this highlight reel focuses only on Elizabeth Lambert and the fouls that she committed during the game, only the fouls of Elizabeth Lambert have been highlighted, the fouls of all the other players during that game have been ignored! Sure when you take a really rough, hard fought soccer match where the refs abdicate control completely and just let the players fight, and then you take the defensive "enforcer" of one team and focus only on that player's fouls and ignore everything else that happened in the game, then that one player is going to look pretty bad. Of course if you take one soccer player, focus on the roughest game they have ever been involved in, focus only on the fouls that one player committed during that game and ignore everything that all the other players did, then that one player will look pretty mean! But to single one player out like that is totally unfair! Even in the highlights reel of Elizabeth Lambert's fouls we can see multiple nasty fouls committed against her without provocation, and it is hard to imagine that these fouls are the only ones committed by BYU players during the 90 minutes of play! Two quite bad fouls AGAINST Elizabeth Lambert (one a straight red card according to the rules, the other AT LEAST a mandatory yellow) "coincidentally" happened during the 45 seconds or so of highlight showing how "bad" Elizabeth was. Obviously there were many more fouls in this game that were not shown because they did not reflect the story of "bad" Elizabeth Lambert.
Let's break the video down on a case by case, frame by frame basis:
INCIDENT 1:
The rough stuff begins when BYU #7 suddenly and without provocation elbows Lambert in the sternum:
This might not seem like a big deal to some, but you can actually do a lot of damage elbowing a person unexpectedly like this. I personally had my sternum broken during a soccer match from a similar elbow to this one. If you watch the video slowly you will see the muscles on #7's neck bulge out as she throws the elbow, she is obviously putting a lot of force into it!
And from watching Lambert's face when she gets hit with the elbow you can see that it hurt a lot:
Intentionally striking another player as BYU #7 does without provocation in this clip is an automatic straight red card according to the rules of FIFA, which is the official world governing body of the sport of soccer. This was the first blow, and not struck by Lambert. It was Lambert who was attacked first!
(Some people have claimed that Lambert instigated this incident by bumping into BYU #7's legs. I don't think the video supports this idea at all, and the idea itself doesn't really mesh with the reality that soccer is an inherently physical sport. When you are marking another player closely some contact is normal and not even illegal; if the players' legs lightly bump into each other, for example, this is common and not even a foul, just as bumping into the back of a player happens sometimes when players are moving around and jockeying for position. Lambert is obviously quite shocked at being elbowed, so the argument that she was intentionally instigating against #7 does not make sense and, as I said, is not supported by the video evidence. That's why I haven't included it here, it is nonsense. The first blow was struck by BYU, as we have seen, and elbowing another player like this is an automatic red card offense, the fact that #7 does it sneakily as if to prevent the ref from understanding what is happening makes it even worse.)
INCIDENT 2:
This incident begins when #21 reaches back and puts both her hands on Lambert's crotch area. This happens before #21 grabs Lambert's shorts, which happens next. Obviously it is unacceptable in any situation to put your hands all over another person's crotch without their consent, even in UFC fights what #21 did to Lambert is not allowed!
Then #21 backs up into Lambert with her hands on Lambert's crotch, and Lambert stands her ground.
THEN #21 grabs the front of Lambert's shorts and pulls them up as hard as she can, frontal wedgie style, and it is at this point that Lambert grabs #21's ponytail. There appears to be some threat or intention to "expose" Lambert on camera, and in fact this occured, although we have chosen a less objectionable image to show. Congratulations #21, I guess you accomplished your "purpose" with this foul.
It is only at this point that Lambert famously threw #21 to the ground by her ponytail! These girls from BYU seem to have been trained at sneaky fouls to injure, insult, and humiliate their opponents, but Lambert was a much more fierce player than they were and took command of the game. If you compare the fouls of the BYU players with the fouls that Lambert committed, you will see Lambert's reactions are just an honest emotional reaction, while the BYU fouls are underhanded and carefully planned to make sure the ref can't see. To me this indicates that Lambert is actually the less dirty player here, because a player who is accustomed to using illegal tactics would have fouled the BYU players in more subtle ways, and this subtle fouling style of true dirty play is exactly what the BYU players were doing!
INCIDENT 3:
This incident really takes the cake, BYU #21 uses multiple illegal tactics against Elizabeth Lambert, and (seemingly intentionally) stomps on Lambert's foot, but for some reason Lambert is meant to be the "bad guy" because she wins the ball.
This incident begins with #21 having fallen to the ground and not having control of the ball, it would be practically automatic for Lambert to clear the ball if #21 didn't try to block and push Lambert away with her arm, an illegal tactic.
Of course, just pushing her away with an arm bar will certainly not stop a fierce and awesome defender like Elizabeth Lambert, so #21 stomps onto Lambert's foot for good measure, if you watch this slowly you will see that she carefully makes sure to target Lambert's foot/ankle.
Then #21, still without being in control of the ball, tries to throw her body across the ground in front of Lambert to prevent her from clearing the ball, another illegal move.
Finally, when all of her illegal tactics are unable to prevent Lambert from winning the ball, #21 flops to the ground and feigns injury again, apparently a pattern for this player.
In this play #21 commits multiple illegal actions, while Lambert does nothing wrong and wins the ball in spite of #21s illegal tactics, yet somehow this is supposed to be another example of "bad" Elizabeth Lambert.....
INCIDENT 4:
Incident #4 was the one that I thought was Lambert's most dangerous play when I first saw the highlight reel, but upon closer examination Lambert comes off in a positive light and perhaps her only fault on this play is that she missed the ball by a fraction of an inch (thus making it a foul, but not a spiteful one). Some people would say Lambert's challenge is too hard even if she got the ball, but that is always a judgment call when it comes to slide tackles and that is what the yellow card is for.
BYU #7 is taking the ball up the flank with Lambert in pursuit, and Lambert shoots in for the tackle (this is the instant of Lambert's lunge). Notice this is NOT a tackle from behind, although #7 seems to spin her back to Lambert after Lambert's lunge in order to try to make it appear that way (Such techniques of trying to make a challenge look worse than it is are common in professional European football; for example, you will notice the player on the ball often spins his back to the tackling player before falling to the ground as if the tackle came from behind. Incidentally, if the refs start to feel like the players are exaggerating, they usually become less sympathetic).
The problem with Lambert's tackle is that she unluckily misses the ball by a small fraction of an inch, as seen in this next image.
Now what happens next shows that not only did Lambert do little wrong besides barely missing the ball, but she also had no malicious intent. Observe the aftermath of the challenge, to begin with Lambert falls awkwardly to the ground, which is what happens when you slide tackle someone:
THEN, it would have been the most natural thing for Lambert to fall forward and come down hard on BYU #7's legs or ankles, and this could have caused serious injury. Lambert doesn't do that at all, instead of allowing her forward momentum to carry through, she leans back and falls onto her butt, minimizing the damage of the collision to BYU #7:
If Lambert had malicious intent she could have been landing on top of BYU #7 here, but she made sure to fall in a way that neither player would get hurt:
So in conclusion, even though this challenge looks dangerous, it is actually only a fraction of an inch away from being a perfectly legal challenge, and Lambert in the aftermath of the challenge did not allow her momentum to carry through and hurt the BYU player even though she could have done so if she had bad intentions. This is the challenge of a fierce and excellent soccer defender, but also one who plays clean! For those who watch a lot of professional soccer you will know the difference between a hard challenge that is just a fierce player playing all out and a hard challenge that is meant to hurt the other player, and in this case with Elizabeth Lambert it is simply a hard challenge from a fierce player that is playing all out soccer! And I love fierce players playing all out soccer, btw, and so do all soccer fans.
INCIDENT 5:
This is actually the foul that Lambert got a yellow card for, even though it is a pretty innocuous foul and it appears no contact was made. #21 is dribbling into the box and Lambert shoots a leg out, but misses the ball. #21 jumps over Lambert's leg and flops to the ground apparently pretending to be injured once again.
It is a foul, not a bad one by any means. Afterward Lambert's teammate kicks the ball into #21's head, a possibly accidental offense that many have wrongly attributed to Lambert.
This was certainly a foul, but a pretty innocuous foul and #21 really made a meal of it. The yellow card was harsh, but in the course of the game Lambert should have already received a straight red card on two different occasions (according to FIFA rules), so we can't complain if she got a yellow card when she didn't deserve one.
INCIDENT 6:
When you look at the course of the game and all the rough play and foul tactics that we have seen here and which were reportedly going on throughout the game, then I just chalk this up to what happens at the end of a game that is out of control. Fists fly in soccer sometimes, unfortunately. People get hit in the face sometimes, people get elbowed unexpectedly in the sternum sometimes and have others try to grab their crotch, these are the things that the red card is for, after all. Lambert should have seen the red card three times during that game, but the game was totally out of control and when this context is understood then I think it is easy to see that Lambert went into "warrior" mode and played her role of "enforcer" a little too well. She was probably still smarting from the blow to the sternum she took earlier in the game, and anyway after clearing the ball she just went and hit #7 in the face.
When you watch the video there is a second blow too, but if you slow it down and watch carefully I think you will see the second blow isn't much of anything at all.
Anyway, this blow to the face must look much worse than it really was, as #7's face was unmarked at the end of the game and she and Lambert were apparently still able to talk civilly to each other (which is nice to see):
SO THERE YOU HAVE IT. Was it a rough game? Yes. Should Lambert and some of the other players been red carded? Yes. Did Lambert get out of hand? Yes. But the demonization of Lambert in the media has just been ridiculous. The game was totally out of control and Lambert fought to make sure that her team stayed in the mix and didn't get rolled over in the face of BYU's fouling and underhanded tactics. It is never ok to hit another player in soccer, but in rough games where the refs abdicate control this is often the end result, and the reasons why should be obvious: Because nobody likes to be injured and hit and hurt by other people without fighting back to defend themself! If Lambert gave a little bit better than she got in this game, well that is really to her credit as far as I'm concerned. She is a fierce defender, and a hell of an athlete, as this video proves for certain.
I have a lot of admiration for Elizabeth Lambert as a soccer player now that I have seen her in action, and she can be on my team any time! The only thing she is lacking is a little bit of discipline, I would say, in keeping her anger under control. But when you are playing a rough game against opponents who foul and use every dirty trick, and when the refs are offering no protection, then you really need players who will stand tall and fight for the team and keep you in the game. This fighting spirit is the great tradition of soccer players, and Elizabeth Lambert is one of those fierce players, the ones who refuse to be rolled over no matter what!
Of course the rules must be enforced, but no athelete should be punished for competing fiercely, and that is exactly what the media has tried to do to Elizabeth Lambert. Apparently it is not ok for women to compete with their whole heart? It is not ok for women to get fouled and get hurt in a game and get mad and fight back against the opposing players? What a disgusting double standard.
Watching this game with Elizabeth Lambert has actually raised my level of respect for women's soccer and women athletes in general. Lambert is a fierce defender, a hell of an athlete, and not to mention a beautiful girl (which is a big part of the reason why this video has been so incredibly popular all around the world, let's not kid ourselves). She plays soccer with heart and real commitment, and when she does commit a foul it's honest and out in the open, not the disgusting, underhanded gamesmanship designed to con the referee and secretly injure other players. Actually, even though she went over the line in this one game, Elizabeth Lambert is exactly the kind of player that I admire.
+Bakgrind To be fair, Yeah, I wouldn't put it past those two-faced hypocritical Mormon BYU cunts to pull something like that first and probably got what was coming to them
I know, and they all deserved it.
I'm glad she did it, but it sucks she got suspended.
Can she skate? I'm putting together a hockey team and she'd be awesome!
She gon be tripping them abd pulling them and everything
Absolutely shocking, lengthy ban required. Also the match officials performance should be reviewed, and appropriate action taken.
Charge the officials with a crime for allowing this to go on the entire game and suspend the player indefinitely.
How come I’m just now seeing this? Holy mother!
This is one of my all time FAVORITE sports clips....for the rest of you go and watch a clip that didn't leave out WHY she did it.
she would have definitely been welcome on my hockey team.
Alan is mad cus he gets his ass kicked when playing hockey(with girls)
@@joehackel8087 I think she got Alan..
Pepe's sister right there...
Joey Barton
Yeah, at least she didn´t break the other girl arm
or Zinedine Zidane's
Jennifer Lawrence has agreed to star in the biopic of Lambert titled "Elizabeth Lambert: Wheels of fire." The film will be directed be Directed and produced by the Coen Brothers.
get rid of her... poor sport........
In soccer, if somebody fouls you, it's standard practice to get the ref's attention, usually by falling over. You're not expected to foul them back twice as hard.
Finally someone that makes me pay attention to female soccer and they suspended her 😂
This still is being sent around 13 years later, where did she end up?
I've played football for about 8 years, and if she behaved like that towards me and my teem she would have been on the ground crying. I'm not saying that it's right to do an act of revenge in football, but it would still have happened though
Oooooooh, big man!
Did you miss the part where she was responding to their own infractions, elbows, etc.? Maybe get your eyes checked before you go making girls cry.
Shut up.
Did you see the part where she harassed the girl that elbowed her with knees to the thigh. Or the part where she tried to pull the girls hair out of her head. I did man, so I fully condone fighting. But this is bullshit. Not soccer. If you want to fight, there's rings you can do that in. If you ever come to nc I'll step in one with you. Do I need to play with a tea set next to my 6 year old girlfriend's.
What, dipshit? Shut the fuck up, you internet tough guy clown. The only thing you'll be stepping in is puddles of your own drool.
MMA... hahaha. Yeah, big shot. See you at the next PPV. Fucking thin skinned hillbilly.
Brundlefly that was sophisticated. Never would of thought of the word drool. Then again, you think hair pulling and knees are great soccer, so I didn't expect too much
She was outraged for no red card after the first one, kept doing it to spite. I did something similar once when I was a kid.
If someone did that to my teammate, I'd send them off the field on a stretcher.
The comments reveal the truth- soccer players themselves seem to be saying that “this is just the way it is” and “real players know how it is”. What I hear is, Soccer is fundamentally unsportsmanlike, and if you want to watch a fair played game, don’t watch this sport. Duly noted.
I loved watching every minute of this lady going in
If she focused on the game instead of fighting the girls maybe they would’ve won lol
the punch in the back was answer to elbow above stomach, the pony tail pull also if u look carefull you can see the other player grabed her shorts and pulled up, dont know exacly if she wanned to grab something else but she didnt find much down there. As for the rest was just extra, 2 in 1 promo.
Oh I never noticed that
True, but in outcome pointless. She should not be allowed to play. Revenge at sport is much worse than provocation.
Adrian A Really. You're defending her? Are you related? Don't have kids.
David Nesbitt
... come on dude, It may look bad but there are for example in men sports some faults that are only punished with a red card , while some of these cause major fractures or problems. Sure her fairplay wasnt good in that day, but she got punished way harder than others do for much worst things if you think about it.
I think a bit you over-react, sports isnt for sissies anyway. As for "dont have kids"... thats a bit insulting, I almost want to ask you thinkgs about your wife/mom/sister.
Lmfao I've watched this video so many times why aren't there any memes yet on this😂😂😂
And the referees allowed this to go on ???
Says quite a bit about the officiating
Still the best American soccer highlights I have ever watched.
the female version of pepe
or Zinedine Zidane
@@chuckycheese84 Zidane only made one crazy foul, but he is nothing compared to Pepe or this chick
What is the ref doing?
This is literally the only thing that's made me want to watch more than 30 seconds of soccer.
At least it's interesting to watch. This is the most I've ever watched of women's soccer.
She's only playing soccer because the mens football team was scared of her. LOL
Is this Jack Lambert’s daughter? He does have a daughter named Elizabeth. He was vicious on football fields, too! 😂🏈⚽️
What is the name of the Group Home that raised her? Just curious.
There was some dirty jabs by the other team too. It's ok to through an elbow to someone's chest. Hell, I might retaliate too.
Can't agree more. Not condoning her actions completely but she was clearly retaliating on a few of these. The most egregious of which was covered up by ESPN's banner, a convenient "accident". On the pony tail yank the BYU player put her hand inside Lambert's shorts near her crotch. The banner covers it but if you look below the banner you can clearly see Lambert's shorts go up rapidly. Also, almost all of these fouls were on the same 2-3 players, this was not one-sided. Lambert was wrong as well but she is not the only one.
I would note that #21 BYU clearly grabbed #15 UNM's shorts and gave them a hefty upward tug before #15 (Lambert) hair-pull slammed her down. Grab my shorts in that manner back in the day when I played basketball and I would have thrown some punches
The girl who was thrown to the ground had ahold of the the other girls shorts
The ponytail head snap should've been a red card on the spot! That was not a gentle pull! Kassidy Shumway could've ended up a broken neck, or at the very least some whiplash.
Those were clean hits!!!
What's the big deal? She was a little over zealous. So what.
if the player did that and got suspended what is left to the referee that allowed the agressions?
That statement is ONLY released since, thanks to video footage, she cannot refute it. It was written by someone else.
She let the players on the other team get into her head. The BYU girls looked to be just as dirty, only they acted first. The retaliator always gets caught.
Elizabeth Lambert Always in my Team! 😀
How sbout the provocations, getting an elbow on her stomach, then a pull from her short really aggressive and in sensitive zone.
Lambert should be in the hall of fame. Made football(yes football not soccer) more watched than many other sports.
That girl number 7 obviously elbowed her in the stomach first
but that was not the very first thing that she did, the elbow was in response to some of her other actions
That elbow in the stomach, had no force behind it whatsoever!! Totally different than what this bitch does on a regular basis!!!
After she was getting pushed and kneed in the back of the legs. She was pushing her off with her elbow.
She was elbowed because it was already tension between them. The dumb bitch kept physically harassing her first.
In case you didn't notice, she elbowed her because the birch was feeling her out. I would of punched a man if he pulled that crap and gladly explained that he was rubbing his testicles against me to the ref after.
She got elbowed by both of those girls first. I support Elizabeth 100% . Her suspension is a disgrace . She's the best player NMS ever had. If the refs were calling the blantant fouls against her it wouldn't have happened. I'm Pissed and I can't do nothing about it
They were taking tactical cheap shots at her the whole game, they were deliberately fouling her. I don't condone the severity of her response, but I doubt anyone in this youtube comment section has watched the whole game before demonising one player instead of a team that's famous for goading the opposition with dirty fouls.
she just cut sick in that game. Were the referees blind? Were the team mates blind? I used to play hockey and there'd be blows thrown after seeing that.
I remember first time I seen this is was on the floor dying
you must be a masoquist
Nah bro I jus ain't never seen that in soccer. So it was funny cuz like wtf is she doing
So I guess everyone is blind to the fact that Lambert got elbowed in the gut before the back punch and the other girl was grabbing her uniform and yanking on it before the hair take down. But oh, let's jump on the girl that is defending herself in those situations.
Lambert kneed the BYU player before the elbow. Then Lambert escalated it to the punch.
Alguém tem noticias recente dela?
she accidentally walked onto a soccer pitch instead of a fighting ring and just said fuck it guess i’m doing this now
YAGAAAAA
Trey Trent lmaooo
Holy shit, I'd watch football if it was like this!
Me at 10 years old : Girls are all delicate flowers.
This video : Hold my ponytail.
I love how they apologize then throw in an explanation.
Elizabeth you are my hero
This is the way Soccer should be played.
Is the targeted player related to ALF?
This would be a scary player to play agains. You can't match her aggressiveness because her physicality consists of punching, kicking and pulling.
Elizabeth Lambert is the best!
I see Lambert reacting to byu players assault. Pay attention. Elbow to chest, front wedgie, watch byu players.
Wonder where she is today.
Byu number 7 should get punished too, she started it. The panty pull before lambert hair drag down was a christopher lambert highlander moment “there can be only one” she is now immortalized
lambert is a bad ass
you and she are full of it SOBS
I went to college at UNM while this happened. I’m still in love with her. 🥰🥰🥰
The team is supposed to be the Lobos not the Lesbos.
That girl has serious anger issues.
Interesting how no one noticed the dirty moves she was REACTING to. 🙄