Florida State vs. Stanford: 2023 NCAA women's soccer championship highlights

[@VoiceOfReason5487]

At least this undefeated team got to play for a national championship! Congratulations team and Coach Penske on a glorious season! Nole Nation loves you!

[@VanLifeStorytelling]

The FSU Women's Soccer Team this season had the best talent at all positions, the players had the belief they could win, the players had the determination to win, and the players "loved each other". ENOUGH SAID!

[@RetiSports]

Wow, what a dominant performance

[@connorprovan2331]

genuinely think this FSU team could compete in the NWSL

[@jamesmith1048]

They could in the European leagues for sure

[@kriss707]

They’ve beat the Orlando Pride, twice, in spring games. They often schedule each other in the off season. An impressive program for sure.

[@dougzuback9384]

@@jamesmith1048 No way.....

[@MistaHamm]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@dougzuback9384after the top three or four teams in the European leagues, the teams are pretty mediocre. Consider Liga F - there’s a reason Barcelona is 10-0-0 with a +41 goal differential. The team at the bottom of that league is 0-1-9. Insert this FSU team and they’re cracking the top half of 16 teams with ease.

[@didakeepa]

No they would get best

[@KT-yb3bk]

Rooting for Stanford, but the Noles totally dominated that game. What a great season for them and what a program they have built there.

[@luishernandezzzz]

Stanford needs a new keeper, wow.....

[@christianadams8405]

Stanfords keeper had an absolute shocker. Should have come out on that 3rd goal. You can tell she was nervous and not sure what to do.

[@MicDubTV]

As a former goalkeeper, I was just thinking the same on the 3rd goal. I watched the full match & didn't think she was THAT poor, but looking back, she wasn't great here.

[@teddillon7739]

I felt bad for her Stanford players made so many critical mistakes,that said I'm a Nole so brilliant play especially by JD,made the difference .@@MicDubTV

[@RLBays]

FSU's number 9 has some wheels!

[@pikoujimbok]

beata olsson the GOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAT

[@kriss707]

Completely dominant & I expected nothing less. Too many weapons at every position. Might be the best team in history, considering how much the game has grown since Carolina won their championships. Back then the game was just starting off for most women’s soccer programs, while UNC had already been playing for years. Of course they won so much. Now, more & more teams have national team players, future pros, internationals, etc & we just saw FSU completely dominate one of those teams. Stanford is a top program. Extremely impressive.

[@bryandavis5656]

MY GOSH! Total domination...

[@knightsofnom1]

Blow out! In the final! Made Stanford look like a rec league team

[@alexiarowe6121]

Congrats Jody brown and the noles🔥🔥

[@paulbrown2422]

Seems like teams playing against Stanford in the past might have thought, "Wow, we are playing against a bunch of future pros," such as playing against Catarina Macario, Sophia Smith, Naomi Girma, Alana Cook, for one example. (Many others at other times.) In my mind, Stanford players this year might be thinking that. They played against at bunch of future pros. Onyi Echegini Jody Brown Beata Olsson Jordynn Dudley Taylor Huff Likely others...

[@Music-yt7xo]

Good thing there isn’t a playoff committee to keep FSU out.

[@gretchenlittle6817]

Yikes! Stanford defense just couldn't keep up.

[@robertoponce8077]

Florida women played superb!❤

[@VanLifeStorytelling]

Florida State Women!

[@manuelsteele7755]

That was awesome - go Noles. I saw a lot of home games at FSU for soccer when I lived in Tallahassee. I am an FSU alumnus. Years ago, the women's soccer championship was usually available on regular ESPN. Now, there is some esoteric subscription required that didn't make sense to me. Why can't it just be shown on regular ESPN like the old days? It could have calmed down many angry FSU fans in Florida who are upset about being left out of the CFP. At least FSU soccer won it all.

[@mattcomans6584]

You can’t even watch NFL games on regular TV anymore. It’s insane

[@waavyjones9868]

wow. I'm genuinely impressed. all the goals showed technical skill and brilliance. lovely game from both sides 👏

[@defnotjanetreno]

FSU second goal was fucking disgusting. Stanford was completely outclassed.

[@amaliaflores9904]

I feel like Stanford’s keep couldve done better but at the same time Stanford could’ve done better. GG fsu

[@danieltaiwo5647]

second fsu goal crazy

[@jerryvalchine4213]

The best FSU soccer team I have ever seen! They just go up the whole game! Then they bring the second team onto the field and they go up the whole time they’re out there! Just absolutely relentless pressure. Go Noles!!!

[@djpatricio]

WAY TO GO NOLES!!!!

[@hypernavi3865]

Congrats! From a UCF fan

[@GraniteXray37]

It's like she knew at 2:25 that would be their only goal. Domination.

[@Xtian988]

Or maybe she put the game back in reach at that point and was the first player to score on them the entire tournament 🤔

[@GraniteXray37]

@@Xtian988 played soccer my whole life. Ripping the ball out of the goalie’s hands is classless. In my day fights would start that way.

[@anthonyfernandes9545]

FSu #11 is a baller! Shes big fast technical with vision. Impressive!

[@suescott9866]

I feel strongly the penalty in the box was a major FLOP! Yes FSU was the better team. But that flop in the box is ridiculous!

[@hypocritease]

With realignment the ACC is looking even more dominant in women's and men's soccer.

[@applemnster6309]

Wow! Great job

[@waldron7281976]

So glad to see that they won considering how their football team got the shaft

[@drewmartin1391]

No.9 pace is elite.

[@ademosthenes4911]

The keeper of Stanford plays to close to her goal line and her positioning is not that good.

[@temijinkahn511]

Seminols really scalped them!

[@WilliamtheWorst]

Go Noles!

[@RogerPack]

Some amazing goals. Wish I could have seen my cougars there, oh well :)

[@notundermywatch3163]

This is literally the best female soccer I have ever seen. And I am European.

[@AhmedHassan-ed5ue]

Good game

[@jjpayou]

Nice,,,

[@theaquariancontrarian3316]

That thumbnail 😂😂😂

[@bryanj.9105]

BYU would have competed better than Stanford

[@scotch1993]

I’m actually shocked that the NCAA didn’t shut down the entire league to prevent FSU from getting a ring. Then again, there was a media blackout about the championship so they did that

[@dubdeezzyy]

W Noles!!!

[@kayleegalvan4529]

4:44 why did #5 from Stanford get dragged in she left #10 from Florida wide open 😭😭

[@MohammadWolford-k7j]

Emmitt Crossroad

[@kareemlane7126]

Cool beans!

[@Haitiwillwinthegoldcup]

That was a great match

[@Simon-xk6mq]

5-1 great match

[@Haitiwillwinthegoldcup]

@@Simon-xk6mq YES Simon but do you know who is the GOAT of women soccer ?

[@andresnaranjo7277]

@@Haitiwillwinthegoldcup UNC has the most championships. That's a fact. But was soccer as competitive then as it is now? Did those Tarheel teams have to go through the gauntlet of talent that is Womens' College Soccer today? UNC won 12 of those titles before 1994, and hasn't won any since 2012. So yes, UNC has the crown atop the mountain based on who they used to be. UNC is still a good program (only team who didn't lose to FSU this year (shoutout to Mimi Van Zanten)) but are they a great program today? Did you know this year UNC couldn't even get the best player in the state of North Carolina to stay committed to them and enroll? She's going to Tallahassee next year.

[@Haitiwillwinthegoldcup]

@@andresnaranjo7277 I didn't know

[@hussienalsafi1149]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@edwinlemus8530]

Good team, this Stanford team, but realistically, this Florida state team was a notch above the college game. -first of all; haft of the FSU is international: have experienced national teams game and have experience at the college level (seniors) -Plus, the new additions for this year are a heck of a lot good (specially that freshman Jordin.) -Actually, I would say that FSU has been kind of underachiever: they should had won it the las two years in a raw. _It's going to be very interesting to see FSU next year; most of the senior are gone, they still will have Jordin, Taylor Huff, Mimi van Zaten to lead them but it will be more even, the other teams will have a good chance at it.

[@bille77]

This is so much better than some of the ball(s) we had to endure during this year's men's European Cup. Guten Tag from Deutschland (btw a dude) ❤😂

[@krystlemoore217]

August 2024 Grand Final Soccer that why but August to November 2024 I’m bored, what do I do? Every year in September there is a competition - Penrith vs England, America and Canada. This happens every year. I would love to play in this competition. In August I finish soccer, NRL, and then I have nothing to do. That’s why I would like to be involved in this. I would like people with hearing to connect with me. Hopefully people will want to come and join in come on give me more NSW vs England state North East, North West, Yorkshire and The Humber, West Midlands, East Midlands, East of England, South East and South West, America state New York, Hollywood, California, Texas, etc and Canada state Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, Nunavut, Manitoba, etc.

[@ChrisGrande]

Here’s a Newsom DeSantis encore

[@jimmypedraza1680]

Girls soccer makes my head hurt

[@jonpetter8921]

Backward clock ? Am i watching NBA or what ? what s next, no offside ? No wonder american football goes downward.

[@TheMarpalm]

Okay - this may generate some negative comments but here goes- 1/3 of Florida State’s roster is made up of international players. BYU has none. Now I am not at all xenophobic or any of that crap but I do think that having that many players takes away opportunities for girls who have worked hard from the U.S. and because Florida State did so well it is likely that we will see even more international recruitment, with even fewer opportunities for girls from the U.S. Now I get it, if a woman is clearly better than any candidates from the U.S. she should probably be recruited but where does it stop? There are already enough challenges for women’s sports in the U.S. can you imagine if the roster of all Div 1 football teams were from other countries there would at least be some grumbling.

[@andresnaranjo7277]

This team actually has fewer international players than some FSU teams in the past. And yes, they have international players. There is no rule that says BYU can't have any. If they choose not to recruit any, or no internationals want to go there, then that's on them. The days when a university team fielded only players from a single town, or a single state are long gone. Soccer is a global sport, and if women from other parts of the world choose to pursue their education, and athletic development in the US then who are we to keep them away or tell them they can't. I would actually challenge your statements by highlighting how having players from other parts of the world, Jamaica, England, Sweden, Japan, Portugal, Bermuda, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Iceland, Finland, Canada, how that might expose the US players to different cultures, beliefs and even different approaches to the game of soccer. There is value in a well-rounded education, which exposes students to the wider world around them, as opposed to the belief systems and faiths, and philosophies of just one state, or one region, or one religion. There is value in diversity. But I will also leave you with this thought: These women will go back to their home countries and take with them the experiences, and culture, and ideas they have been exposed to here. They will forge a path in their countries using the education they got in the US, and I'd wager good money that they will have an impact in their communities, and their homes because they had the opportunity to play soccer at Florida State. The world will be a better place because of it, sooner or later.

[@TheMarpalm]

@@andresnaranjo7277 first I appreciate your consideration and your thoughts. To be clear on my end, as a girls coach for many years and seeing some college teams with half the roster of international players I think this takes away opportunities for girls from the U.S. That is my only point. In fact I do not think there is any argument to that point. I hope we can agree that U.S. women who grow up playing in the U.S. and go on to play in college in the U.S. are better for U.S. soccer overall- we will retain more of that talent and passion for the game- many of those women will go on to coach at the youth level etc. Arguments could be made for how this is better for the U.S. National team, better for women’s college soccer but I think you get my point. Of course BYU could recruit international players. And of course there are some benefits from those women taking their experience in the U.S. back to their countries. But in the end this practice takes opportunities away from U.S. girls. Let me ask you this - would it be okay for all Division 1 teams to be made up of 1/2 international players? How about 3/4? If you start to get uncomfortable as that percentage grows then you see my point. I have always admired Anson Dorrance and his great program at UNC has zero international players. One last point - you are likely aware that there are a number of international scouts who make money bringing foreign players to U.S. college coaches. They actually make it easier to recruit foreign players than U.S. players. All that to say that I am biased towards seeing girls in the U.S. who have worked all their lives to get better get every opportunity and the more foreign players who fill rosters in the U.S. the less opportunities there are for girls in the U.S.

[@sandywright8470]

@@TheMarpalm I agree with you on this 100%. There is nothing wrong with recruiting international players but I think there should be a limit.

[@sandywright8470]

1/2 of the starting lineup was international (5 out of 11). It is not xenophobic to see so many international players make up basically 1/2 the team in a college-level sport. At the professional level? Ok, maybe, as teams are paid to win. But college is more than sports, it's also an opportunity to gain an education. Any country would feel the same about international players making up 1/2 their starting lineup.

[@sww4390]

International players are in other sports as well at the college level. All the best u.s. women are playing at the college level. You’re envious of FSU’s level of play. International students being drawn to the United States in the name of soccer is producing a better product on the field. The seminoles are incredible. You’re trying to take that from them but YOU CANNOT.