Soccer Goon Elizabeth Lambert "Will Always Regret" Dirty Play
Posted on Nov 18, 2009 @ 10:52AM
New Mexico University women's soccer defender Elizabeth Lambert said she "deeply regrets" the physical, nasty style of play she displayed on ESPN's national stage during her team's 1-0 loss to Brigham Young University earlier this month.
“I still deeply regret it and will always regret it and will carry it through the rest of my life not to retaliate,” she told the New York Times Tuesday of the November 5 game, which prompted school officials to indefinitely suspend her. “I look at it and I’m like, ‘That is not me.' I have so much regret. I can’t believe I did that.”
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Lambert's antics in game included: a barrage of blindsides and cheap shots to her opponents; grabbing the ponytail of Brigham Young’s Kassidy Shumway and yanking her to the ground; kicking one girl across the chest, and another one in the head.
She added that she felt the incident was exaggerated because she is a woman.
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“It’s more expected for men to go out there and be rough,” she said. “The female, we’re still looked at as, ‘Oh, we kick the ball around and score a goal.’ But it’s not. We train very hard to reach the highest level we can get to. The physical aspect has maybe increased over the years. I’m not saying it’s for the bad or it’s been too overly aggressive. It’s a game. Sports are physical.”
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Yes, it was retaliation gone overboard. The girl should have have been grabbing her crotch. She deserved something for that, but not to be taken out by the ponytail. Maybe just push her away!
Posted Thu, 11/19/2009 - 12:39am
She needs to be banned from the sport
Posted Wed, 11/18/2009 - 4:35pm
Hey Lizzie if you pulled my hair you'd be so eating the field! I'd pound you into it!
Posted Wed, 11/18/2009 - 4:33pm
That is not part of the sport....that is assault! She should be charged with it!
Posted Wed, 11/18/2009 - 4:32pm
right on baby!
Posted Wed, 11/18/2009 - 4:33pm
Retaliiate ? I didn't see anybody doing anything to her. She's just plain mean.
Posted Wed, 11/18/2009 - 2:28pm
If you get a chance to see the pony tail pull again, watch where the other girls hand was just before it happened. She was wrong for retaliating in such a dangerous manner but the other player did have part to do with it..
Posted Wed, 11/18/2009 - 4:22pm
omg...PhillipP...LMAO!! So true. This woman is a beast, and it's probably not the first time she has behaved like this. Yuck.
Posted Wed, 11/18/2009 - 1:52pm
This is a personality trait not a one time incident... body language, facial expression, etc tell all. It has nothing to do with the sex of the player. She is unsportsmanlike.
Posted Wed, 11/18/2009 - 1:49pm
She is so not sorry or she wouldn't make the "woman" excuse. This is the definition of unsportman like conduct and she should be kicked of the UNM team. One brutal attack maybe excuse it but she kept it going until she was red carded.
Posted Wed, 11/18/2009 - 1:38pm