For Erika Tymrak, the banter that comes with playing the new game EA FC is half the fun. Maybe more than half, in fact. When she scores on her opponent who discovers he’s playing against a woman, there is a high level of incredulity.
“It is usually a dude, and I’ll score a banger or do something, and then I’ll start talking a little smack,” the Orlando Pride midfielder tells ESPN. “And the first thing they always say is, ‘Oh my God. Are you a girl?’ Every single time.”
Recently, Tymrak took the smack-talk up a level. One recent foe went so far as to ask how Tymrak knew so much about soccer. “I was like, ‘Oh, the girl I just scored with?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah?’ I was like, ‘I’m her.’ He couldn’t believe it,” she says. “I still don’t think he believed me.”
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