An interview worth a look

Reader Gary Eschman pointed our attention to a Jere Longman interview with UNM’s Elizabeth Lambert, she of the infamous soccer video.

In the New York Times piece, Lambert claims the punch into a BYU player’s back was inadvertent — it doesn’t look inadvertent to me — and claims some of the things she’s shown doing were misinterpreted or taken out of context.

And she claims the incident got a lot more attention because of her gender, which is probably true.

But she also says she regrets what she did and will regret it for the rest of her life. Further, she’s seeing a clinical psychologist to better understand what caused her to grab a BYU player by her hair and yank her to the ground.

Finally, she says, “I’m working on my mental game to never let that happen again. That’s unacceptable in any sport to get to that point where you feel it’s necessary that you have to retaliate in a dirty manner.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/sports/soccer/18soccer.html?_r=1&hp