When Rebecca Smith sat down to watch New Zealand play the United States Women's National Team in a Tokyo 2020 football match last week, she was floored -- and not just because of the athletes' incredible prowess.

Watching the game from London, a British commentator kept calling an American forward by the wrong name. The commentary of Great Britain's game against the Netherlands has also provoked dismay after the commentator got two players' names wrong and seemed to be under the mistaken assumption that Phil Neville is still the GB coach -- he left in January.

For Smith -- a two-time Olympian footballer who also captained the New Zealand team -- listening to the commentary of the Football Ferns playing the USWNT was like entering a time warp: It had happened to her and her teammates throughout her whole career.

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