If we didn't have one, an accidental goal might sneak thru
If we didn't have one, an accidental goal might sneak thru
i can just see your keeper sat down doing her nails or updating her facebook status
The US men beat Italy for the first time ever
cause they finally hired some qualified help...
It was only a friendly, but it was still a big feather in the cap of the US side. Plus to make it even better, the match was in Italy.
And it was all thanks to ClintOriginally Posted by tehlancinator
I don't think it was that Clint
Annnnnnnnnd the US will miss the Olympics because they couldn't beat El Salvador and were beaten by Canada in qualifying
A draw with El Fucking Salvador.....you have to be kidding me
Good article on the failure of US Soccer as a whole right here if anyone's interested:
http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/w...alvador-032612
it's going to take years to build a robust infrastructure for US soccer. Look at germany's problems in the past. After winning the world cup in 1990, a lot of people here thought the german team would go on to dominate the international scene for years on end, maybe decades, not least because of the addition of the outstanding east german talent pool. Problem was that with the demise of most east german clubs, their youth programmes went bust too and the west german team that won the world cup was a bunch of unusually talented individuals, a fluke, basically. So germany's football scene were so pleased with themselves that they didn't bother to modernize. During the tournaments from 1992 to 1998, the former world champion squad remained mostly intact and kept on masking the lousy level of talent that came after them, but in the 2000 european cup, the german team was so obviously uncompetitive that nobody could deny the lousy state of affairs anymore. luckily we were awarded the 2006 world cup which served as a huge motivation to whip things back into shape, but finishing third there was in no small part the result of a tremendous effort of the team and fans, not so much of talent.
Seeing how the US does not have a solid league system with 36 professionla clubs to rely on for youth programmes, you may easily have to spend ten years rebuilding.
That's just really bad and disappointing especially when the US footie has been on a good run as of late. Very promising results and interesting players playing in good leagues. Plus the MLS attracting some European footie stars too. Albeit some of them on the bit more experienced side, but still. Y'all could've used the experience the younger ones would've gotten from the Olympics.Annnnnnnnnd the US will miss the Olympics because they couldn't beat El Salvador and were beaten by Canada in qualifying
A draw with El Fucking Salvador.....you have to be kidding me
Good article on the failure of US Soccer as a whole right here if anyone's interested:
http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/w...alvador-032612
That is a bit hars to jail the kid for that. Sure it is in bad taste to tweet such things, but really. Should've gotten off with a warning I think. Had it been anyone else than a public figure and sports stars these kind of silly and in bad taste tweets had been made about, no one would've cared. So many people die and collapse due to various reasons and none of them gets all the attention like Muamba did cuz his very unfortunate collapse happened in front of a whole stadium... sure he is a sports star, but it doesn't make him any better or more valuable than your normal, every day normal Joe.
Last edited by Jezter; 03-27-2012 at 03:48 PM.
People using media outlets like this are all being treated the same way (well most of em )
Blokes who stated on facebook to go down to their local towns to riot during the riots in the UK were jailed for 3-5 years
Silly, silly, silly! Sure, I understand that one has to watch a little what one spews out on various media outlets, but come on...
Soccer/Football is the most widely participated in sport in the United States for people up until about the age of 20. So during grade school/high school/college, more Americans play soccer than any other sport. We are also a country of almost 320 million people now. It boggles the mind that with that many people here, and that many of them involved in the sport, that it's just failure after failure for the men's side.
What makes it worse is, our women's side is world class. They have won in the Olympics, they have won in the World Cup, they have won everywhere, and they do it consistently. And they have had a lot less money and time and effort invested in them than the men have.
I dunno if it's the way US Soccer is run or if it's the people they hire as coaches and whatnot, but something needs to change and in a hurry.
Scouting is the way to go
There has got to be thousands of good players out there
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