ixcuincle Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 Dude I don't give a **** I'm going back to the bar tomorrow to get hammered drunk and watch USA clobber Trinadad and TOBAGO Everywhere we go People wanna know Who we are So we tell them We are the U.S. The mighty, mighty U.S. We love you We love you We love you And Where you go we‟ll follow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilmer17 Posted November 17, 2015 Author Share Posted November 17, 2015 3 points tonight would make me smile. But I predict a complete eff up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mursilis Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 Disagree to an extent. Had this conversation with the lady who is taking over my job (I'm moving up, so to speak) this week. She played in Amsterdam in high school (she's American) and her coach played for Ajax back in the day (don't remember the name) then she played for Rutgers for a bit. Anywho, her take was that most kids play soccer. Boys move on to football, baseball, basketball, hockey, etc... girls move onto basketball and softball, but most still play soccer. The way the seasons line up in school, it's set up for girls to play all three. Boys have to choose, and frankly we don't have enough choosing world football. American football is a year round sport now with conditioning programs, etc. I think that take is partially correct. Certainly in the suburbs, youth soccer is EVERYWHERE. There are fields all over the place, and they're in use dawn to dusk, especially on the weekends. I don't know how big it is in the city though. In DC for example, are many of the kids playing soccer? I have no idea. The other factor is, what sports are kids playing on their own, outside of their leagues? Are they dribbling soccer balls in the back yard with their buddies, or just shooting hoops or tossing the football back and forth? What's the first piece of sports equipment they get from their parents? Is it a soccer ball, or is it more likely a football, basketball, or baseball? I think that's a huge part of where skills are developed, and why the US has produced so few (in my opinion, and I'm no expert) technically skilled elite soccer players, even though we have plenty of great athletes. Outside of the Hispanic kids, I don't see a lot of kids in my neighborhood playing pick-up soccer or just dribbling the ball on their own. Hispanics coming to the US are bringing their love of soccer with them, and it's what they're having their kids play at a very young age. By the time they start playing in organized games, their ball skills are clearly better, at least from my observations in NoVa. On my son's last team before he switched over to running, he and another boy were the only non-Hispanics on his team, and they just trounced most of the other teams they played. When this generation gets older, our national team will only get better, assuming we can get most of these kids to play for the Stars and Stripes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC9 Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 Well.... we're here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveakl Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 Well.... we're here Stupid game on a stupid chanel I don't get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbs Hog Heaven Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 Stupid game on a stupid chanel I don't get. http://zunox.hk/zxtv78.html Still a stupid game on a stupid channel but at least you can bore yourself with it now. . Hail. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC9 Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 Bradley playing CAM... because he played the 8 last time and we scored 6 goals. Albeit against a **** side, but for ****'s sake... How many times does he have to play 10 to show that he can;t? Altidore can't distribute from a hold-up and Bradley literally has zero vision and accuracy as a 10... What do we expect to get tonight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbs Hog Heaven Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 Bradley playing CAM... because he played the 8 last time and we scored 6 goals. Albeit against a **** side, but for ****'s sake... How many times does he have to play 10 to show that he can;t? From the outside looking in. you really need to move on from the other Jurgen. He's done a very good job all things considered but this has long since bottomed out and you need someone more clinical without favourites to take this forward. Hail. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC9 Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 Really good cross from Jozy... Zardes needed to do better. And then two minutes later Jozy gets behind and destroys the first touch... From the outside looking in. you really need to move on from the other Jurgen. He's done a very good job all things considered but this has long since bottomed out and you need someone more clinical without favourites to take this forward. Hail. Totally agree. As it was said on the last page, I'd love for him to take over US Soccer and run the program... but his tactics and his force-feeding are beyond atrocious. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC9 Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 Wouldn't mind seeing Bobby Wood come in for Jozy ASAP. Like, right freaking now, ASAP. I don't know who else is on the bench, but if Bedoya is he needs to come in for Jones at the 70' if there is no goal. It looks like a 4-4-2 with Yedlin up so far that it's almost a 4-3-3... Bradley just can't make that pass. Need to scrap that and either go with a diamond or put someone in who can distribute through the channels. One solid through ball from Bradley and he wasn't on the same page as Yedlin when he made it. Blows my mind we see the same thing everytime we go out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC9 Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ZARDES! That was perfect off the wing from Jozy! Come one boys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 Man they switched the game to the Duke game at the bar lol. I was like what It's a big bar so we watch somewhere else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanboyOf91 Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 Wincing at the post-Dempsey generation of forwards. Just awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 I was listening to the Planet Futbol podcast and they were talking about this issue with the forwards post-Dempsey. It's not like Dempsey is doing anything right now, the Sounders are eliminated. He could help this team but he's staying at home because Jurgen thinks that it's time for the other boys to step up. Well, the other boys aren't doing anything. Having Captain America during this WC qualifying would have been big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanboyOf91 Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 http://www.starsandstripesfc.com/2015/11/18/9755842/kekuta-manneh-usmnt-eligibility-vancouver-whitecaps-mls Eh, why not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilmer17 Posted November 18, 2015 Author Share Posted November 18, 2015 I don't know how people can ignore what Bobby Wood has done in his limited opportunities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 USA lucky there. Fouled him in the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilmer17 Posted February 6, 2016 Author Share Posted February 6, 2016 I like that JK is playing the youngsters the last two games. Mixed results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Noted American Christian Pulisic is playing well at Borussia Dortmund and lately got called up to first team. He has been spending time at Dortmund training and getting better. Very exciting prospect to keep an eye out for. Him and Jordan Morris. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btfoom Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 From the outside looking in. you really need to move on from the other Jurgen. He's done a very good job all things considered but this has long since bottomed out and you need someone more clinical without favourites to take this forward. Hail. ENGLISH OUT!!!!! Go back to your Island and leave our team alone. ohh, sorry, thought I was in the ES Soccer thread and reading the Pool messages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Two huge games today, starting at five. US u23 games plus world Cup qualifier later tonight. U23 needs to win to make Olympics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilmer17 Posted March 25, 2016 Author Share Posted March 25, 2016 Need to score an away goal in the U23 game at 5 today. Even if they lose 2-1. They'll have a strong lineup. With 8 of the 11 having Senior team caps. I haven't bothered to even look at who was called into the WCQ vs Guatemala. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbs Hog Heaven Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Do you guys actually get excited about Olympic soccer? Hail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilmer17 Posted March 25, 2016 Author Share Posted March 25, 2016 Do you guys actually get excited about Olympic soccer? Hail. I watch U17 games when they're available. Anytime there is a game with players wearing USA kits, Im excited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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