Show me a sport where the United States considers it acceptable to maybe be Top 24 in the world, and I'll show you a sport that is not very relevant to people in the United States.
USA v. Wales
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Show me a sport where the United States considers it acceptable to maybe be Top 24 in the world, and I'll show you a sport that is not very relevant to people in the United States.
I paid enough attention to know we completely missed the last World Cup and just tied the weakest team in our 4 team group in this one.
School me on our possibilities I guess.
Youngest team in the World Cup with a lot of good young players making their mark in the top 4 leagues in the world. The MLS academies are starting to produce good young players who can be sold to the big European teams. We’re not winning a World Cup in the next 20 years. But we will be a lot more competitive.
No.
I never knew that Wales (or Scotland, or Northern Ireland) had a national soccer team . . . until today.
Well, we could draw with England and beat Iran (as we should) and easily advance with 5 points. Or we could lose to England (likely) and beat Iran (as we should) and hope that we have the goal differential to advance. Both would put us at a top 16 finish at the worst, in a group of 211 soccer playing nations. Not advancing would be a huge disappointment for sure, but finishing in the top 16 of a sport we just really started caring about in the 90's is not bad.
I get that you don't give a **** about soccer, that's all well and good, but it's more relevant to people in the United States than you think.
Thank god they split them up. England is good enough. I fully expect them to pound us on Friday but we usually play well in the underdog (nothing to lose) role. I can remember playing them to a draw a few World Cup's ago.
I guess we will play Yorkshire next after England since we played West England in game 1
I mean, if you like watching 160 pound men jogging around and faking injuries for 2 hours.
I mean, if you like watching 160 pound men jogging around and faking injuries for 2 hours.
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You're actually a bit mistaken. I didn't go to high school in Mississippi (moved just before) and had a lot of friends who were soccer players. I've seen a lot of soccer and understand the game better than most Americans. One of my buddies played at Indiana when they were among the best college teams.
That said, I'm not a huge fan and I'm a realist. I'm definitely pulling for the US and would love to see them advance.
I think it's great that we're in a group with England. They're close allies globally and they absolutely love soccer.
The game will tell us a lot about where we are.
A coworker told me one of our best players sat on the bench the whole game. I don’t know who he is, but he plays for Barcelona. What’s up with that?
I laughed at this solid perspective.
...Wales is a country, but still that was funny
Probably talking about Gio Reyna who starts for Borussia Dortmund in the German league. Probably the 2nd biggest club in Germany & usually in the Champions Lesgue. He’s had a lot of muscle pulls the last year of so big has been playing a lot of minutes for Dortmund lately. Coach said it’s precautionary but Reyna says he’s fine. Just another stupid decision by Berhalter. He subbed in a mediocre MLS player late in a critical game & left one of our best on the bench.
Jordan Morris shouldn't even be on the team. You go for the win against Wales by scoring again and Reyna was needed to break down that defense. I thought the starting lineup was good and I was expecting Reyna and Aaronson could come in around the 60th minute with fresh legs to go at Wales. Now we have to have a result against England, one of the favorites, to have any chance of advancing. Berhalter is a mediocre coach that no other national team would want.
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