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  • #76
    Re: World Soccer XXV - the run up to the World Cup

    Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
    hard to think of USA v Mexico as a "friendly."
    The new shirts are certainly doing unfriendly things to my eyes.

    Julian Green (discussed upthread) is the only Europe-based player in the squad for the match, presumably to irrevocably cap-tie him to the US. Hard to think of it as a friendly, but also hard to think of it as overly competitive with Howard, Guzan, Cameron, Jones, Altidore etc. not called up.

    (Edit to add: Mexico have also only called up domestic-based players, so the crowd in Arizona won't get to see Memo Ochoa, Guardado, Chicharito, Dos Santos or some of Mexico's other big names either.)
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    • #77
      Re: World Soccer XXV - the run up to the World Cup

      Originally posted by jmh View Post
      Julian Green (discussed upthread) is the only Europe-based player in the squad for the match, presumably to irrevocably cap-tie him to the US.
      I thought that you needed to play in a "real" competitive match to be cap-tied, and a friendly would not do it.

      In the event where a player is eligible to play for multiple nations, he is only 'cap-tied' to a nation after playing for its senior team in an official competition, or having played in an official competition at youth level and later submitting a request to change national association with FIFA.

      Playing in friendly competitions at any level does not cap-tie a player.
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      • #78
        Re: World Soccer XXV - the run up to the World Cup

        I was hoping those USA jerseys were an April Fool's joke. Must've seen a bomb pop and thought it would be a good idea for a kit.
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        • #79
          Re: World Soccer XXV - the run up to the World Cup

          Sydney Leroux seems to like it:
          http://equalizersoccer.com/wp-conten...WNT-jersey.jpg

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          • #80
            Re: World Soccer XXV - the run up to the World Cup

            Originally posted by Priceless View Post
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            • #81
              Re: World Soccer XXV - the run up to the World Cup

              Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
              I thought that you needed to play in a "real" competitive match to be cap-tied, and a friendly would not do it.
              I always thought that was the case as well, but at the time of the Green announcement I read more than one article saying that playing in a friendly would suffice to cap-tie him in his case. I think maybe it's because he's switching after playing in official FIFA competitive youth matches for Germany?
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              • #82
                Re: World Soccer XXV - the run up to the World Cup

                Good thing this is only a friendly...
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                • #83
                  Re: World Soccer XXV - the run up to the World Cup

                  Originally posted by First Time, Long Time View Post
                  Good thing this is only a friendly...
                  What a joke with the disallowed E Johnson goal and no foul on Mexico after taking down J Green just outside the box.
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                  • #84
                    Re: World Soccer XXV - the run up to the World Cup

                    I got to say in my 30 years of watching the National Team it really is fun to see our own players beating up Mexico! If you would have told me then the USA team would be a top 10 to 20 club I would have been stunned.
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                    • #85
                      Re: World Soccer XXV - the run up to the World Cup

                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pjli...ekhoAg&index=2

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                      • #86
                        Re: World Soccer XXV - the run up to the World Cup

                        Originally posted by JuveGG24 View Post
                        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pjli...ekhoAg&index=2

                        ESPN World Cup/American Outlaws commercial. Well, I kinda want to run through a brick wall.
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                        • #87
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                          Well, nice to see that ESPN is at least acknowledging that the USA made the World Cup... In the commercials I have seen so far haven't shown a single clip of the US team... It's all Euro teams and Brazil...
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                          • #88
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                            • #89
                              Re: World Soccer XXV - the run up to the World Cup

                              Watching 30 for 30: Hillsborough.

                              As controversial as the opinion may be, I'm more convinced than ever that despite the lack of preparation in Sheffield being the reason the disaster was as bad as it was, the very system itself (terraces, pens, a broad culture that said you wouldn't REALLY need a ticket to get in) was just MASSIVELY stupid and bound for problems.

                              Put another way: if it didn't happen at Hillsborough to Liverpool fans, it was going to happen SOMEWHERE to SOMEONE to SOME degree.
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                              • #90
                                Originally posted by ExileOnDaytonStreet View Post
                                Watching 30 for 30: Hillsborough.

                                As controversial as the opinion may be, I'm more convinced than ever that despite the lack of preparation in Sheffield being the reason the disaster was as bad as it was, the very system itself (terraces, pens, a broad culture that said you wouldn't REALLY need a ticket to get in) was just MASSIVELY stupid and bound for problems.

                                Put another way: if it didn't happen at Hillsborough to Liverpool fans, it was going to happen SOMEWHERE to SOMEONE to SOME degree.
                                It was inevitable and very preventable. Heck Forrest and Liverpool played at Hillsborough the year before and the Liverpool fans reported problems at the same places people died. Nick Hornsby gives some eerie accounts in Fever Pitch of problems at other stadiums. It's pretty appalling how fans were treated then and what terrible shape the stadiums were in.

                                But I support the campaign for justice as well. As the saying goes "mistakes were made". Couple that with the lies and cover ups, certainly some punishment must be dealt.
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