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  • Russell Jaslow
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    Originally posted by Jimjamesak View Post
    For the first time in 13 years Mexico has beaten the USWNT tonight at the CONCACAF W Gold Cup. Thankfully for the USWNT it was just a group stage match.

    Final score: 2-0.

    Edit: Also the first time the USWNT has lost at home to a CONCACAF team since 2000.
    It's also the first time the USWNT gave up a goal to Mexico since 2010.

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  • Jimjamesak
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    For the first time in 13 years Mexico has beaten the USWNT tonight at the CONCACAF W Gold Cup. Thankfully for the USWNT it was just a group stage match.

    Final score: 2-0.

    Edit: Also the first time the USWNT has lost at home to a CONCACAF team since 2000.
    Last edited by Jimjamesak; 02-27-2024, 12:40 AM.

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  • Jimjamesak
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    MLS season starting tonight with Miami (of course) vs Real Salt Lake.

    Season starting with replacement referees because the league err PRO locked out the regular referees after they voted down (by 95+%) a contract offer last week. Tonight's replacement ref, the obvious best choice among the replacements, is a guy from Spain who moved to the US and has refereed mostly in USL League One (that's the third division) with a couple of USL Championship assignments. But! He has professional experience in Spain! In the third division. As an AR.

    And that's their top choice.

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  • Jimjamesak
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    Things are changing so therefore it must be bad.

    tl;dw Englishman mad that other, non-European countries will be at the World Cup so therefore the games will be terrible and qualifying is losing all meaning. Also, America big and am big mad travel will be harder.

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  • Jimjamesak
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    Originally posted by Spartanforlife4 View Post
    Reading through some of the FA Cup prelims there was a team that lost their game, won an appeal and then won the replay because an official used the sin bin rule when the FA Cup doesn’t.
    Ah, the old "I forgot what ruleset we were using" mistake. Common in the US where we have three different rulesets (FIFA/IFAB/Club, High School, College) but a rarity in England.

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  • Spartanforlife4
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    Reading through some of the FA Cup prelims there was a team that lost their game, won an appeal and then won the replay because an official used the sin bin rule when the FA Cup doesn’t.

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  • Jimjamesak
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    Originally posted by Spartanforlife4 View Post
    IFAB to introduce blue cards for ten minute misconducts.

    https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/...-trials-soccer

    I kept wondering why they’re called sin bins and not penalty boxes, and then it dawned on me they already have a penalty (area) box as an official part of the field.
    Yup, and “penalty” also has a different connotation in British English as it means “penalty kick” whereas we use the full “penalty kick” or “PK” in the US (and Canada).

    Seems like Blue cards will be trialed at lower levels before it makes an appearance anywhere on TV. I know sin bins (or “temporary dismissals” to use the official term) are used in amateur leagues in England, wonder if they’ll start using them in the US.

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  • Spartanforlife4
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    IFAB to introduce blue cards for ten minute misconducts.

    https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/...-trials-soccer

    I kept wondering why they’re called sin bins and not penalty boxes, and then it dawned on me they already have a penalty (area) box as an official part of the field.

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  • Jimjamesak
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    South Korean fans: How can Jurgen Klinsmann lead us to a loss against a team like Jordan in our Continental Championship?

    USMNT fans: First time?

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  • Spartanforlife4
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    Originally posted by bronconick View Post
    ....waits for the ACL curse to hit FIFA
    Hopefully natural grass helps with that.

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  • bronconick
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    ....waits for the ACL curse to hit FIFA

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  • Jimjamesak
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    Originally posted by RaceBoarder View Post
    The US will play their 2026 group stage games in LA, Seattle, then back to LA.

    Balls.... $Texas just became ($Texas + 1) >=(
    Final not in Dallas but will be in the Meadowlands instead.

    I really want to go to that game in Seattle though...

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  • RaceBoarder
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    The US will play their 2026 group stage games in LA, Seattle, then back to LA.

    Balls.... $Texas just became ($Texas + 1) >=(

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  • Kepler
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    This is so wildly convoluted.

    The Dutch professional structure began as Honors, 1 (Eeerste), and 2 (Dweede). Then 2 was abolished.

    The Dutch amateur structure, separate and with no pro/rel to/from the professionals, began as Headclass. Then they added Topclass above that -- a hybrid where the team was amateur but players could still have have contracts.

    Then they recreated 2 as the hybrid league, below 1 and above Topclass. Topclass became 3 (Derde), but now completely amateur.

    For a while they even had a system where half a league played Saturday and half played Sunday, and then the champions played a title game at the end of the season.

    Oh, and below the national amateur pyramid the regional amateurs start all over again with 1 (Eerste).

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  • Jimjamesak
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    TIL the Dutch only have 34 professional soccer clubs, 18 in the Eredivisie and 16 in the Eerste Divisie. The Eerste Divisie is filled out by the reserve teams of Ajax, PSV, AZ Alkmaar and FC Utretch to bring it to 20. Promotion and Relegation between it and the third division has been “suspended for five to ten years” due to the pandemic but previously the only way a team could be promoted was if they declared before the season and won the third division. Previous to that, from the 70’s to 2008, a team only got promoted if another team went bankrupt and lost their professional license.

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