World Soccer XVI: The Sadness

[WeWantMore]

Grant Wahl tweets:

Bradley says started Clark for fresh legs, took off solely because of yellow card.

Not sure I totally buy that.

[Priceless]

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Stat of the world cup: The USA led for a total of 206 seconds in all four matches.

[PrezdeJohnson09]

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Stat of the world cup: The USA led for a total of 206 seconds in all four matches.

Ouch. Not many teams make it to extra time in the round of sixteen with those numbers.

[GreatLakerMohawk]

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Grant Wahl tweets:


Not sure I totally buy that.

Ridiculous. The turnover, followed by the immediate reckless play did that in. Of course, he shouldn't have started in the first place. Typical US soccer nonsense being done in with poor management choices.

[bronconick]

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So, NFL training camps start in a couple weeks?

[vizoroo]

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Just when I was really getting interested

[dxmnkd316]

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[JF_Gophers]

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$5+ for a beer. Yikes!

[blockski]

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hr's the sdness:

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4 PNT NEWCASTLE

6 NEWCASTLE PNT

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For the same price, essentially.

[jmh]

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hr's the sdness:

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Nicely done.

[unofan]

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You know...I can't help but think how well this team would've done if either Gooch or Davies were healthy, let alone both.

Finishing still might've been an issue, but I bet they have a couple more clean sheets.

[Patman]

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$5+ for a beer. Yikes!

in DC that's normal... why would you pay that in Minnesota?

[Puck Swami]

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There are 200+ nations playing in FIFA. Some big, some small, some rich and others with intermittent electricity. To be in the top 16 (in the top 5% of soccer playing nations) is a good result.

[bronconick]

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There are 200+ nations playing in FIFA. Some big, some small, some rich and others with intermittent electricity. To be in the top 16 (in the top 5% of soccer playing nations) is a good result.

If qualifying was equal across the board, maybe. CONCACAF is so friggin awful that the only way the United States *should* ever worry about qualifying is if the fed gets cut down to one or two bids. That alone makes them "top 32." Not qualifying for a WC out of that fed ought to lead to the immediate firing of everyone down to the guy who cleans the locker rooms.

The US and Mexico treat CONCACAF pretty much how OU and Texas treated the Big 12 and kept getting to BCS title games, where they more often then not, were exposed as having blown through an inferior conference.

[Puck Swami]

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If qualifying was equal across the board, maybe. CONCACAF is so friggin awful that the only way the United States *should* ever worry about qualifying is if the fed gets cut down to one or two bids. That alone makes them "top 32." Not qualifying for a WC out of that fed ought to lead to the immediate firing of everyone down to the guy who cleans the locker rooms.

The US and Mexico treat CONCACAF pretty much how OU and Texas treated the Big 12 and kept getting to BCS title games, where they more often then not, were exposed as having blown through an inferior conference.

Every regional federation has some lightweights, but I can assure you that many "glamour" teams of Europe would also occasionally struggle in some of the rickety crapholes that the USA plays in every Q cycle - places where the likkered-up locals stay up all night outside the US hotel and fling pizzbags at the Gringos inside the stadium. Have you ever been to a game at the Saprissa in CR, or that Mazatenango jungle crudhole in Guatemala? How about the intermittent electricity in Kingston, Jamaica? Seen the batteries raining down in San Salvador or the dirtfield, rocky pitches in Havana or Port of Spain? And of course, the polluted,7,000 foot high caldron of 100,000+ Mexicans in the Azteca? Our qualifying cycle is not a picnic.