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World Soccer XVI: The Sadness

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Stat of the world cup: The USA led for a total of 206 seconds in all four matches.
 
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WeWantMore said:
Grant Wahl tweets:


Not sure I totally buy that.
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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.
 
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hr's the sdness:

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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.
 
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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.
 
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Puck Swami said:
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.
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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.
 
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bronconick said:
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.
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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.
 
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Puck Swami said:
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.
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You make some good points about the dumps we are forced to play in.

But, most of the sides really aren't that strong in comparison to Europe and South America.
 
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bigmrg74 said:
Possiable......

Quick question, even if the kid is born in the UK, and is raised there, he would still be able to play for the USA because his father is an American right??

Kid could always turn out to be good you know, Might be useful for 2030 or 2034.
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The kid would have the right to both passports and could choose who to play for. Once he plays for one country, he could never play for the other (at least that's what I think the rule is)
 
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