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World Soccer XVIII: A New Season

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JF_Gophers said:
So Blackburn is selling bricks that will be put into their stadium with 2 or 4 lines of text (1 row for name, 1-3 for other text). Much like many other tradition walls.

I thought about it, but no idea what I would put besides my name. Plus the lowest cost is $61.41 USD. :eek:
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Most places would give you an option for just your name, perhaps in slightly bigger text perhaps. Might just depend on the company doing the bricks though.

Best thoughts, you got 3 lines to go with, might as well use em. Just saying that you're a fan from Minnesota would be enough to fill one line, maybe 2.
 
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GreatLakerMohawk said:
Most of the team sites or other sites offering jerseys, as long as the guy is on the roster the rate is all the same. I didn't pay anything extra for my Vennegoor Of Hesselink Hull City jersey and that's 20 letters. :eek:
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Shh... don't give the execs and ideas.
 
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AMC said:
Who is going to play up top in a 4-5-1 that will result in goals? If the US had a hold up striker, that would be a great option. But they didn't. Bradley had to roll the dice in the 4-4-2, unless he wanted to go crazy with a Chilean style formation.

Further, those who are itching for Klinsmann, when has he ever shown anything tactically? Joachim Low was always his tactics guy. Klinsmann was the face of the federation, around to get a youth movement going and rework the infrastructure.
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Doesn't Klinsmann get credit for hiring Loew and giving him the latitude to implement his system? He sure seems to give Loew plenty of credit. What would have been preventing him from hiring someone like that here?

Frankly, USSF could use a bit of a showman, a face of the franchise (so to speak).
 
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I'm glad Villa didn't add anyone. It's not like they've got any glaring pr0-6lems at the back or anything.
 
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WeWantMore said:
This will change obviously, but here's the top 16 teams from last time around:

Group 1


Group 2
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Man those groups are waaaay unbalanced in favor of the US lol. US gets Honduras and T&T as the tough teams. Mexico gets Costa Rica, Jamaica, Panama, and potentially Canada as tough games.
 
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AMC said:
Who is going to play up top in a 4-5-1 that will result in goals? If the US had a hold up striker, that would be a great option. But they didn't. Bradley had to roll the dice in the 4-4-2, unless he wanted to go crazy with a Chilean style formation.

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This isn't some theoretical discussion though. The US did play 4-5-1 during the World Cup, and it worked (or at least produced goals).
 
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Van der Vaart's signing confirmed by the FA. Also, Sandro has finally turned up at the Lane.

And from optajoe's tremendous twitter account:

OptaJoe

31:27 - Rafael Van der Vaart created a goalscoring chance every 31 minutes & 27 seconds on average for Real Madrid in La Liga. Magician.
 
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blockski said:
Doesn't Klinsmann get credit for hiring Loew and giving him the latitude to implement his system? He sure seems to give Loew plenty of credit. What would have been preventing him from hiring someone like that here?
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Nothing would have prevented it, per se, but JK's record is checkered in terms of assistants. He's got Loew on the good side, but Vasquez on the bad side.

Frankly, USSF could use a bit of a showman, a face of the franchise (so to speak).
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No disagreement there.
 
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I nominate Clint Mathis to be the USSF showman. :D
 
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More on the new CONCACAF format.


The new system will consist of three group stages (eight groups of four, then four groups of four, then a final two groups of four), up from the current system's two group stages. It will mean 32 teams will have a chance to play in a group stage, instead of the 16 that used to play in group stages. It also means eight teams have that chance to survive the final round, up from the six that have made up the Hexagonal in the past.
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Hey, if it means more trips to sunny tropical locales and fewer to the Azteca and the Central America Urine-Bag Throwing Exhibitions, I'm all for it.
 
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3W said:
Hey, if it means more trips to sunny tropical locales and fewer to the Azteca and the Central America Urine-Bag Throwing Exhibitions, I'm all for it.
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Good point. Other than worring about hurricanes, the carribean is pretty nice this time of year. And its not like they couldn't find a US stadium that could serve as a backup location just in case.
 
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3W said:
Hey, if it means more trips to sunny tropical locales and fewer to the Azteca and the Central America Urine-Bag Throwing Exhibitions, I'm all for it.
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Uh, why?

It might be nice from a hostility point of view, but it's terrible from a challenging matches point of view. The great thing about the old system was that we got a lot of challenging, high-pressure matches while not tending to have our qualification seriously threatened by a single slip-up.
 
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I'm all for not getting woken up at hotels at 3 am in Tegucigalpa or San Salvador by a-hole fans.
 
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MountieBoyOz said:
I'm all for not getting woken up at hotels at 3 am in Tegucigalpa or San Salvador by a-hole fans.
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I'm not saying it's fun, but it's definitely good for us. Better than thumping somebody like Barbados by eight goals.
 
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Craig P. said:
I'm not saying it's fun, but it's definitely good for us. Better than thumping somebody like Barbados by eight goals.
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I agree with this. You don't get better through home and homes with Barbados, Bermuda and Grenada. You get better facing adversity in Mexico City or San Pedro Sula.

The US absolutely HAS to win the Gold Cup now, to make the Confederations Cup. Barring that, the US will not play a match that really matters, away from US soil, until Brazil 2014. It's like why Australia left Oceania.

Switching gears, Owen Hargreaves was named to Man U's 25 man roster today. Arsenal led the way by registering no English players (Walcott and Wilshire, under 21, are not required to be registered).
 
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Little change of tack here: Even if Villa or any other English club offered Bradley a job, would he have to go through the work permit headaches that non-European players do?
 
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US Open Cup Final is set. Columbus beats DC 2-1 in OT, Seattle beats Chivas 3-1.

Final is Oct. 5th in Seattle, Columbus vs Seattle.
 
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