World Soccer XX: I paid Jack Warner $1M for the right to start this thread

[collegehcky2]

Re: World Soccer XX: I paid Jack Warner $1M for the right to start this thread

I don't like Altidore alone up top. I don't think his game or work rate is at the point where you can trust him to carry the striking duties alone.

Oh and seperately, what ever happened to Eddie Johnson's career?

Where most promising young Americans careers go to ****: the bench on a European team.

 

[pirate]

Re: World Soccer XX: I paid Jack Warner $1M for the right to start this thread

I don't like Altidore alone up top. I don't think his game or work rate is at the point where you can trust him to carry the striking duties alone.

Oh and seperately, what ever happened to Eddie Johnson's career?

I'd further emphasize the comments on Altidore...if we're going to have a striker that exerts effort 20% of the time, there needs to be a high work rate guy up there with him.

I don't know much on Agudelo other than he's scored some nice goals...anybody have $.02 on his game?

 

[Craig P.]

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The fit has hit the shan in FIFA as Chuck Blazer just threw Jack Warner and Mohammed Bin Hammam under a bus.

 

[collegehcky2]

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I'd further emphasize the comments on Altidore...if we're going to have a striker that exerts effort 20% of the time, there needs to be a high work rate guy up there with him.

I don't know much on Agudelo other than he's scored some nice goals...anybody have $.02 on his game?

Agudelo isn't a target forward like Altidore, he can create more with his dribbling and touch than Altidore can. Agudelo sometimes is too aggresive with trying to make something happen and needs better awareness on the pitch. Agudelo isn't as strong on the ball as Altidore has shown, and lacks the tactical understanding that a lone forward needs to push the ball into the box. Agudelo has a much better shot than Jozy in both power and release, however, he has shown to be tentative in pulling the trigger from outside the box.

 

[unofan]

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The fit has hit the shan in FIFA as Chuck Blazer just threw Jack Warner and Mohammed Bin Hammam under a bus.

As much as I'd like to think this is good news for the U.S., since you'd potentially be taking out both Qatar and Warner at the same time, I can't see how this ingratiates Blazer with anyone else at FIFA other than the English.

 

[Craig P.]

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As much as I'd like to think this is good news for the U.S., since you'd potentially be taking out both Qatar and Warner at the same time, I can't see how this ingratiates Blazer with anyone else at FIFA other than the English.

Potentially, this is good for Blatter. Bin Hammam is his immediate rival (and with the amount of cash being spread around, who knows how that presidential vote would actually go), and while Warner is a sometime ally, Sepp might have thought that Jack was getting to be to embarrassing to be an asset.

 

[WeWantMore]

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As much as I'd like to think this is good news for the U.S., since you'd potentially be taking out both Qatar and Warner at the same time, I can't see how this ingratiates Blazer with anyone else at FIFA other than the English.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Blazer isn't running for the FIFA presidency.

 

[Jimjamesak]

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I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Blazer isn't running for the FIFA presidency.

Yeah I don't get it either. Blazer has potentially put aside two very big obstacles of the USSF and may have just helped Blatter get reelected.

 

[Patman]

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The fit has hit the shan in FIFA as Chuck Blazer just threw Jack Warner and Mohammed Bin Hammam under a bus.

I can't believe I'm the only one who finds it funny that they find corruption during the presidency bid but not in the world cup bid... same people... hell, one could argue same bribes (possibly)... so its OK when you corruptly award world cups but its not OK when you're talking about the head honco position of FIFA.

 

[Craig P.]

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I can't believe I'm the only one who finds it funny that they find corruption during the presidency bid but not in the world cup bid... same people... hell, one could argue same bribes (possibly)... so its OK when you corruptly award world cups but its not OK when you're talking about the head honco position of FIFA.

Oh, there's basically no doubt at this point that there was corruption in the World Cup bid. The difference is that the only people with the goods who are coming forward about it are the English. Given his position, there's no way Blazer would be in any position to blow the whistle on it.

 

[jmh]

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We're baaaaaa-aaaaaaack!

But what a narrow margin, edging Blackpool by a single point on a scale that goes to 1520.

 

[Bob Gray]

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May FIFA rip each other to shreds.

 

[unofan]

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I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Blazer isn't running for the FIFA presidency.

Does it help us get a future World Cup (or even a rebid for 2022)? Does it help us get more national team away games on real TV stations? Does this mean Blatter might owe us one?

Or does this mean the rest of FIFA will screw the US every chance it gets for outing the corruption which surely is going on everywhere? Will the caribbean nations band together to hose us in every CONCACAF decision from here on?

 

[Craig P.]

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Does it help us get a future World Cup (or even a rebid for 2022)? Does it help us get more national team away games on real TV stations? Does this mean Blatter might owe us one?

Possibly on the first and the third. Probably not on the second—on the away games, everyone's going to be making a cash grab for the rights, and dumping Warner isn't going to fix that.

Or does this mean the rest of FIFA will screw the US every chance it gets for outing the corruption which surely is going on everywhere? Will the caribbean nations band together to hose us in every CONCACAF decision from here on?

This whole thing was apparently kicked off by at least some of the CFU folks reporting the bribe attempts by Warner and Bin Hammam. I think it's impossible to say where it's all going to take FIFA.

 

[Priceless]

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We're baaaaaa-aaaaaaack!

But what a narrow margin, edging Blackpool by a single point on a scale that goes to 1520.

What did the Blackpool officials do to get (by far) the worst score in the EPL?

 

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

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What did the Blackpool officials do to get (by far) the worst score in the EPL?

Who knows. The worst thing that I new about Blackpool was that banner that was flown over PNE's last game in the Championship. And that wasn't even officials. And it was at worst cheeky.

 

[WeWantMore]

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For me, 2022 isn't even about getting the World Cup to the U.S. It's about it getting it somewhere that's not Qatar. No problems with an Aussie World Cup here.

As for Blackpool, they were docked earlier in the season for not fielding their strongest team. Don't know if that affected the score at all.

Let's be real here though, with the ambiguous nature of the criteria (and the 4 day period before the results were revealed) I wouldn't be shocked to find it went to Fulham simply because they are the Premier League team.

 

[WeWantMore]

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FSC is doing some terrible things to the word "classic" with their primetime lineup for next week.

 

[MountieBoyOz]

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For me, 2022 isn't even about getting the World Cup to the U.S. It's about it getting it somewhere that's not Qatar. No problems with an Aussie World Cup here.

As for Blackpool, they were docked earlier in the season for not fielding their strongest team. Don't know if that affected the score at all.

Let's be real here though, with the ambiguous nature of the criteria (and the 4 day period before the results were revealed) I wouldn't be shocked to find it went to Fulham simply because they are the Premier League team.

I think the Aussies would've handled it well. Heck, England should get another crack at it if you ask me. Hosting only 1 World Cup since it's inception 80 years ago for the birthplace of soccer is downright criminal.

 

[collegehcky2]

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I think the Aussies would've handled it well. Heck, England should get another crack at it if you ask me. Hosting only 1 World Cup since it's inception 80 years ago for the birthplace of soccer is downright criminal.

When I was in England two years ago, every soccer fan believed they'd get one of the bids (2018 or 2022) to the point that they were talking about some infrastructure improvements (Light Rail and Tube upgrades). Too bad for them, I think the country would have been a ton of fun for that month.