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

[WeWantMore]

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Watching the women's World Cup, you see a lot of top shelf goals because the women keepers are not that tall and can't get to the high shots. What if they made the nets in the men's game 2 feet (.6 meters or so) higher?? Then we should see more scoring?

You think it's height? I think it's more down to a lack of skill. The standard of keeping in the women's game is pretty poor, in my opinion.

As for the men's game, I really don't think it needs much change. A little Hawkeye type thing for goal line tech and I honestly think the game is okay.


Edit: I typed that before I saw this goal from today.

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Seems to sort of illustrate what you're saying, I sill think she ought to have done better though.

 

[WeWantMore]

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Wow.

The New York Red Bulls abruptly parted ways with veteran Dwayne De Rosario on Monday, dealing the five-time MLS Best XI selection to rival D.C. United for midfielder Dax McCarty.

De Rosario was traded to New York from Toronto on April 1 to fill the Red Bulls’ missing playmaker role, but he failed to mirror the offensive numbers he’d amassed in years past for Houston and Toronto FC.

 

[Priceless]

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"A modest proposal: make the nets bigger."

 

[MountieBoyOz]

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Two things...

I wonder if the North Korean women's team will be allowed home after they lose to the Great Satan.

Also, glad to see a DeRosario get out of Overrated Island. I hated having to root against him because he's a solid player that was trapped on the Red Bull S#*%s!

 

[unofan]

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FWIW, the crowd Saturday is exactly why the U.S. - Mexico World Cup qualifier will be in Columbus for the forseeable future. Frankly, I wouldn't have put this one in the Rose Bowl either, money considerations be ****ed, though I have no clue how much influence U.S. soccer had in picking this site since it was ostensibly a CONCACAF event.

 

[Priceless]

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I wonder if the North Korean women's team will be allowed home after they lose to the Great Satan.

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[WeWantMore]

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FWIW, the crowd Saturday is exactly why the U.S. - Mexico World Cup qualifier will be in Columbus for the forseeable future. Frankly, I wouldn't have put this one in the Rose Bowl either, money considerations be ****ed, though I have no clue how much influence U.S. soccer had in picking this site since it was ostensibly a CONCACAF event.

I would say zero, or something pretty close to that. Which I'm fine with to be honest.

 

[MountieBoyOz]

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Seeing that video of the car and the accompanying caption makes me wonder what North Korean Top Gear is like?

 

[Priceless]

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Cheney needed 5 shots, but she finally scored. Nice feed from Wambauch.

1-0 USA 58'

 

[Priceless]

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Buehler? Buehler?

2-0 USA 78'

 

[Priceless]

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How is that a foul? She dropped it!

Oh well. 2-0 the final. USA tops the group after one game.

 

[3W]

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Well, with the 2-0 scoreline being rather reasonable, looks like the North Korean team will be beaten, not shot, upon their return to Pyongyang.

 

[Priceless]

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FSC reports that coverage of the USA-MEX Gold Cup final was the highest-rated and most-watched event in the history of the network.

 

[BoomGoestheDynamite]

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FSC reports that coverage of the USA-MEX Gold Cup final was the highest-rated and most-watched event in the history of the network.

It was sort of amusing that mainstream some sports journalists were surprised the Rose Bowl was 80-90 percent El Tri fans. Most big cities at this point will be packed with "Mexicans" for a US-Mexico Gold Cup game.

Have to wonder if at some point ESPN will start picking up the Gold Cup. They've seen a ratings boom for the Euro Championships and the World Cup and this is kind of a down point in the sports calendar anyway. Although I imagine they'd be hesitant to commit to broadcasting the full slate of matches. El Salvador-Panama isn't going pull much casual interest beyond the Salvadoran immigrant community.

 

[goldy_331]

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Anecdotal evidence from games without offsides indicates that the result is so bad as to be unwatchable.

I'd be interested in experiments with an offside rule similar to hockey's.

It was called the NASL.

"These changes included a clock that counted time down to zero as was typical of other timed American sports, rather than upwards to 90 minutes as was traditional, a 35 yard line for offsides (a rule designed to stop offside traps, prevalent at the time, and based on an FA experiment in 1925 between what became the offside rule at the time, or a 40-yard offside mark) [2] rather than the usual half way line, and a shootout to decide matches that ended in a draw. The league began a college draft in 1972 in an attempt to increase the number of US- and Canadian-born players in the league."

Not the same as hockey, but different than FIFA Laws. It deffinately sped up the game and led to more scoring and scoring chances.

 

[LynahFan]

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You think it's height? I think it's more down to a lack of skill. The standard of keeping in the women's game is pretty poor, in my opinion.

As for the men's game, I really don't think it needs much change. A little Hawkeye type thing for goal line tech and I honestly think the game is okay.


Edit: I typed that before I saw this goal from today.

<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ht0r3em2v3A" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Seems to sort of illustrate what you're saying, I sill think she ought to have done better though.

Height is definitely an issue, but so is the raw power to dive rapidly with their (reduced) lower leg strength. I've played goalie my whole life, and the first time I played co-ed I was 35. One of the rules in the league was that all PKs had to be taken by a woman. I was shocked at how much less pace even very, very good female soccer players can get on the ball. I could actually take the time to react to the shots rather than having to guess. Even if they were perfectly placed at the low post, I still had plenty of time to see the shot, react, and launch my dive in time to stop the shot. I don't think the same would be true for a female keeper.

 

[MountieBoyOz]

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Well, with the 2-0 scoreline being rather reasonable, looks like the North Korean team will be beaten, not shot, upon their return to Pyongyang.

They'll edit it and say North Korea won 6-0.

 

[Jimjamesak]

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How is that a foul? She dropped it!

Oh well. 2-0 the final. USA tops the group after one game.

And the USSF rejoices that the USWNT will, once again, take pressure off of them for the USMNT debacle.

 

[unofan]

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And the USSF rejoices that the USWNT will, once again, take pressure off of them for the USMNT debacle.

Among who? The casual fans probably don't even know the U.S. lost in the Gold Cup. They probably don't even know there's anything besides the World Cup out there. And the people who do care won't be sidelined by this.

 

[WeWantMore]

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Among who? The casual fans probably don't even know the U.S. lost in the Gold Cup. They probably don't even know there's anything besides the World Cup out there. And the people who do care won't be sidelined by this.

What about ESPN and the like though? If you figure they're willing to devote x amount of time to soccer in a Sportscenter or on an episode of PTI, you have to figure the women's success (though I'm not sure one solitary win over North Korea qualifies as such) takes time away from talking about what changes need to be made elsewhere.

Speaking of changes, the NY Times Goal blog had this to say today:

The question to Gulati on Tuesday was simple and straightforward: Will Bob Bradley remain coach of the U.S. national team?

His answer (in an email response) was as simple and straightforward: "We'll have something to say later this week."

I have a hard time reading that as anything other than a forthcoming vote of confidence, but maybe I'll be proven wrong.