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World Soccer XXV - the run up to the World Cup

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This has got to be one of the narrowest fields I've ever seen at Michigan Stadium. Can't help training too much, but it gets a truckload of money so who cares.

I see they've also Americanized the tournament and made sure there's a winner in every match with a shootout.
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
This has got to be one of the narrowest fields I've ever seen at Michigan Stadium. Can't help training too much, but it gets a truckload of money so who cares.

I see they've also Americanized the tournament and made sure there's a winner in every match with a shootout.
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It actually meets FIFA standards- http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/footb...eing/laws-of-the-game/law/newsid=1285960.html, and with the extra width added in the ends and sides, it's pretty close to an international standard game- the 70 yard width is pretty tough for that.

One other surprising thing- did you notice that it was actually grass? One of our friends who works for the athletic department told us that the organizers themselves took the carpet out and installed the grass for the ONE event. Good thing there were so many people paying for the tickets, as that had to cost a lot.

Fun to be at, BTW. We had a really good time. It was funny how the fans were distracted so much when a certain player started to warm up. The game became secondary, then.
 
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alfablue said:
It actually meets FIFA standards- http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/footb...eing/laws-of-the-game/law/newsid=1285960.html, and with the extra width added in the ends and sides, it's pretty close to an international standard game- the 70 yard width is pretty tough for that.

One other surprising thing- did you notice that it was actually grass? One of our friends who works for the athletic department told us that the organizers themselves took the carpet out and installed the grass for the ONE event. Good thing there were so many people paying for the tickets, as that had to cost a lot.

Fun to be at, BTW. We had a really good time. It was funny how the fans were distracted so much when a certain player started to warm up. The game became secondary, then.
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My boss is Brazilian and asked me about three days after tickets were released to see if I could cop a couple for him and his son. I laughed after talking to the ticket office. Just the same, he is stuck in Mexico (immigration entanglements) and couldn't be in A2. It would have been a great event to be at, regardless.
 
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Real Madrid has signed Keylor Navas from Costa Rica. A good signing. Is there no end to the money they have?
 
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Donovan really comes off like a dick with his "I wasn't going to let one person's (Klinsmann) poor choice" affect his retirement comment today.
Uh, they got out of the group of death without you and with a healthy Altidore, I think could have gone farther, so Klinsmann didn't make a poor choice there Landon.
 
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Yedlin to Tottenham.
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Poor choice if true. They've got an awful track record (in my view, anyway) of buying lots of talented players and then stunting their growth by letting them rot on the bench. Look at Sigurdsson, Holtby, Capoue, Pienaar, Bassong, Dempsey. Is he really going to get any playing time at right back over Walker? At right wing over Lennon or Townsend or Chadli or Lamela?
 
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Poor choice if true. They've got an awful track record (in my view, anyway) of buying lots of talented players and then stunting their growth by letting them rot on the bench. Look at Sigurdsson, Holtby, Capoue, Pienaar, Bassong, Dempsey. Is he really going to get any playing time at right back over Walker? At right wing over Lennon or Townsend or Chadli or Lamela?
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Well, he's not leaving until January at least. And Walker has been injured since March.
 
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Well, he's not leaving until January at least. And Walker has been injured since March.
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Sure, but he was one of the top few right backs in the Premier League before that. At least if Yedlin were moving now, he'd have a chance to establish himself with Walker out instead of after he's had a chance to get back to full health and form.
 
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US Open Cup Final is set: Seattle at Philadelphia Sept. 16th.

Seattle beats Chicago tonight 6-0.
 
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United understand that game counted in the standings, right?
 
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