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World Soccer XXX: We Have Men Too!

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Current Confederations standings:

CONMEBOL: 3-2-1 (11/18 points (61%,) +5 GD)
UEFA: 10-8-5 (38/69 points (55%), +17 GD)
AFC: 4-1-6 (13/33 points (39%), -9 GD)
CAF: 2-2-4 (8/24 points (33%), -1 GD)
CONCACAF: 1-3-4 (6/24 points (25%), -12 GD)

Updated through Spain - Germany match.
 
I did not have Wayne Rooney as a voice of reason…

The former England captain, who has returned to the U.S. to manage Major League Soccer club D.C. United, said the reaction from the English crowd was down to the nation's footballing culture.

"I know England fans expect a lot, but sometimes in our football culture we can be stubborn about recognising the qualities of the opposition," Rooney wrote in his Sunday Times column.

"This is definitely true when it comes to football in the USA. It is better than most people in England think. The standard of American players and American coaching is high and increasing in quality all the time.

"The USA are a good side with a good manager and they play with an exceptional energy which can make them difficult opponents for any team. Not to accept that is simply English prejudice. If England had just drawn with Denmark, fans would not be booing, would they?"
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So a sub and an injury only totaled to one minute added on to stoppage time, and with a corner given.

Korea’s coach given a red after the match for arguing.
 
FuboTV trial #2 ended last night so I'm watching the Swiss-Brazil match in Spanish. Getting flashbacks to high school when we were in an international tournament in Moncton and played a school from Quebec. The game was televised back home, but in French. I managed to get a tape and the family I was staying with had a VCR so we watched it one night. Hilarious. "Unintelligible French... Michael Carmichael.... unintelligible French....John Marro.... excited unintelligible French....Tim Mitton....Le Buuuuuuuut". Pretty good production value for a high school hockey game in 1990. Better than most MSNBC shows in the pre 9/11 era.
 
Beautifully worked goal for Brazil. Negative points for that celebration though.

And now it's been taken off the board... Still scoreless.

A modest proposal: Make the nets bigger.
 
The US-Iran game is already turning into a s-show with the press conferences.

The international press is, obviously, trying to get questions about the Iranian players and their thoughts on the whole revolution thing going on back home.

Meanwhile, the Iranian media is playing a strong whataboutism game. One Iranian journalist chided USMNT captain Tyler Adams for mispronouncing Iran then asking him how he can represent a country with so much discrimination. Adams had a great response.

The best moment occurred when an Iranian journalist asked USMNT Manager Gregg Berhalter why he hadn’t requested the US Government to remove a US Navy vessels from the Persian Gulf.
 
I mean, Berhalter has at least some experience with insanity like this, he was part of the 2002 team that played South Korea and I’m sure 2006 had its own level of inaneness, but the way Tyler Adams handled everything is pleasantly surprising. Really speaks to why he was named captain.
 
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