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World Soccer XXXI: Golden Generation?

Kepler said:
I think it is exactly the opposite for the 90% of Americans who do not follow soccer, or follow more casually than you. Without a prompt I literally could only have named Rapinoe. Even with the names in front of me I have zero memory of Foudy or Morgan. For the USMNT, right now, I can only name Pulisic.

We keep forgetting it is a vanishingly small demographic still in the American consciousness. And yet everyone remembers the women won.
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Well, you don't remember them because you're old. And male.

The USWNT won (a lot) before Nike and the marketing machine kicked in. They already had one World Cup (1991) and an Olympic Gold Medal (1996) and got very little attention (they got a little after the Olympics). It took the run up to the 1999 World Cup and Nike plastering their faces everywhere (especially Hamm) for them to become a thing. You wanna see how impactful that marketing by Nike was? Go this weekend to any soccer field and you're likely to see a ton of girls with ponytails (like Hamm), using rolled up pink prewrap as a hairband (like Morgan), and wearing Nike shoes (like, well, pretty much all of them). I'd say ask any woman under 50, whether they're a soccer fan or not, and they'd likely be able to name one of them.

Winning means nothing unless you have a face to put with it.
 
That was one of the dumbest things I've ever seen on a soccer field. All they had to do was run out the clock and get three points and he decides to take out Pulisic from behind when it wasn't even a scoring opportunity.
 
Somehow, according to the internet, this loss is all Berhalter's fault. He's getting raked for making defensive subs but I honestly don't know what else they expect, especially since they struggled with possession at the end of the first half.
 
Jimjamesak said:
Mexico loses to Venezuela 1-0. Let's all laugh at Mexico:
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*cough* karma *cough*
 
cF[Authentic said:
;n3884407]Just like clockwork. US underperformed and Berhalter's fanboy is here to deflect blame.
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Just like clockwork, the USMNT loses and people suddenly come out of the woodwork with opinions.
 
How is it Berhalter's fault they went down a man in the first 20 minutes? Not a lot of sides compete that long with 10, and Panama has gone from being ranked 81st in the world in April of 2019 to 43rd now. That puts them ahead of Canada, Romania, Norway, South Afriica, Greece, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Ireland, Paraguay, Honduras.. No that's not a who's who list, but given the circumstances I don't think it's a massively poor result.
 
Slap Shot said:
How is it Berhalter's fault they went down a man in the first 20 minutes? Not a lot of sides compete that long with 10, and Panama has gone from being ranked 81st in the world in April of 2019 to 43rd now. That puts them ahead of Canada, Romania, Norway, South Afriica, Greece, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Ireland, Paraguay, Honduras.. No that's not a who's who list, but given the circumstances I don't think it's a massively poor result.
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I’d be curious to see the statistics on teams going down a player with >60 minutes left. Probably in the single digits for even getting a point.
 
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