Ameritoon Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Pretty shameful it's happened twice in a row, not that this cycle of players were ever that good. Definitely not the first time we've seen a US youth team lose their cool against a South/Central American team full of divers, but still, they were never good enough anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Fingers should be pointed at the technical director. Wonder who that is... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Going to get wrecked in Copa America. Beckerman is going to get Colo'd when anyone with pace burns by him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Zardes has the first-touch of a rapist. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Beckerman is slower than Colo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Wouldn't a rapist need to have a good first touch as otherwise their victim would just get away? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Wouldn't a rapist need to have a good first touch as otherwise their victim would just get away? I believe the line is 'the deft first touch of a rapist" meaning aggressive, unsubtle and alarming. imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 With great fear and trembling – no, this is not about the Republican primaries – I watched the American soccer team play Guatemala Tuesday night. The Yanks had to win – 3 points in the standings – to retain hope of qualifying for the dreaded Hex, the final six-team round of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup. I love the queasy feeling before U.S. qualifying matches – like I used to feel watching the Sopranos, knowing something horrible was going to happen before the hour was up. What is wrong with American soccer? The reputable ESPN commentators were working over that perennial question in the pre-game. I could tell them – the youth programs, aimed at affluent families, with Coach standing on the sideline yelling, “Don’t get fancy, just pass the ball.” Kids get the improvisation beaten out of their psyches before puberty, leaving Latinos, playing for love, in a field, on their day off, making Ronaldo and Messi and Drogba moves. That’s what’s wrong. For all that, the U.S. is not doing badly, having qualified for seven consecutive World Cups, the seventh longest active streak. However, the Yanks had lost, 2-0, in Guatemala four nights earlier, raising the specter of the pitiful giant, being tormented. How can the U.S. lose in Guatemala, my basketball and baseball pals ask. Easy. Everything is different, on the road, in any continent. Even with the gonifs who run FIFA, there is realistic suspense, knowing that strange things happen on their own, no help needed from fixers. Still, because we are relatively new to this sport, we act as if we are the only nation to get the staggers. It’s a wonder anybody qualifies. I was in Milan on a dank night in November of 1993, when Italy needed at least a draw with Portugal to qualify for the World Cup in the Stati Uniti. The ansia was as thick as the marshy miasma as Italy staggered in a scoreless match, until the 83rd minute when Dino Baggio put in a deflection. Addio, ansia. Wise Kasey Keller kept referring to some USA revivals Tuesday evening, but the main theme seemed to be that Our Lads just cannot play, and besides, Juergen Klinsmann cannot put players in the right positions to win. There he went,juggling keepers, bringing in Zusi from off the squad. Whacky Juergen. Gloom and doom lasted all of 12 minutes until Clint Dempsey, playing the role of Dino Baggio in this performance, pounced on a ball and found a corner of the net. Cross-sport note: My long-time pal, Stanley the Rebounder, was watching in his home, and decided that Dempsey had the hard eyes of a schoolyard basketball shark. True. Clint plays like a poor boy. May his tribe increase. The U.S. clobbered Guatemala, 4-0, and is now in great shape, at least until the U.S. falters in the Gold Cup Copa America this summer, or stumbles at St.Vincent-Grenadines in early September. That could happen. But for the moment, our national sense of entitlement is fulfilled. http://www.georgevecsey.com/home/soccer-lads-make-america-great-again-temporarily Love the bolded re: Dempsey. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 this guy writes like he looks...could have made his point in 3 paragraphs. kernt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Vecsey has a tremendous talent for spitting out a piece that doesn't really say anything at all. He's a great writer in that sense. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Pulisic scored again for Dortmund today. Can't wait for JK to play him out of position and/or him tear his ACL in a meaningless friendly Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 Copa squad Goalkeepers: Brad Guzan (Aston Villa), Tim Howard (Colorado Rapids), Ethan Horvath (Molde IK) Defenders: Matt Besler (Sporting KC), Steve Birnbaum (D.C. United), John Brooks (Hertha Berlin), Geoff Cameron (Stoke City), Timmy Chandler (Eintracht Frankfurt), Fabian Johnson (Borussia Monchengladbach), Michael Orozco (Club Tijuana), DeAndre Yedlin (Tottenham Hotspur) Midfielders/Forwards: Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake), Alejandro Bedoya (FC Nantes), Michael Bradley (Toronto FC), Clint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders FC), Jermaine Jones (Colorado Rapids), Perry Kitchen (Heart of Midlothian), Darlington Nagbe (Portland Timbers), Christian Pulisic (Borussia Dortmund), Chris Wondolowski (San Jose Earthquakes), Bobby Wood (Hamburg SV), Gyasi Zardes (LA Galaxy), Graham Zusi (Sporting KC) Chandler and Orozco. Beckerman. Wondolowski will be getting call-ups until the end of time. Guaranteed we'll see Jones as a #10 too, and watch him get fucking dicked by real competition. At least the cunt had the sense to leave Mix at home. Still fully expect something horrible to happen to Pulisic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameritoon Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 Nice to see some younger blood in there, Morris would be a much better asset than Wondo. Still some weird selections of course. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 Horvath not being in the Molde goal for weeks, can't wait to watch them crumble No Mix though? Why is there no Mix? I hate everything now. At least Zardes is in there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 He's been playing horribly for NYC. Or at least he was until they dropped him from the line-up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 I know, but fucking Kyle Beckerman is in there so that voids his current shitness Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 It's in his best interest tbh. Klinsmann probably would've played him as a defensive midfielder or center back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Zardes has the touch of a rapist. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameritoon Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 It's been long enough between games for me to forget how baffling Jurgen's tactics are. He really is just a German Pardew. Also, hate Johnson at fullback, hate Bradley playing furthest forward while Beckerman sits deep. Just move Bradley back, put Nagbe in his spot, have a better team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Darke: "Ecuador means equator, and Ecuador is on the equator." immediately switches to Univision Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 They've barely filmed the other side of the fucking pitch. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 It's been long enough between games for me to forget how baffling Jurgen's tactics are. He really is just a German Pardew. Also, hate Johnson at fullback, hate Bradley playing furthest forward while Beckerman sits deep. Just move Bradley back, put Nagbe in his spot, have a better team. Lo and behold, we look a lot better. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameritoon Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 I'm a genius Pulisic time too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Pulisic is class Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Night and day first half to second. Nagbe, Pulisic, and Wood the difference going forward. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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