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  • Jumb0
    Jumb0 Posts: 910
    Werder Bremen will not release any of their players for international play due to local COVID restrictions.

    Wonder who we call in to replace Sargent. 
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,151
    Go Union, Doop!
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  • Jumb0
    Jumb0 Posts: 910
    edited November 2020
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  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,906
    That's a nice looking lineup!  Finally get to see McKennie and Adams together in the midfield.
  • Jumb0
    Jumb0 Posts: 910
    alright, looks like this is the actual lineup

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  • eddiec
    eddiec Posts: 3,959
    Article in The Times about McKennie
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/sports/soccer/juventus-champions-league-weston-mckennie.html
    • March 8, 2021

    As he sat down for lunch, Weston McKennie slipped his cellphone out of his pocket and onto the chair in front of him, hiding it beneath his legs. He was breaking the rules — he and his Schalke teammates were strictly forbidden from taking their phones into the cafeteria — but he was prepared to take the risk. There are some calls you do not want to miss.

    McKennie found himself glancing down every few seconds, checking his screen as surreptitiously as he could. Midway through his meal, it arrived. His screen lit up and his chair buzzed. McKennie grabbed his phone, stood and walked out of the room. “I was just like: ‘Sorry, I’ve got to take this,’” he said. You do not, after all, keep Andrea Pirlo waiting.

    The last few months have been full of moments like that for McKennie, instances in which the surreal somehow feels quotidian. His career, and his prospects, have undergone the sort of whirlwind transformation that can be difficult to process: the rise is so dizzyingly rapid and the curve so precipitously steep that after a while, the scale and speed of the journey as a whole is difficult to gauge.

    continues on link...

  • Jumb0
    Jumb0 Posts: 910
    We got Musah!

    https://twitter.com/usmnt/status/1371459861280657410?s=21
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,906
    Jumb0 said:
    We got Musah!

    https://twitter.com/usmnt/status/1371459861280657410?s=21
    That is huge!  Such a great young core starting to come together.  Can't wait for all these guys to get some games together this summer...
  • Jumb0
    Jumb0 Posts: 910
    Now let’s get his boy Folarin Balogun 
  • Jumb0
    Jumb0 Posts: 910
    ESPN2 now vs Jamaica.

    As close to "full strength" as the senior team has been in a long time.
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,906
    Great to see finally!

    That Dest goal was incredible.  World class player.
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,022
    This is truly the craziest story in global sports in a very very very long time

    https://www.espn.com/soccer/uefa-champions-league/story/4365271/super-league-chaos-as-manchester-cityliverpoolmanchester-unitedarsenaltottenhamchelsea-plan-exit


  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,906
    Yeah that didn't last very long.  Amazing how unaware all these clubs were to how their fans would react to it.  Soccer fans do not mess around.....saw that Chelsea fans were blocking the team bus from getting into the stadium yesterday.  What a disaster.
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,324
    Cliffy6745 said:
    This is truly the craziest story in global sports in a very very very long time

    https://www.espn.com/soccer/uefa-champions-league/story/4365271/super-league-chaos-as-manchester-cityliverpoolmanchester-unitedarsenaltottenhamchelsea-plan-exit


    WTH?  That's Brexit type stuff right there.
  • Jumb0
    Jumb0 Posts: 910
    Indifference71 said:
    Yeah that didn't last very long.  Amazing how unaware all these clubs were to how their fans would react to it.  Soccer fans do not mess around.....saw that Chelsea fans were blocking the team bus from getting into the stadium yesterday.  What a disaster.


    All they saw were dollar signs. When the English FA came out and said that any player that participated in the Super League would have their work permit revoked, that killed any chance of this thing happening. 
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,906
    Jumb0 said:
    Indifference71 said:
    Yeah that didn't last very long.  Amazing how unaware all these clubs were to how their fans would react to it.  Soccer fans do not mess around.....saw that Chelsea fans were blocking the team bus from getting into the stadium yesterday.  What a disaster.


    All they saw were dollar signs. When the English FA came out and said that any player that participated in the Super League would have their work permit revoked, that killed any chance of this thing happening. 

    Yep once they started talking about players not being eligible for the Euros and World Cup, it was over.  Players aren't going to jeopardize that for this money grab.
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,352
    I'm a Juventus supporter and their club ownership has been a complete disgrace in this misadventure. Funny thing is they keep getting knocked out of the Champions League by clubs that aren't even invited to the "Super League".
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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,022
    Pretty fucking neat. Wish he played more today but he almost finished one and he tossed on a US hoodie once it was over. First of many trophies hopefully 
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,906
    Cliffy6745 said:
    Pretty fucking neat. Wish he played more today but he almost finished one and he tossed on a US hoodie once it was over. First of many trophies hopefully 
    Yeah it's pretty fucking wild.  With so many guys playing at these top clubs right now, there's going to be a lot of trophies lifted by USMNT players in the next few years.  Even this year it was something like 10-11 trophies lifted by USMNT guys with all the domestic cups across Europe.
  • Jumb0
    Jumb0 Posts: 910
    Up and down first half. Reyna looked great but couldn’t convert his chances. Defense a little shaky and overall just look like a group that hasn’t played much together. 

    Want to see Musah for Lleget in the 2nd half. 

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