England 2-0 USA
Sometimes
Posts: 94
Bit of a low profile game really but nevertheless a comfortable win. USA are pretty shit but I can't boast too much as England aren't really much better. Freddy Adu, i thought this guy was supposed to be a very bright prospect, he is fuckin shit....couldn't even pass to his own team mates.
Post edited by Unknown User on
0
Comments
at 18 i'd expect him to play well...
like say Rooney did when he was that age.. or Owen, Maradona, Pele, Giggs, Whiteside, Ronaldo, etc, etc, etc.
unfortunately he's had a lot of hype to deal with... and its probably affected him
I see JT cheered himself up by scoring (fnaaaar, fnaaaar!!!!:D) watch the post JT.....;)
It's true that 18 years of age is young, but the real super stars were already really mature at that age.
The other day I was watching Inter vs. Rome and there was one 18 yr old and a 17 yr old on the field.
Bridge School '06 Night 1 & 2
Venice '07 pummeled by the sleet!
Nijmegen '07
Werchter '07
April Fools ~ LA1
yea Adu was hyped up way too much!!
Altidore looks promising. Was he in the lineup today?
hit me up when you post a thread about a sport that matters......
you know that we Americans couldn't give a damn about soccer...........
haha...What's wrong with soccer?
for real?
i guess nothing. it works wonders for insomnia
haha...no that's xanax and a Old E 40..:)
ha yeah that'll do the trick too
Adu was overhyped. I feel bad for him. He's playing in Portugal now and he's still got a long career ahead of him. But the U.S. is always dreaming for the one thing we so rarely develop - a world class striker. We have world class players at every position but that. One could even argue that Brian McBride is world class, but he retired from international competition before the last World Cup, along with our best keeper Brad Friedel.
Very true, but in all fairness it's the first tournament we haven't qualified for since USA '94, and we expect a lot more from our national side, so there's bound to be a lot of discussion about them at the moment.
I was actually at Wembley last night (I vowed never to go again after I went to the Croatia debacle, but I couldn't resist). I thought England played okay to be fair, Gerrard took his goal well, and Rooney looked a lot sharper than he has done for England over the last few months.
We'll be okay with Capello, we're starting to get the balance right now. I'm glad he's brought Bentley into the fold (promising player) and at last an England boss has noticed how good David James is. I'm totally pissed off that we're not in Euro 2008 but we would never have won it with McLaren in charge anyway (and he still would have been, had we have qualified).
USA were poor. I'd agree about the striker, but there's not a lot of pace in the side either.
***Reading, UK - 2006***
***Wembley, UK - 2007***
***Nijmegen, Holland - 2007***
http://www.myspace.com/theeasymorningrebel
I'll argue that he isnt world class...
he's a fairly average player who has earned a decent living by being a sturdy pro... he isnt world class i'm afraid.
Yeah, I wouldn't consider him world class either. But he's the best we've got. I was trying to hype up our best forward - who isn't even playing for the U.S. side any more. I propose a swap of players. How about we swap one our keepers for Crouch?
take him if you want.. i dinnae care... I'm from Scotland
Right right. As everyone knows, Castle Fuckula is in Scotland.
My favorite club team, the Houston Dynamo, have two Scots. Well, they were born there anyway. The head coach Dominic Kinnear and a young midfielder Stuart Holden, who plays on the U.S. U-23 team.
Id never post in a thread about something i had a lack of damnation for.
but the "real superstars" were playing International soccer back then also...Adu first played in the MLS in America...and now hes playing in Portugal.....so give him some time playing the european leages and then lets see how well he does...he might suprise some people
Too bad Guiseppe Rossi turned you down, he'd of made a good front pairing with McBride.
I do think that he will be an impact player eventually. All the other posters are correct though---Brian McBride (St. Louis U grad) is the balls...
http://www.reverbnation.com/brianzilm
This is sarcasm, right? Coz the U.S will always get their asses kicked at the worlds no.1 sport.
In all fairness though Americans as a whole never cared or will care about soccer/football. I'm sure we could be good at it, but all our good athletes take up football or basketball as kids and never play soccer. I think the US has the athletes, it's just that nobody aside from a select few in suburban America care for soccer.
Or International law, or the Kyoto treaty. (Sorry, couldn't resist!
It's all where you live I think. Almost every kid grew up playing soccer where I'm from. It's once you hit high school and parents realize that their kid won't have a chance at the "Real American Dream" playing in the NFL, NBA, or MLB. :rolleyes:
Aha, but you've obviously not watched the U.S. play. No, they will probably never be in the top five in the world, but just look at their results from the 2002 World Cup. Went up 3-0 against Portugal and held on for the win. This was when Figo was at the top of his game (but before Ronaldo). We beat Mexico 2-0. We outplayed Germany but lost 1-0.
The last World Cup was dismal, but we held our own against Italy and tied 1-1. Who, if you'll remember, won it all.
More recently we beat Poland 3-0 in Krakow in March. This same Poland team qualified for Euro 2008. England did not. This U.S. team can play. They just played like crap against England.
best...............post............................ever................