usmnt

Did they just park the bus in front of goal or did they try to counter at all?

a couple attempts at countering, including one 2-on-2 with boyd and dempsey where it was pretty obvious only boyd had any gas in the tank, but mostly a lot of blocking shots and clogging up the front

brian mcbride and mike piazza chillin in the stands

for the obsessed among us, us u-23 vs mexico u-23 (friendly) here

and on Telefutura, I've just discovered

33' agudelo steams in and heads a corner 1-0
35' adu shoots from outside the 18, 2-0

we have a name for this, dos a cero

love gyau running with the ball

is he #11?

yeah, that's gyau

saw the end of this in a bar, shouted "dos a cero" and startled some people

didn't see the goals but thought gyau, agudelo, and adu all looked good. diskerud too.
really liked the senior team's new kits. though the us still needs a new badge.

watching some highlights this morning I started feeling some real hope for some of these dudes, can't wait to see a few more of them integrated with the senior team

hadn't realized that az is in first place in the netherlands (and jozy is their leading scorer). has there been an american on a league winning side in europe before?

Edu and Beasley won the SPL with Rangers iirc. Gooch with Standard Liege in Belgium, maybe?

good call. beasley also won twice with PSV.

Demerit's Watford won promotion but I don't think they actually finished top of the Championship.

Did Man Utd not win the league when Timmy was there then?

no, he was there for three seasons, arsenal chelsea chelsea winners.
he won a fa cup and a league cup.

http://blogs.thescore.com/footyblog/2012/03/06/bandini-how-michael-bradley-became-chievos-captain-america/

his game has visibly risen since moving to italy

el equipo de todos

god damn pathetic

this fucking team

Am I wrong or is this mostly the same group that failed to qualify for the U20 world cup? Unreal.

http://theoriginalwinger.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Legends-Game-Flyer2.jpg

has anyone deserved to go bald as much as clint mathis? kinda love that idiot.

The United States, which, will be coached by Curt Onalfo, will feature Ian Feuer, Cobi Jones, Paul Caligiuri, Thomas Dooley, Eric Wynalda, Roy Lassiter, Chris Klein, Cle Kooiman, Ted Eck, Clint Mathis, Alexi Lalas, Jovan Kirovski, John O'Brien and Brian McBride.

Mexico, meanwhile, will be coached by Carlos Reinoso and will trot out Jorge Campos, Claudio Suarez, Ramón Ramírez, Martin Zúñiga, Mariano Trujillo, Zague, German Villa, Alberto García Aspe, Ramon Morales, David Oteo, Luis Hernández, Joel Sánchez, Eduardo Missael Espinoza, Chima, Jesús Olalde, Jared Borgetti and Francisco Palencia.

no Blanco :( guess it's not a big enough payday

Not sure if Fabian Johnson has been involved in the US team this year, but he scored a super goal for Hoffenheim midweek.

About 6.00 mins in

http://youtu.be/-Ns5lXNIvAY

http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1043145/533027_10150790949863941_32421823940_9381208_1177782620_n.jpg

lots of people seem to hate it, I don't

I like it!

always thought that would be an obvious scheme, and it has been done before right? it looks nice, but i was liking the sash ok too.

The sash always kind of irked me - it reminds me too much of South American tinpot dicator wear somehow. I like the hoops more than I expected.

so the sash is still there, just barely.
are there other national teams that wear hoops?

http://www.soccerbyives.net/.a/6a00e54ef2975b88330167653721b6970b-pi

barely sash is worse imo

i've loved the hoops as a kit design, would be stoked if we snaked it from the rest of the world first (DONT TREAD ON ME)

chandler begging out again

http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/usa/story/tim-chandler-sends-clear-message-to-jurgen-klinsmann-usmnt-051512

I don't really like Ives Galarcep as a writer but I think he is totally otm here

scottish taboard.com poster on the entrance of beckerman

Posted Today, 01:43
Now there even bringing on a homeless guy. Thats just taking the pish.

Oh dear.

scottish poster otm

bradley goal was tasty. usa looking good despite the lack of competition.

We looked pretty good but, man, did Scotland look bad.

http://imgon.net/di-QLL5.gif

daaaaaamn

psyched for will ferrell tbrr

fuck sake scotland, i was looking at a match report there thinking maybe they fielded a weakened team, and while there's some players missing it's a fairly "strong" (in relative terms) first XI.

It's maybe the most depressing cold-hard-footy-truth I can remember. At least taking humpings from Portugal or Holland, you knew they were always secretly our betters, we just beat them sometimes. But Scotland and the US weren't ever in the same class when I was little, and they're certainly not now.

i have the good fortune of not caring all that much about the national team,but even vaguely following the team and feeling goodwill towards it has became painful.could easily see scotland not make a world cup in the next 20,30 years,and they used to be almost perennial participants.

hercules v hulk!