congratulations to jones, lichaj, and brek shea on their callups
― con suelo, Friday, 1 October 2010 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
Oct. 9, 2010 U.S. Men vs. Poland 7 p.m. CT Soldier FieldChicago, Ill. Fox Soccer Channel & Galavision Oct. 12, 2010 U.S. Men vs. Colombia 8 p.m. ET PPL ParkChester, Pa. ESPN2 & Galavision
Goin' to the Poland game w/ about 50 or so S8 folx including a bunch of Polish fans, should be fun.
― dan m, Friday, 1 October 2010 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/news/newsid=1310662.html?cid=rssfeed&att=
Germany coach Joachim Low is concerned that next week's UEFA EURO 2012 qualifier against Turkey in Berlin could be an away game for his side given the amount of Turks living in the German capital.
hi dere welcome to our world
― con suelo, Friday, 1 October 2010 04:41 (twelve years ago) link
That should be a terrific match - those are two fabulous attacking sides.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 1 October 2010 06:09 (twelve years ago) link
lol thought u were talking abt us and poland for a sec and was like Whut
― con suelo, Friday, 1 October 2010 06:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.blending-mashine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/tumblr_krkj2njh001qzpwi0o1_500.jpg
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Friday, 1 October 2010 12:48 (twelve years ago) link
a 4-2-3-1 is intriguing, tho I don't know if they can play like that yet
― dan m, Friday, 1 October 2010 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
would be good to try and get more midfielders out there, our 1 strong suit
― con suelo, Friday, 1 October 2010 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
Ives had a 4-3-2-1 xmas tree posted with Jones, Bradley, and Edu as the 3... just call that one "the bone-cruncher"
― dan m, Friday, 1 October 2010 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
btw Bradley on the late run to goal is one of my favorite sights to see w/ these guys
yeah
also cosign on the potential of that game
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 1 October 2010 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
just learned Lichaj's from Chicago and his parents are Polish immigrants
― dan m, Friday, 1 October 2010 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
wish he would grow his hair back outhttp://graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/unc/sports/m-soccer/auto_headshot/573906.jpeg
― mizzell, Friday, 1 October 2010 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
report on Charlie Davies' comeback and some o_O scar pics
http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/news/_/id/5655430/soccer-us-forward-charlie-davies-talks-recovery-espn-magazine
― dan m, Thursday, 7 October 2010 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
lineup4-5-1 w/ edu at centerback huh
Howard; Cherundolo, Onyewu, Edu, Bocanegra; Jones, Bradley, Holden, Dempsey, Feilhaber; Altidore.
i'll be curious to see how high dempsey plays. and gooch is really ready for this, is he? wanna see lichaj at some point
― avinha, Saturday, 9 October 2010 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
Does anyone else think the US goal was offside? I'm heavily medicated with Nyquil and my eyes are burning but F thought it was.
― I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Sunday, 10 October 2010 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
from that camera angle it sure seemed so.
― avinha, Sunday, 10 October 2010 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
gooch is driving me crazy, booting it out of the back
― avinha, Sunday, 10 October 2010 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
bedoya for feilhaber, is that all we've got as far as possible forward-looking changes?
^wrote at halftime but could have said it later tbh
huh. jones looked good, physical, except for his fuckup. same with holden, great except for his fuckup. so many chances, both jozy's and the set pieces. thank god for tim howard
― avinha, Sunday, 10 October 2010 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
fun times, good seats, lots and lots of poles
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs368.ash2/64641_444156571895_509986895_5400916_6674090_n.jpg
they looked like a team with a bunch of guys who don't quite know how to play together yet, and I still am not sure if 4-5-1 is something they can pull off. jones/holden were fun to watch tho.
― dan m, Sunday, 10 October 2010 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://worldsoccerreader.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/JJwhiteboard.png
― avinha, Monday, 11 October 2010 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
What do you guys do with those things?
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 11 October 2010 06:48 (twelve years ago) link
nod sagely
― avinha, Monday, 11 October 2010 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
i'm still trying to learn how to watch the game. i want to understand a midfielder's most common passing locations. i want to see passing lanes before they develop. this was jones' first game with us. does the visual representation match what i saw on tv? what doesn't the chart tell me (in this case, about his physicality) ? if i look at enough of these what patterns will i see? i have so much trouble comparing two players against two different teams, could this help?
― avinha, Monday, 11 October 2010 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
where, how, and who did he link up with? (have to reach to remember the who) what was his average pass length?
i'm american, i love stats and charts, this chart may not tell me much but can we be so sure that the tenth or hundreth chart won't reveal something? we never know where tactical breakthroughs are going to come, who will see the game differently. i will stick to national type and hope it's us lol
― avinha, Monday, 11 October 2010 12:31 (twelve years ago) link
^ could totally get behind this level of analysis for spurs, tbh. the analysis of what players do that works during a game. i bet mourinho is up to his neck in this shit.
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 11 October 2010 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
I assume you meant Allardyce
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 11 October 2010 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
easy mistake to make, that
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 11 October 2010 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not knocking the concept either btw - if there's going to be some revolutionary development in the game (there only appears to ever have been two so far as I can tell) then I'm pretty persuaded that it'll come from some kind of synthesis of this and set-plays. I'm sure not going to be able to spot it though.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 11 October 2010 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
i think it's fair to speculate that improvement on a systemic level can come from the analysis of repeated actions
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 11 October 2010 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
/banaka
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 11 October 2010 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
what were those two revolutionary developments ismael ?
― Jibe, Monday, 11 October 2010 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
442, sam allardyce
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 11 October 2010 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
I've written about them before, but basically:
(i) the Scottish passing game taking over from kick-and-rush around the 1880s; and(ii) the whole pressing/offside trap/possession system of Ajax in the 1960s.
We're basically still exploring the world invented by (ii). There's a terrific book (Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson) looking at the development of tactics through the ages, not sure if it'll've reached your shores Jibe. There are lots of interesting innovations discussed in it, but those two seem to be the big ones. The others usually mostly happen every few years when one guy stands in a slightly different position, and everyone else gets confused
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 11 October 2010 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
And that's my 10,000th post. It's been a pleasure, I'd like to thank my agent, etc.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 11 October 2010 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
congrats, it was worthy imo
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 11 October 2010 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
ok thx. that book looks quite interesting, will try and get ahold of it as soon as my finances allow me to.
― Jibe, Monday, 11 October 2010 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
football finances thread
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Monday, 11 October 2010 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
It's a great read, enlightened me to many things + helped me relate my hockey tactical knowledge to similarities on the pitch.
― dan m, Monday, 11 October 2010 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
apparently Spector is starting tonight, should be a lot of other changes too
― dan m, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
also lol @ < 10k tickets sold for this match, wtf
― dan m, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
apparently Spector is starting tonight
GAAHHHHHHHH
― avinha, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
we are mediocre huh. lucky for us colombia is so far too
i love edu's composure on the ball. he doesn't make me start drumming my fingers nervously in possession.it seems like holden out wide takes away a lot of what's best about him: getting involved, cutting into passing lanes. you'd think the idea would be he'd send in crosses from out wide, but i don't think he's had a cross yet.
EJ for jozy? lichaj for spector (hey, he was only burned twice! not bad). any other changes?
― avinha, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
lichaj looked goodummm, other positives?
(we need to put it down on record that our first shot on goal was in the 55th minute)
― avinha, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
I was at the Fire/KC game so I missed this. Doesn't sound like much of note. From the descriptions I've read/heard it sounded like a 4-3-3? Last time I saw that Costa Rica kicked their ass.
― dan m, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i guess it was a 4-3-3, in the first half. jozy was so marooned and alone i'm tempted to call it 4-3-2-1. but i'm bad with formations. brek shea looked okay, not totally outclassed at this level with his first cap, so that's something. EJ came in at HT and edu went out (i think, i missed some) so the formation changed but i'm not sure how. the second half was better, dempsey with some spark, but yeah, you didn't miss much.
― avinha, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 05:58 (twelve years ago) link
the pronunciation of Lichaj's name sounds exactly the same a "lihai" (厉害) which is a common slang word in Chinese that means "awesome."
― avinha, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
same for (Luis) Figo in Italian (actually 'fico', but close enough) - any other examples?
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
more confirmation
Danielle Reyna, mother of U.S. winger Gio Reyna, said in statement that she told USSF sporting director Earnie Stewart about Gregg Berhalter incident from 31 years ago involving his now-wife.Full statement and details here: https://t.co/sYqWCMRMGz— Paul Tenorio (@PaulTenorio) January 4, 2023
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 19:21 (eight months ago) link
One of the more intriguing usmnt callups in recent times, Alan Soñora, who has been playing with Independiente in Argentina
🎥 For all the USMNT fans excited about his call up, here’s a clip of Alan Soñora’s goals & assists in 2022 #USMNT 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/IzRCQjuXKI— 🇺🇸 USMNT vs Haters (@USMNTvsHaters) January 20, 2023
His father was a long time player for Boca and then came to MLS
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Friday, 20 January 2023 19:08 (eight months ago) link
Didn't come out too good for the Reyna's
https://sports.yahoo.com/berhalter-reyna-investigation-us-soccer-gregg-claudio-danielle-gio-175935675.html
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 March 2023 20:49 (six months ago) link
ugh, so gross
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 13 March 2023 21:05 (six months ago) link
Claudio's mega misogynist text about female referees is something I'm sure he's glad to have shared w/ the world (actually, probably)
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 March 2023 21:12 (six months ago) link
lolol the US just conceded the most US-conceded goal ever at the friendly with Mexico
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 03:38 (five months ago) link
Antuna dispossessing a US defender at midfield, who also happened to be the only man between the ball and the goal at the time, and then taking it the entire way and scoring 1 v 1 on Johnson
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 03:39 (five months ago) link
El Tri strike first!Uriel Antuna takes advantage of the #USMNT backline and puts it home. 📺: @Telemundo & @Peacock for Spanish coverage. pic.twitter.com/HGPiILcTkx— NBC Sports Soccer (@NBCSportsSoccer) April 20, 2023
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 03:41 (five months ago) link
actually the initial backpass was an even worse idea lol...I didn't even see that in real time, just the dispossession
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 03:43 (five months ago) link
I missed this one, but I guess I really didn't
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Thursday, 20 April 2023 22:39 (five months ago) link
Abysmal match
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Friday, 21 April 2023 01:13 (five months ago) link
Though the equalizer was nice.
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Friday, 21 April 2023 01:14 (five months ago) link
Iiiiiiiinteresting
BREAKING: FIFA has approved Folarin Balogun's one-time switch to represent the US national team, FIFA has confirmed to The Athletic.Balogun, 21, has 19 goals in 34 games on loan at Reims from Arsenal. He most recently was with England youth int'l set-up. pic.twitter.com/iEITZIIAea— Tom Bogert (@tombogert) May 16, 2023
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 15:58 (four months ago) link
finally a real striker
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 17:04 (four months ago) link
Fucking disgusted
https://www.outsports.com/2023/6/15/23763078/mexico-fans-gay-chant-team-usa-put-chant
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 June 2023 05:43 (three months ago) link
Until it costs them points in a competition it's never gonna change.
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Friday, 16 June 2023 14:08 (three months ago) link
Maybe not even then, sadlol
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Friday, 16 June 2023 14:09 (three months ago) link
they should be forced to play in empty stadiums during the Gold Cup imo.
like CONCACAF or USMNT officials would ever let that happen
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 June 2023 14:13 (three months ago) link
Or SUM for that matter
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Friday, 16 June 2023 18:16 (three months ago) link
Lot more pace in this one than it would have had 20 years ago
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 June 2023 01:20 (three months ago) link
Balogun opens his account.
Canada is struggling to deal with him
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 June 2023 01:41 (three months ago) link
Balogun is pulling Canada out of shape.
They're resorting to mauling him when they can
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 June 2023 01:50 (three months ago) link
Canada seems to have regressed since the WC. The Balogun goal was so good.
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 19 June 2023 13:37 (three months ago) link
Yea Davies looked terrible last night
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 June 2023 13:50 (three months ago) link
Been meaning to say I was at the USA/Jamaica match on Saturday, Jamaica looked really good from the start, gave the B- US team all they could handle, lucky to get a draw. Also Soldier Field sucks, kinda? Maybe I am too used to empty Fire games.
My friend Jeff retired from day to day work with usmnt at this match. He will definitely still be a good follow for any American fan of the game.
A few days late, but a message about my 118th and final game embedded with the @USMNT.Thank you everyone, but especially these four standing next to me. 🙏🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Ac3isMmkcd— Jeff Crandall (@jefecrandall) June 27, 2023
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 04:12 (three months ago) link
really a disservice to have the Gold Cup immediately after the Nations League final.
This quarterfinal between Canada and the US looks like what a match between these two might have looked like in the 80s. Both B squads playing miserable soccer, zero pace. US fans cheering like they won off of Vazquez's (admittedly nice) goal, only to give up a stupid PK minutes later and let them equalize.
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 July 2023 02:09 (two months ago) link
the PK was Canada's first SOG all match
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 July 2023 02:10 (two months ago) link
lmao the crowd groaned at the end of regulation. I agree, sucks that htey have to play more of this.
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 July 2023 02:17 (two months ago) link
and hilariously, even if Canada wins, three of their key starters are suspended for the next match
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 July 2023 02:18 (two months ago) link
lmao Canada just took the lead
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 July 2023 02:38 (two months ago) link
HAHAHA tied again.
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 July 2023 02:44 (two months ago) link
I want to like Busio but he has been frustrating up to that point
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 10 July 2023 02:48 (two months ago) link
he had maybe one decent moment prior to that but agreed.
I did lol at the announcers falling all over themselves to compliment Cowell's play as he repeatedly made the wrong decision with the ball in the final third (though admittedly he improved a bit in extra time).
loling at USMNT fans freaking out on Twitter as if this was the Pulisic/Zimmermann version of the squad not being able to beat Canada
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 July 2023 02:53 (two months ago) link
prediction: US 5-3, and any misses aren't saved but are shot over the goal
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 July 2023 02:56 (two months ago) link
lol
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 July 2023 02:58 (two months ago) link
After all that trash talk that is amazing
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 10 July 2023 02:58 (two months ago) link
Ok lol, b team
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 10 July 2023 02:59 (two months ago) link
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 July 2023 02:59 (two months ago) link
lmao....oh my fucking god
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 July 2023 03:00 (two months ago) link
prediction - this one goes backwards
Cowell seems to have both a cross neck tat and a cross razored into his mullet
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 10 July 2023 03:01 (two months ago) link
yeah lol....and god that hair
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 July 2023 03:02 (two months ago) link
It's a shitty version of Ferreira's look
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 10 July 2023 03:03 (two months ago) link
Saint Turner
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 10 July 2023 03:04 (two months ago) link
lol. at first he seemed like "lol that crossed the line mate" and then was like "man I suck"
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 July 2023 03:05 (two months ago) link
Panama having 66% possession not something I thought I'd see
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 July 2023 00:33 (two months ago) link
imagine spending $200+ to take your kids to *this* match
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 July 2023 00:44 (two months ago) link
LMFAO
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 July 2023 02:33 (two months ago) link
No more Roldan plz
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Thursday, 13 July 2023 04:11 (two months ago) link
kinda glad someone else gets a chance to win this time. if the US had managed to win the tourney with this terrible roster of misfits, lord.
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 July 2023 13:14 (two months ago) link