World Cup 2014

Disgusting savages at FIFA haven't planned matches for tomorrow and Thursday ffs

the next game woulda been on july 4th weekend too

― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Tuesday, July 1, 2014 6:38 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gonna hafta adjust my fireworks to spell out MESSI BEAT THOSE WAFFLEEATERS instead i guess ok

I'm not second guessing anything tbh, they did well to make it out of the group despite altidore's injury, and the defense, which was for months the obvious weak spot, could not hold out forever

Never gonna fry a Belgian again after this

1:5 odds theres a 30 for 30 film abt wondo in ~3yrs

gonna go troll the beer thread

Drinking Surly fwiw

the next game woulda been on july 4th weekend too

― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Tuesday, July 1, 2014 6:38 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gonna hafta adjust my fireworks to spell out MESSI BEAT THOSE WAFFLEEATERS instead i guess ok

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, July 1, 2014 3:42 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

First time seeing Julien Green, p impressive and as for Yedlin...
All group winners through.
Can't wait for Friday.

Also, assuming they've been sat in ice baths since Sunday night, Costa Rica have surely got one hell of a fifth act in them...

Wish Rio Ferdinand would stop saying "it's like watching a premier league game". Like fuck is it, about a million times better.

fullbacks that can't defend is a common sight in the EPL.

well ya it was vertonghen

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BrfhWaxIIAI_ZDC.jpg

Messi knows what's gonna come

I wouldn't underestimate Van Gaal conservation tactics either.

Can't wait for Fri.

did you ever read the article explaining the context of that photo?

xxp

Yedlin is one of those prospects that MLS will want too much money for and he'll stay in the league until 2018

Isn't the Belgium Argentina game on the 5th?

man this wc is like groundhog christmas day and i never want to improve or grow as a man person in case it ends
― sktsh, Wednesday, July 2, 2014 12:32 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cosign for life

LBI
http://www.thescore.ie/diego-maradona-picture-938745-Jun2014/

Re: Yedlin - We are allegedly in a world where Fulham want to pay £10million for Ross McCormack. Price tags aren't really much of a thing in football any more.

what a fuckin game

we were screaming our heads off in the breakroom omg

we = me and 4 other ppl, lol

Yeah but that dude is not American right xps

Jessie j director of football at citeh

also I'd like to register a FUCK OFF YOU FUCKING MORON to the prannet who asked me in the middle of this USA/BEL game if Australia were still in the world cup

Yeah I know Pandemic, but prefer to see it as an iconic photo.

feisty, Danny tiatto style imo

xps right on vg!

italia 90's always been my sentimental fave but fuck it, this is just the best

#highonlife

I'm never going to kick a ball again

used to be you could never kick a ball again

damn that free kick

xps - Yeah, but he's also never played in the English top flight. Fulham, also, are not in the English top flight anymore. Let's see - Tim Ream to Bolton was apparently $2.75m in 2012? MLS could probably double that figure and someone would definitely bite.

if this inspires a new generation of yanks (tho tbf last time round was p good too) then you will soon be able to kick a ball on sesame st

boycotting belgian waffles, endives and chocolate

Pat Nevin: "They tell me Americans don't like sports they don't win at but surely there is glory in losing like this. Surely this will be the start of a massive change in the country."

imagine he said that bit in a kilt, ginger wig and tam o shanter because it's the scottishest phrase i've ever heard

they're banning guns and religious interference in politics and are keeling waffles and chocolate so tbh they've come out alright on this one

oh well. proud of the US for hanging in there despite being overmatched. Howard had a hell of a game.

haven't slept in 13 hours

this tourney inspired me to buy season tix to Orlando City's inagural MLS season too lol

i fucking love how much the USMNT don't want to lose, even when it makes me crazy and want to yell WHY DON'T YOU NOT WANT TO LOSE DURING THE ACTUAL GAME AND ACTUALLY MAYBE YOU KNOW TRY TO FUCKING WIN YOU BLOODY PLONKERS but then I scruff their hair and say ah it's ok

lol forgot fulham was relegated. i'm optimistic about 'the future of american soccer', it's been exponential growth in interest w/ each world cup and w/ cable and the internet it's easy to follow. silver had a persuasive piece that us soccer has plateaued and there was a sportsnation poll that showed a majority of americans don't think they'll see the us win the world cup in their lifetime (which tbh is in a way a good sign, shows greater sophistication/knowledge on the part of the american market - before the world cup there was a sportsnation poll that showed alot of americans thought the us would win this world cup), but i think it's genuinely established now and there's a very real chance that in the future you're gonna have lawsuit shy schools drop football and replace it w/ soccer and if/when that happens watch out.

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--JTyL1TyV--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/792905506827503789.jpg

ULTRA EAGLES

ey, I was a noninterested US soccer fan during 2006, only watched a few matches, none of them the US, and here I am watchin em all now! it's workin'!

curious how it plays out also. anecdotal but it seems like more ppl i know are following the wc in general and not just the us, much more so than prior world cups. i saw a fratboy in a pirlo jersey the other day.

I've been watching it instead of working but to be fair it doesn't take much for me to do that

Feel like soccer's always been big among white suburban males tho xp

I watched many NBC early morning EPL games last year. I have not seen an MLS game, though.

^ME TOO

xps It's that 'surely' in the Nevin quote that's heartbreaking, all the uncertainty of a nation that's never played a game of knockout football in its life.

If u live in an MLS market go to a game this weekend