World Cup 2014

And next they get Belgium (probably). Beckerman v Fellaini. That's gonna be fun, eh?

USA?USA?USA?

The only good thing about Bedoya is his name which sounds like the sort of sproinging noise you get when you reverberate a ruler off the edge of a desk. Well done USA, you made some friends happy and you (probably) made Cristiano Ronaldo cry.

Thought Gonzalez was good for USA today

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Is Thomas Muller the secret best player in the world? He's amazing.

Muller is the new Ruud Gullit.

He was 4/1 to be Germany's top scorer, which is ridiculous.

Lest we forget:

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RTE pundits blaming Howard for the goal

Obviously vmooc for me to cheer against Russia but i hope Algeria stuff them tonight.

Really don't want Capello to still be in charge come 2018. His squad selection was wrong (leaving out Artyom Dzuba in particular), his team selection has been wrong and his tactics have been wrong.

They'll only hire Mourinho and stink 2018 up for longer

US&A!

I swear, explaining how we can advance while losing is one of the best parts of American soccer fandom.

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game of groans but the US moves on

so south korea has to beat up Belgium today? let's do this South Korea

Ha zappi

if you're posting on this thread you care more about the 2014 world cup than ronaldo

Ronaldo, after his goal, basically couldn't be asked to try to score another - he really shouldn't have done, but one gets the feeling he didn't think hid team deserved a rousing finish

You can advance while losing because it's a mini league. If merikans don't get that easily, well... Fucking hell.

Should, even

oh, it's a mini league. like all those other mini league point-based progression sports we have in amurica

That clears it up - I thought the World Cup was played with mega league rules

i miss the days of the mega league

such a strange country

https://twitter.com/driven_by_data/status/482229428622467073

ruh-roh, time to start rounding up War of 1812 jpegs again

i try to stay balanced on these things but i will say, having to suffer it first hand and repeatedly, this affectation of gormless head scratching about the US going thru despite losing is basically the greatest moment of shame in this country's miserable history

this is the hindenburg of international sports

worse than abu ghraib

mordy

ayew cross probably the finest moment of skill in the tournament so far

You can advance while losing because it's a mini league.

even dumber than ties imho

all baseball playoff teams have 100% regular season records right?

ah, i didn't know we were playing 162 games here

Ok ann coulter xxp

I had explain that we advanced to my dad who is in France right now bc he was watching coverage with German commentary and dosent speak German. I had to explain the mechanics of advancing while losing to friends and acquaintances who don't get wc rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh5OlT-cslQ

Morbs I think u wd gain valuable instruction from cricket, where u can play for 5 days and it's still a draw

Xxp you should probably seek therapy soon, apparently explaining the rules of international soccer tournaments to woefully ignorant Americans is tantamount to facing bullets in a war. you prob have PTSD now

so, a break from footy tomorrow..

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other than morbs (who is easily confused nowadays for understandable reasons, i think everyone could show an ounce of pity and ignore it) who are these ppl confused by the us advancing? thought everybody had seen the flood of infographics showing that unless ghana won it was almost certain the us would advance, or if they hadn't would've heard repeated references to it throughout the game

Haha Nah art

I mean honestly the tide of dour britishes moping about rooney and gerrard is much more troublesome on my psyche than having to evangelize the game to noobs

we Yanks just like sudden death, along w/ capital punishment

balls, lick it

i assume Triumph the Insult Comic Dog's take was posted here

USA USA USA

xxp inaccurate demonyms the most wearying element of the thread for me

Feel so amazing now that we've won the World Cup

Amazing tournament and every team played well but in the end true skill prevailed

USA! USA! USA!

i do think it's great that we can take the whole thing w/out winning once, just like every war we've lost after 1945

Inaccuracy just might be on purpose ;)

fwiw there are round robin tournaments in america like the college baseball world series, tho theyre more common in high school sports

really great trolling from dunphy right here