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great angle. keeper's fault, but still a good looking shot

cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah, he held it up nice but the keeper should have stopped it

dan m, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 00:32 (thirteen years ago) link

gbx does the online stream have commentary? I don't mind watching en espanol but HD on the ol' monitor would be nice.

dan m, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link

yup

cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link

bradley is a boss tonight. altidore with a goal. who knew?

wabi sabi, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link

teenage bradley used to train with nowak, armas, kubik, and stoichkov when his dad was coach of the fire, so of course he's going to be a boss

dan m, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 01:44 (thirteen years ago) link

great save

dan m, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link

jugador mas valioso de state farm: jozy altidore

dan m, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link

timmy trending WORLDWIDE

carstens, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link

i don't understand why timmy chandler is not in the roster. robby rogers? are you kidding me...

wabi sabi, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 02:08 (thirteen years ago) link

SoccerInsider Steven Goff
Chandler? Bradley: "First real season playing at this level, it didn't make sense for him at this time, few minor injuries of late"

― harlan, Monday, May 23, 2011 3:56 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

travismclark Travis Clark
by SoccerInsider
“@dan_bu: Nürnberg want Chandler to take a break, because he wouldn´t have any vacation, if he plays the Gold Cup.”

― harlan, Monday, May 23, 2011 3:57 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

mizzell, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link

what shit.

ream isn't intl caliber. bet you jermaine jones doesn't play w/us again. bocanegra's done @ this level.

fire bob? never thought i'd become one of those guys.

carstens, Sunday, 12 June 2011 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link

I agree Jones was shitty, not so sure about Ream tho. Boca should be a CB if anything and not out wide. Wondo's miss was sad but they shouldn't have been in that position against a team like Panama.

This team really needs a Holden.

dan m, Sunday, 12 June 2011 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link

Aston Villa won´t sign Michael Bradley permanently. McLeish cancelled the deal today, although clubs agreed on terms before, acc. to "Bild".

mizzell, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 00:28 (thirteen years ago) link

aw fuck AV

still think he could be a good prem midfielder, and imagine what a midfield of him, jones, and a back-in-form holden would be like for the usa

dan m, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link

hope he lands somewhere good, and would like to see the us play a 4-3-3 with that midfield and dempsey and donavan pushed up

mizzell, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link

whenever i see this thread title i think its about the ninja turtles

little dieter wants to FUCK (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 23 June 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link

excited for the final. i don't have any confidence in sasha starting vs mexico. if i were bradley, i would play a 4-6-0 with edu instead for the first 75 mins to combat giovanni & chicharito then pray dempsey could save us again. i've been impressed with bedoya so far, i wonder if he can play behind agudelo or dempsey?

Mantis Toboggan M.D. (wabi sabi), Thursday, 23 June 2011 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link

this is the most otm thing I've read since the final

http://aol.sportingnews.com/soccer/story/2011-07-01/firing-bradley-wouldnt-solve-us-soccers-real-problem

friendlies against Costa Rica and Belgium announced today btw

dan m, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 01:53 (thirteen years ago) link

Jozy to AZ Alkmaar huh, I always figured he wasn't ready for a club like Villareal.

dan m, Friday, 15 July 2011 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link

http://bestanimations.com/Holidays/Fireworks/Fireworks-01-june.gifoh shi i hadn't seen this. breaking news on ilx dan m!http://bestanimations.com/Holidays/Fireworks/Fireworks-01-june.gif

carstens, Thursday, 28 July 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link

feel like thread needs
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i5/herrlicher____alptraum/Natalie%20Dee/maracas.jpg

carstens, Thursday, 28 July 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link

"further announcement friday" could they have someone lined up already? seems unlikely

carstens, Thursday, 28 July 2011 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link

didn't see that coming

mizzell, Thursday, 28 July 2011 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link

Be nice if he came back to the Fire :D

keillor can folk anything. and he will, and has. (dan m), Thursday, 28 July 2011 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link

but yeah now is the time to speculate on who the replacement will be

Klinsmann is the easy pick of course

keillor can folk anything. and he will, and has. (dan m), Thursday, 28 July 2011 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link

only other name I see kicked around: Jason Kreis

lol comment on the Goff blog article about Bradley: "Fire whomever they hire!"

keillor can folk anything. and he will, and has. (dan m), Thursday, 28 July 2011 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link

ok just read Marcelo Lippi rumor think I'm gonna shoot myself

keillor can folk anything. and he will, and has. (dan m), Thursday, 28 July 2011 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link

Ives lists these dudes

Juergen Klinsmann
Guus Hiddink
Marcelo Lippi
Carlo Ancelotti
Rafa Benitez
Bruce Arena
Sigi Schmid
Jason Kreis
Claudio Reyna

keillor can folk anything. and he will, and has. (dan m), Thursday, 28 July 2011 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link

Juergen Klinsmann - seems like he'll get the job
Guus Hiddink - yeah right
Marcelo Lippi - dunno
Carlo Ancelotti - more often than i should admit i think back to an interview where he said he was learning english. he had this shy smile about it, made him a real person. i like him and wish him well, can't imagine he'd end up here.
Rafa Benitez - only for the dmac lols
Bruce Arena - fucking hate this guy
Sigi Schmid - sumo coach, says he hasn't been contacted
Jason Kreis - 2015? or now. good guy at some point for us imo
Claudio Reyna - just got started Teaching The Youth. stick w/that for a bit

carstens, Friday, 29 July 2011 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link

otm

keillor can folk anything. and he will, and has. (dan m), Friday, 29 July 2011 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link

starting the "Fire Klinsmann" bandwagon right now b/c it's inevitable -- who's with me?

keillor can folk anything. and he will, and has. (dan m), Friday, 29 July 2011 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link

What was his plan for getting 'the inner-city youths' into the game, again? I've forgotten.

boxall, Friday, 29 July 2011 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link

Hasn't he been an advisor to an MLS team?

publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Friday, 29 July 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link

yah TFC lolz

keillor can folk anything. and he will, and has. (dan m), Friday, 29 July 2011 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link

this is good news, no?

g++ (gbx), Friday, 29 July 2011 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link

i guess? not sure what his record as a coach of germany and bayern could really say about his potential with the us. but i hope they give him control and time to try his system, and i hope he's committed to the project.

mizzell, Friday, 29 July 2011 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link

Woah, well done you lot. Klinsmann gets the credit here for the renaissance of German football (not sure how accurate that is, but still) and it seems like he got across-the-board free rein for that project. If there's scope for something similar in the US, it could be spectacular.

Ismael Klata, Friday, 29 July 2011 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link

now there's only the small problem of quality players

mizzell, Friday, 29 July 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link

I'm just interested to see which high-potential young players he utilizes and in what formation. Dudes like Adu, Diskerud, Agudelo, Ream and Chandler. I hope to never see Bornstein or Kljestan again, doubt it'll actually happen.

keillor can folk anything. and he will, and has. (dan m), Friday, 29 July 2011 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link

One thing's for sure, if he doesn't get over the generational bump that currently exists we're gonna get fucked by Mexico for years to come.

keillor can folk anything. and he will, and has. (dan m), Friday, 29 July 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link

seems to me the problem w us youth soccer is as much a scouting ish as it is a talent problem. we're a huge country and I would wager that as many or more kids here grow up playing soccer as, say, in England (before anyone spits anything on any keyboards, recall that we have six times as many ppl...it's not outlandish to think that for every six English ten year olds playing there's one American).

the diff is that no one is paying close attention to young American players. moreover, they don't know how.

just occurred to me that the best/fastest way to pull up young players isn't by trying to pimp the MLS or promise riches in Europe---it's university involvement. if the college game improves/gets a rep as an incubator for talent (like every single other major sport except for baseball...which has a system remarkably like European systems), then maybe we'll see some changes.

it actually makes sense, economically---soccer teams are cheaper to train and equip than football teams, and good uni scouting has to be cheaper than trying to create from scratch a youth system like you'd find at a major euro club. those things didn't happen over night.

g++ (gbx), Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link

isn't there an age problem w/ that tho?

iatee, Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link

yah i'm not sure how the college system can accomodate the sort of exceptional players you are hoping for

even jozy altidore, who was a promising but hardly prodigious sort, left for villareal at about 19

MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:32 (thirteen years ago) link

no different from the age problem in, like, bball or hockey or w/e

competition for ~scholarships~ (that is, a college education) is what drives a lot of youth development. most kids know that they'll never be pros, but they could get into a school they might not otherwise be able to afford.

g++ (gbx), Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link

aren't there already college soccer scholarships?

iatee, Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:36 (thirteen years ago) link

not sure college soccer makes enough money for athletic departments to justify a ton of scouting

mookieproof, Saturday, 30 July 2011 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link


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