Comments on: HOLY CRAP WE ADVANCED

By: soccer goals

soccer goals — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:21:36 +0000

What a miraculous result and finale.

By: Sol

Sol — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:30:41 +0000

@Morpheus

I wasn’t talking about the first goal, I was talking about the second, the one by “DE Rossi”. LOL, I know it’s confusing those names but I thought I was reasonably accurate to avoid confusion in my post.

Holland once had twins in their line-up, now THAT’s confusing, not to mention they were identical twins. Till today I still wonder if they ever sneakily switched shirts or something. Allthough they did have their own destinct style of playing so it probably would have showed. But who knows, maybe they were fooling us all those years from the beginning, lol.

Frank de Boer and Ronald de Boer

By: Dustin

Dustin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:08:57 +0000

I wish Laurie was my mom, prostitutes..the cause of and solution to, all lifes problems.

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:22:52 +0000

You’re right Marlon…I could have been a little less sarcastic. Let’s pretend I said what you said instead or ranting. Thanks.

By: Marlon

Marlon — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:19:24 +0000

The last time Freddy Adu started for the USMNT he scored a goal. Not a lot of other members of the squad can say that.

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:09:02 +0000

We could just send Mastroeni over to sneak into the hotel wearing a ski mask and slide-tackle them into submission. It wouldn’t be any more awkward than what he’s done on the field lately.

@Morpheus–I must be missing something…you saw Adu on the field?!? I had no idea. Well if that’s true and you can confirm that he’s failed before, especially at the “senior level,” we should probably just forget about using him ever again. Especially considering his age and lack of potential. I see your point: if a player’s not starting professionally by age 20 there’s likely no hope…might as well chop off his feet. We gave him until he was 18 in MLS. 93 appearances in 3+ years…what a joke. And now almost 2 years later he can’t even start in Europe!?!

Unacceptable.

Really? We have so many other players worth giving up on and you pick Adu?

By: Peter B

Peter B — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:07:48 +0000

@Laurie – I was thinking more like setting the hotel fire alarm off every 30 minutes. Sending prostitutes may already be part of their training regiment.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:50:10 +0000

Can somebody please send prostitutes and tabloid reporters to the Spanish hotel tonight? Please?

By: DAinLA

DAinLA — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:24:35 +0000

It is absurd to believe one year isn’t enough time to replace a coach. The examples of this are too numerous to list. You could replace a coach two months out and do fine.

By: morpheus

morpheus — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:24:31 +0000

@Brooks ~ 1 year is not enough time for a new coach to come in and develop his players for a World Cup and perform. If we switch out coaches now we won’t be acomplishing anything. I do think that USSF needs to be looking at other options to take BB’s place, but unless it is one of the greatest coaches in the world then a change shouldn’t be made.

@GS ~ I agree that young players should be playing, but I have seen enough of Adu failing at the senior level to not want him in my USMNT lineup. He couldn’t even make it onto the field in the MLS why should he be on the national team.

@Sol ~ Rossi’s first goal against the US was an amazing goal and not keeper would have saved it. With that said if Rossi shoots that ball 10 times he might make it once. Yes, Rossi is good, but that shot was amazing and not even the best players in the world could make that shot consistantly.

Personally, I think the US has improved the talent in the player pool a lot in the last 20 years. I think th US is headed in the right direction when it comes to developing younger players. And if you want my honest opinion of what is holding the US back in becoming a real contender outside of pool play in the World Cup… it is SUNIL GULATI. He is the reason that some of the top international coaches won’t come to the US. He puts restrictions on any manager, ask Arena, about what players he can select for a game. Arena once said that Sunil told him that half of his 18 man roster must include MLS players. This is the kind of things that hurt the US’s development more than help it.