America almost beat Italy and would have- if the second goal was not offsides.

When I added my comments at this site I gave my honest opinions, these could of course, easily be wrong. I never said, or even implied, that I didn’t want to see the US succeed as a footballing nation. Please don’t suggest that I have racist, anti-American motives just because my opinions may differ from your own. I thought Americans upheld freedom of speech as a core value?

Come 2022, where do I honestly think your program will be? I really don’t know. But good luck with it anyway.

you are right when saying that people likes to see the US looses in the world’s most favourite sport, football. So it is fun to see the US-team at world cups.

It’s not only a political thing, you know, the “last remaining world superpower”-stuff (with 30 % functionally illiterate). Furthermore, it is the idiocy that this sport is named “soccer” in the US and that the “real” football seems to be the game where nobody uses his foot to play.

See it as an opposition to US-sports where players need the shape of a fridge, to be successful, while in Football the most genious players are even under average in heigth, like Maradona.

It is pro art, contra business.

So, the opposition against the present US-team is value-driven in a good way. The US should learn from that opposition.

bossimo, you have all my sympathy. If only more people would think like you, the US would play a better and more respected role in the world of football. Take the sport out of the hands of marketing strategists of sportswear-industries and give it to the real fans. Don’t try to sell t-shirts first and hope to create a good national team and league, make it the other way round: create players, that will buy t-shirts.

just joking. Yes, England is the true World Cup Winner 1966 and should have won much often since then!

Germany won the World Cup 1974 against Netherlands in a shameful way, Holzenbein made the worst diving in World Cup history.

I am sorry, that England can’t play with his world class strikers Rooney and Owen at the present World Cup, only with their shadows after this serious injuries. I feel somewhat betrayed that I can’t see the true England.

The present German team is a dream. But I can’t believe it and I am prepared to a once-in-a-lifetime-experience. So, England, let us share our sorrows when Germany looses against Argentine hehe

You guys keep getting it all wrong about US Soccer fans expectations for the US team at the world cup. I guess it’s not surprising since none of you are here.

No one would suggest for a minute that Americans are immune from being suckered by hype, but it’s only the non Soccer fans here that had their expectations set by Nike commercials. Fans here don’t think we’re going to be a soccer power overnight. We know that (like Mexico) we’re a second-ten team.

But we also know that conditions are vastly different then they were when our current team was in it’s formative years. With improvements in coaching from youth to the pros and the best of world football on TV every day, the US can only improve. People say our best athletes need to be lured to football, but talent is a non-issue. There are millions upon millions of youth players in the US today and we’ll have no trouble finding the talent in the years to come.

Will we win the world cup in 2010? Of course not, a return to the quarterfinals would be pnenomenal. But come 2022, where do you honestly think our program will be? Not where you hope it will be guys — we all know it would just kill you to see the big bad US take on a world power role in your sport — but where do you think we’ll actually be?

You’re kidding yourself if you think we’ll still be languishing in the second ten. But hey, whatever makes you happy, right?

Your right, that 5:1 against Germany was great. You’ve got to enjoy winning the odd battle along the way, even if you can’t win the war (metaphorically speaking of course!).

Cheers!

you didn’t won – it was a gift from the russian referee

“since then we have had 40 years of disappointment”

but that 5:1 against Germany in Munich was great! so?

And don’t forget: each and every year England wins the contest for the best football-song, that’s a good thing.

Hope to see you in the final and see if we can correct Munich… cheers

dietmar,
my name was chosen exactly for that purpose: to give low-brainers the chance to make a reply to me, even if they have no arguments . It always works.