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McBride Retires

July 27th, 2006 | By: Daryl | 9 Comments »

Brian McBride has retired from international football. You can hear audio of his announcement by clicking here.

For the record, 34 year old McBride finishes as the USA’s second highest goalscorer (just behind Eric Wynalda) with 30 goals in 95 games. Not too shabby. He’s been the first choice forward for what seems like forever, and coupled with Reyna’s retirement and Bruce Arena being let go, this is definitely the end of an era.

The big question is, who’s next? If you had to pick a (hopefully two man) forward line for the next US game, who would it be?

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By Cajun Nick | July 27th, 2006 at 11:56 pm

I can’t think of a single USMNT player that I’d rather have as a teammate.

The guy had talent, yes; but, it was his unbelievable workrate, commitment, and determination, and gutsiness (is that a word?) that really earns my respect.

Oh, plus, I don’t think that even the Hulk could knock him out of a match.

Great luck to him at Fulham.

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By Jonathan | July 28th, 2006 at 7:25 am

Johnson and Dempsey

By Cajun Nick | July 28th, 2006 at 2:05 pm

I still like Brian Ching better than Johnson; so, I’d make it Ching and Dempsey.

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By Kelly | July 28th, 2006 at 7:48 pm

Cajun Nick - As far as the word “gutsiness” goes, I had a computer science professor in college who had a pet peeve about taking a noun making it an adjective and then turning it back into a noun again. His example was function -> functional -> functionality. I guess guts -> gutsy -> gutsiness is kinda the same. But he was a computer science professor not an english professor so why should I care what he thought?!?!?!

Whatever you end up calling it, McBride had it (and still does).

Anyways, sorry to digress… how about Ching and Twellman?

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By Cajun Nick | July 28th, 2006 at 8:55 pm

Kelly,

I’m pretty good at “inventing” words, due to a limited vocabulary. My attitude is, hey, if people understand me, then everything’s cool. (Besides, language is not static; it’s constantly evolving.)

Twellman is good; but Razov’s looking pretty good lately, too.

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By AJM | July 30th, 2006 at 3:52 am

Good luck, Brian, all the best to you.

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By dietmar | July 30th, 2006 at 11:45 pm

i had a chance to see him play in columbus, and he really is a classy player! everything that he brought to US soccer is to be underscored. truly, one of the US’best players ever. they will miss that kind of sportsmanship.
it’s gonna take a while before one can say that there is a player that has learned to fill that position. here’s a thought though, how about the beasly brothers? might be a dynamic that could actually produce a scoring barrage…just a thought!

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By Alessandro | July 31st, 2006 at 3:02 pm

I heard McBride loves to take elbows up the ass…

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By cody | August 11th, 2006 at 3:18 pm

I think mcbride is great player, he and many before him have paved a uncharted path to American soccer. We are still in search for our style and rythme, but as a 26 year old soccer junky that understands the game not as a sport but as a passion, I belive that USA Soccer is about to hit the scecn. I remeber spending hours upon hours in my backyard deveoping my touch and relationship with the ball. I just didn’t have the coachs to guide me. But now I see coachs that understand the game not just from tv or a book, but have played it from an early age, and have put there heart into something that is not understood in this country. The more I watch USA soccer and the more I see the city leages, and the more I see the kids trying to make the more I see a better team.

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