“While your at it, make your English teacher proud and fix up your grammar.”

While you’rE at it. You almost had it!

anyways, there’s no doubt that the USMNT has come along way since the 90’s, when alexi lasis was your best player (LOL).

But US still has a long way to go, especially in the world cup. out of the last 4 world cups, you guys managed to get to the round of 16 twice, and once as a THIRD PLACE team (1994).

Posted from  United States

The house in The Shining is actually in Estes Park,CO. I’m kind of sure it’s the Stanley Hotel!

But yes, thanks Cat for giving a link to a site so we might be able to watch the game! GO USA!

The German side was the better team. But they missed too many goal opportunities and got punished by Abby Wambach. But that’s the game.
The European Champion dominated the game, especially at the beginning against the very fit looking US National team. Germany’s wing players put a lot of pressure on the US Defence. Coach Silvia Neid‘s team had a lot of goal opportunities but didn’t finish accurate enough. The crowd (28.367 – sold out) saw a good first half by the German side in the Augsburger Impuls Arena.

But Abby Wambach scored out of nowhere the 0:1 lead for the girls from the USA. Germans goalie Nadine Angerer didn’t look too good. After the goal, Germany kept attacking. But the American side adapted to the German game. They even had a chance in the 76. Minute by Wambach. But she got pushed from behind, but the referee from Hungary didn’t call a penalty. The European Champion lost their strength and the US side finished confident.
It was a good game with a lot of speed. The German crowd was very happy about the performance of both teams.

Posted from  Australia

I was so sad I did not get to see this game. I was looking for a stream and could not find one . I follow all those people too! But thanks for the recap. Well I posted some pics over at ontd_football. (thanks for the shout out on the other your previous post!)

and thanks sabastian for your recap. It’s good to hear it was a fast paced entertaining match.

Posted from  United States

Yeah, despite the US midfield having issues getting the ball forward – which may have more to do with lack of organization over a tight German defense – I’d say the two teams were pretty evenly matched. Too bad it was such a pain in the ass to watch!

Tobin Heath was ill with flu-like symptoms. Otherwise she would have started.

Posted from  United States

Grown Ass Man scored a couple of goals in a reserve match for Fulham. Is it time he gets another look? I’m not seeing FrankenCooper, and I’m not sure if we’ve ever seen an Altidore/GAM pairing.

Good Luck against Italy. The winner will play against Switzerland/Germany.

FIFA U-17 WC Nigeria 2009 Sweet Sixteen Bracket
http://malawi.worldcupblog.org/team-news/fifa-u-17-wc-nigeria-2009-sweet-sixteen-bracket.html

sorry to be nitpicky, but charlie renken (pictured above) isnt in the u17 squad.

Posted from  Poland

SP you are 100% correct, but the picture loader was down and there were no other good photo candidates in the archive.

Posted from  United States

Marlon, etc. — Why did coach Cabrera replace his captain? Is Perry injured, or did he really underperform vs Spain as alleged by the ESPN reporter?

Posted from  United States

Uploader now fixed, so I changed the picture.

Well…Wilmer will be raked over the coals without doubt following his team’s inability to close out when they seemed to be the better team in ball possession and movement. However, the opposition Azzuri were the team that finished out the US chances once again. Jack McInerney will be regarded as having “disappointed”, but how can you apply that tag, when so much was placed on the shoulders of just one young forward to provide the USA’ offense? No, the biggest disappointment will be considered the coaching decisions prior to the tournament.

Posted from  United States

Wow, that guy sure knows how to address fans. “Hey fans, we want you to support us, and we expect you to continue to do so, but sit on it. (insert birdie here)”

BTW, any news as to how Davies is doing?

Posted from  United States

First off- When I say “football” I do not mean soccer, I am referencing American style football. US soccer in comparison to European standards is flawed or is it still not well developed, yet? Soccer in the US is just not embraced enough as it should be, thus far. As it may sound repetitive to many people, this countries main sport is, and will always be, American Football. Kids here don’t grow up playing soccer, unlike the rest of the world. NEWS FLASH—–Europe, South America, and basically every other continent outside of North America, well…..their main sport is soccer!!! The MLS is not as experienced as other countries in soccer because it has not been around as long. We are still, in a way, the new kids on the block in soccer. Saying that US soccer is terrible compared to European soccer is kind of like saying the European Football League is terrible compared to the NFL. NEWS FLASH——The European Football League has not been around very long compared to the NFL. Likewise, the MLS has not been around very long compared to European leagues. Not to shy from the truth, US soccer is getting better; however, you can’t expect it to be better than European soccer or any other countries soccer because we are still a young to the sport. There will be a day, when the US can be competitive enough to hang with European soccer, but it will take time. Fernando, cheer for your team or get the hell out of the stadium.

Posted from  United States

Pretty sweet spam on this page! Go USMNT!

Posted from  United States

Why should he consider the concerns of unqualified fans who make knee-jerk reactions and spend no time with the team? We should be grateful he has better sense than that.

Posted from  United States

So this ended up a major victory to Denmark 3-1 \o/

The US team had some nice play in the first half, but you lost it all again in the first 10 minutes of the second half. Ideally we will meet again in the World Cup tournament in either the group play or later on.

It was a pretty depressing game, I could hardly bother to watch the whole thing. Any high school team can at least mark people in the Box.

Posted from  United States

I saw the game live here in Århus. I wouldn’t feel too bad. We’ve got something really special going right now with the Danish national team and we’ve been getting good at exploiting key breaks and relentless shifting pressure in the midfield.

It’s just bad luck that this translated in this game into 3 goals in 10 minutes. Well, for you, for me, it was rather exciting, but I’m biased Good luck in South Africa.

Posted from  Denmark

hopefully our poor showing was due to some of the main guys not being there. also seems were chock full of injuries at the moment

Posted from  United States

Well, at least when we flame out of South Africa next summer we can finally fire Bob Bradley.

Posted from  United States

Uncle Sam, huh? More like Uncle Shi*!

alliteration-based wordplay insults FTW!!

Posted from  Poland