USA v Czech Republic Today

Man, the US lost 3-0 ..
Can’t wait to see the game..
Looked pretty good on yahoo’s live portal..

too busy at work…

at WORK??

There is a lot of bad news from this game.

First Taylor should’ve been on this team we got close to nothing from mcbride/wolff/johnson and what we did get was all from johnson. Second PM had no business starting, “hot hand” convey was brutally outclassed.

Bruce “the genius” Arena is about to learn something about sports in America. When you make moves and win your a genius. When you make changes/moves and you get hammered 3-0 your the opposite of a genius which is what the papers will be saying tomorrow morning.

Posted from  United States

Caudia Ryna sucks…. what kind of Midfielder is he..? What kind of Captain is he? We played better as a team when he was hurt… Start SUBing BRUCE!!!!

Posted from  United States

Are the changes that need to be made that obvious to everyone else?

Obviously Taylor not being on the team can’t be fixed.

however, moving DMB back to his normal side and trying dempsy is a logical change. Getting mcbride out if he can’t run is a simple change. PM should watch the entire match from the side. I think leaving TT off the team is the big mistake though I realized he struggled a few games but other then that he’s played well for the past few years. When your down 2-0 at half and your bench options to help score are wolff/ching/johnson your in trouble.

Posted from  United States

haha u see motherfuckers, you all are nothing in world soccer, czech republic didnt have to play a great game to beat USA’s ass, haha, u know what, just come back home, cuz italy is gonna score 6 on ya’ll

Posted from  United States

UGUCHI MYAHOLE wasted my TIVO space… where’s my delete button

Posted from  United States

“just come back home?” Where’s home Luis Mexico? boardercrosser

Posted from  United States

Time to rebuild from this whole nightmare.

Drop the dead weight and boring approach to soccer.

List of things to bulldoze:

1.Players have tuned out Arena, and his boring approach and conservative tactics have been exposed.

2.Drop the old timers or coach’s favorites: Reyna, Keller, McBride, Wolf, O’brien.

3.Drop the littly ploy to not pick or play Mexican-American or Latin-American players. Clearly the US has more talent than what is showed rhat are currently playing soccer in leagues all over the US.

Posted from  United States

Luis,

You are just pissed that US is a much better team in Mexico, and much more experienced in the world than Mexico is.

That is why we kick Mexico’s ass 90% of the time we play them.
Also, we made the quarter final in the last world cup. USA has more players in Europe than Mexico does. IF Mexico was not in a group with Iran and Angola and not against the best ranked team in the world next to Brazil, I would see how much they would know about the world of soccer.

Posted from  United States

This team is ranked 5th in the world.. sorry was.. ..Pathetic!

Posted from  United States

Looks like they got demoted back to the special olympics level. Nice.

Posted from  United States

some notes:

1- a laughable effort, nearly all around. a disgrace.
2- it wont be worse against italy, at least after they score they sit back.
3-pope and mastroeni do not have the speed or reflexes to play at this level.
4-arena made some very poor choices. the worst being to demand lewis play an attacking role and push convey into the middle. if you are going to demand that role from lewis than, yes, bring convey off the pitch, get beasley to his good side and give dempsey a go who will at least earn some free kicks for you.
5-secondly, you do not take out the only guy who can cross the ball from the right flank in the second half who has experience playing in the bundesliga. you take out the slow guy from Real Salt Lake who couldnt man mark on the first goal.
6-the only bright spot in the game was beasley’s manner of tracking back. very professional, very well done. but cannot play on the right.
7-the loss of Gibbs was more serious than people anticipated.
8-donovan needs to demand the ball, he just come and get it loke rocisky.
9-people who call for Taylor Twellman are morons.
10-people who demand that reyna and mcBride and keller to be dropped are equally moronic.
11-this loss must be credited to Arena, who needs to come back with a win vs. Italy plain and simple.

Posted from  United States

I like how a lot of American soccer fans talk about how they root for Mexico because they’re our neighbors and our brothers and sisters. I’ve always wondered if there are Mexicans who root for America to win. Of course I know the answer. They want us to lose so they can laugh at us. Luis is typical of such sentiment. Have fun today but Mexico will become a pinata against Portugal.

Good luck on your next cut-out day from school to protest or just smoke weed.

Posted from  United States

Mr. George Washington Carver,

People like you make me ashamed of being an American. Learn to hold your nose around Louis types and keep your ridiculously short-sighted mouth shut.

J.

Posted from  United States

I agree, a comment made in very poor taste.

Let’s keep it simple and soccer related: Mexico, I root for you because I want to see our Concacaf brethren do well.

BUT, you have hosted the World Cup twice and still have never made it to the quarterfinals. Until you do, shut up.

Posted from  Dominican Republic

George Washington Carver is the type of American who makes me ashamed to be one.

Learn to hold your nose and shut your mouth.

Posted from  United States

The problem with American soccer are idiots like George Washington Carver and mika.

They try to mask insecurities by blaming everything on Mexico, Mexican fans and or anybody else, fill in the blank.

There are 300 million people in this great nation but somehow the best eleven can’t get on the field together because of grudges and politics.

Posted from  United States

Here is what needs to happen:

1) Johnson starts.

2) Find someone to replace Pope, please. Maybe a three person backline?

3) Move Beasley back to his preferred side.

Here is an ideal formation, based on today:

McBride (He did not get service and cannot be blamed) and Johnson up top

Beasley on the left, Donovan as attacking mid, and Dempsey on the right

Reyna and O’brien as holding midfielders

Lewis, Gooch, and Cherundolo as the backline.

However, we should NOT overreact to this match. The Czech’s did place THIRD at the Euro 2004 and are one of the most talented squads in the world.

In all honesty, they did not totally demolish us, but did have a fanastic conversion rate which was the product of some great team play.

That being said, no formation can make up for the uninspired play of the US team. We got down a goal and gave us: resilience is CRUCIAL at the highest level. We were beat to most loose balls, our tackles were late, and we dove way too much.

Its been said that coaches have a short shelf life because the same tricks don’t work twice…maybe Bruce isn’t able to light a spark under player’s asses like he used to?

I also think he has been too loyal to certain players (Ahem, Eddie Pope, ahem)

Posted from  Dominican Republic

Also, let’s be realistic about 2002.

The first game against Portugal we barely won 3-2 and 2 of those goals were flukes (O’Briens was from a mistake and Donovan’s was really an own goal). The second game we scored against the run of play. The third game we were demolished.

Our end record was 2-1-2.

Think about it: is 2-1-2 a good reason to get so hyped up?

Posted from  Dominican Republic

Also, we need to play REALY FRIENDLIES against top flight teams. No more Norway and Venezuela B/C teams.

In the run up to 2002, we lost our warm up games but played against the upper echelon of the world’s footballing talent.

Bruce’s scheduling was TERRIBLE: we played one real game and that was with our MLS reserves.

The fact of the matter is: if we want to be a good team, the Gold Cup and Concacaf will not suffice. We need to try to play in teh Copa America and to organize friendlies against better competition.

Just look at Argentina: they played against Croatia and England, losing both games, but learned and had a great opening game against the Ivory Coast.

Also, it would help if Donovan would go to Europe. I’m glad he’s had fun prancin around LA and winning the MLS cup, but come on. His fiancee’s acting career is a LAUGHING STOCK.

Posted from  Dominican Republic

We need a post about how bad Dave O’Brien is. That made a painful experience much more painful.

Talk about negative - I think he was trying to be a buzzkill. Worse, it was like he took every possible bad fact (or even opinion) and was determined to share it with the ordinary Americans tuning in for the first time.

Bench O’Brien in the booth.

Posted from  United States

Mexico HAS made the quarterfinals.

Posted from  United States

oh my god this is stupid both US and Mexico are teams that dont cut at this level, but…. Mexico plays with the heart or Balls if you prefer US was out classed today. No Heart or Balls for that matter

USA Mens Soccer is a joke!

Posted from  United States

I use Footballonsat for streaming matches,and you can find satellite details of the channels there

Posted from  Denmark