Saturday News Nuggets: Americans in Europe edition

Nice job by Holden in the last minute. If he wasn’t a Houston player, I’d consider adopting him.

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Is it promising that Sochaux wants to sell Davies to Lyon or PSG or another big team? I think so.

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I was at the Haiti v USA game. Terrible game. Yes, it was the C team, but anytime Brian Ching comes on as a supposed savior I almost puke. 2 to 2 is unacceptable. The only player who had a clue who started was Holden. He obviously needs to shoot more…not only b.c he might score, but he seems to be accurate and there could be rebounds…

Awesome fight in the first or second row…a few rows up from where I was sitting. I was the drunk gringo…Si SE PUEDE!!!

The 2nd goal by the Haitians was a little lucky but was a goal in the all universe league. Unbelievable strike. I was standing and claping at that.

It was a triple header. The Revs played KC then USA v Haiti then Honduras v Grenada. Neadless to say today, after angling for budlights and anything else I could get my hands yesterday, I am taking it easy.

Hopefully Brooks is right and they, Benfica, will know Adu is there…lol I wouldn’t mind seeing Adu get loaned out to Greece with Altidore (not gonna happen) but I think that would be a good mix.

GLTTMNT

@UB: I don’t think we could even call that starting line-up the C team. There are probably 4 players at each position that is better than nearly every player that started last night. In essence the team on the field last night could be considered the F team.

I DVR’d the game and when I started it and saw the starting line-up I just hit fast forward and only watched the goals and the last 14 minutes when there were actual soccer players on the field. There was no point in watching the whole game. Luis Robles was solely responsible for both goals and looked like an absolute fool doing it. Holden is the only reason we tied as he played that ball to Arnaud perfectly and the long range shot was as perfect of a strike as you can have. I understand the game didn’t matter and Bob likes to get players caps and yadda yadda yadda but half of the team starting last night should have never been called up in the first place…there is no reason they should be playing in a USMNT kit.

There are many reasons why the US can’t get a strong following for soccer and last night was an example of one of them…nobody, not even faithful soccer fans, would want to watch a game with those types of players on the field.

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Heaps was garbage. So was Robles. And Hati really liked getting taken off in a stretcher.

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every time holden got the ball, i felt like we were going to have a great possession but then he would make a great pass to someone else and that guy would usually mess it up. holden looked brilliant yesterday through and through.

robles, although i know it’s his first game and he’s nervous, did TERRIBLE. like worse than the usual nervous-debut-terrible. and he seemed to love shouting at the defenders as if they were supposed to know that he would completely bungle the cross/coming out and leave the goal wide open.

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@SP: you’re right on with the Robles comment. I couldn’t decide if he was just nervous or if he’s really just that bad. Perkins looked like a world class keeper against Honduras compared to Robles against Haiti. That is going to be one of those experiences that either cripples a player or makes him a ton better…we’ll see what happens with Luis.

Gooch to Milan anyone.

I mean no nugget? Or maybe huge nugget.

Yeah, huge nugget, but that was kind of old news. I did hear that he passed his medical and he’ll join the team when they come to America, though.

yum, nuggets

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no comments on eddie johnson? isn’t that his first goal for fulham ever? why is this not big news?

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EJ is making a comeback. Poor Man’s Torres.

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