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Post by The Real Doyle on Jun 16, 2010 9:35:42 GMT -5
I agree with Sully that we will win it this year.........or something like that cause America curb stomps people. In fact, your lucky world cause if we gave two sh-ts about soccer we would be the best and dominate every sport EVER! So consider it a favor from the nice guys over in the U S of f-ing A that we don't take it serious......more like just a hobby.
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Post by The River Assassin on Jun 16, 2010 13:24:15 GMT -5
If America's best athletes were playing soccer it wouldn't even be a contest. I guess we have to let the world win at something.
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Post by Kickball Kevin on Jun 16, 2010 13:44:25 GMT -5
Thing is, we tend to win/stay competitive in matches because we are so athletic. Our recent success can be more attributed to becoming more of a soccer nation. We are actually producing soccer players of a high quality. You are seeing kids be encouraged to play soccer by their parents, whereas this wasn't the case 20 years ago. Kids who played soccer their entire lives and love the game are now becoming parents and encouraging their kids to play the sport. Unfortunately it won't be an overnight process. In order for us to become a true soccer power, it will take time. I think we are at the beginning of that. We can compete with any team in the world, as shown last summer when we ended the number 1 team in the world's 38 game unbeaten streak en route to our first ever appearance in a final at a major FIFA tournament. There will be setbacks, but what we are seeing is a shift from how soccer was in the country. It does nothing but help our standing as the greatest athletic country in the world.
GO USA
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Post by sully on Jun 16, 2010 14:27:48 GMT -5
"Our recent success..."
Success is winning in my book. How do you measure success?
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Post by Kickball Kevin on Jun 16, 2010 14:32:53 GMT -5
And winning is what we have been doing, against teams we normally had no business being on the field with.
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Post by duckbutter on Jun 16, 2010 14:33:15 GMT -5
Success in my book means that you lived long enough to get away from your mother before she hit you in the head with a hammer, and raised a pig on the breastmilk.
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Post by The Real Doyle on Jun 16, 2010 15:01:37 GMT -5
And winning is what we have been doing, against teams we normally had no business being on the field with. I'm no soccer fan but I will have to agree that we've been pretty impressive the past couple years. |
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Post by Kickball Kevin on Jun 16, 2010 15:07:46 GMT -5
Are we at the same level of Brazil, Spain, Holland? No. But we are closing the gap.
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Post by sully on Jun 16, 2010 15:22:11 GMT -5
Spain sucks. They got beat by the Swiss today.
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Post by Kickball Kevin on Jun 16, 2010 16:00:23 GMT -5
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while.
But to take nothing away from the Swiss, they are great defensive team.
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Post by fischer on Jun 17, 2010 14:53:37 GMT -5
I love it when Sully goes all stubbs on us and acts like he knows what he's talking about but really has no clue. I think he does it on purpose, what do y'all think?
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Post by Kickball Kevin on Jun 17, 2010 14:56:06 GMT -5
Sully is the Stubbs of soccer
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Post by Ticket Mouse on Jun 17, 2010 15:23:26 GMT -5
Spain sucks. They got beat by the Swiss today. Which is surprising because the Swiss have holes in their defense. |
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Post by P. Marf on Jun 17, 2010 15:27:46 GMT -5
Rim shot.
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Post by sully on Jun 18, 2010 9:37:10 GMT -5
Oh lord.
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