[familyop]

Remember: don’t do anything. Just be a good little fan slave, and watch TV.

Chinese Man Dies From Sleep Deprivation After Staying Up Late to Watch the World Cup
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3169086/posts

[Political Junkie Too]

For most of the game, the U.S. was seemingly incapable of stringing together more than three passes at a time.

As a regular attendee of the San Jose Earthquakes (Go Wondo!), I have repeatedly made the same observation game after game, season after season, about the Quakes.

The problem, to me, is that the players - at least on the Earthquakes - didn't want to be the one who took the shot and missed. Therefore, nobody takes the shot; all they do is try to pass the ball to someone else to take the shot.

Ultimate what happens is that the ball is intercepted and nobody ever takes a shot.

It's very frustrating to watch the pattern repeat and repeat. If the team gets a reputation of being afraid to take the shots, then the other team can craft a defense that doesn't have to worry about defending the goal. They just have to block the midfield and wait for the Americans to pass and pass and pass...

-PJ

[familyop]

[super7man]

It is SO SAFE to take a negative position.
In sports: “They are lousy and can not win.”
At work: “Oh, that won’t work.”
In the car: “We’ll never make it in time.”

If you are right, you say “I told you so.”
If your wrong you say, “Oh, I was wrong. Isn’t that great?”

Playing it safe is for losers. Maybe, like what the US team is doing. ;o)

[SamAdams76]

This is great. Yet another soccer thread in which I can profess my ignorance and indifference to the game. I can also rant on about how dull the sport is, how nobody ever seems to score, and when they do, they prance about the field and act like 14-year-old girls at a 1965 Beatles concert. I can talk about the endless soccer practices I used to tote my kids around to when they were younger, and how nobody kept score and everybody got a trophy and went out for ice cream after the "game."

But I'll be nice and won't mention anything about that. Soccer is a great game - for those who like that sort of thing.

[Nifster]

Like we didn’t already know this....hardly news worthy

[DaxtonBrown]

At least it was a high scoring game with lots of excitement. And some ouchies.

[Cyman]

I really don’t begrudge soccer fans their due but how can you love a sport that has it’s length of contest controlled secretly by one man?

[sunrise_sunset]

Soccer is as big as baseball in the under 18 crowd.