6.12.2006

I will let Tilam do the major ranting

Wow. Ok, not sure where to start here...

We played like shit. Like a team of 4th graders. Any American soccer fan who is not totally ashamed and embarassed and mortified at the complete lack of skill and desire displayed by the Americans should be deported to Siberia...and you know that Siberia won't want 'em.

To say it was ugly is rounding UP.
We can't trap.
We can't pass.
When we CAN pass, we can't pass to a blue shirt, we give it to the white shirts.
The Czech's won 95% of all 50/50 balls, and 90% of all other loose balls.
They ran, we jogged.
They had purpose and organization, we looked, in the most eloquent words of Randy Quaid in Days of Thunder - 'like a bunch of monkeys f**kin a football!'.
We are standing and watching on offense; worse yet, we are standing and watching on defense too.
Someone needs to tell the US that "showing up" isn't good enough. "Well, we tried hard" isn't going to cut the mustard. PLAY LIKE WORLD CUP SOCCER PLAYERS, not like out mother of mercy 4th grade catholic girls!
What the HELL is up with short corners? You hit it 10 feet to another guy and expect that guy to cross it into the box under Czech pressure? Drop it into the middle of the box right off the bat!

This game showed CONTENDERS v PRETENDERS. This US team will NOT beat the Czech's (of course), we will NOT beat the Italians, we'll be lucky to draw against Ghana. Unless there are wholesale changes in effort, philosophy, and we grow some balls and actually play SOCCER, I expect 3 and out - the only pressing question at this point is if we'll finish in DEAD LAST again. Despicable...

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