Tsaedje posted:

vyelkin posted:

yeah really if you think about it we'd do much better if all our players were poo poo and played in a poo poo league.

chuggo is BACK posted:

Apart from very carefully

Ewar Woowar posted:

See, I see it the other way... the same was Donovan did.

He said MLS is harder for that very reason, there's far more hustle and physical play...

It's chaos and confusion at time. To me that pace and erratic style causes confusion in defenses. We are comfortable playing that way. But, the other nations around the world aren't ready to play against that type of game. German teams especially fold when the play breaks down and isn't going according to script.

If you can take out best skill players, and have them use that style of game, EJ, Dempsey, Donovan, Bradley, etc. we could catch the world off guard not ready for it. They would try to sit back in a posession style game, and we'd beat them to most 50/50 balls, and create chances out of nothing, and tire them down throughout the 90 to where goals late in games became a regularity. Because we could swap in next guy off the bench with regularity and rotate the line-ups, it would keep our players fresher over the coarse of a tournament, that when other players competing against them after a lengthy European season where they're used to cooler temperatures, suddenly have to stay with our fresher players who are used to playing in the heat, and had been rested over the winter, we could have a MAJOR advantage.

Fag Boy Jim posted:

let's just go back to the NASL days and have the national team play as a lovely-rear end team in lovely-rear end MLS.

Byolante posted:

Also bring back the NASL penalty style.

Byolante posted:

Also bring back the NASL penalty style.

Ewar Woowar posted:

What the gently caress were they thinking.

oliwan posted:

I unironically think shootouts are better than penalties.

vaginal culture posted:

Same

Tsaedje posted:

Chris de Sperg posted:

In some strange alternate universe (in the mind of an NFL.com editor), the NFL has a World Cup team. What you will see below is a starting 11 of the game's greatest players placed in soccer positions where they could conceivably succeed. Just like with the U.S. Men's National Team and its surprising cut of Landon Donovan, there were some difficult decisions to make with this team, too.

trem_two posted:

Jesus I can't decide what is worse, the article itself or the photos.

oliwan posted:

I unironically think shootouts are better than penalties.

franks posted:

Gotta be the article because the photos are loving hilarious

Chris de Sperg posted:

In some strange alternate universe (in the mind of an NFL.com editor), the NFL has a World Cup team. What you will see below is a starting 11 of the game's greatest players placed in soccer positions where they could conceivably succeed. Just like with the U.S. Men's National Team and its surprising cut of Landon Donovan, there were some difficult decisions to make with this team, too.

Hijo Del Helmsley posted:

As a Scottish man, I am 100% behind penalties, because nothing makes an English team bottle harder than penalties.

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Portugal is still favored against the US, don't get me wrong. But a huge part of that is Ronaldo. If Ronaldo was actually hurt and this wasn't media driven mountains from molehills the US would be favored.

Like my work is like 1/3 1st and 2nd generation Portugese-Americans, most with strong ties back home. Four years ago they were confident. Two years ago they felt pretty good about the Euros. They don't feel good now.

Dunban posted:

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Nana Kwaku Bonsam, a witch doctor whose name translates as "The Devil of Wednesday" and who plies his trade at the Kofioo Kofi shrine in Kumasi, claims he foresaw Ronaldo's injury back in February and that it is entirely his doing, according to The Guardian.

Cpt. Mahatma Gandhi posted:

ESPN truly is the world's leader in sports news

http://www.espnfc.com/story/1863620

The Definite Ranking Of The Best Bulges In This World Cup posted:

All bulges are ranked and measured on a scale of zero to five David Beckhams. Every soccer bulge was analyzed by a team of experts which then gave the number of Beckhams it deserved.

Cpt. Mahatma Gandhi posted:

ESPN truly is the world's leader in sports news

http://www.espnfc.com/story/1863620

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JR has already discussed transfer targets with DM. He has also opened lines of press communication. He is plenipotentiary.

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The real lines of communication within the new structure will be interesting.
We have moved from an over-exclusive football fiefdom - with a temporary emperor figurehead, who takes the kitchen sink and the piggy bank with him, whenever anointed or deposed - to a multi-layered oversight committee with heavyweight voices and transfer, media and wise-owl influence.
The board will have reporting structures and accessible football-insider information on the assets in real-time, but who has who's ear in the new court of Norwich...

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As PC and I have pointed out on several threads a good deal of what Hughton did, both in a club-wide and strict coaching sense, was intelligent, thoughtful and diligent. This would forever be the case with any single manager. The good departs with the bad. The cult and romance of the unilateral emperor makes addictive, wide-eyed copy for the credulous, but it is not good business. Its origins are in insecure football protectionism. I like the template I see now. I expect refinement, shifting roles and favourites at court and (I should be disappointed not to see) some Macchiavellian manoeuvrings to curry favour at court, which will generate some constructive stress, but the longer term consequence will be the dissolving of Chinese walls between business and football and some much-needed cross-pollination of information, ideas and principles of scrutiny and oversight from board to ball.

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oliwan posted:

is this written by a translation robot?