2023 World Cup - Nice shot Megan, the USA is going to Hell!!!

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a real chump: Jul 30, 2003; noice; Nap Ghost

Hearing La Marseillaise and seeing Herve Renaud and I'm suddenly craving a baguette and cigarettes

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:05

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# ? May 25, 2024 23:31

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

a real chump posted:

Hearing Le Marseilles and seeing Herve Renaud and I'm suddenly craving a baguette and cigarettes

Don't forget a coffee

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:06

the sex ghost: Sep 6, 2009

a real chump posted:

Hearing La Marseillaise and seeing Herve Renaud and I'm suddenly craving a baguette and cigarettes

Cant find the qatar gif of the french guys in the stands just crunching on a baguette

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:07

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

Here's the non-GIF version

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:08

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

Warra goal

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:16

webmeister: Jan 31, 2007; The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm.

Strike one for the colonisers

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:16

a real chump: Jul 30, 2003; noice; Nap Ghost

Morocco will have wanted a defender on.the player in the 6 yard box

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:17

webmeister: Jan 31, 2007; The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm.

Great goal with lovely passing, but the markers all completely switched off there

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:18

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

Their keeper is coming out too much now which looks like it's going to end badly

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:18

a real chump: Jul 30, 2003; noice; Nap Ghost

Tasty goal that one

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:21

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:21

webmeister: Jan 31, 2007; The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm.

gently caress that�s a great goal

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:21

Sentinel Red: Nov 13, 2007; Style > Content.

RIP

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:22

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

Phwoar.

France looking annoyingly like tournament winners here

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:23

a real chump: Jul 30, 2003; noice; Nap Ghost

Oh dear

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:23

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

Today I feel French

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:24

Sentinel Red: Nov 13, 2007; Style > Content.

What was that thing they were talking about early on in the tournament, 'mercy time'? Might want to put that into effect now I reckon.

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:24

a real chump: Jul 30, 2003; noice; Nap Ghost

They aren't loving around with the finishes either.

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:24

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

FREED FROM DESIRE

MIND AND SENSES PURIFIED

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:24

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

Every tiny mistake just brutally punished

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:25

webmeister: Jan 31, 2007; The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm.

gently caress that was brutal

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:25

the sex ghost: Sep 6, 2009

Rip

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:26

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

Renard has fuelled this team with the essence of coffee, cigarettes and mistresses

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:28

a real chump: Jul 30, 2003; noice; Nap Ghost

If France could get about 7-8 red cards that would be sick imo

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:33

Shrapnig: Jan 21, 2005

Haven't seen a French beating of Morocco like this since the early 1900s

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:35

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

a real chump posted:

If France could get about 7-8 red cards that would be sick imo

Only because the match would have to be abandoned

# ? Aug 8, 2023 12:35

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

France look somewhat better than Morocco

# ? Aug 8, 2023 13:12

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

Fully sick

# ? Aug 8, 2023 13:29

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

Le Scorer

# ? Aug 8, 2023 13:30

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

Probably time to sub some people off idk

# ? Aug 8, 2023 13:32

Grimson: Dec 16, 2004

https://twitter.com/alozieee/status/1688770430436278272?s=20

# ? Aug 8, 2023 13:38

webmeister: Jan 31, 2007; The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm.

lol @ the ref's "i'm not angry, just disappointed" face

# ? Aug 8, 2023 13:48

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

Moroc-go

# ? Aug 8, 2023 13:52

Dell_Zincht: Nov 5, 2003

Imagine this in the men's game, lmao

https://twitter.com/Ladi_K/status/1688864869162831872?t=MXkFqo1wFt43lMMXj8aOFg&s=19

# ? Aug 8, 2023 13:53

Chairchucker: Nov 14, 2006; to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022

Grimson posted:

https://twitter.com/alozieee/status/1688770430436278272?s=20

wtf are those replies

# ? Aug 8, 2023 14:10

Shrapnig: Jan 21, 2005

Chairchucker posted:

wtf are those replies

Look at this fool who actually reads the replies

# ? Aug 8, 2023 14:11

Christe Eleison: Feb 1, 2010

Grimson posted:

https://twitter.com/alozieee/status/1688770430436278272?s=20

The kind of mental fortitude you have to have as an athlete to laugh at yourself - incredible. Though I suppose if your job is literally fighting cancer, sports are somewhat put in perspective.

# ? Aug 8, 2023 15:05

Megamissen: Jul 19, 2022; any post can be a kannapost
if you want it to be

Dell_Zincht posted:

Imagine this in the men's game, lmao

https://twitter.com/Ladi_K/status/1688864869162831872?t=MXkFqo1wFt43lMMXj8aOFg&s=19

gone, do you have a mirror

# ? Aug 8, 2023 15:29

Dell_Zincht: Nov 5, 2003

Megamissen posted:

gone, do you have a mirror

Reddit does!

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/com...nt=share_button

# ? Aug 8, 2023 16:36

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# ? May 25, 2024 23:31

Shazback: Jan 26, 2013

Terminally Bored posted:

Read the article I posted on the previous page.

So, reading the article again, here's what I can pick up:

Improvement from the players and coaches, with tactics being noted as a specific area of attention:
"They did not [prevail at the World Cup], to no one’s surprise, and they will not going forward – not without tangible improvements from the players."
"The real reason the Americans failed at the 2023 World Cup was their tactical inferiority and inability to solve problems during games. Those underscore failings with both the coaching and the player pool, and neither of those challenges are unique to this World Cup."
Establish a clear identity for the team:
"USA head coach Vlatko Andonovski has failed to establish a clear identity for the team since taking over in 2019[...]."
Changing the established High school and College player development pathway:
"More countries are developing players from young ages, unrestricted by the college system that exists in the United States."
"[... Spain have] adopted the men’s system, where the best teenagers are developed within a professional environment."
"[...M]ost [US] players go through the amateur college system – which varies widely in quality – before turning professional."
"Youth academies and reserve leagues have been talked about [in the US] for years without action [...]."
"The college system that has long served as the development pipeline to the national team is being blown up in real time at the hands of men’s college football and greed, and teams from Europe to Mexico are offering pay and opportunities to attract top teenage players."

These sound like clear issues, but what are potential solutions?

Establishing a reserve league / feeder team system to the NWSL, despite the article mentioning that the NWSL is already losing some of their best players to foreign clubs with more money? And how would this work when Title IX is cited by the article as a significant source of funding and a key element for pase successes of the USWNT? Wouldn't this further dilute the talent pool across more teams? Isn't this the principle behind Generation Addidas on the men's soccer side, and has that been a success?

Creating an "identity" to the team sounds somewhat meaningless when the article mentions multiple times the existing identity "grit and hard work", and honestly do other teams (at this world cup or more generally in international football) have a consistent "identity"? One that's spread through all junior teams in the country? Or is it something that coalesces at the highest level based on the players available, their skills and tactics they are familiar with at club level?

Improving players and coaches... Well yes, but how? Longer national team call-ups? Coach training and qualification requirements to coach at NWSL and NCAA level? Forcing men's and women's teams to work more closely together to share resources?

# ? Aug 8, 2023 20:33

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