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Please put a trigger warning before posting any picture of Kyle Beckerman thanks

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Waffles Inc. posted:

is this a reschedule friendly or what

in essence i'm asking why we're playing Azerbaijan

Practice for the level of competition we'll be facing against Portugal in the copa del mundo

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Gigi Galli posted:

Please tell me somebody got a capture of that dude wearing a CCCP shirt in the middle of all the American flags.

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i
i believe
i believe that
i believe that we
i believe that we will
i believe that we will sing
i believe that we will sing this song a whole loving lot

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Fire Jurgen, bring in Bruce (and Landon)

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13 year old girls posted:

last night was a lose-lose situation all around because if we won, people would just say "oh well gently caress that it's just azerbaijan"

and if we lost, people would laugh because we lost to azerbaijan. big dumb stupid terrible game and big dumb stupid matchup to begin with

We should beat loving azerbaijan like 10-0 but instead we look like poo poo and some norwegian has to score for us

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Baldo di Gregorio posted:

Let me say I dread the birth of NYCFC next season and the nightmare hybrid Yankee/MLS/Italy supporters it is going to spawn

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Shrapnig posted:

This would be true if literally every country other than the US didn't already have a professional league before MLS.

We actually pay our players though

Not much, but you know, they get their checks.

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quote:

I'm always down for Billy Joel.

I'd say it's a toss-up between this, Rob Thomas or Andrew WK.

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julian assflange posted:

It's not a roster it's a squad hth

It's a soccer roster.

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quote:

It's not just English soccer that's been fetishized in this way, of course. Your soccer snobs have pilfered elements of fan culture from Spain, Italy and Latin America. These days, half of your national team has been imported from Germany.

God bless America, land that I love

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DR AIDS posted:

...But you post in the MLS thread.

oh poo poo

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Deep dish isn't even pizza

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Is there even mexican food in england? Garbage country.

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vaginal culture posted:

you cant even get good mexican in Portland so just imagine the state of it in england

Ugh just ugh

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Torrannor posted:

There are no Tight Ends or Wide Receivers in soccer.

Aren't there?

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R. Mute posted:

the football's back on

The what?

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Fag Boy Jim posted:

Is this World Cup Fever, or am I mentally ill?

Yeah

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Pissflaps posted:

Feeling sad that the poor state of the forums might effect my match experience.

The forums are really not up to World Cup standards

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highme posted:

I heard that place is tiny. c/d?

CONFIrm

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sportsgenius86 posted:

Modern American youth soccer is not unlike the English National Team in that people with hosed up teeth will chunk shots over the crossbar then run off to the side of the pitch where a group of demoralized overweight people tell them it's gonna be okay.

We don't have disgusting English teeth, we have great teeth. Analogy doesn't work.

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Waroduce posted:

I was watching ESPN and Alexi, some german dude and the other people said the US may have a problem bc ideally they wanna play w a 4-5-1 to have #s in midfield since portugal is best off the counter when giving them ball to ronaldo on the move. Jozy can play that single foward up top and push the defense back giving room, but the remaining stikers really cant. they floated playing dempsy up there in a 4-4-2 (god save the queen) in a false 9 (or 10 i forget) cause none of the stikers on the team have that ability to play alone atop the formation

Jozy is the only forward we have capable of holding the ball up. He's terrible in every other way though. Wondo is totally useless as a lone striker and Johansson seems to be the same way.

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Gigi Galli posted:

I guess I could just blame the entire country of Canada?

You should.

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gently caress Wondo

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Mukaikubo posted:

Yeah, absolutely. I just wish I lived within 4 hours of a MLS club I could watch games live at- or, for that matter, within 4 hours of even a PDL club I could watch games live at

Where the gently caress do you live?

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habeasdorkus posted:

Also, for everyone that mocks Altidore, remember that Wondolowski horror at the end of 90 minutes. That is who is backing up Altidore. loving Christ he burns my eyes with horror.

Jozy would have missed that and reinjured himself.

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Mean Bean Machine posted:

Honestly this was a bad performance by the USMNT. Beat one team (Ghana) that's been accused of match-fixing, drew one and lost two (2). This after the billions spent on developing the sport in the country is not a good result, especially when parking the bus against tiny less developed countries like Belgium. Also, I didn't want to mention this, but the team besmirched their image by being one of the teams with the most dives and that faked the most injuries, and there was no success to show for this dishonor. I feel like the USMNT might as well have stayed home, but maybe in four years they'll be able to beat more than one team. Ultimately embarrassing.

I think Portugal was a bunch of terrible betas that should stick to professional handball

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I'm having a nice meltdown myself. at work even.

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80085 posted:

Is that like a tunamelt

A bit sexist

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El Jebus posted:

The only way to really enjoy this thread.



I'm going to beat you up.

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Yedlin can't defend for poo poo

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Volkerball posted:

I'm moving to Denver, home of the Colorado Rapids, and I have tickets for one game this year. It's Man U vs Roma. :shrug:

You are just terrible

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I'm a huge fan of garbage dump of anti-math nonsense FC. Great club, I buy all their shirts and only ever play them in FIFA even though Mexican 12 year olds call me a puto for it.

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I'm so loving pumped for the new UIs/UXs next year

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Lamont Cranston posted:

Better in that the players are paid on a regular basis

Yep. It's poo poo, but it's consistent poo poo.

highme posted:

Seattle, Portland & Vancouver will play against one another every other week.

Sign me up

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There are loads of places that do playoffs, not just MLS.

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vaginal culture posted:

I think whatever the next soccer league that arises after MLS dies will have promotion/relegation.

It won't.

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vaginal culture posted:

Like what? Apetura/Clausura poo poo is dumb but its nowhere near as bad as MLS playoffs. Same with playoffs for promotion or european spots.

Those were what I was thinking of, but you're right they aren't as long. I dunno, I don't mind them and I think Americans expect them from sports

Reject posted:

Seems like MLS teams could do themselves a service by scouting those leagues and poaching players.

That's why every MLS team is signing an Argentine or 5

http://www.impactmontreal.com/en/news/2014/07/impact-signs-ignacio-piatti

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elbkaida posted:

What the gently caress, Defoe gets 6 million dollars a year? And then there's a bunch of players on his team that literally make less than 1% of that. Wrap your head around that poo poo, he makes 100x what his teammates make. That's downright bizarre.

MLS is almost guaranteed to have a player's union strike in the next few years.

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