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FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 in South Africa
- Thread in 'Sports & Training' Thread starter Started by erascism,
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I want to congratulate the USA on a great win. They showed more heart, passion, and clearly wanted to win more than us. Yall played wonderful defense, everyopportunity we had was either poorly executed by us or blocked on hustle plays by yall. Good luck and I hope they show the same intensity in the final.
Del Bosque gets
for taking out Cesc, not playing Silva, nottaking out Riera, and putting in Mata...
Sergio Ramos gets
for the piss poor effort giving up that second goal.
Just horrible effort and execution on Espana's part. David Villa is looking like a younger Fernando Torres with all those wasted opportunities.
Im so frustrated with the team I cant even explain it....
Now we have to look foward to the qualifying matches to get ready for next summer. Eventhough we didnt bring our A game today I still think we are the bestteam in the world (or atleast top 2 with Brazil) I think that by next summer we wil be ready and refreshed to make a WC chip run with a full squad (we reallymiss Iniesta and Senna).
Once again, Congratulations USA. You deserved to win.
Del Bosque gets
Sergio Ramos gets
Just horrible effort and execution on Espana's part. David Villa is looking like a younger Fernando Torres with all those wasted opportunities.
Im so frustrated with the team I cant even explain it....
Now we have to look foward to the qualifying matches to get ready for next summer. Eventhough we didnt bring our A game today I still think we are the bestteam in the world (or atleast top 2 with Brazil) I think that by next summer we wil be ready and refreshed to make a WC chip run with a full squad (we reallymiss Iniesta and Senna).
Once again, Congratulations USA. You deserved to win.
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Originally Posted by JJGRT5
I want to congratulate the USA on a great win. They showed more heart, passion, and clearly wanted to win more than us. Yall played wonderful defense, every opportunity we had was either poorly executed by us or blocked on hustle plays by yall. Good luck and I hope they show the same intensity in the final.
Del Bosque getsfor taking out Cesc, not playing Silva, not taking out Riera, and putting in Mata...
Sergio Ramos getsfor the piss poor effort giving up that second goal.
Just horrible effort and execution on Espana's part. David Villa is looking like a younger Fernando Torres with all those wasted opportunities.
Im so frustrated with the team I cant even explain it....
Now we have to look foward to the qualifying matches to get ready for next summer. Eventhough we didnt bring our A game today I still think we are the best team in the world (or atleast top 2 with Brazil) I think that by next summer we wil be ready and refreshed to make a WC chip run with a full squad (we really miss Iniesta and Senna).
Once again, Congratulations USA. You deserved to win.
Well stated.
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You know soccer is a pretty big sport. US doing anything worldwide>anything the lakers could do in the NBA
I wouldn't say this about this particular tournament though. For example, i live in Denmark, where soccer is easily the #1 sport and they don't evencover it here, I had to catch it on Swedish TV.
I find it more impressive that U.S. was able to break Spain's 35 game non-losing streak than they could reach the finals of the Confederations Cup.
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All i have to say is that US finished their chances. I told my brother's that US was going to win and they said EXACTLY what all of you here said (mostof you.) SPAIN THIS... TORRES AND VILLA... BLAH... whatever.
Spain does have a great team. But tonight, NOT great enough.
Since there are so many great soccer analysts on this board, i'll keep in short. USA was clearly outplayed and under fire MOST of the game. They made 2horrible, out of characted defensive errors and US took advantage.
GREAT win for the team, for the country, and for soccer in general in the United states. I was looking for news info DURING the game on my phone (espn .com) and the headline on my phone was something like "US HOLDS 1-0 LEAD OVER WORLD'S NO.1." Everyone is starting to notice soccer and I loveit.
Does this make US better than Spain, of course not. Does it validate their place in the FIFA rankings? maybe, maybe not! BUT, I do know one thing....It's matches like this that makes soccer SOCCER SUCH A BEAUTIFUL GAME.
Spain does have a great team. But tonight, NOT great enough.
Since there are so many great soccer analysts on this board, i'll keep in short. USA was clearly outplayed and under fire MOST of the game. They made 2horrible, out of characted defensive errors and US took advantage.
GREAT win for the team, for the country, and for soccer in general in the United states. I was looking for news info DURING the game on my phone (espn .com) and the headline on my phone was something like "US HOLDS 1-0 LEAD OVER WORLD'S NO.1." Everyone is starting to notice soccer and I loveit.
Does this make US better than Spain, of course not. Does it validate their place in the FIFA rankings? maybe, maybe not! BUT, I do know one thing....It's matches like this that makes soccer SOCCER SUCH A BEAUTIFUL GAME.
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El Nino and co. brought down to earth...
they must've thought itwas gonna be a walk in the park for them...
great job,USA...had only 2 shots on target throughout the match but they made em count...
great job,USA...had only 2 shots on target throughout the match but they made em count...
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Altidore + Howard = BEASTS
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ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i dunno
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dude i stated i wasn't hating but being realistic.
goood..great,....fantastic win for usa. all i was saying was that it was a lucky win...as in if usa played that team 10 times they wqould prob lose 7 or 8times. im not a hater. i love my country. just being level headed. you prob dont watch much football/sopccer if you believe otherwise.
no offense but you hardcore usa supporters get emo way to easy. take a chill pill. this is a discussion board afterall. people will give their oppinions.
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I do know soccer is a big sport. Ive been following soccer since 96 (AC Milan)
But you can't compare a NBA Championship to a game in the Confederations Cup.........it doesn't make sense.
Who the hell is gonna remember US winning this game if they don't beat Brazil/South Africa ??
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Don't forget Onyewu he was as solid as can be back on defense
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agree with everything but the us ranked at 14 in the fifa rankings seems pretty reasonable to meOriginally Posted by DC1323
All i have to say is that US finished their chances. I told my brother's that US was going to win and they said EXACTLY what all of you here said (most of you.) SPAIN THIS... TORRES AND VILLA... BLAH... whatever.
Spain does have a great team. But tonight, NOT great enough.
Since there are so many great soccer analysts on this board, i'll keep in short. USA was clearly outplayed and under fire MOST of the game. They made 2 horrible, out of characted defensive errors and US took advantage.
GREAT win for the team, for the country, and for soccer in general in the United states. I was looking for news info DURING the game on my phone (espn . com) and the headline on my phone was something like "US HOLDS 1-0 LEAD OVER WORLD'S NO.1." Everyone is starting to notice soccer and I love it.
Does this make US better than Spain, of course not. Does it validate their place in the FIFA rankings? maybe, maybe not! BUT, I do know one thing.... It's matches like this that makes soccer SOCCER SUCH A BEAUTIFUL GAME.
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im not going to diminsh the win but when the us does something in the world cup then general population will give a %++$ about soccer here.
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he might be a hater,but you sound like you support your team only when they're winning...
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if only the US announcer got this excited for our goals
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Buddy...it's a win over the Euro Cup Champions...over the team that had a 35 game unbeaten streak....it's going to be remembered for a long time and toUSA fans, forever.
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Are you kidding me? That dude is one of the biggest US fans on this board. Always in threads repping the USNT. Let these people have theirshine. Dudes always trying to come in a chop other dudes down. I am huge US fan and want them to do well so to beat one of the best teams in the world 2-0 isspecial. "Lucky" or not.
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Let us enjoy our win and come back tomorrow with this realistic talk. Not cool
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I agree My Lakers can whoop on any team in the NBA but the US has been belittled in the world of soccer. this game means alot.
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socluis90 wrote:
ah...thanks for posting the vid...
that was a very well-taken first goal...
�@ Sergio Ramos just before the second goal...the hell was he thinking?
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video gives me chills
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as i said before, a lucky win is getting by on a bogus pk or an own goal or something..when you play solidly on defense for 90 minutes and takeyour chances on offense you deserve to win..they took their chances, Spain did not...theres nothing more to it...luck had nothing to do with today'sgame...yeah Spain is probably going to win 8 out of 10 times but they were not the better team today
i dont understand why some people on this board think their opinion holds more weight when it concerns soccer/football...just because you're Americandoesn't mean you inherently don't know anything about soccer...i guarantee i watch just as much la liga, pl, serie a, bundesliga, wcqualifers/friendlies as anyone else...hell i've been watching the Euro U-21's all week...but in no way do I think my opinion means more than someonewho only watches occasionally
