**Official USMNT Soccer Thread**

[deepinthajeep]

October Friendly Rosters Announced:

Goalkeepers: Tim Howard, Bill Hamid, Nick Rimando

Defenders: Carlos Bocanegra, Timmy Chandler, Steve Cherundolo, Oguchi Onyewu, Michael Orozco Fiscal, Tim Ream, Jonathan Spector

Midfielders: Kyle Beckerman, Michael Bradley, Clint Dempsey, Maurice Edu, Jeff Larentowicz, Brek Shea, Danny Williams

Forwards: Juan Agudelo, Jozy Altidore, DaMarcus Beasley, Teal Bunbury, Landon Donovan


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Meh. I know he's saving Mixx and Gatt for the Olympics, but I'd like to see them w/ the full squad eventually. And where the hell is Benny!?

 

[deepinthajeep]

And I'm assuming we all know about Stu Holden's news

 

[dlo13]

Josmer...

Gooch back...

Stu...

 

[jewseejay]

deepinthajeep wrote:

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Originally Posted by knightngale

put me in the "jozy is hot garbage" camp�

OK.

this happened toady...






  

 x 1,000,000

 

[YouGotThese]

Originally Posted by deepinthajeep

October Friendly Rosters Announced:

Goalkeepers: Tim Howard, Bill Hamid, Nick Rimando

Defenders: Carlos Bocanegra, Timmy Chandler, Steve Cherundolo, Oguchi Onyewu, Michael Orozco Fiscal, Tim Ream, Jonathan Spector

Midfielders: Kyle Beckerman, Michael Bradley, Clint Dempsey, Maurice Edu, Jeff Larentowicz, Brek Shea, Danny Williams

Forwards: Juan Agudelo, Jozy Altidore, DaMarcus Beasley, Teal Bunbury, Landon Donovan


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Meh. I know he's saving Mixx and Gatt for the Olympics, but I'd like to see them w/ the full squad eventually. And where the hell is Benny!?

Still no Adu huh...

  

 

[demps]

rumor that the u20 and olympic coach will be announced next week

 

[ham city]

Originally Posted by deepinthajeep

And I'm assuming we all know about Stu Holden's news

Worst. Luck. Ever...

3.5 devastating, season ending, freak injuries before he even reached his prime.

Like who does that happen to?

Michael Bradley finally starts his international career without the added pressure of playing underneath pops, he looked good in the one Chievo game I've seen. 

Beasley

Gooch

What the hell does this man Omar Gonzalez have to do to get a look? What about George John? I guess MLS playoffs are coming up but still, nothing against Ream or Orozco Fiscal but we've seen them, we'll continue to see them, why not give other equally deserving guys a look? We better see some turnover spread across the board in November.

I still can't get over the Jozy bashing the last three pages. 

 

[demps]

Landon is out for both games..smh.

 

[deepinthajeep]

Replaced by Buddle.

 

[cryingfreemancoa]

Originally Posted by HAM CITY

Originally Posted by deepinthajeep

And I'm assuming we all know about Stu Holden's news

Worst. Luck. Ever...

3.5 devastating, season ending, freak injuries before he even reached his prime.

Like who does that happen to?

Michael Bradley finally starts his international career without the added pressure of playing underneath pops, he looked good in the one Chievo game I've seen. 

Beasley

Gooch

What the hell does this man Omar Gonzalez have to do to get a look? What about George John? I guess MLS playoffs are coming up but still, nothing against Ream or Orozco Fiscal but we've seen them, we'll continue to see them, why not give other equally deserving guys a look? We better see some turnover spread across the board in November.

I still can't get over the Jozy bashing the last three pages. 

Lol we will see about this in the next two games.

I will gladly retract my statements if he shows me up

 

[demps]

Omar Gonzalez open to playing for mexico..nothing to worry about though, hes just trynna pressure Klinsmann to call him in.

 

[thegoogler]

I don't understand why he hasn't called up Omar yet. At least give him a chance to prove himself. 

 

[deepinthajeep]

Is Omar that good tho? The last NT game I saw him play in, he wasn't that great.

 

[krispacinla]

Good first half, is crappy weather conditions. Dempsey with the class. Danny Williams looking good.

VAMOS USA!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[cryingfreemancoa]

First half looked alright.

US needs to pass much crisper

 

[ham city]

#!!$ that %+%@, what a header

 

[nawlinsjunkie]

Originally Posted by HAM CITY



I still can't get over the Jozy bashing the last three pages. 

Jozy was mediocre AGAIN today

Like I said, I KNOW that he is doing well for his club. But for the NT he shows up once in a while; rest of the time, he's mediocre/terrible. To be fair that describes 80% of the squad so can't really single him out

Anways, Dempsey

dude isn't an elite player by any means but is definitely one of my favorites. Besides Holden (

), Donovan, and Howard there's not really any player on the NT that I actually like. Shea is starting to get there though despite his miss today

 

[dlo13]

Watched the game this morning...

-Alright, Klins, enough with this Orozco Fiscal clown...
-Shea looked good again. Him and Chandler on the same side could be something to watch. They connected well.
-I want to see more of Danny Williams.
-We still can't finish for $@**. Luckily, Honduras couldn't finish any of those chances they had early in the 2nd half either.
-Glad we finally got a W under Klins.

 

[ham city]

Originally Posted by nawlinsjunkie

Originally Posted by HAM CITY



I still can't get over the Jozy bashing the last three pages. 

Jozy was mediocre AGAIN today

Like I said, I KNOW that he is doing well for his club. But for the NT he shows up once in a while; rest of the time, he's mediocre/terrible. To be fair that describes 80% of the squad so can't really single him out

Anways, Dempsey

dude isn't an elite player by any means but is definitely one of my favorites. Besides Holden (

), Donovan, and Howard there's not really any player on the NT that I actually like. Shea is starting to get there though despite his miss today

I was bout to say, yall just pick and choose who you go in on.

WE ARE A VERY MEDIOCRE TEAM

Without Howard, Clint, and Landon we're worse than that. I hate to say it but it is what it is. On the scale that most of yall rate Jozy, you'd have to go all the way back to the World Cup to find a truly above average individual performance from a player in a US shirt, not counting Timmy. 

Jozy is the best striker in our pool by a wide margin. As sexy as Agudelo is on the ball, he's still at least a season or two away from being the all around striker Jozy is and that's saying a lot considering some of the weaknesses in Jozy's game. 

I have a feeling some of yall get so caught up in looking for the negative in one player that you miss what the other 21 are doing. I know Orozco hasn't been all that popular in his couple of appearances but he was way better than Bocanegra last night. Boca downright !#*#, Orozco covered for him all night and he was a blackhole where possession went to die when playing out of the back. 

 

[deepinthajeep]

 

[dlo13]

Orozco Fiscal didn't make the bench tonight.

 

[dlo13]

..and there's a rumor that now since France clinched their Euro spot today, they'll play the USMNT at the Stade de France next month.

 

[deepinthajeep]

and

 

[dlo13]

Fairly even half.

Edu looks a bum.

 

[demps]

Edu = ricardo clark 2.0, too early?

Dolo looking terrible as well..

GOOOCCHHH