Amen!!! He lives there too. So does Phil Schoen who is the perfect partner for Ray. Not to rag on a local and a good family but I can’t stand Taylor commentating
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Although that freak out when the US got bounced by T&T was epic
Guy I know from T&T who I probably hadn’t talked to in a year before then texted within 30 mins of the loss. Dick.
They are not being designed for us … I’m sure they could have done worseZebra look:
Bloomington South girls should be pretty solid next several years. Lots of local girls playing either Cutters/Alliance ECRL, OR Bloomington FC/FC Pride ECRL/NL. Will likely have a full squad of girls playing ECRL at a minimum, with 5-6 of them playing Pride ECNL.
Sold out @ MetLife stadium. But it's crazy to be playing a game at 5pm in July.
Very cool. For those of you with daughters playing soccer even more so.
But wouldn't you go there and earn like €750million for a year worth of work? Surely you aren't getting paid that much to turn that down? What's your Christian values tell you?
Question is whether there is a transfer fee after that?
Not Ronaldo or Messi rich. I am sure he is envious of their wealth.
I bet he will be hit by mysterious illnesses and injuries soon. Like every other week.
A young Messi would have averaged a baker’s dozen per game. They are at the 60 min mark, the worst team in the league, beating Atlanta 4-0 and Messi has 2 goals and an assist. He and Busquets are just so different. Even as old as they are they are just so far removed from mls caliber
Watching the United (academy) v Wrexham now.
Boys against men. But the technical abilities are huge. I can see the Wrexham farmers getting embarrassed and start putting the boot in fairly soon.
Teach those feckin' snotty kids a thing or two about being a man. Its a man's game, none of these triangles, passing shite!!
We gonna be relegated. 0-2 ETH OUT!!
Wrexham cant pass worth shite. But they are taking advantage of their physical presence and beating us on set pieces only. Both goals.
My wingman with IU's own Roman Celantano last night
it's funny you post this. amazon has a documentary series on barcelona. it covers the time messi left and their carousel of coaches. as a kid who grew up playing here in the midwest it was amazing to me to listen to xavi talk to his players. he was telling them to try things. experiment. do crazy stuff. when you are on the wing try three stepovers. see what happens. then he talked about gavi. who was 17 playing on the first team. they showed a clip of him playing with both cleats untied. just hanging on the ground. so xavi said to him what are you doing tie your shoes you're going to fall. gavi said no i play better with my shoes untied. xavi just shrugged. like okay.
that's why you see messi's. that is so fundamentally different than the team approach you see in youth soccer instruction. we won't ever reach that upper echelon, despite having more money than anyone, until we adopt that mentality.
and you see that with messi here. he's a shadow of his former self. he isn't making those runs like he used to when he was young where he would beat four players and then do that chip over the goalie that he used to do in his prime that was almost like his trademark. yet in the final third and around the goal you see how different his class is. he scores and assists and is so much more precise than mls players
As fergie would say: 'go out and enjoy yourself. Go express yourself.'
It’s a different mentality. It’s amazing how important coaching is. And you see it in Busquets too. His head is always looking around. Long before he receives the ball. And when he does he receive it he has his body already facing the way he wants to play.
We have so many great athletes in the us. And now we have a league with fans and amazing stadiums. We just need the coaching to keep getting better
Basically it's now 4 weeks off a year.
But it's amazing how long that 4 weeks is. I m watching every feckin pre-match shows of the pre-season games! I think I have an illness!
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99% of our great athletes don’t play soccer. That’s still true, my friend. Sorry.
blacks. yes. that will change but will take a long time i think. the pay to play suburban model will erode, at least in part, thanks to mls and mls outreach. unfortunately, at its early stages, mls next replaced the academy system by just rebranding same with the same pay to play clubs - largely.
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I don’t see it overtaking basketball, even though shorter, quick athletes would fare better.
Shorter athletes... Do you mean for most people under 6ft 4?
Its a shame that it may never catch on. It such a great sport.
I could be anywhere in the world -- from Indonesia to Turkey to South Africa, never mind Europe --- I could be having a long-ass conversation at a bar with someone I just met on football.
It's the great 'bridge' that binds almost everyone in the world. Common thread.
You can't say that with baseball or American Football or even basketball. That's what you are missing.... unless you have zero interest in what goes on outside your 'world'. Then it's fine.
