Mike Youngs 🇺🇸

I do tech-y stuff | Former Soccer Coach | Petoskey, Michigan | Ferris State Alumni | 2nd place companion to a blue-eyed merle | Chaotic Good

[Mike Youngs 🇺🇸 @FKA_CoachMike]

@davidpollack47 There used to be way more. New rule this year making a player leave the field if medical staff have to come on except for keepers or suspected head injuries.

But the game’s physicality ain’t no joke. If a player is down, they’re down.

[Mike Youngs 🇺🇸 @FKA_CoachMike]

@ClayTravis LFG!!

[Mike Youngs 🇺🇸 @FKA_CoachMike]

Survive and advance!!!!

[Mike Youngs 🇺🇸 @FKA_CoachMike]

Mood

[Mike Youngs 🇺🇸 @FKA_CoachMike]

@ClayTravis An own goal in a PK shootout should eliminate you from the next World Cup, too.

[Mike Youngs 🇺🇸 @FKA_CoachMike]

🇵🇾 advances over 🇩🇪? Unpossible. I was reliably informed by soccer twitter that upsets don’t happen in soccer, and they don’t even have to play the games 🤷‍♂️

[Mike Youngs 🇺🇸 @FKA_CoachMike]

Existing US soccer fans to new US soccer fans:

[Mike Youngs 🇺🇸 @FKA_CoachMike]

@AlexiLalas Those that view themselves as long-time soccer fans complaining about the casual soccer fans the World Cup is attracting are fanning wrong.

All are welcome under the tent, as you say.

[Mike Youngs 🇺🇸 @FKA_CoachMike]

@AlexiLalas Those that view themselves as long-time soccer fans complaining about the casual soccer fans the World Cup is attracting are fanning wrong.

All are welcome under the tent, as you say.

[Mike Youngs 🇺🇸 @FKA_CoachMike]

@MaxBretosSports Have you never filled out a NCAA March Madness bracket? Focusing only on the opponent in front of you is for players and coaches. Speculating on who we might play is part of the fun.

[Mike Youngs 🇺🇸 @FKA_CoachMike]

@usmntonly The most epic run in the history of the sport - possibly any sport - could lie ahead.

I BELIEVE THAT WE CAN WIN!

[Mike Youngs 🇺🇸 @FKA_CoachMike]

@usmntonly The most epic run in the history of the sport - possibly any sport - could lie ahead.

I BELIEVE THAT WE CAN WIN!

[Mike Youngs 🇺🇸 @FKA_CoachMike]

@Vern_Funquist Stafford, by TKO

[Mike Youngs 🇺🇸 @FKA_CoachMike]

My wife, from the passenger seat, spotting a tent four blocks away with someone selling crafts under it

[6Foot4Honda @6Foot4Honda]

me after I tell my kid don’t do it your gonna hurt yourself and then he hurts himself

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Mood

[Mike Youngs 🇺🇸 @FKA_CoachMike]

Heading into the World Cup, I was texting my sports loving but not necessarily soccer fans group chat, trying my best to answer the question “Is the US any good?”

I thought we’d be good, not great. Make it out of group and win a knockout game.

Poch had unlocked something in the team and had some impressive results in friendlies. But also still a bit unknown to me.

Starting XI really solid but limited depth after that. And that Turner should start between the sticks. Those two things would limit a deep run, I thought.

Welp, after two games, this team is playing much closer to great than good. The first 45 against Paraguay the best ever. I think Freese hasn’t really been tested, but you can’t complain about two dubs and a clean sheet. We get a chance to get key reserves some game time while resting players with bumps and bruises and any sitting on a yellow. Voila, now the depth gets a bit deeper.

I’m happy to know I didn’t know what I was talking about. There’s a semi-finals appearance here, and with the already awesome and growing by the day US fan support filling the stadiums - skys the limit.

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

ABSOLUTE GOOSEBUMPS AS THE ENTIRE STADIUM SINGS 'TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROADS' WITH THE USMNT PLAYERS AFTER THE WIN AGAINST AUSTRALIA

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❤️❤️❤️

[Mike Youngs 🇺🇸 @FKA_CoachMike]

@ClayTravis US, two to nil.