Blake

lafc fan. american soccer fan. also fan of other things.

[LAFC @LAFC]

We're so back.

[LAFC @LAFC]

It’s good to be back.

[Profe Ceasar #Mundialista @ProfeCeasar]

Best fans in MLS !!!

#LAFC3252

[Major League Soccer @MLS]

Thanks world, we’ll take it from here. 🌎

MLS returns July 16 on @AppleTV.

[FOX Soccer @FOXSoccer]

The party is just getting started 🇫🇷

[Nico Cantor @Nicocantor1]

USMNT players need to feel the wrath of the media and fans after this pathetic performance. Unworthy of a World Cup stage.

This is not the time for moral victories. This is not the time for kumbaya. This is not the time to celebrate how this team brought people together.

If you applaud this mediocrity, you only condone mediocrity. Call them out, from the president of the federation to the goalkeeper. And EVERYONE in this team.

Especially the poster boy of this group: Christian Pulisic. He never asked to be the face of it all so why are we making him be that? He doesn’t lead. It doesn’t look like he wants to. And then chronically injured. You can’t be Captain America if you can’t carry the weight of the shield.

And he’s not the only one, by the way. You can point to a lot of the guys yesterday who weren’t up to the task. Chose whoever. Pulisic just happened to be the face of it all.

Every World Cup elimination we sit with our head in our hands asking questions about pay-to-play, what if our best athletes, did we take the right players, when are we going to make it?

This is the main reason we’re being held back. It’s nothing you don’t know:

Football in the US is institutionalized and corporatized. It’s a business first and then comes soccer. ACROSS the board. From US Soccer who prices out fans for ugly friendlies. To MLS’s closed system that rewards mediocrity. To clubs and academies that make it difficult for families to have their kids play soccer.

It’s all wrong. It was great in 1994 when we needed something to get up and running. But now we’re on the wrong trajectory. And our complacency will never redirect course.

Be disappointed, be angry. Call them out. Don’t reward this. You shouldn’t be feeling anything else. If not, we’ll never progress.

[11 Yanks @11Yanks]

It was worse. Much worse. And you didnt even put up a fight.

[Blake @BlakeBlechner]

@NeersBase @UVNighthawks @TheNECBL happy to help, thank you for being such gracious hosts! we look forward to returning the favor next weekend.

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

GOT THE GROUP! ✅

[MLS Español @MLSes]

El Míster. 🇺🇸

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

Stay the course to the summit. 🏔���

[ًًً @_captainpulisic]

new fans will never understand what seeing this on live television was like

[Nic Agüero @ClawForThatInch]

https://t.co/VamKUyajUO

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

Just getting started. ❤️🤍💙

[Greg Siskind @gsiskind]

A reminder that Flo Balogun would not be on the US Men's National Team if Trump's birthright citizenship order was in place when he was born in NY. The first US man to score more than one goal in a World Cup match since the very first World Cup in 1930.

[ESPN Insights @ESPNInsights]

THE FIRST MULTI-GOAL WORLD CUP GAME BY A USMNT PLAYER SINCE 1930 🤩

Have a night, Folarin Balogun 🔥

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

Together as Won.

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

Our stage.

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

Opening Statement. 🇺🇸

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

24 hours.