Thierry and Zlatan saying they wouldn't have become soccer players because of the costs of the American youth system, then seeing Lalas say it's a great system because it makes a lot of money for some people really sums it all up nicely
Because it’s Fox I wouldn’t be shocked if there’s also a factor of “why aren’t MURICANS listening to our superior MURICAN broadcast??” Never been more glad to be bilingual watching almost every game on Telemundo. Hope NBC gets the English broadcast next as rumored
I think about that woman that said that Milei destroyed Argentina and she wanted to immigrate away, but she’d still never ever vote for “the left” wherever she moved. I have thoughts on this, and they would get me banned from the continent so I’ll leave it at that.
Being on South America twitter was fun, but the Amarilla Mbappe saga + Argentina Egypt discourse is Elephant’s Foot leves of radioactive. It stopped being fun and now it’s low IQ garbage. If you have a rational thought you get called every slur under the sun.
Egypt disallowed goal:
It's allowed under VAR rules but tech in football was never meant for that - to wind back the play so long to review a softer tackle at the other end of the pitch not directly in the final phase of the counterattack. A tackle seen at the time by the ref
Easily the worst way to lose as an underdog, sadly. I accept Paraguay losing 1-0 playing Libertadores ball. I accept the USMNT just coming out flat as fuck and getting steamrolled. If THIS happened to either of them I’m taking a long walk into the Ohio River.
The closest we got was Clint Dempsey. Grew up in a trailer park and almost quit playing bc of the expenses. We got incredibly lucky he got to where he did. So many other potential Clint Dempseys are getting priced out of further development.
It's just one player/position by this juxtaposition really does illustrate to me the lacking mental fortitude of the USMNT. Gill is now being linked to Manchester United. Freese will almost certainly by an MLS lifer.
Orlando Gill hasn't gotten paid by his club in months + has had to sell his own match worn memorabilia to make ends meet. Matt Freese is a Harvard boy who plays club home games in a baseball stadium. One stopped 2 PKs from Prem strikers. The other forgot where he was on the pitch
Look at those numbers!! These types of “academies” are precisely why we’ll never be an elite soccer power. I hate this mentality. The rich kids whose family can afford this are the ones we saw on the pitch last night. Never had to face “real” adversity. No dawg in them.
Give these boys Seattle’s blackest, borderline narcotic coffee available to wake them the fuck up. Especially Pulisic. I have personally seen enough of Dest this game.