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<p>Because nobody asked me to :)</p>
<p>The style of play is very boring and most of the players have no heart, especially Landon Donovan. And some of Bob Bradley’s tactics are questionable :)</p>
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<p>yes he did haha</p>
<p>US actually won <em>shocked</em></p>
<p>^Landon Donovan is one of the team’s most intense players, so don’t tell me he has no heart. Who’s the one running back to play defense? Sprinting up the field past defenders? Fighting hard for the ball? Not making bonehead turnovers? </p>
<p>You should be saying something like “he has no balls” which is partly true. </p>
<p>I do agree with you on Bob Bradley though. I’m still trying to figure out why he subbed in Casey.</p>
<p>Casey looks like he should be playing center back.</p>
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<p>He has no desire. He is supposed to be the face of the team and yet he never shows up in the big matches. He has scored only ten international goals in the last two years, and eight of those were penalties.</p>
<p>It frustrates me that he had so much potential and yet never had within him to improve himself as a player. Yes he is good, but he could have been so much better.</p>
<p>^Yes, because the only form of desire/heart is one’s ability to score goals, even when it may not be one’s primary role on the team.</p>
<p>Sigh, now we’re going to hear all about how important the Confederations Cup is and how the U.S. has a chance to win the World Cup</p>
<p>^Yeah no joke. And it will be an even bigger shocker than in 2006 when the team again fails to live up to expectations :(</p>
<p>I agree that Donovan sucks, but I didn’t watch the Spain game.</p>
<p>^ dont lmao
(unless you’re with the states ofcourse)</p>
<p>Brazil -1
South Africa - 0</p>
<p>I feel soo bad for South Africa, they played almost flawlessly until that late goal from Brazil. Oh well.</p>
<p>^Yeah me too. I have a strong feeling that Brazil will actually play hard from the start against the US, unlike Spain.</p>
<p>I’d like to think it will be a close and exciting game on Sunday but I just can’t see it.</p>
<p>Dang, there were no seats available in front of the big screen TV at UCLA today, so I had to go outside to eat lunch. Right as I finish and am about to go in, I hear cheers as Brazil scored.</p>
<p>Okay, a little late but WHAT THE HECK!
I wouldn’t have predicted the US v. Spain outcome in a million years. Spain thoroughly deserved to win and I much prefer the Spanish team, but I can’t help but feel proud of the Americans. Now if only the American public would start caring about soccer…</p>
<p>Why does everyone hate on the national team? Our excuse to the Europeans for following their leagues is that we don’t really have any teams of our own, but the one time we can really be proud of football in the U.S.A. you ditch the team.</p>
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Personally, it’s not really true that I’ve ditched the national team at this “one time we can really be proud of football” because I never been a fan of the national team. If you look around the country, I think you’ll find that support in general has actually risen quite rapidly, especially with ESPN’s coverage. Support is probably the highest it’s been since June 2006. This is, of course, a good thing, but let’s hope that we don’t see a repeat of 2006 when support dropped drastically after the poor performance.</p>
<p>I don’t like the national team, but that doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t like to see support for US Soccer and the sport as a whole continue to rise.</p>
<p>^I agree with Secret Asian Man. I’ll admit that I am not a big fan of U.S. soccer but I hope that support for soccer in the United States will increase. There was hope that Beckham coming to the LA galaxy would increase support somewhat, but it just didn’t happen. The United States is the only country I can think of that doesn’t have an affinity for soccer. I’d definitely love to see more soccer games on networks like ESPN.</p>
<p>ESPN just signed an agreement with the Premier League to broadcast more games. Its something like 46 games throughout next season though I’d imagine that most of these games would include the 4 big teams. At least, people will get to see some of the best players in the world play on a somewhat regular basis.</p>
<p>A few thoughts -</p>
<p>1) Soccer will never be big here because we have too many other sports.</p>
<p>2) Bringing one big player to the MLS will not make it a big league, and the MLS never realized that. If they want to gain attention they have to bring 4-5 world class players over here.</p>
<p>3) I’m all for more exposure, but I’m not particularly fond of the way ESPN is doing it. Their idea of how to attract fans is to “dumb” down the game so that any ordinary American can understand. So for the World Cup they bring in Dave O’Brien (who had never broadcast a game of soccer in his life) and a whole bunch of former national team stars to explain the game, and it was a total disaster. And then you have folks like Tommy Smyth who is only still with ESPN because of his accent. Those who are going to have any chance of becoming interested want to see the game as it is played and broadcast at the European level, not in some Americanized form. Many experienced fans switched to the Spanish channel because they couldn’t bear it any longer, even though they couldn’t understand a word. I may be tempted to do the same next year if it gets bad enough.</p>
<p>FSC isn’t as bad but there are hints of it as well. Setanta is the only truly legit footballing network on this side of the pond IMO.</p>