Official Worldwide Football (Soccer) Discussion Thread (55 Viewers)

[Himewad]

US shall build up on what was positive during this WC, work hard in next 4 years and come back.

MLS is growing. There's no reason with the efforts put in at some point the gap cannot be closed with the other top nations.

Problem is, the next World Cup won’t be in the USA, and the overwhelming majority of Americans don’t care about soccer unless it’s the World Cup. It’s a fun distraction during a period when the only major sport happening in America right now is baseball. Which has a 162-game regular season and can be put on a shelf during the World Cup. Low scoring games with confusing rules about fouls and offside make it difficult to keep one’s attention for the full 90 minutes. Mine, at least.

 

[BonScot]

Problem is, the next World Cup won’t be in the USA, and the overwhelming majority of Americans don’t care about soccer unless it’s the World Cup. It’s a fun distraction during a period when the only major sport happening in America right now is baseball. Which has a 162-game regular season and can be put on a shelf during the World Cup. Low scoring games with confusing rules about fouls and offside make it difficult to keep one’s attention for the full 90 minutes. Mine, at least.

The USA is a strange country. I love visiting but it’s very inward looking. They have these weird sports that nobody else plays and call themselves world champions. When I was in Boston there was a huge sign on the stadium that said “Patriots 5 times world champions”. It made me laugh because it’s a sport that is only played in one country.

If the US took football seriously it would be a serious contender but it has all of these other sports that will probably stop it ever being one.

 

[Budha]

With the U.S. population size and a few tweaks

Less man bun

More Vinny Jones

 

[BonScot]

The Oasis frontman played a blinder here

 

[Budha]

The Oasis frontman played a blinder here

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Less Man Bun

More Liam Gallagher

 

[jxfan]

Next…

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[Kid_Eastwood]

So that shitty goalie was the USA sub, ya? A country of 350 million and there aren’t two goalies better than that fool?

Not sure the 2nd or 3rd can fly and take the first shot from Castagne in the very first minutes.

 

[Kid_Eastwood]

Seen on FB and made me laugh :

Trump’s reaction wil be probably: "Losing 4–1? Fake score. We had the best goal, a beautiful goal, maybe the best goal in World Cup history. Belgium had four goals, but they were highly overrated goals. If you count only the tremendous goals, we won 5–0. Everyone's saying it."

 

[ReallyGoodUsername]

Seen on FB and made me laugh :

The ref just needs to find the US some goals nbd

 

[LeGold]

The ref just needs to find the US some goals nbd

FIFA HQ, April 2030:

 

[Mr Winberg]

 

[Kid_Eastwood]

Problem is, the next World Cup won’t be in the USA, and the overwhelming majority of Americans don’t care about soccer unless it’s the World Cup. It’s a fun distraction during a period when the only major sport happening in America right now is baseball. Which has a 162-game regular season and can be put on a shelf during the World Cup. Low scoring games with confusing rules about fouls and offside make it difficult to keep one’s attention for the full 90 minutes. Mine, at least.

Look at the Women NT.
US is part of the best teams.

And in my opinion if there's a real will, they could do the same for the men.

MLS already grew a lot and has the (financial) potential to grow. Also, US is an attractive country. An advantage other emerging leagues don't necessarily have.

 

[BonScot]

FIFA

Fixing
It
For
America

 

[Himewad]

Look at the Women NT.
US is part of the best teams.

And in my opinion if there's a real will, they could do the same for the men.

MLS already grew a lot and has the (financial) potential to grow. Also, US is an attractive country. An advantage other emerging leagues don't necessarily have.

The best male athletes in the USA don't play soccer from a young age. It's a side sport. Honestly, the best female athletes don't play soccer, either. And if they do, it's a side sport that they use for conditioning TBH. But women don't have football (American football), and basketball is nowhere near as popular for young female athletes as young males, so soccer is where many girls shine athletically. I just don't see soccer taking off in the USA. I could be wrong, but people have been saying it's on the verge of exploding and has the potential to be huge for decades. It never happens.

 

[MeridianFC]

We deserve (almost) all the shit we're taking. At least I'm hungover as fuck.

 

[Mr Winberg]

We deserve (almost) all the shit we're taking. At least I'm hungover as fuck.

Can you take one more?

 

[MeridianFC]

Can you please keep it down.

 

[CDC]

Stock as much chocolate as possible, esspeically Belgium chocolate!! Tariffs will send those prices through the roof!!!

 

[Jaxen]

Kudos to Belgium, they had a guy (or often 2) in every US passing lane last night. My wife's screaming "How?" and I told her if it looked like 11-on-14 so, it felt that way on the field. I've played in games like that where you are simply outclassed and better be able to sprint your way out of it. Problem was Belgium's offensive players were some of the best defensive players in the world. That could have easily been 7-1 if BE wanted it or needed such a +/-.
Paraguay, Australia, Turkey, Bosnia ... zero elite sides. Stepping up to Belgium was like going from the Sun Belt to the Big 10, for my college football fans. It was a bad matchup, like it'd been in every other matchup against them.
And, frankly, everything that had transpired from Sunday afternoon on was just embarrassing. US probably got what it deserved. I mean, if there was a review process to "postpone" the red card, then just make it a yellow as what it should have been. VAR-ing a no-call on the field to a straight red is embarrassing, too.

 

[ekricket]

Can you take one more?

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I think it’s usually spun and celebrated in terms of “First to have red card overturned”.

 

[BonScot]

This just in…

 

[Kid_Eastwood]

Can you take one more?

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CR7 in fact (if I'm not wrong).

 

[Budha]

The best male athletes in the USA don't play soccer from a young age. It's a side sport. Honestly, the best female athletes don't play soccer, either. And if they do, it's a side sport that they use for conditioning TBH. But women don't have football (American football), and basketball is nowhere near as popular for young female athletes as young males, so soccer is where many girls shine athletically. I just don't see soccer taking off in the USA. I could be wrong, but people have been saying it's on the verge of exploding and has the potential to be huge for decades. It never happens.

Agree. I think youth soccer in the US is more focused on being a viable track to get into college (or the top college of choice) vs going pro.

 

[Tonysquander]

The men's US team/players are just not as good as the top tier teams. Pretty simple. That's why they repeatedly get hammered in round of 16, just like the rest of the mid-tier teams.

 

[Mr Winberg]

I thought the US had a fun, positive, attack oriented game, I enjoyed their matches. In fact, I was going to root for them against Belgium (who I felt wasn't as fun to watch up until that match).

That's one of the sad aspects of the whole red card situation, it pretty much turned the whole world against the US team even though it wasn't the team's fault. At least it caused me to root 100% for Belgium on pure principle.

But in four years I'll be happy to cheer for them again!

 

[Mr Winberg]

VAR-ing a no-call on the field to a straight red is embarrassing, too.

I liked your post, especially as I am someone from a country who currently sees last 32 as a success. But I respectfully disagree with this. That's what VAR's there for, correcting mistakes. Not seeing the foul straight away might seem embarrassing for the ref, but he's only human. Off-sides, penalties etc are missed and corrected by VAR too, I don't think this is more embarrassing than those mistakes. IMO.

 

[BonScot]

The best male athletes in the USA don't play soccer from a young age. It's a side sport. Honestly, the best female athletes don't play soccer, either. And if they do, it's a side sport that they use for conditioning TBH. But women don't have football (American football), and basketball is nowhere near as popular for young female athletes as young males, so soccer is where many girls shine athletically. I just don't see soccer taking off in the USA. I could be wrong, but people have been saying it's on the verge of exploding and has the potential to be huge for decades. It never happens.

I think that people say that because you have the population, the infrastructure and the facilities. If ever the US decides that it wants to be the best it has a good chance of becoming so.

But if it’s not a game that kids play in the streets (the way basketball is) then it will just stay in the background.

Everywhere else in Europe, South and Central America, Africa football is the dominant sport played by kids.

 

[MeridianFC]

But if it’s not a game that kids play in the streets (the way basketball is) then it will just stay in the background.

Depends which streets. This an ongoing discussion in some quarters here.

When and where I grew up soccer is all anybody played.

Now keep it down, my heid is still tender.

 

[BonScot]

The Egypt v Argentina game was a classic.

 

[FestiveKnight]

#worldrefereecup