Trecker: Solid U.S. gets job done, with a little help

[Scotty]

Solid U.S. gets job done, with a little help

The game was an unexpected reaction to what had been withering, and unusually public, criticism of a side that for so long had been off the sports radar. The Americans, buoyed by the growing popularity of the game in the States, seemed taken aback this week by the ferocious response in mainstream news outlets to their performances, and seemed to have few answers.

But tournaments are decided on the scoreboards, not on paper, and not by the many pundits who have almost universally panned the Americans' performance this summer. In so doing, the U.S. team arguably gained a bit of respect back - and no doubt saved coach Bob Bradley's job for the time being.

The Americans are nothing if not predictable in tournaments: Historically, they play one good game, one poor game, and one average game. This time around, that good game fell at exactly the right moment.
http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/9710964/Solid-U.S.-gets-job-done,-with-a-little-help

[i giallorossi]

Trecker can eat my ass, that guy is a total hack.

[cleansheetbsc]

I called it in the previous Trecker thread, if the US beat Egypt, he would complain that beating an African team on neutral soil doesn't count, and he did not disappoint. Last line:

"But Bradley will still be under the scope, and everyone knows beating Egypt isn't the same thing as beating England or Italy or France."

[toddk15]

"But Bradley will still be under the scope, and everyone knows beating Egypt isn't the same thing as beating England or Italy or France."

Not sure what is untrue about that statement if you want to be fair.

[cleansheetbsc]

Not sure what is untrue about that statement if you want to be fair.

To be fair, this is his fallback to crap on any team performance until it happens. He bases EVERY article on this. If/when it happens, say in 2010 at a WC final, it will change to we can't beat them on European soil.

It is like listening to Lalas every game compare the team to 199? whatever team.

[toddk15]

To be fair, this is his fallback to crap on any team performance until it happens. He bases EVERY article on this. If/when it happens, say in 2010 at a WC final, it will change to we can't beat them on European soil.

It is like listening to Lalas every game compare the team to 199? whatever team.

If it bothers you so much then why do you read what he writes? That is what he wants you to do.

[Caulfield]

How did the Yanks pull it off? They got a lot of help from Egypt, who looked spent. After two high-speed games against two of the best teams in the world, the African champs had nothing left.

Trecker mentions the fact that Egypt was exhausted twice in the article while ignoring the fact that we played the exact same teams, the same day, a man down against both. If anyone should have been exhausted, logically it would be us...right?

Game came down to digging deep when it mattered. We did it and they could not. Simple as that.

[alocksley]

Yesterday, the US stuck it in the face of everyone who was bashing them. It was an astonishingly gutty performance that will always be remembered by US fans. If you can't at least acknowledge the determination and will it took to pull that off, then you are a jerk.

[cleansheetbsc]

If it bothers you so much then why do you read what he writes? That is what he wants you to do.

Beats the crap out of working.

[Dr. Wankler]

Yesterday, the US stuck it in the face of everyone who was bashing them. It was an astonishingly gutty performance that will always be remembered by US fans. If you can't at least acknowledge the determination and will it took to pull that off, then you are a jerk.

This is a pretty good synopsis of every Trecker article written after a US victory.

Or so I'm guessing. I haven't clicked on a Trecker link in years.

[Scotty]

It is like listening to Lalas every game compare the team to 199? whatever team.

Hearing Lalas, Harkes and Wynalda go on about their time on the U.S. team is starting to sound like Al Bundy talking about his "4 touchdowns in one game" from high school.

[Lloyd Heilbrunn]

"In so doing, the U.S. team arguably gained a bit of respect back — and no doubt saved coach Bob Bradley's job for the time being."

It would be interesting to know if he actually has a source that said BB's job was in any danger.

[cleansheetbsc]

Hearing Lalas, Harkes and Wynalda go on about their time on the U.S. team is starting to sound like Al Bundy talking about his "4 touchdowns in one game" from high school.

These guys walk around claiming to be the greatest US National Team of all time. I compare them (not so much Harkes, I like him as a commentator) to the 1972 Miami Dolphins. At least the Dolphins won, but the arrogance they show each year is quite sickening.

[cleansheetbsc]

"In so doing, the U.S. team arguably gained a bit of respect back — and no doubt saved coach Bob Bradley's job for the time being."

It would be interesting to know if he actually has a source that said BB's job was in any danger.

J. Klinnsman told him. There, it only took 15 posts to mention his name.

[KennyWoo]

Hearing Lalas, Harkes and Wynalda go on about their time on the U.S. team is starting to sound like Al Bundy talking about his "4 touchdowns in one game" from high school.

Except Al's "4 touchdowns" routine is one of the greatest lines on TV. Lalas/Harkes stuff about '94 is not.

[Cool Rob]

Except Al's "4 touchdowns" routine is one of the greatest lines on TV. Lalas/Harkes stuff about '94 is not.

Poor Andres Escobar.