View Full Version : sanneh: do you agree with his teammates?
bungadiri
01 Aug 2002, 04:40 PM
Originally posted by Maximum Optimal
Lots of BS posters have said Sanneh isn't fast. So his teammates and coach must be wrong.
LOL.
I will say he doesn't LOOK fast, despite the fact even that I was watching him beat people that appeared to be moving faster. I told my wife it was as if somebody had superimposed a slow-motion film over a regular speed one. Those long strides are deceptive, I suppose.
I will also say that I loved watching Sanneh in the Cup. He definitely brought his play up a level: It's interesting to think that it might have been inspired by comments from his teammates.
Excape Goat
03 Aug 2002, 12:40 AM
He isn't fast..... but he is fast for his size. Players with his size do not have his speed and dribbling skills. He could stand in the corner areas..... no one can move past him as if he was a brick wall..... when he gets the ball, he can move past the attackers with his dribbling skills.
sljohn
03 Aug 2002, 06:41 AM
Originally posted by Dave216J
Sounds like both. They're saying that he has great physical gifts, speed and skill. At the same time, they're saying that he hasn't managed to put that together, over the course of his career, into becoming that superstar that he could be. That's my interpretation as well. And, IIRC, the article went on to say that Sannah was motivated by his teammates comments to step up his game last season and in the World Cup.
Kaiser
03 Aug 2002, 07:05 PM
Who said it? Fat Tony (Meola, not Sanneh)?
Jose L. Couso
03 Aug 2002, 08:08 PM
Originally posted by luvdagame
he most certainly is fast. none of the world class wingers from the tournament were able to run away from him, whereas he left many of his markers in his wake as he tore down the right side on offense.
he's "dave winfield" like. winfield never looked fast, but he stole base after base on mlb pitchers.
Exactly.
People continue to under estimate him.
Sanneh is one of the main reasons why DC United was succesful in the early years of MLS.
Topo
05 Aug 2002, 12:54 PM
Sanneh was always a big game player with DC United too. If you look at our biggest games, those are typically when Tony stepped it up.
I seem to recall a goal in one of the MLS Cups, and I think he scored down in Miami in the Interamerican Cup. When we needed a goal the most, he was often the guy that came through.
passtheblizz
12 Aug 2002, 03:54 AM
Sanneh is the leading scorer in the history of UW-Milwaukee. He and Manny and Gerard Lagos all played there together and scored a lot of goals. That was where I saw most of my soccer as a youngster, along with Wave games. From there he went to the Rampage and then to DC. He may also have played for the Minnesota Thunder too, but I might be thinking of Manny.
All this goes to show is that there are really a lot of good players in the US that could play abroad, especially given a few years there earlier on. If the US had won the World Cup, do you think that our players would be flooded with offers to go to Europe like Brazillians are? No way. There is definitely prejudice held worldwide towards American players, and there are a lot of them over here. A-leage teams are ALMOST on par with MLS teams, and there are a lot of A-League teams. We may never be respected, but we wil kick a lot more a$$ in the future.
Mississippi Flash
12 Aug 2002, 02:43 PM
Originally posted by passtheblizz
All this goes to show is that there are really a lot of good players in the US that could play abroad, especially given a few years there earlier on. If the US had won the World Cup, do you think that our players would be flooded with offers to go to Europe like Brazillians are? No way.
Agreed. Our big problem is our guys develop too late because of college soccer and limited opportunties early in their career. MLS has begun to address this problem, and we are already seeing a payoff (Donovan, Beasley, etc.)
nicodemus
14 Aug 2002, 01:05 PM
Originally posted by jamison
FYI, a billion lira is 511,420 US dollars. So, the average NBA player makes about 16 billion lira a year.
We've are all definately Turkish lira billionaires:
Live mid-market rates as of 2002.08.14 17:00:28 GMT.
1,000,000,000.00 Turkey Liras = 613.58 US Dollars
1 TRL = 0.000000613581 USD 1 USD = 1,629,776.97 TRL