View Full Version : Najaf Poets v. US Marines, 1st Batallion [R]
um_chili
29 Apr 2003, 04:32 PM
Kind of a cool story--marines in Iraq play soccer with local side, get schooled so bad Iraqis start to side with soldiers. The result:
Najaf Poets 7:0 US Marines, 1st Batallion
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/29/offbeat.najaf.soccer.reut/index.html
MetroFever
29 Apr 2003, 05:16 PM
It's my understanding the referee was French.
nicodemus
29 Apr 2003, 05:30 PM
Didn't the British soldiers get tooled too earlier by some Iraqi team?
sanariot
29 Apr 2003, 05:40 PM
Draft Freddy now!
nicodemus
29 Apr 2003, 05:46 PM
Originally posted by Astorian
Draft Freddy now! BS is getting slack. It took over 2 posts to mention Freddy Adu in a thread.
um_chili
29 Apr 2003, 07:09 PM
Originally posted by MetroFever
It's my understanding the referee was French.
Hm, that could explain the result -- the French ref distracted the Marine side by constantly trying to surrender to them.
NEKSoccer
29 Apr 2003, 07:32 PM
Originally posted by Mike Segroves
FC Starving Basrah 9-3 Queens Own Royal Marines
There must be a story somewhere online about the game that the British soldiers played. Anyone know where? I mean, I tried looking with a search engine and so far I have come up empty.
Here's a story I came across while searching for the aforementioned one:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/iraq/ny-wosocc0311,0,2648061.story?coll=ny-top-headlines
InterSoccr6
29 Apr 2003, 07:44 PM
i also remember reading the marines played in combat boots and camo trousers, c'mon yall, get real! had our all army team been there, we would have trounced them!
angus_hooligan
02 May 2003, 03:20 PM
Originally posted by InterSoccr6
i also remember reading the marines played in combat boots and camo trousers, c'mon yall, get real! had our all army team been there, we would have trounced them!
F.Y.I. it was a friendly. The US was not there to win at all. It was a morale booster for the locals who just got the shite kicked out of them in a war.
Elninho
03 May 2003, 02:14 AM
Besides, it was a case of an existing club side thrashing a makeshift selection drawn from an infantry battalion (which is only a few hundred men, many of whom likely don't play soccer).
usscouse
03 May 2003, 02:50 PM
Originally posted by NEKSoccer
There must be a story somewhere online about the game that the British soldiers played. Anyone know where? I mean, I tried looking with a search engine and so far I have come up empty.
Here's a story I came across while searching for the aforementioned one:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/iraq/ny-wosocc0311,0,2648061.story?coll=ny-top-headlines Try this
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2915451.stm