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dark knight
13 May 2003, 11:40 AM
http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkxMzcmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTYzNzgyMDgmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2

Link takes you to the home page of NJ.com, click on sports/soccer.

Elninho
14 May 2003, 06:53 PM
Great article, but...

"There isn't a team we'll face that he doesn't think we can't beat."

Say what???

Roehl Sybing
15 May 2003, 01:52 AM
That's more or less true. No opponent is invincible, despite the myths about the sport.

That said, I don't think, if a series of friendlies were held this very moment between Brazil's full squad and USA's full squad, that the USA could beat them handily on a regular basis. It could happen, but I don't think it will anymore than flipping a coin a hundred times is going to get you heads a hundred times.

Elninho
15 May 2003, 04:46 AM
No, it's the triple negative... that sentence literally says that there isn't a team we'll face that he thinks we can beat.

Probably just accidental, but...

Roehl Sybing
15 May 2003, 09:33 AM
You're right. I thought it was just a double negative... :)

Serie Zed
15 May 2003, 09:37 AM
Originally posted by Roehl Sybing
That's more or less true. No opponent is invincible, despite the myths about the sport.

That said, I don't think, if a series of friendlies were held this very moment between Brazil's full squad and USA's full squad, that the USA could beat them handily on a regular basis. It could happen, but I don't think it will anymore than flipping a coin a hundred times is going to get you heads a hundred times.

Really? If we played Brazil every day for the next several billion years, you don't reckon the US would win one?

I figured they'd take five or ten points every ten matches myself.

Roehl Sybing
15 May 2003, 09:42 AM
No, I think the US would win a couple, no doubt. I just meant I don't think we're at a level where we're playing, say, .350 against them.

vflkirwan
15 May 2003, 02:32 PM
Regardless of what are actual record would be....

we would still go into every game, thinking we could win. That's all thats being said there.

AND whats wrong with that.

I go into every US game the same way.

If you go in thinking you are going to lose..........well