Eddie Pope

[soccerdome]

The man's a great defender & all, but is it just me or does he always looked worried. I mean, I've never seen him smile or laugh, or anything. No emotions. Playing or not. Even @ the AS game he looked worried. :0

[Ringo]

Originally posted by soccerdome
The man's a great defender & all, but is it just me or does he always looked worried. I mean, I've never seen him smile or laugh, or anything. No emotions. Playing or not. Even @ the AS game he looked worried. :0

any particular reason this bothers you? I only ask because you look worried. (I'd put a smiley here to show you I was joking, but I'm not sure how).

[soccerdome]

Originally posted by Ringo1725


any particular reason this bothers you? I only ask because you look worried. (I'd put a smiley here to show you I was joking, but I'm not sure how).

No, but it's just sort-of scary. Like, what's he hiding?

[bungadiri]

He first got interested in soccer from watching the Monty Python bit on the football playing philosophers and he still psyches himself up by contemplating the dialectic. Hence the furrowed brow.

[MarioKempes]

Eddie is painfully shy. He may have a bit of a social phobia. Nevertheless, he is really a super nice guy.

[Aalborg]

Yeah he weas a shy/quite kid playing for Winston Salem/ High Point back in the day as well, it just makes it clear to me why I don't think he can vocally captain a team, he struggles with just his defense at times. But not everybody that is a great player is meant to lead.

[ShadowNC]

Originally posted by soccerdome
The man's a great defender & all, but is it just me or does he always looked worried. I mean, I've never seen him smile or laugh, or anything.

He had a pretty big smile after the first MLS Cup.

[Karl K]

One hyphenated word.

GAME-FACE

[Fah Que]

Zach Thornton is worse. He looks constipated.

[gibby_03]

I love Pope's demeanor 'cause I can relate to it. I'm the same way, focused, just a little shy perhaps. Nothing wrong w/ that. Having that game-face on in the All-Star Game was a bit much though, I must concede. When they panned to him in the introductions, and RFK went crazy, he just calmy turned and waved. I was thinking, "Eddie, smile man, you're public adores you!"


To each his own. Don't change what you really are.

[McGinty]

Its hard for a defender to smile. If you make a nice play, so what? The next time the opponents have the ball, a mistake by you can lead to a goal.

[ursula]

For me, a great parting moment of the MLS all-star game was after the game seeing Goos and Pope walk off together. Those two have seen a lot together and my guess is that after Goos got hurt in the Poland game, Eddie was the most concerned.

[Choch]

Originally posted by gibby_03
I love Pope's demeanor 'cause I can relate to it. I'm the same way, focused, just a little shy perhaps. Nothing wrong w/ that. Having that game-face on in the All-Star Game was a bit much though, I must concede. When they panned to him in the introductions, and RFK went crazy, he just calmy turned and waved. I was thinking, "Eddie, smile man, you're public adores you!"


To each his own. Don't change what you really are.

That's true, and that's just his personality. That's the way I look, but inside im thinking all this things and am really excited. I just don't show all the time.

[BallStateMiddie]

He's not a man, baby. He's a friggin machine.

[andylovesoccer]

Originally posted by ShadowNC


He had a pretty big smile after the first MLS Cup.

.....and the second.........and the fourth........

not much to smile about on the club front lately, though

[railguitar]

Eddie Pope impresses me as a serious young man who has a lot of potential outside the soccer world as well as within it. Can't say I see him smile quite as much, but he reminds me of Joe Dumars.