Mikkel Diskerud can choose US or Norway NT [R] includes NT results

Discussion in 'Yanks Abroad' started by USvsIRELAND, Mar 29, 2008.

  1. miklagard

    miklagard Member

    Mar 15, 2009
    Club:
    Stabaek IF
    Top of the League. But BANG...:eek:.. in today's game --- and I'm out for a while.
    Has been a tight schedule lately. With lots of joy (stay positive) ....like in the latest matches, and where a little more lucky goalkeeper in the one in the mega stadium in Seoul last week could have made it a deserved 3-1 win over a team I have often admired.
    http://www.kleagueunited.com/2019/07/team-k-league-player-ratings.html
    (Test results expected tomorrow or Thursday)
    In the mean time - knee watching - waiting.
    If you care to: Wish us/me luck!
     
  2. kruck

    kruck Member+

    Jan 12, 2008
    Houston, TX
    Club:
    SV Werder Bremen
    Good luck dude!
     
  3. freisland

    freisland Member+

    Jan 31, 2001
    quick recovery.
     
  4. freisland

    freisland Member+

    Jan 31, 2001
    Has there been a Mix-up?

    1157298314699612161 is not a valid tweet id


    Here it is in English - and not deleted (I hope)

     
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  5. soccersubjectively

    soccersubjectively BigSoccer Supporter

    Jan 17, 2012
    Dallas
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Wonderful performance in Midsommar, Mix!
     
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  6. miklagard

    miklagard Member

    Mar 15, 2009
    Club:
    Stabaek IF
    News:
    1) Three more points (3p), and we have made it into the playoffs (cut at top 6).
    2) Ola to DC. Seems like this/our killer duo is not meant to be (for a while).
    3) Haters emerged due to my last (ever so soft) two tweets. Why?
    4) I am allowed to train "to capacity" again.
    5) It is hot.
     
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  7. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Why? Why? WHY???????

    It’s the Internet.
     
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  8. Bruce S

    Bruce S Member+

    Sep 10, 1999
    Because Twitter is where crazy people go.
     
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  9. Suyuntuy

    Suyuntuy Member+

    Jul 16, 2007
    Vancouver, Canada
    Big social media is full of random mental cases. At least here the mental cases care about soccer.
     
  10. freisland

    freisland Member+

    Jan 31, 2001
    1162240480177872897 is not a valid tweet id


    "You don't know me but you don't like me,
    You say you care less how I feel
    How many of you that sit and judge me
    Ever walked the streets of Ulsan?"
     
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  11. miklagard

    miklagard Member

    Mar 15, 2009
    Club:
    Stabaek IF
    I just changed the tweet a tiny bit, for a slight improvement, if you bother to check.
    But please explain your wild "translation", or your pun or humor, because I don't really get it.
    Maybe I have been in Korea too long, or not long enough? What is your actual suggestion, freisland?
     
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  12. freisland

    freisland Member+

    Jan 31, 2001
    It was just a... well, "joke" is too strong a word. A "riff" on your "walking the streets of Uslan" and "haters coming out from two soft posts" comments. Just my own obscure banter. No malice intended.



     
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  13. freisland

    freisland Member+

    Jan 31, 2001
  14. Suyuntuy

    Suyuntuy Member+

    Jul 16, 2007
    Vancouver, Canada
    Mix is growing a thick beard just to make the Koreans jealous.
     
  15. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  16. miklagard

    miklagard Member

    Mar 15, 2009
    Club:
    Stabaek IF
    This is what I just tweeted today:

    Sportsstatistikere,
    Er jeg den første nordmann som har vunnet den regulære serien i den øverste ligaen i et land utenfor Europa/UEFA? Eller bare i Asia, eller bare i Korea? (I fotball da selvfølgelig)

    Translated:
    Sports statisticians,
    Am I the first Norwegian who has won the regular season series in the top flight in a country outside Europe/UEFA? Or just so in Asia, or just so in Korea? (In soccer, of course)

    So can BigSoccer help me from the U.S. side?
    Am I the first American to do that in Korea?
    First American in Asia?
    Outside CONCACAF there must have been several - but who?
    Outside CONCACAF and UEFA there probably have been lots fewer, but who?
    (Trivia isn't always easy to check. Are any of you less clueless than I?)
     
  17. jond

    jond Member+

    Sep 28, 2010
    Club:
    Levski Sofia
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Congrats Mix.

    I have a question I'm not sure you can answer publicly but figure I'll ask anyway.

    Has the current Berhalter coaching staff reached out to you at all?
     
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  18. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Several Yanks have won while playing for Rangers...Beasley, Bocanegra, Edu, and Reyna off the top of my head.

    Tom Dooley won with Kaiserslautern in 1991. I think that was the year after they got promoted, too.

    John O'Brien won twice with Ajax.

    Beasley won twice with PSV.

    The US legitimately was a 2nd tier soccer power in the 1920s and many players went to Europe. Don't know if any of them won leagues.

    That's all I've got off the top of my head.
     
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  19. felloveranddidanadu

    Plymouth Argyle FC
    Dec 12, 2009
    Club:
    San Jose Frogs
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I would imagine/assume plenty of dual nats with at lease one American/CONCACAF parent have won titles in Asia. Find it hard to believe that 70 years of military presence in the region wouldn't have produced one boy or girl who would've gone on to soccer greatness.

    This forum is actually probably the most definitive history. Searching 'korea' reveals a few guys:
    https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/austin-berry-to-south-korea.2017161/#post-31846365
    as well as https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/kang-soo-il-jeju-united.1947860/#post-26015269 who's had a good deal of success in Korea but never won anything either.

    Truth is, as in most things, the best we can deal with is an incomplete set of data. But as far as what that data tells us, the answer is probably yes. This makes you a true trailblazer (as far as the path is known and has been revealed-- which is at best that of one with us all huddled behind each other, with a flashlight shining across a vast empty horizon) and for that you've burned a path through our hearts, if not our minds, as well. Well done! 당신의 길이 계속 밝게 빛날 수 있기를 바랍니다!
     
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  20. butters59

    butters59 Member+

    Feb 22, 2013
    Lee Nguyen?
     
  21. BostonRed

    BostonRed Member+

    Oct 9, 2011
    Somerville, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Look to the Philippines. Lots of Yanks playing there.

    OJ Porteria was part of the league champion in the Philippines in 2017 and 2018 (and they lead the table with 5 games to go). Miguel Tanton is also on the squad in 2019.
     
  22. Suyuntuy

    Suyuntuy Member+

    Jul 16, 2007
    Vancouver, Canada
    Look at the Israeli second division, too. Quite a few Yank-eligible players there. And Nico Olsak is in their top division, the Ligat ha'Al.

    There was a time around 2010-2014 when we had a nice crop in Finland too, guys born in the USA of Finnish background, a couple in the bottom of the Veikkausliiga & the rest in the Ykkönen.

    We have an impressive number of Yanks abroad, but mostly playing in bad teams in garbage leagues. Not the case with Mix, although the K-League (that otherwise is just as watchable as MLS) has had a poor year in the AFC Champions.
     
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  23. keller4president

    Jan 5, 2006
    Based on my research, you are definitely the first American to win a regular season top flight in Korea. You are probably also the first American to do so in an Asian league (couldn't find any Americans who won league in Japan or Australia). (Lee Nguyen didn't win any leagues in Vietnam.)

    Here is a list of players who won league titles or tournaments abroad:

    http://www.noshortcorners.com/2019/06/honor-rollers.html
     
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  24. keller4president

    Jan 5, 2006
    Also, players who were American citizens but played for other national teams:

    Neven Subotic won two bundesliga titles.

    Felix Magath, son of an American solider, won a few Bundesliga titles as well.

    Brede Hangeland won Danish superliga. Thomas Delaney won some superligas as well.
     
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  25. soccersubjectively

    soccersubjectively BigSoccer Supporter

    Jan 17, 2012
    Dallas
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I want to say Austin Rogers has done well in Mongolia but no clue if he actually won anything there.
     

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