USMNT: The Post-Mortem Thread

Look what he did for Liechester.

 

Go to youtube and look up Ted Lasso, he did commercials on Fox Soccer Channel. They're great!

 

Not sure how Chivas USA gets chalked up to trying to do things in a more traditional American way.

I'll give you shootouts. That was because the league thought the American audience wouldn't want to see ties. But i'm not sure anything else you mentioned is trying to do things an American way.

Not sure about Trillium Cup, do European teams not have similar things? Only place I'm aware of such things is college football, but it woulnd't shock me if there was something like that elsewhere.

Also, not sure how having two LA or two NYC teams is an "American" thing either. There are lot's of cities around the world with multiple teams. If anything, I think the attempt to create intra-city "Derbies" was an attempt to be more European.

 

Klinsmann Jr. is also overseas with Hertha Berlin and he is a US U-18 and U-20 player. He's not starting, of course and is currently the no. 3 keeper (and was out injured at the start of the season). But he's only 20. He has played a couple of games in the 4th division for Hertha's B side.

 

Chivas USA was an embarrassment of pandering not a soccer team. Everything about them was corporate bullshit.

What the hell is a MetroStar? Who thought those jerseys in 96 were a good idea?

Euro teams have a few things like Trillium Cup but mostly it's just rivals. Huddersfield won promotion but I didn't see the FA declare they were rivals with West Ham and create a Crooked Teeth Cup.

The attempt to create these false derbies is ridiculous as well. No need to expand into the same city when you have plenty of suitors.

If there were sixty teams, MLS and Co couldn't threaten to move franchises.

 

In one respect, this thread doesn't matter much. We are unlikely to ever see the US Men here in Columbus again.

 

I don't understand the thinking that doing it differently from other countries is inherently bad.

So true but too soon man. One bullet to the chest at a time.

 

Still not sure how any of those things are trying to do them an American way?

Don't make me look up all the godawful jerseys from other countries around that time again.

 

It's that sports are a business from the top down only. The idea that suits always know more than fans.

 

Brian McBride May agree with Jones about Europe

“Brian McBride says young U.S. Soccer players need to experience the successes and failures of European competition...”

http://www.espnfc.com/video/espn-fc-tv/86/video/3235680

 

And those cities all now have better and bigger stadiums too. It was the support and the chance to control the crowd in qualifiers that made Columbus special. By the time where that's needed in the next cycle, I doubt Crew Stadium will still be standing or even in a condition to host a game. They will probably do tractor pulls there.

Without MLS, there's little reason for US Soccer to come here--except nostalgia. And nostalgia doesn't pay many bills. We know US soccer goes for money grabs--look at the women's tour when they should have been preparing younger players for the World Cup.

 

What kgilbert said. We lose the Crew, we'll never get another USMNT game here... unless this gut-wrenching saga eventually leads to a new expansion franchise here, with new owners and a new stadium.

Which I can't see happening.

Even if we do somehow manage to retain the Crew, with new ownership and a new stadium, we'd still be in the second rung of potential host cities. The home loss to Mexico decided that nearly a year ago. I could see us getting the occasional game, but not one of the biggies.

Though considering the state of the program, the list of CONCACAF teams that are now seen as serious threats to us at home is a lot longer than it used to be.

 

I'll take the occasional game, frankly. Assuming I don't give up on US Soccer altogether. As I felt like saying to Mrs. KG: "We'll always have Gladbach".

 

Yep.

As fun as US-Mexico was (and it was absolutely amazing... until last year), I'd be thrilled to get some other matches that wouldn't require navigating the sort of Byzantine ticketing process that always came along with US-Mexico.

 

I didn't go to the last one because I did not have a smart phone--and US Soccer did not care--and never replied to repeated e-mails. However I was at a wedding in San Diego that day, so I think I got the better of the deal.

And I'll always have meeting Kasey Keller and talking with him 1:1 before the Guatemala game....

 

Steffen has to be in contention for the starting keeper spot after tonight. Holy hell.

 

Jozy reacting to the jeers in ATL I see. Won't be the last time.

 

Completely forgot to stop by and mention the youth isn't looking too clever either.

 

Another guy I'd like to see is Caleb Stanko, age 24--he just got his first Bundeslga start for SC Freiburg. We may as well look at a lot of guys.

 

If you thought the aim of the USSF was to make soccer better in the USA, I think you are mistaken. The aim of the USSF is to make MONEY off of soccer in the USA. Those countries don't want to come here right now, so there's not much at stake in that mindset.

 

No, he said we should play another match in Europe--while we are there.

 

We had a game scheduled against Wales, but the Welsh federation backed out and we couldn't find a replacement.