on another note. I'm very worried for Jozy. He won't be doing himself any favors coming back to his club with an injury from the olympics and for our long term future, we need Jozy to be successful at Villareal.
Remember how excited people were after we finished fourth at the World Youth Championship in 1999? Then how optomistic everyone was after the semi-final run at the 2000 olympics? And how 'things were looking up' after the quarter-final run in 2002? I remember all of those. I also remember playing like shite against the Czechs and Ghana and going out at the 2006 group stages, finishing dead last at the Copa America, and now this. Let's face facts; we played well at last year's U-20 WC only to flop against effing Austria, and bowed out at the round of 16 at the U-17's. Being optomistic about the future does no good when we keep screwing up the present.
Charlie Davies, my brutha. He'll be at a team in one of the big four leagues before 2010 World Cup, or I'll eat my hat.
Well, Britain wasn't even in the olympics as far as football/soccer, so Im not surprised at your sad response.... BTW what's it feel like being USA's bitch across the Atlantic?
We need to give a hand for their olympic performance. The led the group and we proved we were worthy. Just some pieces didn't fall our way thats how soccer goes.
who else are you going to bring? maybe zizzo but after that you have findley and a bunch of no-ones. usa should have not brought mcbride and forced donovan to come play, his team is in the toilet anyways.
Actually after watching all the games I think the Japanese played the best. If they ever learn how to finish they will be a force in soccer.
I disagree. I wasn't too impressed with your side though i thought your forwards had some nice moves creating space for shots. Beyond that I spent the whole game thinking "if we have 11 people we are up 2 goals". That being said, best of luck to ya in the next round!
whoa, no way. This is ********ing olympic soccer, not the world cup. A gold medal in soccer is like winning the Open Cup in MLS. Sure it's nice, but no one really gives a shit.
Sorry for the long post but since I have 5 hours till work here it goes. Going all the way back to DCU I am not a Nowak fan but I don't see where Nowak is at fault here. What ultimately killed us is lack of composure. That's not on the NT coach. Players develop that coming up with their clubs. (So I guess you could blame Nowak for Adu's compsure since he was his coach). As it's been said, Nowak didn't tell Holden, bradley, Orozco, or Adu to foul...they paniced. As for the roster we lost Spector, Sturgis, and Bornstein (at time of roster selcetion he was not fully fit yet) to injuries leaving our backline depleted, especially on the left. Again not Nowak's fault. Short of calling in gooch, pearce or boca who all have club issues/committments we had the best defenders in who were available to us. As for midfield slots, no sub outplayed any starter for any period of time once entering so I think Nowak made the right calls there too. And lastly for forwards Ok Davies was great for 15 minutes and outshowed McB and Jozy but Nobody saw that one coming. Tactically, we played aggressive attacking soccer. That's all I can ask for. the fact that we don't have the technical skills to pull it off as beautifully or seamlessly as the argies, brazilians, or spanish is not on Nowak. Further, as an aside, I think it's odd that once again our MLS players were the ones who played hardest, scored all the goals (yes, i'm still counting Jozy as an mlser), combined the best and didn't committ the dumb fouls for the second non-youth big tourney in a row.
Orozco's foul sucked but that was his first stupid foul. Bradley makes stupid fouls over and over agian but you can pencil him for 90 minutes the next two years (till the Elder gets fired) Plus we have no prospects on the backline