Soccer, sports and politics (R)

The Lagerwey is the ONLY way!

 

Good for you! I’ve been to Bora Bora and Tahiti that was long before those went in.

 

I'm from the same generation. I actually think the problem is in reverse. There is so much soccer to watch, but how much of it is really critical games. I suspect the feeling is more related to how important the games are with the WC rather than watching Real Madrid abuse another La Liga Team.

 

Yeah, my problem is that my club team is the SJ Earthquakes. I can't say that I'm looking forward to another losing, inept season, but their my club!

 

It's worth remembering that in the 20s, we weren't bad. You could make as much money playing in Fall River or New Bedford as you could in Manchester or London. But our powers that be shot themselves in the foot in the late 20s, and then the Depression killed the league. Our win in 1950 was a fluke, to be sure, but mainly because 1930 was a sign of what could have been had our domestic league not croaked, and NOT a fluke.

Took 40 years after 1950 to begin digging ourselves out of that hole we fell into c. 1932 or so. Gonna take more than a century to fully get out, if we ever do.

 

Yes because the rest of the world is not sitting still while we dig.

 

Remember that thing in the 90s where the USSF had the "winning the World Cup by 2010" thing? The most absurd thing about that whole absurd program was that it seemed to assume the rest of the world was in fact sitting still, waiting for us to catch them and blow past them.

 

They're all critical when you have a proper single table. I think we tend to forget that because we here are trying to get into the Big Danc- uh, Sweet Sixt- uh, whatever this playoff thing is. short attention spans need a postseason. I don't know how we arrived at this point. America has been responsible for many technical achievements over the generations- it would have been nice if they'd come up with something that would trim out arrogance a bit and get us to become part of the rest of the world around us.

As far as what happens in Madrid... I can't say. Like the rest of the world outside the US and parts of Asia, I follow my domestic league.

 

Ignorance is bliss

 

If you don't have a domestic league that can pay you enough for a decent living you don't really have an opportunity. That was the situation for US men in the late 80's early nineties, similar not exactly the same to US women now.

 

CR is just an expensive Bobby Convey.

 

When I joined bigsoccer in 2000, as a soccer newbie, the main thing I "learned" was when our Reggie Bushes started to play soccer, we would destroy the rest of the world.

 

Repped for the Bobby Convey memory.

 

Even reminds me of our match against the Netherlands. “Look at us as we possess the ball so well! Oh shit they have scored.”

 

My favorite memory of Convey is a US Soccer video where they interviewed him and Eddie Pope, the two most introverted guys on the squad at that point. It was deliciously uncomfortable with a lot of awkward silences as they answered questions as briefly as possible with very little emotion.

 

But nobody, not even CR, could outperform Bobby Convey when it comes to the skill actually being discussed: waving frantically to be passed the ball, then becoming morose when that didn't happen.