The Joe Biden Presidency I :: Hallelujah!

I am looking at this presidency 2 years in and it deserves to be first page but which soccer player on a great team does Joe remind you of? Like he is the less flashing less charm offensive of Clinton and Obama but the actual grit and unseen work guy that's keeping the party or the team for this analogy sake winning.

Makalele? Cannavaro? Davids? Essien (as a Ghanaian, I had to put him there)

He definitely feels more like a 6 or 8 than a CD.

 

Sauerbrunn...

 

Somebody who’s been around forever but really found his groove late in his career. First guy who comes to mind is Tim Ream who’s somehow peaking at 35, not as big a name but that trait is what stands out for me with Biden.

 

What about a Dooley? He was like in his mid thirties and converted to sweeper for the US and really was solid back there.

 

Not a bad call but my history of US women's Soccer is not that great. But like after they lost him and acres and that first big generation and everybody was wondering what was going to happen I can't forget the players that came up of that second generation and the first generation holdovers. That's who he feels like to me like the guy who wants the big names left they took a way to roll and lead in the club and putting it together.

 

That would work too, especially with the shifting of roles. Also thought of Pirlo, somebody who people thought was getting too old to play at a high level but he kept proving them wrong. Biden has never been that smooth though.

 

Cantona....Eric Cantona!



Or is that John Oliver?

 

Modric?

 

I don't know if we would consider him underrated.

I am thinking more when SAF sold Keane and people wondered who would lead the club and it became Gary Neville's team.

 

It was in the context of Pirlo, who I don’t think was underrated either.

 

Yeah that's how I took it. And while I wouldn't say they've been underrated they've been underestimated at times, and that fits the comparison.

 

It just took 2 years of Biden to get to this - China brokered a deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia who will resume diplomatic relations and cooperate

Joint Trilateral Statement by the Kingdom of #Saudi Arabia, the Islamic Republic of #Iran, and the People’s Republic of #China. pic.twitter.com/MyMkcGK2s0

— Foreign Ministry 🇸🇦 (@KSAmofaEN) March 10, 2023

 

I guess it was inevitable we'd end up here after 2+ years of a Biden presidency on bigsoccer

 

Now, wait just a minute.

Your premise is flawed.
We all know that only Donald J. Tr*mp could Make America (a) Great (team) Again!

Also, I would not compare the President to a player, but to a coach.

If he ever stuck his hands down his pants and then sniffed his fingers, I would say Biden is Joachim Löw.
(By the way, we could all totally imagine Biden doing that at some point. It just seems like a Joe Biden thing to do.)

A coach who had been around for a couple of decades (as a player and a coach) and never really distinguishing himself (Löw was never a full international as a player and managed Innsbruck, a couple of middling teams in Germany and two in Turkey),
was the assistant (Vice) coach under a younger and much flashier, but less effective leader, (Klinsmann), and
who took a very good, but not amazing Germany team and won the 2014 World Cup, in Brazil and absolutely destroyed Brazil (in the single greatest game in World Cup history) in the process and then won the 2017 Confederations Cup.

Hopefully, Biden's later time as President is better than Löw's, which didn't end so well for him or Germany.

 

Goodbye lunch!

 

It is why I didn't post the picture or video of the Joachim Löw "incident."

 

Joe, the destroyer of MAGATS:

Biden: "When we talk about a 28 percent tax rate -- Ronald Reagan was doing the 28 percent tax rate, you know, that wacko liberal guy." pic.twitter.com/66cgSNhDsR

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 10, 2023

 

"Well, Reagan was a 'RINO'!"-current Magats.

 

Like others above, I would also say Pirlo. Economic movement, controlled possession, pragmatic on the ball and scoring from the set pieces.

 

"Laser-focused" pic.twitter.com/AziUJBpoPK

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 24, 2023

 

I saw that he shamed the Canuck Conservatives into clapping for 50 percent female cabinet.

 

Biden's $80 billion for the IRS worked wonders because within weeks of filing I got my refund back. Compared to last year before the funding it took six months for it get to me.

 

The Biden economy:

this appears to be the lowest unemployment rate for Black workers on record pic.twitter.com/Eys16wjUBF

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) April 7, 2023

If a Republican was President with these jobs numbers, the media would throw a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in their honor but b/c it's Joe Biden, he gets zero credit. I don't make the rules, y'all ... pic.twitter.com/bWnk5C5WSy

— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) April 7, 2023