Is Kasey Keller out?

Wasn't Howard in the PFA Premiereship Best 11 at the end of 2003 - 2004???? I think he was the only Man U guy on the squad. Had a good outing against Venezuela...Looked very good.

As for Keller being injured...it's odd....because there was a cryptic reference to Tim Howard in the Angola match that made no sense at all.
But it looks like Yahoo cleared that quote up....at the very least we know Howard played today.

 

Thanks BF...need that... I think I can put the paper bag down now.

 

The practice game was today, not yesterday.. Anyway, we have nothing solid on it yet.. My only question is if he has no injury at all why didn't he just say that when the reported asked about injury?

 

Keller has been a team player.......those commets everyone got upset about a short while back were nothing big or anything to be upset about. The players certainly aren't upset about it and seem to respect him for saying it. There's been so much coverage that I forget exactly where to point to exact quotes along these lines, but the players look up to Keller and almost see him as a coach. I think it was LD on The Drive to Germany this weekend who explained how Keller will take teammates aside and tell them when they're not doing well and will get on them about focusing and raising their game at times during practices and such.

Everyone should stop with this nonsense about Keller not being a team player and that he's saying things to upset team chemistry.....it's obviously wrong!

 

FWIW, a Keller quote from the podcast was used in a wire story on the weather in Germany that looks to have first crossed around 5pm EDT, which strongly implies that comment was made after the Angola game (which, given the game start of around 11am EDT, seems reasonable). I doubt the AP would have sat on that quote for seven or eight hours if it had been made before the game, but it's a pretty generic quote and is one of many from different sources in the story, so I guess that's possible.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/mls/article/0,2777,DRMN_23926_4752781,00.html

 

My last response on this worthless thread.

The podcast was before the match, not after.

Kasey played in part of the scrimmage as did Tim -- as did many players -- there were unlimited substitutions.

The reporter asked him first whether he thought he would start and then added under her breath "there's been some talk of injury . . ." I'm not sure he even heard that second part but he responded in classic Keller fashion -- if you can't tell he's not hurt by listening to the cocky (and I like it) way he answers the question "Well, I don't know. I'm not picking the team. I'm not in a position to pick the team. If chosen I'm going to do the best I possible can." If you listen to the tone of his voice, there is no way he is hurt -- frankly I'm not sure he even heard the end of the question as she tailed off. Plus if there was "talk of an injury" before the Angola match two things would have happenned (1) we'd have heard the talk and (2) he wouldn't have played at all in it.


Please now resume the chicken little thread. Personally, I feel there is enough to worry about without having to make things up out of whole cloth.

 

You don't know that. Check my post above for counterevidence. Why is it so hard to fathom that Kasey picked up some sort of knock in the scrimmage today, had to be replaced, and then was asked about an injury situation and gave some type of vague answer that wasn't a denial?

 

thank you... now where were we... oh yeah...

Timmay is scary as hell on crosses and corners!

 

The interview occurred at or before 3:30 Germany time. The game started after 5pm Germany time.

http://www.ussoccer.com/articles/viewArticle.jsp_280957.html

I'll be interested what happens to see as this thread progresses.

 

You should be punished for starting a thread with a title like this one. I hope you are raped by a fully grown walrus with a mean streak.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Knave again. I actually felt a burning need to have a drink earlier too... I don't know if i'm gonna make it til Friday. I've had the USA highlight montage from 2002 playing on repeat on my desktop / palmpilot for the past 24 hours.

 

If that's the situation, case closed.. He wouldn't have played if he was nursing any injury to worry about...

 

Because it didn't happen. Look, I'm certainly willing to give credence to any rumor that has a shred of viable evidence but this one has none.

The other players interviewed included Demarcus Beasley, Eddie Lewis, Eddie Pope, Big Marcus, Eddie Johnson and a few others -- if you poke around on ussoccer.com for a moment or two you can figure it out -- its not rocket science.

 

Well, there's evidence that there was a media day before the game, so I guess you could infer that the podcast (given the din in the background) was recorded during that media session. Thanks for the link. I guess we'll find out soon enough either way.

 

Aaaaggghhhh

You guys are killing me -- I can't believe I am responding to this.

There's not "evidence" -- that's when the interview occurred!!! That's when all the interviews occurred!! I suppose in your bizzarro world of US Soccer the US did the interviews at 3:30 then went to the match came back, showered, and then held a second interview session around 8-9pm where only Kasey Keller was present and dozens of reporters proceeded to ask him many questions none of which involved his play or his comfort in playing the match that he had just attended. Oh, and I should add that all the reporters came back to the hotel on a German holiday and after a scrimmage that they were banned from watching.

You know what. You guys have convinced me. Kasey Keller is hurt. He's hurt and we're just being coy about the whole thing so no one knows the Rimando is actually going to be keeping for the US at the Cup -- we've flown him in under cover of darkness and used the old nightime press conference on a German holiday after a closed scrimmage trick to distract everyone from the fact that Nicky Rimando is coming in to win the world cup for us. I don't know how I could have been so blind. Thank you, thank you for allowing me to see the strategy -- BA is more brilliant than I ever could have imagined.

 

psych also psyche
v.tr.
1. a. To put into the right psychological frame of mind: The coach psyched the team before the game.
b. To excite emotionally: The children were psyched to see the circus.
2. To undermine the confidence of by psychological means; intimidate.
3. a. To analyze, solve, or comprehend.
b. To anticipate or guess the intentions of.
4. Informal To analyze and treat by psychoanalysis.

v.intr.
To become confused or mentally deranged.

n. psych
Psychology

sl. sike
A dearly missed term from the late 80's and early 90's denoting that the immediately preceding statement was false and told to mislead another person.

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Take it for what it's worth.

 

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THE PODCAST WAS BEFORE THE PRACTICE!!!

 

I don't know if many of you guys will actually make it to the world cup before you decide to jump off a bridge.

 

No doubt!......look how many posts the thread on Beasly being "irritated" got before they figured out he was taken out of context.

 

The goaltender that's out is Dwayne Roloson.

Carry on.

 

Uh, thanks. That's been made clear already. Sorry to add fuel to what seems to have been an erroneous fire...

 

Don't try and trick me again. You have convinced me and I believe you now. Nicky Rimando will be starting for us on June 12th and the Czechs will have no idea what hit them. This is the best gambit BA has ever produced and we will all be in awe of another bold and brilliant coaching manuever. You have allowed me to see the light and for that I am thankful. I'll miss Kasey, sadly, but what can one say . . . c'est la vie.