Benny Feilhaber news (and, no doubt, off-topic discussion) thread.

Wow this is great news...I will be really very very happy if we could
have him in Germany...Yanks abroad!...if possible most of them in Germany...
Benny is excellent player, I ´m sure if he decide for Hamburg,
he will contribute to success of this team...plus Hamburg is
really great city.....

bltleo

 

new rumours please!! anything you want. doesn't have to be true, just believable.

 

We beat Mexico 5-4 in the semifinals today. We probably play Israel in the final, as their semi with Brazil was abandoned after a Brazilian player shoved the ref:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/601655.html

Official site (which has the results, but not much detail):

http://www.maccabiah17.com/pages/Home_Page.aspx

 

Not to be disrespectful or anything, but Mexico has enough Jewish people to field a competitive team? I thought Mexico was like 100% Catholic.

 

I know a jewish guy from Mexico City. I get the impression that the jewish community in Mexico is significantly more insular compared to the USA.

 

There are Jews all over South America, so I assume there also are in Central. The U.S. rejected many immigrating jews, so they sailed south.

 

well I think it is better if we don´t discuss about jewish community in mexico or in the USA...i think religion should not play any role with soccer....
Benny Feilhabe is soccer player....this is why we discuss about him at bigsoccer...we should not try to mix religion here...
imagine benny would read this thread, what he would think about us?
so back to benny and soccer...
bltleo
germany

 

umm,it's relevant because Benny is in the Maccabi Games,which is an event for Jewish athletes.No disrespect intended towards anyone.

 

40,700 in Mexico.

 

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little article on team pre-games. Since there's no more transfer info I can find.

 

I resisted posting this for a couple of days, but after thinking it thru a few times, I decided it needed saying (or I needed to say it.)

Unaccostomed as I am to serious posts, I want to note that I think it is strange that in a thread about a guy playing in the Maccabiah games in Isreal some posters are concerned about mentioning or discussing whether the cat is Jewish. Clearly, Benny has no such trepidation about his heritage/religion. You don't go to Isreal to play in the Maccabiah games if you are concerned about folks discussing your heritage/religion. The concern about even having the discussion is of concern to me.

If John O'Brien were to attend the Celtic Games in Londonderry, would folks be a bunch of nervous nellies about discussin his Celtic roots? If Reyna attended the Iberian Games? Or the Western Rite games? If Earnie Stewart went to the pan-Germanic games would everyone get their knickers in a knot?

It's really friggin' weird to me. Benny's at the games because obviously he thinks they are an event worth attending. A Jewish event. Why would we be expected to dance around the issue? That makes no sense and pre-emptively implies a pejorative where - for many of us anyway - none exists.

Ok, end of rant, back to my regularly scheduled England66 attacks.

 

I happen to play for the same club as one of the players on the current Maccabiah team and another player who played at the last Maccabiah games. (I posted a few weeks ago Feilhaber was going to the games and no one picked up on it)

The past Mac. player said his US team was absolutely crushed by Mexico and that they were stunningly good. This is a guy who played pro for a few years in the US (A League, etc.) so I assume he's seen some good teams.

 

Now I remember why I had you on my ignore list. Oh well back on it we go

 

i completely don´t understand you...sorry...
maybe i mispelled something in english..no idea...
bltleo

 

So, US results from the Maccabi Games:

USA 2:0 Netherlands
USA 5:0 Canada
USA 4:1 Argentina
USA 3:2 South Africa (quarterfinal)
USA 5:4 Mexico (semifinal)

It looks like we may have dodged a bullet with the Brazilians being disqualified... earlier they ran up 17 goals on Italy and 8 on Germany. But then I also see some lopsided scores from Israel... 11 on Colombia, and 6 on Chile. And Chile actually has a substantial Jewish population.

Anyone know what the Israel team in this competition looks like? If they wanted to, it seems to me like Israel could field virtually their full national team.

 

seems a tad unfair for Israel to have a team in the Jewish games doesn't it!

 

Ok Auf Deutsch, Jedenfalls wann Ich irgendetwas lesen, was du geschrieben habst, finde ich est total unsinn. Deshalb habe ich diene "posts" gewalt zu ignorieren.

Verstehst du jetzt oder?

 

Our Jews kick ass! I wonder what Fernando Schwarz had to say about that last game.

Why were they disqualified? Did they try and steal Benny back?

Well sure, someone had to take care of all of Pinochet's money.

That's a damn good point. I mean, rolling out Ronny Rosenthal and Co. wouldn't be that fair, would it?

 

Here is something recent which I believe says that Hamburg expects a decision to be made next week. Can a German speaker give a better translation?

"Entscheidung: Nächste Woche will sich Mittelfeldspieler Benny Feilhaber (USA, 20) entcheiden, ob er nach Hamburg wechselt."

http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2005/07/19/460841.html

 

Or Josh Wolff?
or Bruce Arena?

Actually, Jeff did play in these games years ago.

 

BLT--he's just being an a-hole. Ignore him and he'll go away.

 

You got the essence

 

¡AUTOGOLAZO! ¡AUTOGOL, AUTOGOL, AUTOGOL, AZO, AZO, AZO!

 

But he's right. I don't get her point.

"More US players in germany because they are sooo good".

Doesn't make much sense to me either. sorry. am I an a-hole now too?

 

maybe i mispelled something wrong in english..i have absolutely
no idea...i was trying to say that i´m happy if we get some new
good players from USA..it was compliment for young US players..
i just wanted to say that I have respect of them....this was all
probably i wrote it wrong..
bltleo