The man's a great defender & all, but is it just me or does he always looked worried. I mean, I've never seen him smile or laugh, or anything. No emotions. Playing or not. Even @ the AS game he looked worried. :0
any particular reason this bothers you? I only ask because you look worried. (I'd put a smiley here to show you I was joking, but I'm not sure how).
He first got interested in soccer from watching the Monty Python bit on the football playing philosophers and he still psyches himself up by contemplating the dialectic. Hence the furrowed brow.
Eddie is painfully shy. He may have a bit of a social phobia. Nevertheless, he is really a super nice guy.
Pope Yeah he weas a shy/quite kid playing for Winston Salem/ High Point back in the day as well, it just makes it clear to me why I don't think he can vocally captain a team, he struggles with just his defense at times. But not everybody that is a great player is meant to lead.
I love Pope's demeanor 'cause I can relate to it. I'm the same way, focused, just a little shy perhaps. Nothing wrong w/ that. Having that game-face on in the All-Star Game was a bit much though, I must concede. When they panned to him in the introductions, and RFK went crazy, he just calmy turned and waved. I was thinking, "Eddie, smile man, you're public adores you!" To each his own. Don't change what you really are.
Its hard for a defender to smile. If you make a nice play, so what? The next time the opponents have the ball, a mistake by you can lead to a goal.
For me, a great parting moment of the MLS all-star game was after the game seeing Goos and Pope walk off together. Those two have seen a lot together and my guess is that after Goos got hurt in the Poland game, Eddie was the most concerned.
That's true, and that's just his personality. That's the way I look, but inside im thinking all this things and am really excited. I just don't show all the time.
.....and the second.........and the fourth........ not much to smile about on the club front lately, though
Eddie Pope impresses me as a serious young man who has a lot of potential outside the soccer world as well as within it. Can't say I see him smile quite as much, but he reminds me of Joe Dumars.