Morris in the 11. Turner over Schulte in goal. Looks like Bradley’s “empty bucket” of years gone by. Edit: Dammit! Won’t let me post it. Here’s a link.
Cinci has now hosted [checks Wikipedia] four MNT matches and two WNT matches, and they still don’t know the etiquette of not wearing club gear. Lots of F*CKY shirts.
I refer you to the insanely laughable text message I got about how "The Haslams were too cheap for US-Mexico" and as a result, "the next few US-Mex games will be in Cincinnati and then maybe they'll move to LA or Dallas or somewhere because" was it the NFL/MLS connection? At that point, I was laughing too hard to read it. Have we had a US game since the freezing WCQ?
After New Zealand’s goal-off-a-deflection, I heard a US fan yell: NEW ZEALAND IS AUSTRALIA’S CANADA!!
SheBelieves Cup, not the MNT. Honestly, WCQs are a relic of a bygone era. With the 48-team WC expansion, the US will essentially be an automatic qualifier in future cycles. Group stage for Gold Cup is likely the only set of competitive matches that MLS stadia will have an opportunity to host going forward. Concacaf is hellbent on putting knockout games and Copa America in NFL venues. If the USSF was serious about improving the MNT product, the right thing to do would be scheduling more friendlies against major soccer nations, like Jurgen insisted on doing in his tenure. More matches against regional minnows in half-empty stadiums (because ticket prices are insane) won't make them any better. All those games will be going to Brook Park anyway though.
It's near impossible to book such friendlies. The 4 nations that had no competitive matches this window were USA, NZ, Mexico, and Canada.
Don't forget Panama (the other seeded team in the Nations League), which I think decided to not even bother and skipped this window entirely. And look at who the US plays in the October window: friendlies against Panama and Mexico. (Panama plays us and Canada.) Some of these windows have really become impossible to schedule friendlies in.
Nancy was considered. I cannot tell by the phrasing of the paragraph if he was or was not interviewed. If not, that would go against what I heard. https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_...mauricio-pochettino-became-next-usmnt-manager
This is nuts: A fan stopped a shot in the game against New Zealand, broke her arm and ended up getting a cast in a hospital. The good news: She's expected to make a full recovery. https://www.wlwt.com/article/cincinnati-usmnt-tql-stadium-fan-broken-arm-blocked-shot/62156716
Yes--just not "on goal"/ I recall seeing a radar gun at Berlin's Olympic Stadium when Schalke was playing Hertha. 156 kph.
I thought that this thread was the Pochettino Era thread. I was all ready to mute it in like four days.