Yahoo! Gives Our Boys Some Props!

i just saw that as well, but these ranking really do mean nothing. if anything, they show the top 15 teams in the world in no particular order.

 

To you they don't - but to random folks who see the NCAA Top 25 in football and basketball and whatever else, they may think it is rather interesting.

 

Right on Northside. That's the beauty of it!

The fact that it's on the front page doesn't mean much to us in BS land considering we follow the ranking with prior knowledge and FIFA's ranking philosophy.

Yet for the 30 million folks that go to Yahoo's front page everyday seeing that statement sticks out as something cool, something an 'average' informed Yahoo reader can sink their teeth into...possibly something to make Joe Sports Nut take a step up in pride on how "American" soccer has become.

As I write this my local ABC station has a crawl at the bottom of the 4:30 news and its reading about Iraq, Domestic headlines and I'll be damned if it doesn't read : U.S. SOCCER TEAM REACHES ALL TIME HIGH OF #7 IN FIFA'S WORLD RANKINGS:
Yahoo.com inspired no doubt. How else would the afternoon news producer get that info? Even better, how he felt like he needs to broadcast that to ALL of the greater Houston area!
International futbol is about a nation's culture. That's what the USSF fails every year to pitch to the U.S. public. Getting U.S. Men's soccer to be perceived as a Red, White and Blue cultural icon is needed. Yahoo.com and the like play a solid role in that process.

A journey of a 1000 miles begins with 1 step--old Chinese proverb

 

true. i'm a grizzled vet at 20.

 

So what, if they're disapointed and bitch, at least they're talking about American soccer and not ignoring it. As they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity.