Not terribly cricket of you, wot?
Posted on 07/27/2017 3:14:19 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The U.S. men's national team entered Wednesday night's Gold Cup final undefeated under Bruce Arena. It's still undefeated, and now it's Gold Cup champion.
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USA #1 Gold Cup 2017 Victory Ping! :)
Hopefully this will be good momentum going into final qualifying games for WC 2018 Russia in Sept & Oct.
Very good win for USNMT. The substitutions were critical and he chose the appropriate players to leave in the game. It was evident that Morris’ work rate was impactful on both sides of the ball. They are still a distance from competing with top rate teams but getting better. In a decade they will be a top ten team and compete with Spain, Germany, Brazil and the like. Still need speed of play to increase, especially around the box.
Anyone here suspect ‘Berlin Freeper’ might be a soccer fan?
Definitely a game for the soccer purist. Both sides had excellent ball movement and good defenses resulting in not much real action.
This USMNT has far more potential than the last few offerings. Not sure how they stack up against the Europeans but they should show well in the World Cup next summer.
I read through the first 9 posts, and no one seems to have a clue as to what sport is being discussed. Not a single post could name it.
Since the only sport where Jamaica made a name was bobsledding, my guess from the report and the posts would be that sport.
It was a great win! With Jamaica evening the score early in the 2nd half, the US team felt more pressure, especially as the game went into the 70th minute. Nearing the end, I just shouted at the tv, until finally, FINALLY the winning goal was scored! What a beauty!
Lawn Fairies!! Soccer is another means to try and European-ize our country. Be a man and play AMERICAN football.
Not terribly cricket of you, wot?
Please, impress us all with you’re wonderful accomplishments on the athletic field, butch.
Only a true soccer weenie would get excited about a 2-1 victory by the most powerful nation on earth with a population of 320 million people over a second world country with a population of 3 million people. Think of it this way: The USA has been trying to develop a world class soccer team since the mid-1970's and we probably spend more on soccer at the various levels of play per year (pro, college, high school, and youth leagues) than the entire GDP of Jamaica, and the best we can do is a 2-1 snooze victory.
It’s because our best athletes have many alternatives, like basketball or football. But more and more, as kids see Americans making big money playing overseas, more of our better athletes will start choosing soccer over other sports.
Also, consider that our best player, Pulisic, wasn’t even in the tournament. That is like Argentina trying to play without Messi.
So if one of our US sprinters ever beat Usain Bolt, or anyone from Jamaica, we shouldn’t get too worked up over that either; ok, got it.
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