Uh oh! USA 2 (Yes TWO) Brazil 3

Actually I would say that any coach whose team has 2-0 at some point against Brazil has prepared the game very well, but is betrayed by the individual quality of the players and their incapacity to hold the strategy 100% tight for the whole 90 minutes. Usually, if a great team is not in shape or is surprised by a better prepared opponent, they still can easily win the match by individual performances like goals from very long shots, unexpected dribbles, etc. However you do need to have super-players for this, those of the kind you pay with multimillion/year contracts.

Maybe that's the thing with me and football.
Y'all happy? I'll call it football not soccer

It's boring on TV. I can not watch it.
It's been fun to play though

I have never understood... will never understand how anyone can seriously sit through an NBA game... and not look twice at the NHL.  Again there is the cultural aspect to it...  any dumbsh*t like me can dribble a ball and miss the basket 60% of the time...  but not everyone here can lace em' up and take a puck in the kisser.  For shear visuals though... think Hockey comes through worst on TV... and I think that explains simply why it hasn't caught on like it might.  There simply isn't a more exciting major sport around.. and the skills on display.. most can't even skate backward.. much less do what they do.

crimson87 wrote: micky wrote: crimson87 wrote: Question to all americans: what is it that you do not like about football? It may be the only country where it hasn't clicked yet , easy.... let's put in pictures...see if you can make the intellectual leap hahha.   I meant futbol , calcio , fussball , futebol.... OK : soccer ( I hate to use that word).  Do you find it boring? I just wanted to figure out why it isn't popular in the States , and thats quite peculiar since you have other unpopular sports like : lacrosse , curling , ice hockey , extreme sports ... heck even cheerleading competitions I can watch on ESPN.

do I find it boring?   hell no... I love the sport.  Played it and coached it.   The problem is the culture which I jokingly alluded to with the pics.  We celebrate instant action....the in-ya-face dunk over perfectly executed pick and roll...  the 'bomb' and crushing hits over.. well... that is why this country is NUTS about American football.   The home-run over 'small-ball'.   Most kids in this country play the game when young.. all 3 of my kids did and I proudly coached  them ...  however as kids get older they generally move on to other sports.. .especially those who have true athletic gifts.  Soccer is just not a sport where our best athletes go. They go to sports that are ingrained in the culture here.  So we get what we saw today where our athletes out on the field are simply not in the same class as the creme of athletes from others.  The US played out of it's head.. but in the end. Brazil simply was more skilled and was better.  Why doesn't Brazil have a decent Baseball program... same reasons I'm sure. 


Edited by micky - June 28 2009 at 19:45

micky wrote: crimson87 wrote: Question to all americans: what is it that you do not like about football? It may be the only country where it hasn't clicked yet , easy.... let's put in pictures...see if you can make the intellectual leap hahha.

Edited by crimson87 - June 28 2009 at 18:52

crimson87 wrote: Question to all americans: what is it that you do not like about football? It may be the only country where it hasn't clicked yet ,

easy.... let's put in pictures...see if you can make the intellectual leap hahha.

Basketball sucks! Cos ....

ClemofNazareth wrote: akamaisondufromage wrote: And will America see the light and join the the rest of the world in the love for the greatest sport on earth!!     Look at it this way; first, we have our own football.  Second, the game is supposed to be entertainment.  Which of the following seems more entertaining to you?

Edited by crimson87 - June 28 2009 at 17:12

Yea, hopefully we are Atkingani.

Ricochet wrote: Hehe, I guess the world's back to its senses.

hhahahhaha.   A silver lining in every grey cloud at least.

Poor second half... think I counted at least 5 passes up-field in the 2nd half that went directly to Brazilian players.