Confederations Cup

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you think that our "second rate" would have struggled with the teams in the Gold Cup? teams like..... Guadalope!?


if it's mexico we had to worry about, they could've been dealt with regardless. i still think it was a poor choice.

[a;sdlfkjas;df]

you think that our "second rate" would have struggled with the teams in the Gold Cup? teams like..... Guadalope!?

it's about priority. we weren't going to gain a god damned thing from sending our "A" squad to the copa america

if it's mexico we had to worry about, they could've been dealt with regardless. i still think it was a poor choice.

we lose that game with a "B" squad imo. we probably lose to canada as well

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you think that our "second rate" would have struggled with the teams in the Gold Cup? teams like..... Guadalope!?

we weren't going to gain a god damned thing

i think we would have gained more from a valient copa america effort than we did in our valient confed. cup effort; in terms of the two trophies, the copa america definitely takes the cake.

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i think we would have gained more from a valient copa america effort than we did in our valient confed. cup effort; in terms of the two trophies, the copa america definitely takes the cake.

removed from the whole it's in the same country as the world cup, the year before the world cup, with a squad that will better resemble our 2010 squad, against a wider variety of competition, etc.

how many of our players do you think have ever even been to africa, much less south africa? it will be much more familiar the next time around.

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i suppose if you want to talk in terms of familiarity, then yes; but i am talking in terms of prestige for our more than empty trophy cabinet. in addition, the amount of respect we would gain from a copa america success would be substantial.


but right, it's invaluable what you gain from the confed cup, especially since it's winter in africa during these months.

[TheGodEmperor]

Obviously, Wynne has rockets for legs. But you've hit the crux of it: he can't play soccer. Ricketts can, and well at that. I saw him live like 4 days ago. He moves with the ball so well. Him and Zidane were the only players worth watching, really.

I think you're right about demerit, though

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the amount of respect we would gain from a copa america success would be substantial.

maybe, but that's just respect. i'll take preforming well at the wc versus doing well in a competition that doesn't really mean ALL that much on the world stage, and it would be nice to be as well prepared as possible.

Obviously, Wynne has rockets for legs. But you've hit the crux of it: he can't play soccer.

he was definitely a project, and he has enough to speed to still be very useful in the mls. with that kind of speed, he had a very, very high ceiling if anyone could actually get him to play a little bit

[Jay.T]

I reckon if South Africa improve on this Confed Cup, they're going to be a really strong team next year at the WC. They play some great Football.

[Adi]

Can't bother reading through all this but...

The US plays some ugly ass soccer.  Probably the most unattractive soccer I've seen in a long, long time.  Combining more than 3 passes together is nearly impossible, especially after crossing the half way line.

On another note, they have to play like that because they lack any kind of talent when compared to other teams.  We saw what happened in the first two matches when they tried to "play."

I wish Adu played a little, but creativity and potential has no place on this team right now.

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than 3 passes together is nearly impossible, especially after crossing the half way line.

varies significantly by our line-up

On another note, they have to play like that because they lack any kind of talent when compared to other teams like brazil and spain.  We saw what happened in the first two matches when they tried to "play" a man down

I wish Adu played a little, but creativity and potential has no place on this team right now.

feilhaber sees regular minutes, deuce thinks he's maradona, and jose torres makes our bench.

creativity doesn't make you a great player, and there are some glaring deficiencies in his game. what we are doing now kind of works.

if we can park jermaine jones in front of our back four, landon doesn't play like shit, and onyewu can at least clear the ball out of bounds; we could have a pretty decent world cup, especially if we can find a left-back and get our situation up front straightened out