World Cup 2010

[Porkchop]

Wow... this is a sad sad game.

[Inferno]

Bad result, the ball did not bounce for them at all in the Ghana game(Give Ghana Credit).

Post game, they were a superior team to Ghana, but I think the media pressure along with back to back games did them in...they looked gassed.

The bright side...they should have the same core group in the next go around with some bright new stars coming along...US soccer is coming along, slowly but surely


Brasil 2014 will be good for the USA USA USA

[Curb]

Originally Posted by Inferno

USA USA USA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbn3r...ture=topvideos

Great video!!! I am proud to call myself a US soccer supporter.

Originally Posted by Inferno

Bad result, the ball did not bounce for them at all in the Ghana game(Give Ghana Credit).

Post game, they were a superior team to Ghana, but I think the media pressure along with back to back games did them in...they looked gassed.

The bright side...they should have the same core group in the next go around with some bright new stars coming along...US soccer is coming along, slowly but surely


Brasil 2014 will be good for the USA USA USA

We are getting there. Lets not forget, we have the 2012 summer games in London first...a very similar tournament as the World Cup, I am planning on going over for there for that as well.

[Inferno]

Yep, there are a bunch of international games coming up, along with the MLS allstar vs Manchester United, the finish of the MLS season, Inter Milan vs Man City in July at MT Bank Stadium in Baltimore(which I am going) Brasil vs USA in August, EPL/La Liga/Sira A start up soon, And qualifing for the WC Brasil 2014 starts next spring.

[Trip]

huh, well what do you know, the english fucked up and termed it soccer

JOHANNESBURG – No matter how much the United States continues to emerge as a competitive World Cup nation, there is little doubt that the international perception of American soccer will always be doused with suspicion.
The roots of calling the beautiful game "soccer" started in a surprising place.
(Lars Baron/Getty Images)

Why? Because Americans don’t even call the sport by its proper name, of course. They don’t call it “football.” They call it “soccer.”

In the USA, football is that game that dominates winter Sundays and features Lycra, helmets and men so large they should come with their own zip code.

Elsewhere, football is football. The round-ball sport, the beautiful game, with its biggest prize to be handed out here on July 11.

Soccer? Pah, a silly American term created by a nation that has its own national obsession.

No country has been snootier toward the USA’s use of the term “soccer” than England. Before the Group C opener between the two sides in Rustenburg, the Sun newspaper even ran a spoof front page urging Fabio Capello’s side to win the “soccerball world series.”

But let’s take a halftime break here.

Coupled with their team’s humiliating exit from the World Cup it might be another rude awakening to the Brits that soccer isn’t an American term, it is actually an English one. And it isn’t some modern fad that shows disrespect to the world’s most popular sport, it dates back to the earliest days of the game’s professional history.

Indeed, until the last few decades, even Englishmen would routinely refer to their favorite pastime as soccer, just as often as they would say football.

Clive Toye, an Englishman who moved to the U.S. and became known as the father of modern American soccer, bringing Brazilian legend Pele to play for the New York Cosmos, takes up the story.

“Soccer is a synonym for football,” said Toye, who helped launch the North American Soccer League in the late 1960s. “And it has been used as such for more years than I can count. When I was a kid in England and grabbed a ball to go out and play … I would just as easily have said: ‘Let’s have a game of soccer’ as I would use the word ‘football’ instead. And I didn’t start it.”

To trace the origin of “soccer” we must go all the way back to 1863, and a meeting of gentlemen at a London pub, who congregated with the purpose of standardizing the rules of “football,” which was in its infant years as an organized sport but was growing rapidly in popularity.

Those assembled became the founding members of the Football Association (which still oversees the game in England to this day). And they decided to call their code Association Football, to differentiate it from Rugby Football.

A quirk of British culture is the permanent need to familiarize names by shortening them. “My friend Brian Johnston was Johnners,” said Toye. “They took the third, fourth and fifth letters of Association and called it SOCcer. So there you are.”

So forget that English condescension and carry on calling it soccer, safe in the knowledge that you’re more in tune with the roots of the sport than those mocking Brits.

[Inferno]

Ehhhhh

One of the problems is we have the NFL, which like the EPL is a billion dollar business. I am sure there would be naming rights.

The origin of football is not because you play with a ball and your foot, but because back in the olden days the nobles in England would play their games on horesback. The peasants would play their games on foot...football. It had nothing too do with kicking a ball around.

Also NZ, Australia and South Africa call football soccer. So f*ck what that dude says.

There are plenty of remarks on soccer websites, youtubes and the like that bash us Americans being arrogant and not knowing the world. I am thinking "really?" "Are you serious?"

[EpyonXero]

Looks like Brazil is going down!

[karl_1052]

Originally Posted by EpyonXero

Looks like Brazil is going down!

On themselves like a curious teenager.

[CrazyKell]

I'm really shocked at Brazil being out.

Crappy defending so they have no one to blame but themselves.

Crazy upsets this year.

La Roja ftw!

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by CrazyKell

I'm really shocked at Brazil being out.

Crappy defending so they have no one to blame but themselves.

It was almost like they got cocky...