American soccer fan trying his best to say he knows as much about soccer as the Germans. I lived there for a year, best buds being season ticketholders for Stuttgart in the rowdy section behind the goal...lols....you're not even close. Acceptance is the first step.
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I'll start by saying that I'm a casual soccer viewer. I'll watch EPL games most weekends on NBCSN during their season and when I lived in Houston, I watched the Dynamo quite a bit, along with other MLS games on TV. But during the World Cup, I watch every game I can, whether it's live or on my DVR. One thing that strikes me as interesting, and I'm not sure why I've never noticed it before, is the difference in approach by soccer broadcasters, particularly English broadcasters, versus broadcasters for other sports in America. I can best describe the difference with an example. Just a while ago, Algeria scored a goal to go up 4-1 after South Korea had looked like they were making a comeback. The play by play guy, in announcing the goal, said something along the lines of "That will almost certainly end it for the Koreans." And I've heard similar things during the tournament from other announcers that were calling games closer than that, where a comeback still seemed entirely possible. I just can't remember those games specifically. On the other hand, I tried to think of an equivalent in America. And I just can't imagine a baseball announcer, after a batter hits a home run to put his team up 8-2 in the sixth inning, would say something like that. I imagine that he would say something more like "(Insert team name) is certainly going to have a tough hill to climb now." While those two approaches are more or less saying the same thing, the delivery is slightly different. I'm not saying one is right and one is wrong, but I found that difference is approach interesting.
WHY WAS KIM SHIN WOOK NOT STARTING? **** Park Chu Young. What a piece of ****. He should have declined the selection knowing how **** he was. How a player that played literally no minutes all season is the "best striker in Korea" is beyond me. Well, at least I'm happy. This idiotic selection for the coach means he's going down with the ship. No way, especially considering how happy South Korea is to quickly can their coaches, that Hong Myung Bo is a coach any longer after this pathetic showing. Somehow Korea is not mathematically eliminated, but they sure as hell deserve to be.
If you're ok with watching with spanish, Univision is streaming all of the games for free. http://futbol.univision.com/ firstrowsports (http://gofirstrowus.eu/) will usually have free streams as well.
I'm happy Zusi is in the starting line up, Bedoya was terrible at corner kicks that first game. Can't wait to see Zusi unleash that flowing hair in the starting line-up player graphic! why isn't there a player graphic montage yet?
I couldn't recognize Lalas at all...only remembered him as the guy with the red beard, he looks so different and "professional" now...
Not crazy about this 11. Dempsey is not a back-to-goal forward. No idea what to expect. If things start going wrong, I'd expect Bedoya to get pulled and Wondo put on.
