its "apart of the game" lol. i'm with ya man, others can get over the flopping and fake injuries, i cant. it really does turn me away from soccer.
I understand your frustration but unless I'm forgetting something, it's not like we had momentum at that point. They also added on time at the end so, if anything, perhaps it allowed our guys to catch their collective breath. Also, every team does that kind of stuff in soccer. Maybe not exactly to that degree but every team does that stuff to some extent.
The reason I hate it is because soccer is cool, I'd love to see it catch on and become big time in the US, but that stuff will hold it back. No place for it. Poor sportsmanship is poor sportsmanship, no matter what ball you're chasing.
It's lame but stoppage time is added for that. Besides again...if USA actually doesn't make a crucial mistake that shouldn't have been made, that is never even attempted.
but stoppage time doesnt correct that imo. the fake injuries is to slow momentum down and such which affects the players and games. its not about stalling all the time.
Well, now the debate about coaching begins. Bradley obviously gaffed huge by relying on Robbie Findley up top and, as noted earlier in the thread, starting Ricardo Clark. There's clearly a mental block that doesn't prepare the team for games and he starts things off with high school soccer - i.e. punting the ball down the field and hoping somebody heads it somewhere - way too often. Jurgen Klinsmann was almost our coach after Bruce Arena was fired. I wonder if he has any interest in the job, seeing as how he mainly lives in Los Angeles.
I can look back and say that at least we're not French or Italian. No offense to those of French or Italian descent (or both).
Is this the first time you're following soccer? I understand your point but even the best team(s) in the world are flopping and doing this. This has always been part of soccer.
USA probably shouldn't have even qualified for the knockout stage and it showed today. USA got lucky, really lucky with Robert Green's gift that gave them a tie when they should have lost. Down 2-0 to Slovenia, a nation that has 2 million people total. Nearly tied with Algeria. Gave up 2 goals to Ghana, who's only goals before today came from PK, while USA could only muster up a PK(I'm no soccer expert, but I thought it was a questionable PK today as well). Albeit, Ghana's defense is strong.
USA also got really unlucky, being robbed of two goals that would've given them 2 victories. So that theory doesn't hold water.
Pathetic. Rooting for your national team is nothing like rooting for the Lakers or Yankees just because they're good. If anything this USA team was uniting people in our country. Don't crap on what this team has done as far as at least improving some interest in the sport in America.
Hah... Team USA should hire Morey to do advanced statistical analysis of players between now and the next World Cup. Morey will field a team of players loaded with intangibles and hidden talent.
It's not a excuse, it's a reality. Time is added onto the clock, America still had their chance after chance after chance, and players dive throughout the ENTIRE game to stop momentum. Look, Soccer/Football has done fine the way it is played. I don't know why people want to change this or that about it here, stopping the clock. Soccer does not need America, so it should not change it's rules because a few American sports leagues stop the clock for a injury. ALSO when a player is carted off, that is a man off the pitch. They don't wait too long to put him off to the side, then USA actually has the advantage until a sub is brought on (if they have a sub left) or until the player gets back on...then the time is still added back on.
Great post. The better team won, congratulations Ghana. This sport isn't for everyone. America can still hold it's head up high while it dominates sports invented in it's own borders. And globally... they have always dominated the arms race.
Wow, Ghana knocks the US out again. The difference between the American strikers & Asamoah Gyan is that the latter is an elite striker that only needs one chance to score while the US forwards had plenty of chances to score, but couldn't finish. I think Ghana would've won easily had the injured Michael Essien and Sully Muntari been playing. They're two of the better midfielders in the world. I'm with ChrisBosh, I don't understand why Muntari isn't starting and playing the majority of the game. He's good enough to regularly play for Inter-Milan, but not Ghana. It doesn't make any sense. To all the guys jumping off the bandwagon, please reconsider. Enjoy the rest of the World Cup and start following your favorite players and begin to watch some of the better professional leagues. There's also a major international tournament practically every year you can follow as well.
