World Cup Thread

[The Varnsen]

Specter: friendly games do count as caps, and i´m positive about that... as just all the other games the player plays for the national team, as long as it is against another national teams and not against clubs or nations not recognized by FIFA...

 

[macDbol]

USA 2
Germany 1

It'll go to PKs.

I wonder what bruce arena would go as his starting lineup?

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sanneh-pope-berhalter-hejduk

reyna-obrian-mastoeni-beasley

mathis-mcbride

would be the starting line up i would go for ,but i bet arena is gonna pull off something differnt

 

[Code]

I would leave it as it was for the Mexico match.

Maybe put Cobi in at the half.

For sure he needs to leave the following people in:

Sanneh
Beasley
Pope
Donovan
Freidel
Reyna

 

[specter]

Varnsen - thanks for the clarification.

macDbol - it'll be tough to leave Donovan out of there. Donovan-McBride up front, just like the Portugal match?

And Arena likes to have Stewart in there as well. I've never been a big Stewart fan since he's really not all that gifted, but I have to admit he knows what he's doing and he has always fit into the team very well since being discovered during the '98 WC qualifying campaign.

Beasley will be a tough call.

 

[macDbol]

Varnsen - thanks for the clarification.

macDbol - it'll be tough to leave Donovan out of there. Donovan-McBride up front, just like the Portugal match?

And Arena likes to have Stewart in there as well. I've never been a big Stewart fan since he's really not all that gifted, but I have to admit he knows what he's doing and he has always fit into the team very well since being discovered during the '98 WC qualifying campaign.

Beasley will be a tough call.

recall mathis' two goals vs germany in that last friendly we played (4-2 loss),,,,bruce will think of something and i bet we'll all be shocked at the lineup,,i love the fact that we can guess germany's starting 11 and probably get most of it right but we cant guess what arena is thinking

 

[robby]

England, it's over. was a little bit disappointing how england
played; no power, no faith, no ideas. was it the heat? the goal
from ronaldinho was fantastic! imo seaman owes @ 50%; he
had to speculate. and rivaldo should go to hollywood after his
career as a soccer player. he isn't in need of such playacting.
the red card against ronaldinho was a bad joke.
would be nice to see brasil against senegal in the semifinal

 

[The Varnsen]

Brasiiiiiiiiiiil!!!! É isso aí macacada, festa rija rumo ao penta, vamos massacrar, aterrorizar!!! Com ou sem o Ronaldinho, o Penta está aí!!!

USA vs Germany should be interesting... its one of the tallest against one of the shortest teams in the tournament, look out for the headers yankees!!! Still, nobody explained me why only 1 or 2 american players are above 6"0, if you take out the goalkeepers, who are much taller as in every team... it´s just casuality, i guess... Landon Donovan- 5"8; Beasly- 5"7, Wolff- 5"9; Stewart- 5"9; Mathis-5"10; Cobi Jones- 5"7; Reyna- 5"9...

 

[robby]

Brasiiiiiiiiiiil!!!! É isso aí macacada, festa rija rumo ao penta, vamos massacrar, aterrorizar!!! Com ou sem o Ronaldinho, o Penta está aí!!!

USA vs Germany should be interesting... its one of the tallest against one of the shortest teams in the tournament, look out for the headers yankees!!! Still, nobody explained me why only 1 or 2 american players are above 6"0, if you take out the goalkeepers, who are much taller as in every team... it´s just casuality, i guess... Landon Donovan- 5"8; Beasly- 5"7, Wolff- 5"9; Stewart- 5"9; Mathis-5"10; Cobi Jones- 5"7; Reyna- 5"9...

USA - team of dwarfs

 

[The Varnsen]

It should be interesting to see the starting lineups... the german team is easily 6"1 average, against a USA team averaging some 5"10... I know that this is soccer isn´t very important, thank god, just look at Brazil and Argentina,who have traditionally shorter players... well, you´ll go out anyway... never thought i´d go for the germans, but we, the europeans, have to avoy an american success. If you guys start playing soccer seriously i think the rest of the world wont stand a chance. I mean, the USA have 300 million inhabitants of diversified origins, a powerfull college and high school sports system, and more money to invest in such things as anyone else. I don´t want to see soccer matches with 3 parts and timeouts for the comercials, and players earning 1 million dollars per month, and generalized use of steroids, etc... that´s the american way and i don´t like it very much, but oh well...

 

[cure]

The US should be up by 2 goals yet they can't seem to finish their chances. The US cannot win through the air so they have to stop the crosses when they are first released. They should have 2 guys covering every cross from Germany. Kahn is amazing!

That Ronaldinho goal was full of crap. He was trying to cross it and completely missed the box but Seamen was to blame on that goal and I REALLY HATE RIVALDO! How can players actually exchange jerseys or shake this guys hand?

I'm hoping for a US/Turkey final

Actually i think Turkey could give Brazil a scare since they know them well from their 1st round match.