Sad story but when ranking climbs, I still think the most famous climb involving a Kennedy was when Jackie climbed onto the back of the limo in Dallas back in ‘63.

“One of the bad things about the USMNT missing out on the World Cup is that there will now be a generation of youngsters who won’t fall in love with the team and the sport”

I hope they send these smug little shits to work in a Nike factory in Asia. Let them spend the rest of their childhood stitching sneakers.

Nice job, parents.

Cateyano? Knyvet? These names better be ethnic...

Those kids are amateurs next to LPShea’s GROAT — the Greatest Rant of All Time.

Silver lining is that all parents get to have their Saturdays back.

Kid: I think I might play in 2030.

There’s another generation of hipsters who fake loving soccer coming? God help us all.

“And now that you mention it, placing future sufferers of CTE on a pedestal is a REAL FUCKING PROBLEM with this society,”

Please don’t do the “this society” thing, as if the U.S. is particularly worse than anywhere else on this shit planet. It’s every society. We’re not special. Some put football players on a pedestal, some put soccer players there. Hell, some put sumo wrestlers there. It’s more a matter of taste and geography than some…

Let me add that the LAFC kids were incredible. Athletic, but also very techinical, brave and stringing passes. I thought I was in another country. I was told by a parent that LAFC and the Galaxy have coaches that just drive around southern CA looking for the best athletes and players and try to scoop them up. LAFC had…

And yet in America it’s a rich kids sport since you need to play “club” in order to be noticed.

“Soccer? That’s the one with the feet, right?” -> most heard reaction in America

I wish I could find the video clip, but after the game last night the BeIn sideline reporter Julian Gonzalez was relaying a story about the team’s lack of passion when, after a lackluster previous game (I forget against whom) he asked Michael Bradley why they sometimes lack energy and Bradley looked straight at him…

Arena’s comments have been all over the place. Almost nowhere was the full context of his quote, so I did look it up. You are correct. It should have never come down to 2 inches in the final game of qualifying. Just a pathetic comment from him that should automatically DQ him from ever working in US Soccer again in…

Jurgen needs to head the USSF. As an in-game coach he’s meh. But, as a big picture guy he’s the best. It was he the DFB, and bundesliga looked to after Germany’s disastrous 2002 showing, and it was he who started and oversaw the wholesale organizational changes that led to the Germany of now.

He has to be involved and…

He tried to get Jurgen fired in 2013 for clearing out his dead weight buddies. He quit in a snit to find himself. Then he comes back, can’t play 90 anymore but still plants stories in the press saying Jurgen is making it personal by not building the team around his washed up ass. He was a locker room cancer.

Not that the US had a legit chance to win, but since we suck who do we root for?

The countdown until the next time all of Argentina’s woes are blamed on Messi begins... now.