Interesting story on American who revolutionized how Japan plays youth soccer. He is now running pilot program in US.

The fact that his name isn’t already a household name with casual American sports fans is big indictment of Fox’s inability to market soccer.

It has to be so freeing, to give so few fucks like he does. I mean, I don’t give a lot of fucks, but the amount he gives has to be approaching if not actually zero. If you could measure the amount of fucks Marshawn gives in atomic movement, it would be the lowest temperature ever recorded in the universe.

Against all odds and sense, it’s actually a very fun hour or so of silly-ass television. I enjoyed the hell out of it, while also knowing that it was really extremely ridiculous.

If somebody said “just kidding, this is some bad fan-fiction from some loser message board” I’d totally believe it

So the show has basically dropped all premise of making sense and turned into a Michael Bay movie? Cool cool cool.

funny way to spell Shae

Just so we’re clear:  MLS is a shit league whose owners don’t want to expose themselves to “large salary costs” and also a league where players can get “easy paydays.”

you realize that if enough players do this then the league actually improves in a material way

You demand that people improve themselves continuously and go to the toughest jobs imaginable, and yet here you are year after year concocting word salads for a website that used to crowdsource funding for athlete dick pictures.

Yeah, kinda sucks you can’t trot out that “retirement league” canard again, right?

“MLS sucks because all the players are bad”

Billy I think you’ve done it. You’ve finally written your worst piece on deadspin. You should be proud

leave my boy Clint Dempsey out of this, buddy

“allegedly growing in popularity”

Seriously, can’t Deadspin find one soccer writer who doesn’t write like he’s one whiskey away from ending it all to spite the bartender?

Ah, the old “the MLS sucks because it doesn’t have relegation” argument. How on earth does the lack of relegation hold back the MLS or the national team? I don’t think that relegating, say, Chicago and Houston after last season and promoting Sacramento and Red Bulls II is suddenly going to make them both better.

And how many words would this chamaco write if the US had lost?

All righty then, we are officially on the home stretch for Russia 2018!

Patrick has been fired for not referencing the extensive real-world history of ballistas being used to kill flame-breathing magical lizards the size of 747s.