If being good at Soccer entails Americans taking any one sport so seriously that our national identity and ego is derived from it, like how South American and some Europe countries take it, then I don’t want to be thaat good at Soccer. All of America would be as shitty and narrow as the Southeast is about College…

No one has caught up to USA basketball. There are 200 countries in the world, that is why there are so many international players in the NBA. America is one country so it won’t litter Europe Soccer Leagues with the same frequency.

Nah, American Women’s soccer is so good because women play it over (AM)football. We have 350,000,000 people and have no 3rd world parts (except for Arkansas). We are the richest most powerful thing ever (not a joke) With that talent pool, America would be near the top of anything it cared about. That is just stating…

Group of death means there are no bad teams in the group. 2014 WC was labeled the same for the same reason. Ghana (good), Germany (great) Portugal (really good)

Quintessential Premier League goal, decent setup, heavy first touches turning into a pass and butt ugly finish.

Is it really that beautiful? I like SOCCER, but really how often does something beautiful happen? Now basketball that is a beautiful sport to watch.

Hey Sigur Ros, how does it feel to have your national team draw w/ Portugal in it’s first ever major tournament?

Hows the heavy metal music working with the ladies these days? Getting any?

You have the sense of humor of an Eastern European. It wasn’t a serious comment Jaromir

I’ll spell Columbia however I want pal. I am just glad I didn’t screw up the a/o in the Costa Rica/Puerto Rico conundrum.

The rules are sometimes clear and they are often very stupid. The 2 examples Americans have seen in the Copa that makes us wretch involved free goals for non scoring chances resulting from insignificant infractions.

I wasn’t calling you a fool, but fucking Josh, you can call his name 50 times and can’t hear you or is too stoned to figure out his name, but the second you chew gum apparently within ear shot, he’s ready to throw verbal haymakers.

Stuart Holden had his Sunderland career effectively ended before it started because some Newcastle fans jumped him in a pub and caused a serious injury. Stuart was America’s more effeminate JonJo Selvey and those assholes took that away from us. NOT COOL. Russians train soccer hooligans to be ninjas because they are…

As someone who rarely smokes because it makes me feel dirty and hurts my eyes (I am a pussy) but has many daily smokers as friends, pot heads aren’t as cool and laid back as portrayed. They are moodier than normal who alternate between awesome and unbearably annoying/irritated. Their violent levels appear to be no…

Good Fifa talk, spot on too.

Zardes could literally have the highest work rate on the team after his 3rd 90 minute match in a little over a week and set up a Group clinching goal by taking on 2 Paraguayan defenders with pace and stutter steps and then firing the best cross for the USMNT since Zusi found Dempsey’s groin in Brazil....

God you are dumb. You are arguing with 3 different people who are talking about man for man talent being produced outside of the context of national team cohesiveness in an effort to show how dysfunctional those in charge of the cohesiveness are. And yet, here you are dummy acting like a dummy and missing the point.…

I don’t think you know what talent is or the context in which it is being discussed. It’s not chemistry or “best team playing as a unit”. He’s talking talent pool, ie talented players in which to draw from. Germany is not really that talented compared to a few South American countries and teams like Belgium. It’s much…

Germany is not the most talented team in the world. They had good chemistry and it took off in a short tourney atmosphere. Argentina for my money has the most talented team followed closely by Belgium.

“Arousals be for the victorious”. Dude, Borat impressions are not cool. No one talks like this in real life and oh shit you are not doing a Borat impression. JFC Europe and Russia, get your stuff together.