World Cup Thread

[Bigtyrone]

Man, we look incompetent. Jeez…

 

[Starrcade]

This quite embarrassing. Spain would have crushed us.

 

[FactsOrOpinions]

I don't know much about soccer but I would assume the drama surrounding our player has fired the other team up. Probably would have played better without him but I don't know Jack diddly.

 

[BlueWorldOrder74]

I don't know much about soccer but I would assume the drama surrounding our player has fired the other team up. Probably would have played better without him but I don't know Jack diddly.

I think we just aren’t on the same level.

 

[MidseasonTweak]

We don't belong. First good team we have played and are getting waxed.

 

[Anon1751592624]

We just aren't very good at soccer and probably never will be (certainly elite). Our best players play other sports. It is that simple.

Every four years the country gets into it for a few weeks, and every year we get disappointed and soccer goes back to being the 5th or 6th most popular sport in the U.S. (football, basketball, baseball, golf, NASCAR).

 

[Drogon]

****! Just a bit outside

 

[BigRedMachineBigBlueNation]

I mean we may come back miracle win but I doubt we win the cup. England, Mexico, Argentina, Germany would hammer us tbh.

 

[StareIntoMyStink]

They need to put it in the hole.

 

[FactsOrOpinions]

Is this the last game if we lose?

 

[Drogon]

Only gonna get maybe 6 minutes of stoppage time, 7 if youre lucky

 

[Drogon]

4 minutes. GG.

 

[Drogon]

WTF Balogun. You're down 2 goals and you're trying to play ******* cute.

 

[StuBlue270_uk]

Damn. Must have gotten a quick hydration break. Usually get at least 5 minutes of stoppage.

 

[Colts240]

Soccer sucks anyway

 

[MidseasonTweak]

Beat down

 

[StuBlue270_uk]

Damn. Insult to injury there.

 

[Starrcade]

LOL announcer knows ratings and attendance are about to plummett for the WC.

 

[BlueWorldOrder74]

Damn. Must have gotten a quick hydration break. Usually get at least 5 minutes of stoppage.

Thought was going to be 7

 

[Anon1751521769]

Our goalie is doo doo, he had at least 3 business days to stop that goal

 

[Anon1751592624]

Somebody remind me in 4 years to care about soccer again.

 

[Dead Cat Bounce]

What a bleak night.

 

[Colts240]

First World Cup game I ever watched back to not caring

 

[BigRedMachineBigBlueNation]

Goalie should be fired.

 

[sefus12]

No, I’m not saying this is what happened, but the US looked like they were throwing the game. Just utterly embarrassing.

 

[Laparkafan]

As a uk football fan I’m used to that feeling

 

[Nightwish]

Major reality check unfortunately. The positive is the country got invested for a little while but worst case scenario is just not showing up after the red card controversy. Turns out it didn't matter at all.

 

[Drogon]

The 52nd minute mark is why I rarely watch soccer. A lof of what is a foul and isn't a foul is stupid af. Also, a lot of times whomever has the better players acting like they got shot in the leg writhing with agony get the benefit of the call too much.

 

[Mdnerd]

LOL announcer knows ratings and attendance are about to plummett for the WC.

That was hilarious. He sounded immediately desperate knowing they just lost almost all American viewership.

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

This is what it looks like when men's soccer is your nation's fourth most popular sport among youths, and also competes with track during high school track season for elite athletes. Until that changes, expect much of the same.

 

[Laparkafan]

This is what it looks like when men's soccer is your nation's fourth most popular sport among youths, and also competes with track during high school track season for elite athletes. Until that changes, expect much of the same.

Football
Basketball
Baseball
Golf
So 5th at best?

 

[HenryMuto]

Should not have even been playing Belgium as Senegal blew a 2-0 lead with 5 minutes left in regulation time.

That was a tough watch tonight completely terrible pretty much all game. That 3rd goal was like WTF.

 

[Smeegs]

Well, our brief delusion that we were finally ready to take on the Euro soccer powers got shattered in an ugly way tonight.

That day has yet to arrive. They’re still a clear level above us.

 

[Bigtyrone]

That was a seriously embarrassing performance.

 

[loublue22_rivals308424]

4 straight round of 16 eliminations, nothing if not consistent

 

[entropy13]

 

[Ukbrassowtipin]

Got into it bc of country pride, but just cannot get into this sport as a whole.

Hockey and baseball score way more and those are our "slower" or less offensive team sports

Flopping is out out of control...would it be so hard to say if you fall down like that you have to sit 10 mins...that way youre either actually hurt or you won't do it

Offsides is dumb...imagine telling a receiver in football they arent allowed to run past a db.

 

[UKWildcats1987]

Well, back to 99% of us not caring for 4 years.

Not sure why anyone thinks the US will ever compete with the big boys when our best players play other sports.

 

[Smeegs]

The Trump curse. Everything he's involved with goes bad. Surprised we didn't get a tornado in Seattle.

That episode does make this butt-kicking look even worse. At least we’d have a built in excuse for it if Balogun hadn’t played. And we would’ve been viewed as the plucky underdog trying to fight against adversity.

But instead the world is now laughing that we still got smoked even after our President intervened. Bringing politics into it changed the game’s whole vibe. Bad juju.

 

[kywildcat1021979]

Until it changes at the youth level it will stay the way it is.....