US SOCCER

[clenz]

Have any other breaking news for us?

ManU's new "kit" is shit.

That's not the right kit...unless they changed it.

This is what I've seen.

Biggest logo ever




and yes, it's shit.

[MSUDuo]

Zusi and Besler have signed new deals to keep them Kansas City as DPs.

Even as a SKC fan, that's beyond stupid that they passed up chances in Europe

[bandl]

Bump

[clenz]

A good number of BPL teams touring North American right now.

Tottenham was in Seattle Sunday, Toronto today, and Chicago Saturday.


Liverpoo, I believe (maybe it was Arsenal...didn't pay much attention), is on ESPN2 tonight vs someone in Fenway

[Skjellyfetti]

Going to Manchester United vs. Inter Milan next week in DC.

I hate both teams.

[89Hen]

Going to Manchester United vs. Inter Milan next week in DC.

I hate both teams.

You might hate the stadium more.

[CID1990]

Going to Manchester United vs. Inter Milan next week in DC.

I hate both teams.

You might hate the stadium more.

RFK?

[89Hen]

You might hate the stadium more.

RFK?

FedEx

[CID1990]

RFK?

FedEx

FedEx is a shit venue thats true.

Watched the Skins-Giants in 2008 there in a club level seat behind a.... wait for it.... big ass pole

RFK is a great venue

did i say Dan Schneider is a douchecanoe

[93henfan]

FedEx is absolutely soulless.

And you get to pay $30 to get bussed in from a satellite parking lot three miles away and then wait in traffic on said bus (no dedicated bus lane wtf) for an hour plus getting back to your parking lot.

Just a complete disaster of a game day experience.

[bandl]

FedEx is absolutely soulless.

And you get to pay $30 to get bussed in from a satellite parking lot three miles away and then wait in traffic on said bus (no dedicated bus lane wtf) for an hour plus getting back to your parking lot.

Just a complete disaster of a game day experience.

All this.

I recall paying $40 for a MNF game? Fuck that.

Fedex is why I don't go to Skins games anymore. It's a bitch to get into, costs your youngest daughter to park, food starts at $15, beers are about $25/pop, the seats suck, the fans are complete assholes, and then it takes twice as long to get out of there resulting in taking up an ENTIRE FUCKING DAY just to watch a 3-4 hour game. No thanks, I'll act the grumpy old fart and watch at home or in a bar.

[93henfan]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I've begun feeling genuinely sorry for Redskins fans in the past 5-10 years. Sure, they have some hardware, unlike the Eagles, but there are people of legal drinking age born after the last one they won.

RFK used to rock. Literally. Now they have a giant mausoleum

[89Hen]

FedEx is absolutely soulless.

And you get to pay $30 to get bussed in from a satellite parking lot three miles away and then wait in traffic on said bus (no dedicated bus lane wtf) for an hour plus getting back to your parking lot.

Just a complete disaster of a game day experience.

I'm probably offered free tix 3-4 times a year. Haven't been in maybe 6 years. Everything about it blows. I'm only 6' and my knees hit the seats in front of me. Can't imagine a big ol' boy cramming in there.

[89Hen]

the fans are complete assholes

I love to tell people I'm an Eagles fan. You can see their eyes light up as they start to tell me how awful Philly fans are. Then I proceed to tell them, yup, I've been to many games and seen lots of drunken assholes getting in fights, dumping beer on opposing fans, yelling obscenities at kids in opposing teams gear, burning jerseys in the parking lot... oh, by the way, that was all at FedEx and the Eagles weren't in town.

[Grizalltheway]

the fans are complete assholes

I love to tell people I'm an Eagles fan. You can see their eyes light up as they start to tell me how awful Philly fans are. Then I proceed to tell them, yup, I've been to many games and seen lots of drunken assholes getting in fights, dumping beer on opposing fans, yelling obscenities at kids in opposing teams gear, burning jerseys in the parking lot... oh, by the way, that was all at FedEx and the Eagles weren't in town.

You're all assholes, and you deserve each other.

[bandl]

I love to tell people I'm an Eagles fan. You can see their eyes light up as they start to tell me how awful Philly fans are. Then I proceed to tell them, yup, I've been to many games and seen lots of drunken assholes getting in fights, dumping beer on opposing fans, yelling obscenities at kids in opposing teams gear, burning jerseys in the parking lot... oh, by the way, that was all at FedEx and the Eagles weren't in town.

You're all assholes, and you deserve each other.

GATW, you're invited here anytime.

[bandl]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I've begun feeling genuinely sorry for Redskins fans in the past 5-10 years. Sure, they have some hardware, unlike the Eagles, but there are people of legal drinking age born after the last one they won.

RFK used to rock. Literally. Now they have a giant mausoleum

Don't feel sorry for us. The skins fanbase are complete doucheshovels. Another reason I stopped going to skins games was because my crew all turned into those same assholes! I think all those years of losing and paying out your ass to watch it has caught up to the fanbase and turned them all into miserable fucks.

I'm still a skins fan for life though! THIRST

[Grizalltheway]

You're all assholes, and you deserve each other.

GATW, you're invited here anytime.

I did a week and a half from DC-NY back in '09. Had a blast, but not my cup of tea as far as a permanent residence goes.

If JMU plays UM in the playoffs again, you better get your ass out here. I promise I'm nicer (and less gay) in person.

[Ibanez]

GATW, you're invited here anytime.

I did a week and a half from DC-NY back in '09. Had a blast, but not my cup of tea as far as a permanent residence goes.

If JMU plays UM in the playoffs again, you better get your ass out here. I promise I'm nicer (and less gay) in person.

I heard you're gayer in person..wink wink nudge nudge

[Ibanez]

Anyone watching SKC and Manc City?

[Skjellyfetti]

yeah, i was watching a bit. saw that and spurs - toronto. my nbc sports feed crapped out for liverpool - roma.

also, someone want to start a 2014/2015 club soccer thread? would there be interest in that?

[clenz]

Done

[clenz]

From a message board for the EPL...

This started during a match thread where they started "making fun of" American football lingo...

Considering how their team fperformed in the World Cup compared to England, I don't think we have the moral authority to make fun of their strange football lingo, to be honest. Like with everything else, the US will overtake England in football sooner rather than later: it's inevitable. So we'd better get used to 'endzones' and 'three point conversions' becoming standard fare.

Never going to happen

Oh please, take it from one who lives here and witnesses the growth of grass roots 'Soccer" on an almost daily basis, the US will be a real force at international level in the next ten years or so. Seattle Sounders are getting 60'000 fans at home games. If David Beckham gets his team of the ground in Miami, watch the sport thrive even faster here.
It's happening here and as an expat Londoner living here for ten years now, the development of the game here has been nothing short of astounding to watch. Yes I find all the bizarre terms and phrases irritating, but watch out because they will be a force to be reckoned with. Go Soccerball!

This. I live in Canada, so whatever happens in the US filters through to us here in Ontario after a while, but interest in football is picking up massively across the place. Whenever TFC travel to the US, they're usually greeted with packed stadiums and relatively fierce home atmospheres, and reciprocally there seems to be more passion here at the BMO Field these days when teams come to play. TFC's picked up on this too: they're forming embryonic rivalries with the likes of Montreal and Sporting Kansas City, and for the first time I can genuinely feel a 'football culture' permeating North America whenever I flip ESPN on and watch the pre and post-game nattering when the over-enthusiastic commentators hype up routine challenges and fairly mundane skills to an outrageous degree.

As a nation, the US has always been one that constantly strives to overtly dominate at whatever endeavour it takes up: as a people, Americans tend to be fiercely nationalistic and competitive, and as individuals they're some of the most enthusiastic and accepting people you can find out there. All that together means that the US usually takes a long time to get into sports where it feels disadvantaged relative to the rest of the world (preferring to remain insular and committed to sports it regularly excels at), but once it picks up an overseas sport (Ice Hockey, or most of the Olympic sports) it pursues winning with a fervour rarely seen in more laid-back nations. Via a combination of the 'soccer mom' phenomenon following the 1994 World Cup, the unexpected run to the quarter-finals of the 2002 WC, and the post-2000 influx of Mexican and Latino immigrants from the South/football-loving immigrants from elsewhere in the world, the United States has finally started turning its attention to football. And as K.D.D.D.Soc and harr1984 have mentioned, the advantage of football relative to the other sports the US plays and the huge marketing potential of the game in the North America means that, sooner rather than later, it will become a fully-fledged national past-time, up there with American football, baseball and hockey.

And when that happens (coupled with the effects of the wise investments American football administrators are making in grass-roots football across the country coming to fruition), the sceptered isle will probably have to make way in yet another sport as the US goes barreling past.

The number of people agreeing and expanding on that, whom are Brits, is very high.

It's amazing - the people who follow the sport like it's their life and see the US growing and overtaking most of the world...yet old curmudgeon American like Flaggy, and UD fans don't.....shocking, a UD fan being compared to an old curmudgeon....never heard that about that fan base before.

[93henfan]

Edit: I will no longer make posts that could get Clenz worked up, no matter how funny they might be.

[89Hen]

It's amazing - the people who follow the sport like it's their life and see the US growing and overtaking most of the world...yet old curmudgeon American like Flaggy, and UD fans don't.....shocking, a UD fan being compared to an old curmudgeon....never heard that about that fan base before.

It's also amazing you put stock in comments like this:

Seattle Sounders are getting 60'000 fans at home games. If David Beckham gets his team of the ground in Miami, watch the sport thrive even faster here.

The Sounders are getting an incredible 42,771 per game, but that is more than double what anyone else besides Toronto (22k) is getting. And Miami was a complete failure last time they had an MLS team. This time could be different, but odds are, it won't succeed.