World Cup, the morning after
Ugh! I am so pissed off.
This morning, I read the Boston Globe and caught up on the World Cup action. If you lose in the World Cup, apparently it’s solely due to the official and not because you can’t score a goal. That being said, I do think our group was a true “Group Of Death.” The Czech Republic was ranked #2 in the World and is also going home. Meanwhile, Mexico, as seems to be the rule, gets the “group of lamers”.
Sometimes I do think there is an anti-US conspiracy, but that being said, if you score 1/2 your goals through the opponent’s team, you have a problem. There were no goals called back because of offside that were questionable (the ITA game was the correct call) and so forth.
A poster on the last game said that Reyna sucked, well my opinion has dropped significantly after yesterday’s game and I would go so far as to agree with him. Nice way to give up the ball for the first goal. Another article mentions how Arena was creating a Frankenteam with Reyna at the center, but he wasn’t good enough to spring free people like Beasley.
The only thing that I’ll take out of the US team at the World Cup was Clint Dempsey’s “suck it” goal from yesterday that was awesome. Reyna crossed over to him and he just blasted it. Dempsey is a player for the Revolution so after that goal I’m sure MLS will give him a transfer to some European team where he’ll make lots of $$ but warm the bench. See, it’s a European conspiracy!!
I watched the MLS game between Columbus and NE Wednesday, and aside from “WTF were they thinking having this game mid-week in Columbus during the World Cup,” the game itself was pretty good. MLS is not bad soccer at all these days. I just wish more people would support it. It feels like Arena Football has a bigger audience…then again, most Americans hate scores of 1-0, but a score like 85-78 is supposedly more exciting, even if you’re playing on a pinball field (hey I enjoy Arena too, but that ball bounces like crazy)….
June 23rd, 2006 at 7:57 am
i’m an american and love soccer, as well as MLS and defensive minded sports(defense = hustle + effort). it was beasley who passed to dempsey by the way, which is important becuase many have stated he had a bad world cup.
June 23rd, 2006 at 1:20 pm
God damn, I suck, you’re right. Sorry. How could it have been Reyna. He sucks.