They are watching the confed cup

international soccer is entertaining to watch. the US beating european teams is like european teams competing in american football and beating the US national team.  Soccer is such an unpopular sport, with none of our best athletes its hilarious when we outperform these countries where soccer is the best thing.

"Soccer is such an unpopular sport"

Apparently avo missed the memo that soccer is the most played sport in the US, and has been for over a decade.

"with none of our best athletes "

define "best". A football player woulnd't last 1 quarter in a soccer match, they just don't have the endurance for it. The conditioning behind the sport is different. once you understand that difference you begin to appreciate the athletism that these players have. They are among the best we have.

"its hilarious when we outperform these countries where soccer is the best thing."

The US has been consistantly ranked as one of the top 10 teams in the world since the 02 world cup. The growing rise in soccer in this countery has given us a large and talented talent pool that is allowing us to develope better and better players. MLS is picking up steam and given the current popularity of the sport among our youth I don't see why this leage will eventually rack up there with the NFL/NBA/MLB as a sports league here in the states.

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Apparently avo missed the memo that soccer is the most played sport in the US, and has been for over a decade."

soccer is the sport over protective parents put thier kids in because they dont want them to get hurt. it is a popular kiddie sport, i meant proffesional sports where baseball, basketball, and american football are the respected sports, and talent people almost always aim for 1 of those 3.

i define best as the most talented

"The US has been consistantly ranked as one of the top 10 teams in the world since the 02 world cup"

ranked by who? the US's offense is almost always crap, and their defense isnt great. i dont know anyone that would rank them top 10, top 20 probably, not top 10.

> Schniepel wrote:

> "define "best". A football player woulnd't last 1 quarter in a soccer match"

the intresting thing here is that soccer is played in halfs and not in quarters

btw.. some of these are super amazing:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD8f_Qgwc50

yeah, some of them are pretty nice. you gonna watch Spain rape the US? the US may be one of the top 20 teams in the world, but its definitely not the same caliber as Spain, shouldnt be close.

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> [TI] Sitting Duck wrote:

> Confederations cup the USA have so far played 3, won 1, lost 2 with the one victory being against Egypt. There is absolutely no shame at all in losing to Brazil and Italy but they are not beating or outperforming any European teams. They have only played one European team and they lost. The only team they have beaten is Egypt, who are crap (although would still probably be expected to beat USA). The only reason they went through to the next round is that Egypt unexpectedly beat Italy.

In the 2002 World Cup the USA only won two games. One against Portugal and one against Mexico. Mexico are just as rubbish as the USA so that is nothing to brag about. Beating Portugal is impressive I agree and that was pretty embarassing for Portugal to lose and go out in the first round, but upsets always happen in football. USA also lost to Poland, who are rubbish, and drew with South Korea, who are rubbish.

The football world rankings are nonsense and always have been. Although they do currently look a bit more sensible than usual.

The USA are currently ranked 14th btw

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranking/lastranking/gender=m/fullranking.html

All the best luck to the USA team, but don't you guys be thinking they are better than they are.

I for one actually hope that football never becomes too popular in the USA because it is well known that the three main factors for sporting success are (1) population (2) wealth and (3) interest. The USA already has the first two, if America became interested in football then they would be totally dominant.

you also forgot the US drawing against Italy, the best performance against the strongest team in the world cup.

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