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hendersonshands 
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| re: Why Can't the United States Assemble a Championship Soccer Team? (Posted on 2/3/13 at 11:39 pm to SlowFlowPro)
I have that book written by Chris Kyle and now that he's dead, I have to finish it. I do have soccernomics too though
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SlowFlowPro 
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| re: Why Can't the United States Assemble a Championship Soccer Team? (Posted on 2/3/13 at 11:42 pm to hendersonshands)
i'm going to read a book on marketing and then finish that one...this week, hopefully
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thenry712 
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| re: Why Can't the United States Assemble a Championship Soccer Team? (Posted on 2/3/13 at 11:43 pm to hendersonshands)
I'm not huge on Soccernomics, but it does ask a few decent questions. It does talk about similar things we've discussed in this thread; mainly regarding the US and relating our relatively wealthy population to soccer success.
I recently finished Simon Kuper's book about Dutch Soccer, Jews, Ajax and World War II. It's a really random assortment of stories, but interesting nonetheless.
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hendersonshands
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| re: Why Can't the United States Assemble a Championship Soccer Team? (Posted on 2/3/13 at 11:45 pm to thenry712)
What I've read of it so far makes sense, mainly about making players feel comfortable and things of that nature. Which book is that?
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SlowFlowPro
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| re: Why Can't the United States Assemble a Championship Soccer Team? (Posted on 2/3/13 at 11:45 pm to thenry712)
like freakanomoics, i see it as a way to raise interesting questions that may not even really be legit questions
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thenry712
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| re: Why Can't the United States Assemble a Championship Soccer Team? (Posted on 2/3/13 at 11:49 pm to hendersonshands)
I do like the discussion on penalties and game theory in Soccernomics. It almost validates the use of shootouts for ending tournament games.
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WarSlamEagle 
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| re: Why Can't the United States Assemble a Championship Soccer Team? (Posted on 2/4/13 at 12:40 am to thenry712)
There were some parts of Soccernomics I enjoyed thoroughly, other parts I liked the questions it raised, and other parts that I thought were really goofy.
I have recently read Brilliant Orange. Need another soccer book to read. Suggestions, Thenry?
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Atom-Z 
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| re: Why Can't the United States Assemble a Championship Soccer Team? (Posted on 2/4/13 at 12:48 am to WarSlamEagle)
Was Brilliant Orange good? I love dutch total football.
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WarSlamEagle
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| re: Why Can't the United States Assemble a Championship Soccer Team? (Posted on 2/4/13 at 12:50 am to Atom-Z)
It was a great read.
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LSUSOBEAST1 
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| re: Why Can't the United States Assemble a Championship Soccer Team? (Posted on 2/4/13 at 2:17 am to WarSlamEagle)
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Need another soccer book to read. Suggestions, Thenry?
I've recently read The World is a Ball and Dynamo. Would recommend both, enjoyed Dynamo more.
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cwil177
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| re: Why Can't the United States Assemble a Championship Soccer Team? (Posted on 2/4/13 at 8:04 am to TN Bhoy)
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Almost as idiotic as Soccernomics.
Great book.
WSE - Chasing the Game, if you haven't already read it, is fantastic.
This post was edited on 2/4 at 8:06 am
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Friend of OBUDan 
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| re: Why Can't the United States Assemble a Championship Soccer Team? (Posted on 2/4/13 at 11:15 am to thenry712)
Interesting article I read this morning related to this post.
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