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Is the loss tuesday the most humiliating loss in US athletic history?
Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:55 pm
Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:55 pm
The entire soccer program is a joke. I don't think any collegiate or athletic team has been humiliated like the US team was yesterday
This post was edited on 10/12/17 at 10:58 pm
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Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:56 pm to Elleshoe
The match was on Tuesday.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:56 pm to Elleshoe
The 2004 Olympic basketball team is up there
Posted on 10/12/17 at 10:57 pm to KosmoCramer
Seems like yesterday to me dammit. I've honestly never been more humiliated to be an American
This post was edited on 10/12/17 at 10:58 pm
Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:05 pm to Elleshoe
It was rough and definitely up there.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 11:58 pm to VADawg
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The 2004 Olympic basketball team is up there
Definitely this. However it was easier to swallow because we still knew we were the best and could fix the problem and it wasn’t going to have a negative impact on the future of the sport stateside.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 12:01 am to Elleshoe
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I don't think any collegiate or athletic team has been humiliated like the US team was yesterday
I feel like you're begging for a 1/9 reference
Posted on 10/13/17 at 12:49 am to Elleshoe
1) US in 2018 World Cup Qualification
2) US Men's basketball in 2002
3) US Men's basketball in 2004
2) US Men's basketball in 2002
3) US Men's basketball in 2004
Posted on 10/13/17 at 5:42 am to Keys Open Doors
Yes. This is the most embarrassing. Certainly in my short lifetime.
At least with the early-2000s basketball, we finally took it seriously, fixed the problems, and haven't looked back.
I can only pray US Soccer uses this embarrassing failure as motivation to ensure this never happens again. We are being torn apart and laughed at by everyone right now, especially the Brits.
At least with the early-2000s basketball, we finally took it seriously, fixed the problems, and haven't looked back.
I can only pray US Soccer uses this embarrassing failure as motivation to ensure this never happens again. We are being torn apart and laughed at by everyone right now, especially the Brits.
This post was edited on 10/13/17 at 5:44 am
Posted on 10/13/17 at 6:07 am to Elleshoe
It would be if more people cared.
But life goes on. I think this benefits US soccer long-term.
But life goes on. I think this benefits US soccer long-term.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 6:29 am to uway
I agree.
At least this is what I tell myself when I'm curled in the fetal position in the shower.
And I get to go through this again next June.
At least this is what I tell myself when I'm curled in the fetal position in the shower.
And I get to go through this again next June.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 7:02 am to Elleshoe
US starts their boys at what U13 or so, and most of those clubs are so political it's not even funny.
Young athletes aren't drawn into the sport in the south for some reason. We travel all over the south playing the best teams, U12, and I'm shocked how unathletic most teams are. Very, very well coached, but just patently unathletic.
My boy's team is the opposite, insane athletes...can't possess out of the back to save their lives.
Young athletes aren't drawn into the sport in the south for some reason. We travel all over the south playing the best teams, U12, and I'm shocked how unathletic most teams are. Very, very well coached, but just patently unathletic.
My boy's team is the opposite, insane athletes...can't possess out of the back to save their lives.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 8:45 am to Gaston
I'd prefer skills over sheer athletic ability. When the USMNT can trap and hold a pass, even from six or eight yards, I'll be beside myself with joy.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 8:50 am to VADawg
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The 2004 Olympic basketball team is up there
Nobody gives a frick about the USMNT for basketball or really any other sport. The USMNT is the lifeblood of soccer in the U.S. This was unquestionably the worst loss in US athletic history.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 9:53 am to uway
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But life goes on. I think this benefits US soccer long-term.
What logic did you use to arrive at the idea that this benefits us long term?
Posted on 10/13/17 at 1:43 pm to Retrograde
Hopefully it will be the long needed catalyst for change
Posted on 10/13/17 at 5:04 pm to Gaston
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Young athletes aren't drawn into the sport in the south for some reason. We travel all over the south playing the best teams, U12, and I'm shocked how unathletic most teams are. Very, very well coached, but just patently unathletic.
Until soccer is viewed as something other than rich white kids sport for lesser athletes in the south things are going to continue as they have.
The best athletes heroes are football, basketball, and baseball players and those sports draw the athletes, just the way it is. If you walk into any high school and ask students at random most will be unable to name 3 soccer players from memory.
The truth is that it is viewed as a fringe sport by most.
That is what has to change for the US to be relevant on the world stage.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 5:11 pm to Retrograde
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What logic did you use to arrive at the idea that this benefits us long term?
The negative is clearly less publicity for soccer so there is some number of non-soccer people that won't become soccer people due to the US being in the WC.
Also a negative that players won't get WC experience.
I think it will be a net positive if it's the catalyst for meaningful change. We are not and have not been good enough. Making the World Cup would have meant waiting longer to make meaningful change. In my bright-side analysis, that will be positive long-term.
This loss is going to fuel a lot of things.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 5:50 pm to Elleshoe
100%.
After all of the hype of the Pulisic as the next big thing in American sports, he won't even be in the tournament next summer. This was not only an embarrassment, but it turned an event that could have created a new generation of US soccer into more ammo for the "soccer isn't for Americans" assholes in this country.
After all of the hype of the Pulisic as the next big thing in American sports, he won't even be in the tournament next summer. This was not only an embarrassment, but it turned an event that could have created a new generation of US soccer into more ammo for the "soccer isn't for Americans" assholes in this country.
This post was edited on 10/13/17 at 5:51 pm
Posted on 10/15/17 at 11:52 am to Dijkstra
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If you believe more academies for rich white kids is going to solve the problem
Those people will all be dead or in nursing homes by 2018.
I don't know anyone under 65 who has this mentality.
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