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re: Yedlin may quit USMNT
Posted on 6/19/20 at 2:38 pm to pvilleguru
Posted on 6/19/20 at 2:38 pm to pvilleguru
I’d urge him to quit. Save that jersey and spot on the field for someone who wants it
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Posted on 6/19/20 at 2:43 pm to McCaigBro69
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I’d rather suck arse in international soccer and have players out there that actually view playing as a prestigious opportunity than have a bunch of whiners that boycott the anthem and bad mouth the country.
I might've said the same thing before October 10,2017. I now 100% disagree
Posted on 6/19/20 at 2:45 pm to cwil177
Exactly
I grew up on the border, I remember back before shite hit the fan (9/11, cartels, etc) we would go on field trips into Mexico. I remember seeing a fricking bloated arse dead guy floating face down in the river. A guy i went to hs with is still in jail for human trafficking. People fricking die to get in this country. It’s far from perfect but it’s also far from the despot wasteland people make it out to be. Social injustice and inequality and police brutality and profiling is definitely real but some of these people need a reality check when it comes to just how bad things could be.
I mean just look at the horror stories you hear in this game: John Obi Mikel’s dad getting kidnapped, players families in mexico and Brazil getting kidnapped, look at what Enes Kanter’s family has been thru in Turkey (they finally released his dad). You hear about guys going back to Africa and the poverty and disease they encounter. I admire him for speaking up on his platform, but quitting the usmnt doesn’t do shite to solve any of the aforementioned issues
I grew up on the border, I remember back before shite hit the fan (9/11, cartels, etc) we would go on field trips into Mexico. I remember seeing a fricking bloated arse dead guy floating face down in the river. A guy i went to hs with is still in jail for human trafficking. People fricking die to get in this country. It’s far from perfect but it’s also far from the despot wasteland people make it out to be. Social injustice and inequality and police brutality and profiling is definitely real but some of these people need a reality check when it comes to just how bad things could be.
I mean just look at the horror stories you hear in this game: John Obi Mikel’s dad getting kidnapped, players families in mexico and Brazil getting kidnapped, look at what Enes Kanter’s family has been thru in Turkey (they finally released his dad). You hear about guys going back to Africa and the poverty and disease they encounter. I admire him for speaking up on his platform, but quitting the usmnt doesn’t do shite to solve any of the aforementioned issues
Posted on 6/19/20 at 2:50 pm to pvilleguru
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I hate this argument. It often leads to meaning "just deal with it since it's better than other places." It's not like he's saying he'd rather play for Italy, Spain, etc
That’s not even my argument. My point is he doesn’t deal with systemic racism here, despite what the press parrots. He is safer in the UK because they have a lower crime rate, not because the police are out to get them in the US. Black men murder each other at a rate higher than any other group, even accounting for poverty and other socioeconomic factors. Police kill more white people per year than black people and more unarmed whites than unarmed blacks. Multiple studies show whites are more likely to be a victim of lethal force by a police officer than blacks. Black people are more likely to be killed by a black cop than a white one. Black people have advantages in the country over their white peers, such as innumerable minority scholarships, affirmative action, and minority owned business get tax and other governmental advantages. Black people get into grad schools (medicine, law, dental) with lower GPAs and standardized test scores than their Hispanic, white, and Asian counterparts. America is truly the land of opportunity if you work hard and value education, and this is how immigrants from Central America, Africa, India, etc, with nothing to their name and no grasp of the language exit poverty in one generation. This whole “black people have it so bad in America” narrative is such a crock of shite to anyone who can look around them with an honest assessment. So there, that’s my argument. It’s all bullshite.
Posted on 6/19/20 at 3:21 pm to S
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People fricking die to get in this country
It always struck me as ironic when people got mad that Trump called some countries shitholes (probably a poor choice of words diplomatically), while talking up how awesome those countries are, and then those same people turn around and say how bad America is. If the US is so bad, why are people leaving those countries to come to the US?
Posted on 6/19/20 at 3:46 pm to Broski
That sucks, but could open the door even wider for Dest to get a lot of minutes.
Posted on 6/19/20 at 4:34 pm to jumbo
Like I said in an earlier post if he wants to sit based on his principles good for him. This seems like a bit of grandstanding considering there are no UMNT games scheduled and no meaningful games on the horizon. I am willing to bet come time for qualifying he is on the team.
Posted on 6/19/20 at 4:41 pm to Broski
Am I just being overly cynical in saying that perhaps he recognizes his time is coming to an end with the USMNT, and he’s about to be passed by Dest or Cannon, and is saving face by taking this stance? I doubt that’s the case, but frick him anyway.
He wouldn’t really be missed. He’d make a couple of headlines the day of announcement, be mentioned during the next round of qualifiers and then pretty much be forgotten. He’s not Messi. shite, he’s not even pulisic.
He wouldn’t really be missed. He’d make a couple of headlines the day of announcement, be mentioned during the next round of qualifiers and then pretty much be forgotten. He’s not Messi. shite, he’s not even pulisic.
Posted on 6/19/20 at 4:43 pm to Broski
Don't let the door hit your dumbass on the way out.
Posted on 6/19/20 at 4:44 pm to PhilipMarlowe
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Am I just being overly cynical in saying that perhaps he recognizes his time is coming to an end with the USMNT
I thought about this too, but he's also only 26 and you need more than 3 outside backs over the course of qualifying, so I don't know.
Posted on 6/19/20 at 4:45 pm to pvilleguru
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That'd suck, but I'd understand it.
Of course you do.
Do you read every post and then think, "what is the most gaping vag position I can take in this thread?"
This post was edited on 6/19/20 at 4:45 pm
Posted on 6/19/20 at 4:50 pm to PhilipMarlowe
quote:I don't know. This is a really young team that could use a guy in his "prime" with a lot of EPL, WCQ, and WC experience.
He wouldn’t really be missed.
This post was edited on 6/19/20 at 4:51 pm
Posted on 6/19/20 at 4:51 pm to cwil177
quote:
That’s not even my argument. My point is he doesn’t deal with systemic racism here, despite what the press parrots. He is safer in the UK because they have a lower crime rate, not because the police are out to get them in the US. Black men murder each other at a rate higher than any other group, even accounting for poverty and other socioeconomic factors. Police kill more white people per year than black people and more unarmed whites than unarmed blacks. Multiple studies show whites are more likely to be a victim of lethal force by a police officer than blacks. Black people are more likely to be killed by a black cop than a white one. Black people have advantages in the country over their white peers, such as innumerable minority scholarships, affirmative action, and minority owned business get tax and other governmental advantages. Black people get into grad schools (medicine, law, dental) with lower GPAs and standardized test scores than their Hispanic, white, and Asian counterparts. America is truly the land of opportunity if you work hard and value education, and this is how immigrants from Central America, Africa, India, etc, with nothing to their name and no grasp of the language exit poverty in one generation. This whole “black people have it so bad in America” narrative is such a crock of shite to anyone who can look around them with an honest assessment. So there, that’s my argument. It’s all bull shite.
This made me so hard.
But it also makes you a racist.
Posted on 6/19/20 at 4:56 pm to Broski
Yeah, damn that is still young. I was thinking he was pushing 30.
Posted on 6/19/20 at 5:01 pm to McCaigBro69
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I’d rather suck arse in international soccer and have players out there that actually view playing as a prestigious opportunity than have a bunch of whiners that boycott the anthem and bad mouth the country.
I just want to win
Unfortunately we don’t even do that
Don’t even care if our players are Puppies at half time for extra strength to win games (even though we don’t)
Just win baby (even though we don’t)
Posted on 6/19/20 at 5:03 pm to pvilleguru
im still probably starting him at rb, Dest at lb if we had qualifiers tomorrow, but I still feel like you could plug a handful of guys in there without any real drop in performance at the position. It would be nice to rely on his experience given how many young players there are, but based off his comments I’m not sure you could do that anyway.
Posted on 6/19/20 at 5:03 pm to tgrgrd00
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Nobody is forcing him to live in America if it's so bad for him.
Don’t think he does
Posted on 6/19/20 at 5:06 pm to I Bleed Garnet
dude can do whatever he wants.. land of the free, blah blah blah 
Posted on 6/19/20 at 5:08 pm to TFTC
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dude can do whatever he wants.. land of the free, blah blah blah
A lot of bad mouthing USA!!!
Typical coming from Chiraq!
Dodging bullets everyday!!!!
This post was edited on 6/19/20 at 5:09 pm
Posted on 6/19/20 at 5:12 pm to I Bleed Garnet
he's free to be put in a cage on the South Side of Chicago..
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