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just looked at the groups. DAMN!!! germany is soooo lucky, we have an easy group. btw, the US cant play for s%$t. no offence, but your soccer team gotta improve bigtime.....anyway, the groups look fair to me

Last edited by [S.P.S]1on1killa (2005-12-09 14:26:33)

good job fdcp_elmo     ^^

take it easy cowboy.........i didnt mean to offend you.nevertheless, your so called "empire" is simply NOT good at playing what you call soccer.

anyway, have your illusion and ill have mine

Soccer, ... snicker

I think its not easy to say what will happen to the german team, they had some good games against powerful teams like france or argentina, but also played not very good against "small" teams.
However, the Would Cup will be great. Ok, i did not get any cards but i'll visit the game Germany - USA here in my hometown (2006-3-20).

Sturmvogel wrote:

Horseman 77 wrote:

Soccer, ... snicker

Yeah its all about NASCAR am I right man. Yeah I can't get enough of cars running around in circles. Yeee-haw buddy, nothin better than eating freedom fries and NASCAR. Maybe after that we can watch some FOOTBALL! Watching fat men in tights who are such pansies they have to wear helmets and pads is where it's at!

It all about Polo  " Premote the Route " nice Try though.

that is why the u.s. team sucks a bit..not enough support from their fans...as most of them are girls, most of the u.s. men have no idea about football (soccer) at all.

...and the winner is: I think brazil will be very strong as always and also netherlands has a very strong team, but maybe we'll see another surprise like the Greeks at Euro???

Last edited by CZE_M4CH0 (2005-12-09 15:16:00)

funny thing is, I went to two US qualifiers this past year, and I've seen the national team (US play) 5 times in the last 4 years... and every one of those games was sold out...

so I think people who claim the US team lacks fans are just ignorant of the facts. soccer doesn't get the attention here it does elsewhere becuase there ARE other sports, unlike those places where it is the only thing people really pay attention to. however, that doesn't mean there aren't large numbers of passionate fans here.

say whatever you want about US soccer, but I watched my team, ranked 6th at the time in the world (not sure where they are now, haven't checked) in front of sold out stadiums where you could barely hear yourself think. heck at the Mexico game in Columbus this past fall it was incredible.

Its also stereotyping and ignorance at its wildest to say most US fans are girls and most US men don't understand soccer at all. This may have been true 10 or 20 years ago but it really isnt at all now. An overwhelming number of Americans play the game, and naturally as they get older they become adults who understand it... not to mention members of that older generation who have kids who play. I'm an assistant coach from a relatively obscure Division I men's soccer program... we're in a small conference called the horizon league and we've never even made it into the NCAA tournament... however we get well over 500 letters from young men interested in our program each year, and I bet the volume of recruits is 10 times that at places like Indiana, UCLA, and other powers.

please don't bring generalizations and stereotypes into this.

my pick for cup champions - The Netherlands. Historically European teams win in Europe, Brazil wins everywhere else. I think this is finally the year the Dutch get it done. The classic choke artists like England, Spain, Portugal, and Italy will all find a way to blow it. Ironically Brazil finally brings a respectable goalkeeper, but have no central defense in front of him.

Last edited by dshak (2005-12-09 15:25:51)

dshak wrote:

funny thing is, I went to two US qualifiers this past year, and I've seen the national team (US play) 5 times in the last 4 years... and every one of those games was sold out...

so I think people who claim the US team lacks fans are just ingnorant of the facts. soccer doesn't get the attention here it does elsewhere becuase there ARE other sports, unlike those places where it is the only thing people really pay attention to. however, that doesn't mean there aren't large numbers of passionate fans here.

say whatever you want about US soccer, but I watched my team, ranked 6th at the time in the world (not sure where they are now, haven't checked) in front of sold out stadiums where you could barely hear yourself think. heck at the Mexico game in Columbus this past fall it was incredible.

well theyre right for the most part.

i went to a Real Madrid game in Chicago and it was sold out, but i've also been to a bunch of chicago fire games that there have only been maybe 10000 people there.  in europe every game sells out.

the US does lack fans when compared to other parts of the world. 

no need to take it personally.  im a fan of US soccer too, and i agree, americans just dont care about soccer the way the rest of the world does.

haha,

trigger... I think you'll find that when you're on an international forum the words "its soccer, calm down" are kind of useless.

My rant isn't necessarily to completely disagree with some of the points being made... but more so against douchebags who post on threads for no reason other than to antagonize people.

Macho its all about where you are... sure if you play a game in LA or New York, Chicago, you're going to see large ethnic populations, because there are large ethnic populations in those cities... but I can tell you aside from the 3 or 4 thousand Mexican fans who made the trip, it was pretty much just yankees in Columbus (which is why they chose to play it there in the first place)

Also, I watched that game your refering to on TV, I think you are exaggerating pretty badly when you say there were no "typical americans" when you looked around. not to mention the fact that... and this should probably have its own thread but I'm bold enough to make the statement anyway...

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A TYPICAL AMERICAN!

Last edited by dshak (2005-12-09 15:36:57)

I think Brazil is going to win again though. at least they will make it to the finals. Brazil is just much better than most counrty's

englands gonna win the world cup........dont u think???