Shame on you America! Shame on you.

[p_p_man]

The American World Cup soccor team. The pride and joy of the United States of America. The World Cup hopefuls for the finals in Korea/Japan in three weeks time play Uruguay today in a pre-tournement friendly in Washington DC.

Despite playing at home the prediction is that there will be more Uruguayan supporters in the crowd than American ones.

Shame on you. Support your squad. Cheer every move they make. Applaud everthing they do.

Or do you want them to go down in soccer history as the only team in the whole wide world that had no support...

From today's NYT:

"The United States begins a final week of friendly matches May 12 against Uruguay in Washington, then opens World Cup play against Portugal on June 5, with other first-round matches scheduled against South Korea and Poland. The Americans hope to advance beyond group play, but for that they must score goals, always a mighty struggle.

The American men have never produced a breakout goal scorer, one as familiar to the general public as to the soccer cognoscenti. That could begin to change at the World Cup if Mathis, 25, continues to impress with his dexterous feet. A native of Conyers, Ga., he speaks in an antebellum voice, the voice of football, but also the voice of possibility and awakening. He has scored 8 goals and has 6 assists in 19 career appearances with the national team, including 5 goals in 8 matches this year. In one torrid stretch, he delivered a goal or an assist in seven consecutive starts.

Is Mathis your man?

ppman

 

[Starblayde]

But is Alexi Laylas playing.. he of the white guy with ginger afro fame?

 

[paganangel]

who said they were our pride and joy? not us. we, as a whole, aren't into soccer.
shame on you, we don't travel around the world just to use a sporting event as an excuse to fight.

 

[YogiBare]

Soccer.

WTF?

 

[Starblayde]

we don't travel around the world just to use a sporting event as an excuse to fight.

Yeah, you just stay in your own country... at least when we run riot we do it in exotic locations

 

[lobito]

holyfuck, I agree with paganangel!

You can't find anything else bad to get "us" on today PeePeeMan? Come on, I know you can do better than that. Maybe if you and Todd get together you can think of something.

 

[Cheyenne]

I care about soccer even less than I care about football. No, I don't care if the team wins or loses. I'll never know which they did, either, unless I read it here.

 

[paganangel]

Yeah, you just stay in your own country... at least when we run riot we do it in exotic locations

how often do we fight over a game? it almost never happens. i've met many, many britons who have ADMITTED to having more interest in fighting with opposing fans than the game itself. then there are others who actually do take the game that seriously. i don't know which is more pathetic.

 

[badasschick]

Want Soccer fans? Visit "the Basin" I think the US concentration of soccer fans live here.

 

[Starblayde]

I'm talking Ice Hockey here.. post-stanley cup 'celebrations'

And no we are not the only hooligans on the planet. If we fight its just with fists and plastic chairs.

Istanbul, last year, two Leed United fans were stabby by some filthy Turkish bastards.

It was the Tunisians that kicked off against english fans during France '98....

 

[Problem Child]

Soccor is a queefer sport fit only for illiterate hooligans and third world nations that can't afford indoor plumbing or central air conditioning.

Go suck a hot exhaust pipe, turdnibbler.

 

[YogiBare]

[Go suck a hot exhaust pipe, turdnibbler. [/B]

What he said.

 

[paganangel]

I'm talking Ice Hockey here.. post-stanley cup 'celebrations'

And no we are not the only hooligans on the planet. If we fight its just with fists and plastic chairs.

Istanbul, last year, two Leed United fans were stabby by some filthy Turkish bastards.

It was the Tunisians that kicked off against english fans during France '98....

i nevee said brits were the only ones. i don't think they are even the worst. i don't know what "celebrations" you were talking about, and i hope you weren't insinuating that we go beyond fists and plastic chairs. (what the hll doyou mena plastic chairs, doyou scheual your fights at lawn furniyure expos or do you bring the plastic chairs with you. oh, and whenever i'm in a barfight with a brit i always have to watch out for a bottle.)

 

[lobito]

Soccor is a queefer sport fit only for illiterate hooligans and third world nations that can't afford indoor plumbing or central air conditioning.

Go suck a hot exhaust pipe, turdnibbler.

as someone who was born in a third world country, and that grew up playing futbol(soccEr), I would normally be offended by that comment. Except that it's PC's comment, so it's hard to tell anything good or bad form it sometimes.

Oh, we have indoor plumbing, but no central air. We need neither heating nor air conditioning. Average temp year round is 65-70F

 

[badasschick]

i nevee said brits were the only ones. i don't think they are even the worst. i don't know what "celebrations" you were talking about, and i hope you weren't insinuating that we go beyond fists and plastic chairs. (what the hll doyou mena plastic chairs, doyou scheual your fights at lawn furniyure expos or do you bring the plastic chairs with you. oh, and whenever i'm in a barfight with a brit i always have to watch out for a bottle.)

A Lakers championship comes to mind....the following year we had "celebrate with dignity" PSA on every TV channel.

 

[Starblayde]

No i wasn't insinuating anything else.... anytime you see the france '98 fights they're outside parisian cafes.... which have lots of plastic chairs that are easy to lob at foreigners....

 

[red_rose]

Wait...



Soccer?

We are saturated in football boneheads... we have no time for games that involve skill!

j/k... please don't let all the no-necked linemen come and get me!

 

[Starblayde]

we have no time for games that involve skill!

About time somebody realised it too....

 

[p_p_man]

Then the lot of you won't be interested in knowing that...

women's soccor is the fastest growing sport in the US.

Your national team is the World Cup holders of the women's tournement held two years ago. They are attracting huge crowds and huge amounts of money from the world of commerce. And what's more important huge numbers of loyal fans who follow them everywhere.

It's predicted that not too far in the furure women's soccor will be the top women's sport in the US.

Anyway as I've got a £10 bet that America will get through to the knockout stage of the competition I am copying this, also from the the NYT. more for my benefit than for yours...

YAAaaaaiiii GO AMERICA...

Quote:

"young Americans like Mathis, Wolff, Landon Donovan and DaMarcus Beasley appear to be different. They do not seem to understand their place. They do not appear to know, or care, that the Americans are not supposed to defeat France and Argentina, Italy and Brazil. Perhaps they are simply better players...[than others in the past]"



ppman

 

[paganangel]

No i wasn't insinuating anything else.... anytime you see the france '98 fights they're outside parisian cafes.... which have lots of plastic chairs that are easy to lob at foreigners....

oh, ok...we really don't have a lot of media coverage of soccer, or any international sports for that matter.

bac...yeah, i have somememory of that, as well as a handfull of other events involving the championships. still, when you consider the popularity and number of sports here, it is pretty interesting that we don't "riot" like other people around the world.
to be fair, i may also not be seeing the whole picture. here in nyc, we never, and i mean never do that kind of shit. even though we often have this bad rep, for the most part we are some of the most well behaved people around. remember when people said we'd be buning down buildings when the yankees faced the mets in the world series? city of eight million people and not so much as a barroom brawl.

 

[MechaBlade]

No, shame on you. I don't feel like watching soccer. I don't watch basketball or football most of the time, so why should I make an exception for this?

 

[red_rose]

Re: Re: Shame on you America! Shame on you.

No, shame on you. I don't feel like watching soccer. I don't watch basketball or football most of the time, so why should I make an exception for this?

'cos p_p_man says you should

 

[lobito]

Re: Then the lot of you won't be interested in knowing that...

It's predicted that not too far in the furure women's soccor will be the top women's sport in the US.

what kind of moron does it take to figure that one out? Do you not realize that there are very few womens pro sports in the U.S.? PeePee, find something else to bitch about, and preferably somewhere else in the world for once. Your shit is way old.

 

[Starblayde]

Re: Re: Shame on you America! Shame on you.

so why should I make an exception for this?

the only reason i can think of is that this is a game that people outsde the US actually give a shit about.

But if you don't like, we don't mind... just don't put it down, and that goes for everybody, with every sport

 

[paganangel]

Wait...



Soccer?

We are saturated in football boneheads... we have no time for games that involve skill!

j/k... please don't let all the no-necked linemen come and get me!

ok, i'm gonna take a ball the size of an orange and throw it in your general direction at somewhere between 80 and 105 mph.
you have to hit it with a stick. btw, sometimes the ball will go straight, sometimes it will curve. there's more, but i think you get the point about americansports involving skill...