deacvision7
Mod Emeritus
What a strike by Sturridge! I think he almost split the cross bar in two there
You what is the most frustrating thing about the US team right now?
We're a huge country with a ton of money poured into the sport and a ton of children playing it. How on earth have we not gotten lucky and popped out at least one true superstar, ever? I mean countries like Cote d'Ivoire (Drogba), Liberia (Weah), Cameroon (Eto'o), Ghana (Essien) and the like have managed to hit the lottery at least once with a great talent and they are far smaller and far poorer and with far less coaching and support. And that's not covering small countries that manage to get solid talents out every once in a while - Alexander Frei would be the best player in US history, and he's from a country that only cares about soccer when you can't possibly ski anymore. Same with Edin Dzeko, because we know Bosnia was a great place to develop. Wilson Palacios would be the best CM in US history by a country mile, and he didn't leave Honduras until he was 24. Honfreakingduras.
In the entire history of United States soccer we've produced exactly two players good enough to start for a major club team (Tim Howard and Giuseppi Rossi) and one of them decided to play for another nation. It's absolutely ridiculous.
Great post.
I was just reading about Guadeloupe on wikipedia...even they have produced more than the United States. It's just mind-boggling and frustrating.
England's 3 best players in this tournament are clearly Jones, Smalling and Walker. It's really not even close.
how much of England's suckitude can be blamed on
a) coaches not setting them up properly, or
b) players not learning technical/tactical skills and only being able to play in an ugly-hightempo style where possession isn't valued
to be more direct - is it possible for England to play based on possession and short passes (see Spain)?