Originally Posted by aceshigh

is there anything you guys are good at??????????? go australia round of 16 here we come and we have 17 mill in this country how many in america 255mill god u guys are shit!!!!!

Originally Posted by JordanMang

We have this game called football here in a America. It's like soccer, only 10x harder.

Originally Posted by JordanMang

We have this game called football here in a America. It's like soccer, only 10x harder.

Originally Posted by IRMonk

We'll always have curling!.....

Originally Posted by aceshigh

is there anything you guys are good at??????????? go australia round of 16 here we come and we have 17 mill in this country how many in america 255mill god u guys are shit!!!!!

Originally Posted by fantasma62

Hi, just wondering....You guys have been to how many World Cups?
Australia barely beat a crappy Uruguay team to get in. Heck Uruguay lost to Venezuela twice, once shut out in URUGUAY. Who did you guys have to beat to "BARELY" get in?
Oh, and please, Australia was playing an 11 man defense against Brazil... Hell they were playing "Everyone get inside the Goal" defense and hope to God that Brazil plays bad defense to counter attack...
Stop talking out of your ass....

Originally Posted by IRMonk

....lousy kangaroo-fuckers....

Originally Posted by IainDaniel

The US was an over hyped team who shouldn't have been ranked 4th in the world, who have they beaten Mexico, in the CONCAF qualifing. Ghana was suprisingly a decent team, and exciting to watch.

Originally Posted by aceshigh

is there anything you guys are good at??????????? go australia round of 16 here we come and we have 17 mill in this country how many in america 255mill god u guys are shit!!!!!

Originally Posted by fufu

Good, USA needs some humility.

Originally Posted by min0 lee

We play Soccer?
I didn't know that.

Originally Posted by goandykid

We have practically every other sport... And coming from someone who has played both rugby and football, and my dad played minor leage Rugby in England, football is much harder. I don't think you quite grasp the difficulty of sacrificing your body play after play for an hour. Running for 90 minutes is one thing, but there's a reason football has one of the lowest retirement ages and highest serious injury occurrences.

Originally Posted by lnvanry

its going to take a lot more than a stupid soccer tourney to humuliate the US

Originally Posted by IainDaniel

Difficulty of a sport isn't equated by injuries. I would have to go with Rugby or Soccer as being more difficult sports.

Originally Posted by IainDaniel

If difficulty or toughness of the athlete is equated by injuries then skiing would win hands down. Football players are put in comprimising positions that is the main reason why injuries are so high.

No doubt some recievers or defensive backs could rival some of these soccer players. But in Reality they are only on the field 50% of the game, and a good chunk of that time is setting up for the next play.

It pointless to argue who spends more time preparing for there game, they are both professional athletes and that is there livelyhood, so you can't really say one does more then the other.

Originally Posted by devildog88

Soccer sucks and only 9 % of the world cares about it! Less than 4% of Americans even watched the damn thing!

Originally Posted by Dale Mabry

I love playing soccer, very challenging. Now watching it, the Sportscenter highlights are enough for me. Most of the guys who "train" on this site would die within the first 5 minutes of a soccer match. The USA was ranked 4th so that Americans would think they were good and watch. Guess what? Didn't work.

Originally Posted by fantasma62

Yes, I know, we have George W. that's enough humiliation for one day...

Originally Posted by lnvanry

actually he sounded very well this week including today while in Austria.

Originally Posted by fantasma62

Exactly what 9% are you referring to?
The one thing about us americans, if we are not good at something, then it must suck. We suck as soccer, therefore, soccer sucks .....Oh well...

Originally Posted by lnvanry

that's right.

I don't understand the game...its so backwards in the evolutionary chain. No hands? We have our opposable thumbs for a reason. games that end it a tie are a joke anyways. Glad to see hockey evolved.

Originally Posted by aceshigh

is there anything you guys are good at??????????? go australia round of 16 here we come and we have 17 mill in this country how many in america 255mill god u guys are shit!!!!!

Originally Posted by fantasma62

Hi, just wondering....You guys have been to how many World Cups?
Australia barely beat a crappy Uruguay team to get in. Heck Uruguay lost to Venezuela twice, once shut out in URUGUAY. Who did you guys have to beat to "BARELY" get in?
Oh, and please, Australia was playing an 11 man defense against Brazil... Hell they were playing "Everyone get inside the Goal" defense and hope to God that Brazil plays bad defense to counter attack...
Stop talking out of your ass....

Originally Posted by Mr_Snafu

The U.S. population is close to 300 million.


Aceshigh:

In the U.S. there are many other sports that athletes play: baseball, NFL football, basketball, hockey, and other.

A lot of Americans also play individual sports like Golf and BodyBuilding, for example.


Football (soccer) is very popular through high school. After high school, there aren't a lot of options for athletes that play soccer, save a scholarship to a Uni. so the often switch their focus on another sports, or stop playing at the organized level.


World Cup:

The great thing about the world cup is that nobody really can call these games. The analysts, and commentators often can't pic a winner, nor can the fans.

Sudden death in the 2nd round: a team gets hot, good luck, bad calls, etc.

Originally Posted by aceshigh

WHAT A LOAD OF FUCKING SHIT!!!! did u even watch australia,s game against brazil???? 11 man defense wtf??? i can count 7 shots off the top of my head ,that australia had,,this is australia 2nd world cup and they were unlucky not to beat brazil and your giving them shit ,,you are a fucking tool,,at least we are in the round of 16 while your over populated shit hole of a country couldnt get off the bottom of there group,,get your facts straight your a fucking tool fucking dipshit american fuckwit,,australia could probably put together a gridiron team and kick your asses and per capita of people in the country vs medals in the olympics u fat lazy fucks dont stand a chance against this fine athletic country kiss my ass u yanky peice of shit!!!!

Originally Posted by fantasma62

Brazilians (and you can read this in the news) were afraid of playing Australia because they thought that Australia would come hitting and playing rough.

Originally Posted by Adamjs

I agree totally - all of the teams are scared to play Australia. Hell I'd be scared to play Australia if I didn't know they were girly soccer players who I could kick the arse of merely by looking at.

The problem is that when you have a team that is slapped together at the last minute, that is made up of players who have never seen each other before, you have to physically beat the crap out of the opposition.

Let's face it, Australia isn't a team. The other teams cannot even analyse previous Australian games to work out tactics - because there are no previous games that this team has played. The same goes for America.

The only teams who have a hope of pulling it together for the world cup, as a team, are those who are always playing as a team - which is most of the top South American and European teams. The rest of the world's teams' are a fucking haphazard shambles who are likely to fire or implode at any moment.

Notwithstanding any of the abovementioned - more people watch the world cup than any other sporting event - shambles or no shambles it's keeping someone amused.

Originally Posted by aceshigh

but we will probably get beat by italy

Originally Posted by fantasma62

Great point, Austrailia is not really a team that you can scout or even prepare well for, so they can sneak up on you and bite you in the arse.

Aceshigh: I believe every team that made it to the World Cup, deserved to make it. Australia fielded a good team of good hard nosed players. They made it to the second round because they deserved to make it to the second round and they played well enough to make it. If they took 7 shots at goal at Brazil, good for them, they played hard and were simply outclassed by a very strong team of world class players, but Australia did more than hold it's own. I am happy that you are such a rabid fan of your team and applaud your passion, so I absolutely take back what I said because the reality is that my country's team didn't make it (Venezuela) and my american team (grossly overrated) got their asses handed to them thanks to a very conservative approach by their coach...
I don't want to fight, I'd rather go back and correct what I said and continue being. That's all I have.....Sounds good?

Originally Posted by Adamjs

I agree totally - all of the teams are scared to play Australia. Hell I'd be scared to play Australia if I didn't know they were girly soccer players who I could kick the arse of merely by looking at.

The problem is that when you have a team that is slapped together at the last minute, that is made up of players who have never seen each other before, you have to physically beat the crap out of the opposition.

Let's face it, Australia isn't a team. The other teams cannot even analyse previous Australian games to work out tactics - because there are no previous games that this team has played. The same goes for America.

The only teams who have a hope of pulling it together for the world cup, as a team, are those who are always playing as a team - which is most of the top South American and European teams. The rest of the world's teams' are a fucking haphazard shambles who are likely to fire or implode at any moment.

Notwithstanding any of the abovementioned - more people watch the world cup than any other sporting event - shambles or no shambles it's keeping someone amused.

Originally Posted by Pepper

We don't win at the World Cup b/c we do not send our best atheletes. We send the best soccer players this country has to offer but out best athletes are playing other sports.

Originally Posted by Pepper

Watching soccer is like watching paint dry. It may be more challenging endurance-wise, but american football is superior in every way. Even the officials, as bad as they were in the playoffs, were not a bad as they were in the World Cup.

I get soccer fans riled up when I say this, but soccer is the WORST thing to happen to American sports. Kids play it until they are 12 and then never play it again. In the meantime, it limits them in playing basketball, baseball or football.

I coach youth basketball, and anytime a kid tells me he is also playing soccer, I immediatly assume he will miss half the practices and 1/4 of the games.

I hate soccer.

Originally Posted by aceshigh

u would think though out of 250 million people there would be 11 absolute super star soccer players though,,and american sports are shit! especially baseball fark!

Originally Posted by Pepper

I get soccer fans riled up when I say this, but soccer is the WORST thing to happen to American sports. Kids play it until they are 12 and then never play it again. In the meantime, it limits them in playing basketball, baseball or football.

I coach youth basketball, and anytime a kid tells me he is also playing soccer, I immediatly assume he will miss half the practices and 1/4 of the games.

I hate soccer.

Originally Posted by aceshigh

all i'll say to this is that you know less than most , why even post on a soccer thread if u know nothing about it??

Originally Posted by Dale Mabry

Let's see, make $5 million a year playing football, or make $45,000 a year playing soccer, you do the math.

Originally Posted by aceshigh

yeah fine with me but they drew with croatia not the czech republic,,,it just pissed me off when it sounded like u were belittling australia when we have clearly done really well ,,i think i have every right to belittle the septic tanks (yanks ) as they did shite!!!!!!! i usually go for england so i have 2 teams to go for but the australian games have been better ,,go the socceroos ,,should be the footballroos

Originally Posted by devildog88

Soccer sucks! The kids that play it have a shitty work ethic and would rather smoke dope. Oh and by the way none of the little pussies will lift weights. As a football coach I hate soccer players!

Originally Posted by Dale Mabry

Let's see, make $5 million a year playing football, or make $45,000 a year playing soccer, you do the math.

Originally Posted by fantasma62

Ayway, now comes the fun, LOSE AND GO HOME from now on. I think we'll see better futbol (Soccer) there. Don't you think?

Originally Posted by Pepper

Watching soccer is like watching paint dry. It may be more challenging endurance-wise, but american football is superior in every way. Even the officials, as bad as they were in the playoffs, were not a bad as they were in the World Cup.

I get soccer fans riled up when I say this, but soccer is the WORST thing to happen to American sports. Kids play it until they are 12 and then never play it again. In the meantime, it limits them in playing basketball, baseball or football.

I coach youth basketball, and anytime a kid tells me he is also playing soccer, I immediatly assume he will miss half the practices and 1/4 of the games.

I hate soccer.

Originally Posted by min0 lee

Can anyone name a popular Soccer player? And I do mean a current one, not Pele or Maradona or even that girl who took her shirt off.

There was a skit on David Letterman about Soccer and he wasa trying to name them but he couldn't figure out who these players were. Shheesh Your head is covered in football and your still well known.

Maybe I would like or accept Soccer more if people would stop shoving it down my throat.

Originally Posted by fantasma62

Sure, I'll help ya....

Figo, Beckham, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Kaka, Ballak, Robinho, Figueiredo, Zidane, Henry, Marquez, Borgetti, Messi, Tevez, Adu, Donovan, Pimpong (Just learned this yesterday), etc..... Never heard of them.

I don't believe that a sport should be shoved down anyone's throat. In fact, hell, it's kinda' like religion or politics. I don't want anyone shoving that up my throat. Soccer fans take their sport way to serious
I say enjoy your volleyball and I'll watch the World Cup....(I like volleyball too, but I like playing it more than watching it....)

Originally Posted by min0 lee

I just can never forget watching a simpson episode where everyone was eager to watch soccer...well after about 5 hours of watching the ball go back and forth, back and forth..ZZZzzzzzZZZzzzz everyone fell asleep..but then suddenly there was a riot in the stands! That's when it became entertaining.

Originally Posted by Goodfella9783

Haha I remember that one. Barney flips out when his beer spills and runs down the stairs knockin through everyone.

Originally Posted by min0 lee

That's the one! Funny as heck.

Originally Posted by devildog88

Soccer sucks! All of my references are from personal experience. When I say soccer players have shitty work ethic I mean in the town I live, when I say they are dope smokers, I mean in the town where I coach, when I say they don't lift, well once again I am making reference to the long haired dope smoking lazy pieces of shit in my neck of the woods. Soccer is a recreational sport that is well suited for little children. They all have fun because they can each take turns kicking the ball and in the end if the score is zero to zero everyone is happy and they live happily ever after! Just like the "no child left behind act"

Originally Posted by Adamjs

You have to be either joking or are totally clueless.
And I posted because I saw you were the last to post at the time and figured there'd be something funny going on in the thread - because coherency and you don't exactly go hand in hand.

You my friend are arguing a mute point. You are comparing one shit team from a country that doesn't care to another shit team from a country that doesn't care. And all of the per person things in the world don't really make up for the fact that football/soccer, call it what you will, is not a mainstream professional sport in Australia/America. Hence, both national teams are made up at the last minute and thrown up against nations who are having international matches all the time. Hell - Australia has only had their coach for four (4) months! The previous coach was caretaker coach, the previous coach didn't even draw a wage.

Sorry if i am be-littling the professionalism of a team who aren't a team - but it's the damn truth.

Originally Posted by fantasma62

No man, no team can be belittled when they make it to the World Cup, I was just giving you a little trash too. I mean, you laid it pretty hard on everyone else out there, not just the soccer team, so I just wanted to give it right back......

The reality is that the US is not a soccer country, Pepper is a prime example of it. He doesn't like it, that's it. It's boring to most of us (not me). Look at the changes he would make. Make the field smaller and 5 against 5. Purists like me would say "WHAT????", but most Americans think this way.. We "Yanks" need sports that are edge of your seat, nail biting and violent, we call it American Football, you call yours Australian Rules Football (at least that's what ESPN used to call it).

Regarding soccer, the play here is primitive and defensive. The only way that they can get out of the rut they are in is buy hiring a dutch, brazilian, german or english coach. Arenas is an embarrassment and Landon Donovan does not belong out there. They need to get newer faces and they need to get out of the MLS and play in Europe, South America, heck, even Australia

I think there should have been someone else other than McBride attacking. Donovan I haven't liked since I was watching the Miami Fusion play Chicago for the final a few years ago. All he was good at was diving in the area and drawing fouls. That he doesn't want to play in Europe anymore? Are we sure they actually want him there.

Regarding Australia, you are absolutely right, they tied Croatia. However, grant me this, the outcome of their going into the second round was a bit in doubt. Tell me you weren't sweating a little bit when Croatia was ahead. C'mon now, don't lie now....

Ayway, now comes the fun, LOSE AND GO HOME from now on. I think we'll see better futbol (Soccer) there. Don't you think?

Originally Posted by aceshigh

fuck yeah i was sweating lol,,but edge of your seat nail biting and violent gridiron u gotta be kiddin 3 seconds of play then its all high fives and shit for the next 3minuites then another 3 seconds of play,,u want violence watch old state of origin rugby league matches 130kg guys having an all in brawl and they dont wear those poxy helmets and shoulder pads,,dont get me started on base ball fuck that shits boring!,,basketball would be your best sport i dont really like that either
any fuck these sports,,,,go the socceroos against the iti,s slimey bastards they are

Originally Posted by Pepper

Was the PK a good call?