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Futbol Thread

by BooMan
Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 04:34:00 PM EST

The USA World Cup soccer team just defeated Spain 2-0 in the Confederation Cup semifinals. Spain had a 35-game unbeaten streak and was ranked number one in the world. This is the biggest upset in US soccer history. The USA will play the winner of the Brazil-South Africa matchup ~~that is starting soon~~ tomorrow. Brazil is the heavy favorite.

Futbol Thread | 16 comments (16 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Booyah! (4.00 / 2)

This is HUGE!

Good for the USA men! will we finally be taken seriously by European soccer? One victory does not a reputation make (unless you're South Korea in the WC...that was fun to watch)

"The invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people"---George Carlin

by justadood on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 06:33:21 PM EST

The Spanish were thinking of Sunday (none / 0)

and Brazil.

They will NOT make that mistake again.

by dataguy on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 10:06:41 PM EST
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The 35-game Spanish streak (4.00 / 2)

tied a Brazil streak in 1993-1996. So, we stopped them from taking the all-time streak lead.

Is that SWEEAAAATT or what?

by dataguy on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 10:08:02 PM EST

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It feels good to be able to be proud of your country for once...

U-S-A!
U-S-A!
U-S-A!

The Underground Railroad

by Oscar In Louisville on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 04:44:16 PM EST

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That's a hell of a thing. Knocking off this Spanish squad and two nil?

My god, has US men's footy finally arrived?

More at Zandar vs. The Stupid.

by Zandar1 on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 04:46:26 PM EST

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how's argentina doing?

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

by brendan on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 04:47:21 PM EST

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hardy-har-har.

You know it was a miracle that the U.S. even got through the first round.

Entering the game with Egypt, the U.S. had zero points for wins or ties and a five-goal deficit in the tiebreaker. But they beat Egypt 3-0 while Italy lost to Brazil 3-0, and that gave the U.S. a one goal edge over Italy, with both squads enjoying one win. Italy had defeated the U.S., but it didn't matter.

by BooMan on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 04:53:16 PM EST
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i actually don't pay attention, so i didn't know.
yay USA soccer!

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

by brendan on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 05:23:04 PM EST
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Not There (none / 0)

The Confederations Cup is a rump tourney the year before the World Cup. They use it as a dry run to test facilities and crowd control, drum up some interest, etc. The teams invited are the regional champions, defending WC champ and the host country. Brazil won the Copa America last year and got the spot for the CONMEBOL champion.

by ILuvChez17 on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 12:04:13 AM EST
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Re: Futbol Thread (none / 0)

Sounds like a good time to hit the bars! I hate watching sports, unless I'm surrounded by men and alcohol..! ;-)

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 04:50:56 PM EST

My son and I went to the bar (none / 1)

at the 36 minute mark. We were ahead of the #1 team in the world (for what that's worth - 2 years ago, we were ranked 8) 1-0.

It was such a fun game to watch. The Spanish controlled the action 70 % of the time, but our goalie was simply great, and the defence (not good at all recently) was relentless, very very tough, and impenetrable, like a Greenspan speech.

In the second half, we added a garbage goal (we take out the TRASH, BAYYYBEEEE). Even as the game ended, and Bradley (son of the coach and an excellent forward) got a red card to cut the US side to 10, we kept the Spanish OUT OF THE GOAL.

A RED-LETTER DAY FOR US FUTBOL.

by dataguy on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 10:05:42 PM EST

1950 World Cup defeated England 1-0 (none / 0)

.
A great feat for this new generation of US soccer. As mentioned above, the USA was already climbing the FIFA ranking scale to 8th place.

The US has done this twice before.

In the 1950 World Cup, it defeated England, 1-0, and journalists abed in England, not yet having the benefit of ESPN360, reported the score as 10-1 to England, thinking a mistake had been made.

This has been called the greatest upset in the history of sport. A team that included a gym teacher, a bricklayer, a dishwasher and two mailmen beat a team guided by a man who would later become the first man ever knighted for his soccer prowess .

Impressive, but hardly was something to build upon. The US did not qualify for the World Cup for another 40 years ...

Only one American journalist was even at the World Cup (Dent McSkimming of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch who was there on vacation), and his report of the match was the only one to appear in any American newspaper.

Personally I played varsity soccer at St. Louis U. during a period of NCAA championships in the sixties with coach Bob Guelker and players Don Ceresia, Carl Gentile and Pat McBride... One of the true greats of USA soccer was Harry Keough. He wore his WC trainings jacket with honor - it read USA-England 1-0.

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

by Oui on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 01:09:18 AM EST

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South Africa is holding their own against Brazil. It's 0-0 at the half.

by BooMan on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 03:29:56 PM EST

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84 minute mark as still tied.

by BooMan on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 04:14:58 PM EST
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87-minute mark, Brazil scores on very short free-kick.

by BooMan on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 04:18:39 PM EST
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It's a final, 1-0 Brazil.

So, the U.S. gets a rematch.

by BooMan on Thu Jun 25th, 2009 at 04:23:26 PM EST
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