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Old 07-12-2004, 10:29 PM   #23
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That is just denial, in so many ways.

"Beating Korea and Mexico is not an achievement," first of all, nowhere in this whole post did I mention FIFA rankings, but the biggest part of this is that you failed to recognize that we beat Portugal by essentially two points (a late Agoos own goal, it didn't reflect the gameplay) and lost to Germany on a game where we outplayed them.

"Your keepers are not among the best in the world at all and in general the team is shit" That is just ignorant. Oliver Kahn is probably the consensus best keeper in the world, but all it takes is to look in your back yard to see who the best keepers in the Premiership are, and two of their names are Howard and Friedel.

"I'm not a fan of Micheal Owen or Emile Heskey but even Heskey pisses on your strikers." Owen in France 98, Heskey in...when again? I fail to see how Heskey "pisses" on Brian McBride, Landon Donovan, and Clint Mathis.

"Bottom line is that when it comes down to nearly every team that just took part in the European Championships would beat America with the exception of one of two." That is assuming that everybody in the world got much better and the United States core of young players have gotton worse. We beat Portugal in the World Cup and we finished equal to or higher than England, Italy, Ireland, Spain...


Its not a hard concept to confer, it may not be fair, but the United States has the resources to be the best at any sport in the world, we are starting to develop world class players in world class facilities with world class trainers. Whether or not soccer is popular in the US or not, we will be competing for a World Cup sooner than you think.
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