Creating a new thread for soccer discussion since the Euro’s are done.
Most leagues are in preseason and Sporting KC are currently in a battle for the best record in the league to win the shield. We just sent Busio who’s a young Sporting youth academy player and possible future American star to Venezia to compete in the top division in Italy for a 6.5 million dollar transfer fee with up to $11 million with incentives and a 20% future sell-on rate if they sell him to another team. Not to mention another past youth academy player from Lee’s Summit and another possible World Cup starter Erik Palmer-Brown looks to be joining him at Venezia soon as well. If you’re looking for an Italian team to start rooting for with your new Paramount+ subscription they would be a good candidate with some local flavor.
The U.S has built a little power shift in the CONCACAF region with their wins over Mexico lately in Nations and Gold Cup finals and look to be in really good shape heading into the World Cup qualifiers next month.
Messi looks to be on the move as well. Let’s hope it’s not a worthless one to PSG for everyone’s sake.
Ok, CP feel free to remind me how gay soccer is now. Don’t care. Sporting is kicking ass and so is the USA. It’s a good time to be following along. Discuss…
Originally Posted by Ocotillo:
Jurgen will always be beloved because he got the US to the Round of 16 at the 2014 World Cup after it was put in the same group with No. 2 Germany and No. 5 Portgual. Two top five FIFA clubs and got the Americans through.
He also fought the assholes who were more interested in growing mls to a the usmnt by insisting that players play in Europe. Feel like that laid the grounwork for this to finally happen naturally .I’m not sure that Jurgen is an all world coach but his place in usmnts underwhelming history is a good one [Reply]
Originally Posted by Ocotillo:
Jurgen will always be beloved because he got the US to the Round of 16 at the 2014 World Cup after it was put in the same group with No. 2 Germany and No. 5 Portgual. Two top five FIFA clubs and got the Americans through.
your memory is a bit fuzzy on that.
We were in the group with portugal, and lost to the germans in the round of 16. [Reply]
Jurgen Klinsmann is one of the many reasons Ronaldo will end his career without a single knockout round goal in the World Cup! It’s crazy how fast the federation wanted him out, but somehow gave Berhalter a second chance. I think most USA fans would take Jurgen back over this disaster. Jurgen got us into the Copa semifinals with Bobby Wood and fucking Gyasi Zardes.
Also, Peter Vermes blew another match late last night. How many chances did that one MLS cup over 10 years ago actually buy this man? Is it a lifetime contract or something? Do we actually have to root for the man to die unexpectedly to free us from this nightmare or something? [Reply]