Okay, I can understand why when any red blooded American speaks about their soccer team they will be a bit biased for the positive, but the common belief that we held the 4th best team ranking before the World Cup on merit, was stretching the truth to say the least.

 

Hey, but I can roll with that. A little lie helps our soccer world go round a bit easier during the year, thinking we are better then we are. I can give the U.S. a 16 year cushion. The cushion I am talking about began in 1990, when the dream of U.S. soccer was born by us qualifying for our first World Cup without needed 18 transplant Italian immigrants to put us on the map in the 1930s or whenever that was. The real dream of the U.S. building and being some sort of soccer power is 16 years old, just enough time to begin to expect a system that produces more then inflated egos of players who really don’t exist.

 

Now is the time where real expectations need to come out and real results need to start being seen!

 

With Bruce Arena being put out to U.S. pasture we can finally put playing like a veteran college team to bed. Bruce, thanks for keeping us competitive ect., but your time is over. You should have gone to Brazil and be quiet for a year or two. You would have come back from your Vision Quest with new goals for the actions of your players. What am I saying? You would never do that. The way you talk, any time you lose, you have been robbed. I guess, you were the first one lying about what was going on with the U.S. team and maybe now the Red Bulls. Just kidding I think you will do well there.

 

What I have seen in the M.L.S. is real enough, that with some tweaking and hard reality checks, the Premier League could start feeling some pressure in 3 years. That is, I said with some hard reality checks. How does reality get checked? U. S. citizens who love the game, not soccer moms or youth soccer players, but the hard core citizens who kick it on Sunday mornings and laugh it up about how they played. The old dogs and nu skool players who care enough to watch the screen in a bar when any goal is to be seen. 

 

I am calling you all out, to start kicking butt and taking names with your voice. The English Blocks don’t hold back, the Brazilians are kicking in gates to storm on the field when their team is playing bad. Look at River Plate yesterday. Get a pair when it comes to voicing your opinion. Each one of you outspoken players, that say, “I can take a hit better then that little beatch who is rolling around on the field.” Get a dictionary and start to write what is up in your head. And you “A” licensed coaches who have never written anything but talks massive junk on the field when any player steps in your view, you guys are girly men.

 

Yes, I called you girly men, because if you have all this soccer knowledge inside of you and you haven’t written anything yet, you aren’t going to, unless someone hits you with a cattle prod. If you do get prodded, then use your knowledge to further soccer, please. It is put up or shut time for the U.S. If we don’t start backing up what we say we have, we will be more of the laughing stocks that most of the world perceives us as.

 

Yes, the jokes were flying on the streets of Germany and the U.S. National team gave the die hards who were there cheering them on, no ammunition to fire back with. Not many other teams had as bad of a cup as we did.

 

I dare you to name two. Remember, all the African teams were debutants.
 

Mongoose
SavageSoccer.com 

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