***Official Soccer Discussion Thread*** (3 Viewers)

[Steve Tasker]

WTH is this?????

I have seen that before...FIFA glitch I believe.

 

[Sebowski]

Awesome goal from Jose Villareal against Real Madrid tonight. Made himself space a crushed it at a tough angle.

 

[The Gator]

lol Chelsea

 

[Good Posting Judge]

#### this guy:

http://www.losaltosonline.com/news/sections/sports/192-soccer/45304-

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

#### this guy:

http://www.losaltosonline.com/news/sections/sports/192-soccer/45304-

This could be like Twilight if Twilight were about two kids who eventually end up playing for Celta Viga's reserves.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

#### this guy:

http://www.losaltosonline.com/news/sections/sports/192-soccer/45304-

This could be like Twilight if Twilight were about two kids who eventually end up playing for Celta Viga's reserves.

OR MAYBE they'll be leading the US to the knockout stage in the 2026 World Cup, held in Zimbabwe.

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

#### this guy:

http://www.losaltosonline.com/news/sections/sports/192-soccer/45304-

This could be like Twilight if Twilight were about two kids who eventually end up playing for Celta Viga's reserves.

OR MAYBE they'll be leading the US to the knockout stage in the 2026 World Cup, held in Zimbabwe.

Everyone knows that the 26 World Cup is being held on the Avatar planet. All those Unobtanium Dollars.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

And blue long-tailed prostitutes.

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

#### this guy:

http://www.losaltosonline.com/news/sections/sports/192-soccer/45304-

By the way, this IS pretty sick for an 11 year old. Check out the roulette.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FewFfLY7Kas

EDIT:

Actually this video is better as it has a bunch of video of his Real Madrid trial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vDu9mc_Y65c

I don't know what great 11 year old soccer players look like, but I don't remember facing stepovers like that in the old National Capital Soccer League when I was a kid. You can tell that Ronaldo is his favorite player.

 

[The Kansas Comet]

#### this guy:

http://www.losaltosonline.com/news/sections/sports/192-soccer/45304-

I had the same reaction when I first saw the story. Hope he does well enough to be sold off prematurely by the Merengues.

 

[The Kansas Comet]

50-1 on the Swans to win the Europa?

Worth a bet at those odds

Story about Laudrup

Hope he continues to do well. One of the few players who went from Barcelona to Madrid that I still like.

 

[whoknew]

I don't understand this move for Dempsey. Why would he do this?

Doug McIntyre @DougMacESPN
Sources: Seattle Sounders, U.S. star Clint Dempsey finalizing move:

 

[TLEF316]

Yeah. Really strange. He'll obviously get guaranteed playing time. Maybe leading up to the WC, that's more important than playing in a tougher league. (at least for a guy like Dempsey, who has nothing left to prove and has probably already fully fleshed out his tactical and technical skill)

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Well now it's going to be REALLY hard for him to play Champions League football.

 

[Sebowski]

Only way this makes sense is if he finishes his year out on loan after the MLS season.

ETA: Oh, and it still doesn't make any sense.

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

Well now it's going to be REALLY hard for him to play Champions League football.

CONCACAF Champions League. Jurgen just wanted him to test himself against Joe Public and Puerto Rico Islanders.

 

[T Bell]

Yeah, I don't get it. Seems like Everton would be a good fit among the bigger clubs, and pretty much all of the mid and lower table clubs would love to have him. Very strange.

 

[The Gator]

I like it

He's 30, had his best season in the EPL two years ago and probably wont top it. So why stay there to come of the bench?

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

Yeah. Really strange. He'll obviously get guaranteed playing time. Maybe leading up to the WC, that's more important than playing in a tougher league. (at least for a guy like Dempsey, who has nothing left to prove and has probably already fully fleshed out his tactical and technical skill)

It's just really hard to believe that he wouldn't get guaranteed playing time at a mid level team in England, France, Spain, Italy, or Germany. There has to be 20 European teams that could use him and would pay a small transfer fee.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

I remember him raving about Seattle after the qualifier there. Maybe he just decided it was time to come home once he saw he wasn't going to regularly start for a CL side?

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

I'm still skeptical because I also don't think it makes sense for Seattle. Are they going to play EJ, Deuce, and Obafembi Martins at the same time?

 

[T Bell]

I like it

He's 30, had his best season in the EPL two years ago and probably wont top it. So why stay there to come of the bench?

He doesn't have to come off the bench though. He'd be a key attacking player for two-thirds of the clubs in the PL.

 

[Sinn Fein]

I like itHe's 30, had his best season in the EPL two years ago and probably wont top it. So why stay there to come of the bench?

This. He needs playing time to stay in the USMNT starting side, and he is not going to get it at Tottenham.

 

[The Gator]

I like it

He's 30, had his best season in the EPL two years ago and probably wont top it. So why stay there to come of the bench?

He doesn't have to come off the bench though. He'd be a key attacking player for two-thirds of the clubs in the PL.

Why go play for Stoke when he'd be idolized in Seattle?

 

[T Bell]

I like it

He's 30, had his best season in the EPL two years ago and probably wont top it. So why stay there to come of the bench?

He doesn't have to come off the bench though. He'd be a key attacking player for two-thirds of the clubs in the PL.

Why go play for Stoke when he'd be idolized in Seattle?

Far better competition.

And if he goes to Everton he's playing in Europe, albeit the Europa League.

I would suspect that he's cleared this with Klinsmann first insofar as it being adequate for him to play in the WC next year.

 

[Christo]

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

FWIW, NBC's ProSoccerTalk staff has independently confirmed the Deuce to Seattle story. This appears to be happening.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

ESPN too:

Updated 2:53 p.m.: ESPN reports that the Sounders and Clint Dempsey’s current club, Tottenham Hotspur, are finalizing a transfer deal to bring Dempsey to Seattle. ESPN cited two anonymous sources in the Sounders office

 

[The Gator]

FWIW, NBC's ProSoccerTalk staff has independently confirmed the Deuce to Seattle story. This appears to be happening.

The Football Show is never wrong

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

ESPN too:

Updated 2:53 p.m.: ESPN reports that the Sounders and Clint Dempsey’s current club, Tottenham Hotspur, are finalizing a transfer deal to bring Dempsey to Seattle. ESPN cited two anonymous sources in the Sounders office

ESPN reported it as a done deal first (Doug McIntyre). I was holding out hope that he was jumping the gun.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Guess I'll have to rely on Team USA games to watch Deuce play.

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

Let me be clear. Deuce is 30. I don't think he needs to play against top competition to get better. It's not that.

It's just that Klinsmann has put so much into the narrative of Deuce has exemplified his belief that players have to constantly push for more. It kind of makes Jurgen look silly. I suppose that's less of an issue now than it was 8 months ago. Klinsmann can afford it now.

I'm also not in love with a 30 year old who is so important to the US team playing on artificial turf.

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

Guess I'll have to rely on Team USA games to watch Deuce play.

That is a good candidate for the eurosnob smiley. He should have a supporters scarf, though.

 

[Sebowski]

Guess I'll have to rely on Team USA games to watch Deuce play.

And no one ever heard from Andy again.....

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Guess I'll have to rely on Team USA games to watch Deuce play.

That is a good candidate for the eurosnob smiley. He should have a supporters scarf, though.

He could also be reading MARCA.

 

[Christo]

Come on you R's! Come on you R's! Come on you R's

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

Not normally a fan of the whole "soccer is so strange" humor, but the NBCSports promos with Jason Sudekis making fun of Americans are pretty funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KeG_i8CWE8&sns=tw

"Wales? Is that a different country?"

"Yes and no."

"How many countries are IN this country!"

 

[T Bell]

Not normally a fan of the whole "soccer is so strange" humor, but the NBCSports promos with Jason Sudekis making fun of Americans are pretty funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KeG_i8CWE8&sns=tw

"Wales? Is that a different country?"

"Yes and no."

"How many countries are IN this country!"

I'm only a minute in and I'm in tears over the Revelations comment.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

"How many countries are IN this country!"

Is that a trust exercise?

Really well done.

What's the reference to the player with five own goals in the video game? I didn't recognize him.

ETA: it's Arsenal's keeper. What happened to David Seaman? (kidding)

 

[The Gator]

Not normally a fan of the whole "soccer is so strange" humor, but the NBCSports promos with Jason Sudekis making fun of Americans are pretty funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KeG_i8CWE8&sns=tw

"Wales? Is that a different country?"

"Yes and no."

"How many countries are IN this country!"

I'm only a minute in and I'm in tears over the Revelations comment.

that was good

 

[The Gator]

"ties and no playoffs...why do you even do this"

 

[Christo]

No seriously. Explain offside to me. It makes no sense.

In humor there is truth.

 

[Christo]

QPR 2 - 1 Sheffield Wednesday: First 3 points in the bag, baby!

 

[Good Posting Judge]

Isco gif: http://i.minus.com/iTIvebzBWVvK2.gif

 

[Sebowski]

Not normally a fan of the whole "soccer is so strange" humor, but the NBCSports promos with Jason Sudekis making fun of Americans are pretty funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KeG_i8CWE8&sns=tw

"Wales? Is that a different country?"

"Yes and no."

"How many countries are IN this country!"

Hope this gets the run it deserves. Sedeikis is awesome.

 

[Sebowski]

Arsenal down 2-0 to Napoli in the 60th at the Emirates. Game is on ESPN Deportes. Podolski with a missed PK. Higuain with the wrong jersey on. <_<

 

[T Bell]

Arsenal down 2-0 to Napoli in the 60th at the Emirates. Game is on ESPN Deportes. Podolski with a missed PK. Higuain with the wrong jersey on. <_<

...Fabianski deciding to take a walking tour of the 18-yard box...

 

[T Bell]

So it appears that Arsenal lacks a good finisher and also a good holding CM who can help the CB's on the counter when the FB's are really far forward.

Why didn't we see this before!

 

[Sebowski]

So it appears that Arsenal lacks a good finisher and also a good holding CM who can help the CB's on the counter when the FB's are really far forward.

Why didn't we see this before!

I was just going to ##### about Podolski blundering a great pass in the box a few minutes ago and then Giroud just ####### one up, then Giroud nails a bicycle off a corner.

Giroud - 1

Higuain - 0

 

[T Bell]

So it appears that Arsenal lacks a good finisher and also a good holding CM who can help the CB's on the counter when the FB's are really far forward.

Why didn't we see this before!

I was just going to ##### about Podolski blundering a great pass in the box a few minutes ago and then Giroud just ####### one up, then Giroud nails a bicycle off a corner.

Giroud - 1

Higuain - 0

Off a deflection, but yeah.