I’m just the opposite. I was hoping they did well so people in North America can see that if you put money into a program, have a proper and professional leagues for National team players to participate in full time, you can do well.
From what I saw of Ghana today, I'm very much looking forward to the USA vs Ghana match now... a #5 ranked team should never go w/o any points in any World Cup!
i believe queue is a very long winded way to say what in spanish.
unfortunately for the americans, they played poorly against probably the best performance yet which probably made it worse than it could have been. Other monumental dissapointing 1st games can go to the english, portuguese, and the swedes. So not alone, but after watching Ghana/Italy, i would not be betting an american quarter on them advancing
cue KNVB as he appears to have allot of time on his hands
Maybe the rankings system needs to be tweaked a bit. Czechs looked like favourites today; possibly Cup finalists?
I would expect the Americans to play a hell of a lot better against Italy; especially with the report that Bruce Arenas tore a strip off his players and Landon Donovan in particular. Not expecting them to necessarily come through with a win, but play well enough to put a huge scare into the Italian psyche. They reeked today.
Captain, you being a coach, former professional, and all around football aficionado, wouldn't having two players 6'6" or taller make the Czechs hard to check?
Wholly flopping fish batman.
Have the Czech's now taken over the as the diving and acting champions of the World Cup.
That was even more aweful than the US's performance