None of you people are US soccer fans?

[brentspeak]

I threaten to annoy people every day with this link until I see some proper enthusiasism for our US men's national soccer team, who'll be playing in next month's World Cup (Germany).

Now you will watch this compilation of goals scored our team in the 2002 WC (Korea), and like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwqBiJoREEk

[matcom]

1. what time does the first match start?

i wanna know if i have time to order a pizza before they are eliminated

[brentspeak]

3. YOU will be eliminated

for that disloyal remark! Each member of the team gets to shoot a penalty kick directly at you -- no cup allowed.

[sasquatch]

6. With his hands tied behind his back

[brentspeak]

8. Yup, none of this

[Twillig]

10. Give him the Vinny Jones treatment!

Not that I like soccer(well, more than Hockey at least), but I like to post the picture anyway.

[sasquatch]

4. Why don't you stay in Canada you treasouness pervert

[matcom]

5. .

[brentspeak]

9. That's "prevert"

I think he's trying to organize some kind of mutiny of preverts.

[KamaAina]

12. Oh, you'll have time to order a pizza, all right

they won't be officially eliminated until after the pool play concludes, which should take about a week.

The sad thing is, it's not even that they suck, it's just that they got stuck in a group with the Czechs (#2 ranked in the world) and the Italians (three-time champions), and only two get through to the knockout (single-elimination) stages. So, time to order that pizza, unless the developing scandal in the Italian club league somehow manages to blow back on the Azzurri.

Figures. Just when people are finally beginning to pay attention, they'll go from quarterfinalists last time out to road kill, thus crushing any U.S. interest in the sport for another couple of decades.

edit: threw in a third 'l'. They can at least beat Ghana, for crying out loud!

[brentspeak]

13. They got placed in the Group of Death

While Mexico, who placed second in the CONCACAAF to the US, got seeded into a easier group.

Brian Ching made the squad, first Hawaiian ever to play in the WC.

[KamaAina]

19. Actually Group C is considered to be the "Group of Death"

(note to n00bs: every World Cup has to have at least one, for some reason.)

Group C contains two-time champs Argentina, the Netherlands, Serbia and Montenegro (that's one country, what's left of Yugoslavia), and hapless Cote d'Ivoire. Ouch. I guess that makes Group E the "Group of Terminal Illness" or something. The grouping process leaves much to be desired, and no, to my knowledge, Diebold was not involved.

[musiclawyer]

21. "Crushing any interest".... don't think so

Perhaps with the non-football fans. But this year the USA could flame out 0-3, and yet the depth gets better every year, more and more americans play on first tier clubs around the globe every year, more big clubs from Europe come here every summer, and MLS is putting down roots slowly but surely. One year soon (perhaps even in 8 or 12 years) the USA will have an excellent team, catch a break , and end up in the semis. That's when interest with the non-football fan will be acquired and kept.

[ContraBass Black]

22. Not necessarily.

Ghana has been doing good things recently, and has been the surprise giant slayer for years.

[sasquatch]

2. I'm only interested in English soccer riots

Yeah I do love the world cup, but probably not as much as you do.

[Arugula Latte]

7. Whaaa?

You said something about sports?

[Left Is Write]

11. I used to be, when Minnesota had an NASL and then an MISL team.

[brentspeak]

15. The Minnesota Kicks and the Minnesota Strikers

Hopefully, the Twin Cities can get an MSL team.

[Left Is Write]

16. 'Twas a long time ago, wasn't it?

My dad gave me a "Future Striker" shirt for my oldest daughter while I was pregnant with her; she's now nearly 19.

[brentspeak]

18. I saw the Kicks as a kid, when they came to NJ to play the Cosmos

[Left Is Write]

20. My best friend's parents had season tickets to the Kicks one year.

Mark Moran and Gary Vogel lived in a house in our neighborhood, and they were rather indulgent of our adolescent fanhood.

[no name no slogan]

24. One of my mom's friends lived next to Geoff Barnett

Who was a goalie for both the Kicks and the Thunder, IIRC.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

14. Nope. I despise soccer.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

17. Nope. Not enough passion for me.

Give me Premiership Football. I love me some Football Hooligans.
Duckie

[no name no slogan]

23. Soccer is a sport of the third world and/or Communists

No red-blooded American would EVER watch it.

Give me rugby union any day. Now THAT's a patriotic sport.

[NJ Democrats]

25. I couldn't really give a shit

I hate soccer. Ever since I quit playing in 1st grade. I will root for the US but I won't care if they win or not nor will I watch.

[brentspeak]

26. Well, don't hold back. Don't beat around the bush on this.

[Haole Girl]

27. I am! I am! I am!!

I LOVE soccer!! I went to a World Cup game in 1994 (Spain vs. Korea). One of the best games I've ever been to!!!

[realisticphish]

28. nope

sorry, but I can't get into it. Nothing wrong with it, but it just isn't my sport.