FIFA U-17
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Thanks for sharing.
Reyna hit a nice ball, but... You know what I'm gonna say.
Reyna hit a nice ball, but... You know what I'm gonna say.
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I'm going to say the Canadian keeper needs to make a trip to Rockville, Maryland to get some private training.Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 12:03 pm Thanks for sharing.
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So questions for our goalieNonlinear FC wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 12:03 pm Thanks for sharing.
Reyna hit a nice ball, but... You know what I'm gonna say.
1.) Did the screen really do anything to help this goal?
2.) Should he have known that Reyna could only go far post (i.e. wall setup, was not going up and over the wall near post)?
3.) did he get caught flat footed? Seems like he was trying to look around the wall and as a result reacted late.
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Never guess, son. Well, it's OK to guess on PKs, but it should be an informed gamble. :DThe Sybian wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 12:16 pmI'm going to say the Canadian keeper needs to make a trip to Rockville, Maryland to get some private training.Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 12:03 pm Thanks for sharing.
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1) I'm not really sure what he was doing. In that situation, you crouch low and look through the legs of your defenders. Hopping up in the air meant that right as the ball was struck, he wasn't in what we call "ready" position. He was... aloft.wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 12:50 pmSo questions for our goalieNonlinear FC wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 12:03 pm Thanks for sharing.
Reyna hit a nice ball, but... You know what I'm gonna say.
1.) Did the screen really do anything to help this goal?
2.) Should he have known that Reyna could only go far post (i.e. wall setup, was not going up and over the wall near post)?
3.) did he get caught flat footed? Seems like he was trying to look around the wall and as a result reacted late.
2) Yes, the high percentage play there is to assume he's going to go for daylight. I think players have seen too many Messi goals where he drops the ball over a wall at the near post. That shit is fucking INCREDIBLY hard to do. For a U17 player to do it in that circumstance? Just not at all a likely scenario.
3) See #1. He was trying to look OVER the wall, which, again, not recommended... at all. Put he compounded being... aloft... by also taking a jab step in the wrong direction. Honestly, while that was a nice shot by Reyna it should've been a pretty routine save.
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Pretty interesting that Claudio Reyna's kid appears to be a top-level pro-type player as well. Claudio's got to be on a short list of the greatest American players ever, right?
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Well, he's certainly on mine. From that generation, not many had better pro or national team careers than Reyna. He was the engine of the 02 team that did so well in Korea. Edit. Had to go back and get my timeline straight. After playing well in 94, he went on to have a pretty good (by European professional standards) pro career, with solid stints in Germany, then Rangers and knocked around the Premier League until he did his ACL and wasn't really that effective after that.
His legacy kind of suffers from not being one of the guys constantly on TV. He had a much better pro career, IMO, than say Alexi Lalas and Eric Wynalda (for example), but people under 40 have likely forgotten about him and those under 30 (unless they are nerds, which... US soccer fan, so probably) they don't know who is at all.
I'll never forget how he (and to be fair, Arena) mind fucked Mexico into making an early first half sub because he played so far out wide and tore the Mexicans up. They had to make that change and it totally took them off their own script. (Sorry, in Korea in the knockout game in 02).
His legacy kind of suffers from not being one of the guys constantly on TV. He had a much better pro career, IMO, than say Alexi Lalas and Eric Wynalda (for example), but people under 40 have likely forgotten about him and those under 30 (unless they are nerds, which... US soccer fan, so probably) they don't know who is at all.
I'll never forget how he (and to be fair, Arena) mind fucked Mexico into making an early first half sub because he played so far out wide and tore the Mexicans up. They had to make that change and it totally took them off their own script. (Sorry, in Korea in the knockout game in 02).
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Yes. Reyna. List of one? Pulisic?
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Off the top of my head, I’d probably go:
1. Donovan
2. Dempsey
3. Friedel
4. Reyna
5. Howard
Pulisic is more than on track to top that list some day.
1. Donovan
2. Dempsey
3. Friedel
4. Reyna
5. Howard
Pulisic is more than on track to top that list some day.
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I like this list but I would swap howard and friedel. Reyna was at tail end of his career when I started paying attention but I recognize his importance. Howard gets nod over friended for the throw to Donovan alone.
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RunDMB? Semifinals of champions league and great run. At Rangers. No love for Tab?
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Barbados 1- us 6 today
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wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2019 5:32 pmRunDMB? Semifinals of champions league and great run. At Rangers. No love for Tab?
I mean, Run is a tough one, because he was really kind of a solid journeyman type player whose impact was tough to tease out. Shit, Eddie Lewis was a cult hero at Leeds, but I don't think you can rank his overall US and pro career in the top 7 right now. (He's from the era right before Run, and like Reyna, the Internet hadn't really turned US soccer fandom into what it is today. I used to track him for Yank's Abroad on BigSoccer, which was one of the few places that even knew what he was doing over in England in the 90s.)
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I thought nonlinear was going to talk about the poor goalie play on the 6 goals by Barbados (I think that keep would have benefited from a trip to Rockville).
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8-0 over Guadeloupe
A win over Panama = qualification to the U17 World Cup.
A win over Panama = qualification to the U17 World Cup.
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3-0 win over Panama. Rematch with our friends up North for a spot in the final. But both are in the WC.
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4-0 win. To the final against Mexico (who beat Haiti 1-0).
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1-1. DC United's Yow with a good in the 9th minute. just entering the 80th.
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Extra time win for Mexico. Goal scored by a LA Galaxy product.
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US Draws Senegal Japan, and the Dutch for group play.
Group A Brazil, Canada, NZ, Angola
Group B Nigeria, Hungary, Ecuador, Australia
Group C South Korea, Haiti, France, Chile
Group D US, Senegal, Japan, Netherlands
Group E Spain, Argentina, Tajikistan, Cameroon
Group F Solomon Islands, Italy, Paraguay, Mexico
Group A Brazil, Canada, NZ, Angola
Group B Nigeria, Hungary, Ecuador, Australia
Group C South Korea, Haiti, France, Chile
Group D US, Senegal, Japan, Netherlands
Group E Spain, Argentina, Tajikistan, Cameroon
Group F Solomon Islands, Italy, Paraguay, Mexico
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well that is not the start you want. Senegal got in as an alternate when another team used overage players....and they beat the us 4-1. Us went up in the first few minutes on a nice cross and header finish. Then gave up one in extra time in the first half. After that they gave up a few real quickly on counter attacks and a free kick after a red card DOGSO.
US stars Reyna and Yow (DC United) were invisible.
US stars Reyna and Yow (DC United) were invisible.
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Senegal are through with a win over the Dutch. Maybe the US loss was not so bad. A draw likely puts the US into the knockout phase as 3rd place qualifier. A win puts them in and a loss moves the Dutch ahead and the US go home. I think they would get Brazil or France.
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USA out without a win. Sounds like they sucked balls.