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wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed May 06, 2015 1:21 pm

Pruitt wrote:
P.D.X. wrote:No mention of the Canadian Championships? Semifinals leg 1 tonight sees FC Edmonton:Vancouver and Montreal:Toronto.

Go Edmonton!
So you're a socialist?

(Canadian joke - as current as today's headlines!)

So the Concacaf championship was last week and qualification for it starts this week. Awesome

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Wed May 06, 2015 1:34 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote:
Pruitt wrote:
P.D.X. wrote:No mention of the Canadian Championships? Semifinals leg 1 tonight sees FC Edmonton:Vancouver and Montreal:Toronto.

Go Edmonton!
So you're a socialist?

(Canadian joke - as current as today's headlines!)
So the Concacaf championship was last week and qualification for it starts this week. Awesome

I have been to early round Concacaf Champions League matches in Toronto. They are grim affairs watched by a couple of thousand of people from the country where the visitors hail from. (Toronto has people from every country you could name. I was at a game with 4,000 Salvadoreans and less than a thousand Toronto FC fans. The level of play when you get a bad MLS team playing the third best team from Honduras or El Salvador is excruciating.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Wed May 06, 2015 1:41 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote:
Pruitt wrote:
P.D.X. wrote:No mention of the Canadian Championships? Semifinals leg 1 tonight sees FC Edmonton:Vancouver and Montreal:Toronto.

Go Edmonton!
So you're a socialist?

(Canadian joke - as current as today's headlines!)
So the Concacaf championship was last week and qualification for it starts this week. Awesome

American teams started 2 months ago.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed May 06, 2015 2:24 pm

P.D.X. wrote:
wlu_lax6 wrote:
Pruitt wrote:
P.D.X. wrote:No mention of the Canadian Championships? Semifinals leg 1 tonight sees FC Edmonton:Vancouver and Montreal:Toronto.

Go Edmonton!
So you're a socialist?

(Canadian joke - as current as today's headlines!)
So the Concacaf championship was last week and qualification for it starts this week. Awesome
American teams started 2 months ago.

Our friends up North have 5 teams total in their event.
The U.S. has 91 teams and games only started the last week in April (which were teams from the U.S. Amateur leagues). B.T.W. Harpo is a great name for a team. MLS teams don't enter until Mid June

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Wed May 06, 2015 2:45 pm

Qualification can be earned through MLS league play as well as USOC, ergo, it started with the season.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Wed May 06, 2015 3:26 pm

I played in the extremely early rounds of the US Open a bunch of times in the 90s and 00s. We almost made it to the round of "get your ass handed to you by a semi-pro team" a couple of those years. (That team was stacked with d1 and a handful of professionals who had played overseas or in the MISL.)

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Wed May 06, 2015 9:32 pm

P.D.X. wrote:No mention of the Canadian Championships? Semifinals leg 1 tonight sees FC Edmonton:Vancouver and Montreal:Toronto.

Go Edmonton!

Impact win 1-0 in front of nobody.

Edmonton game postponed due to snow.

*NDP government hell has frozen over.

Post by **brian** » Thu May 07, 2015 12:52 am

Snow in May, huh? Chamber of Commerce there has their work cut out for them.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu May 07, 2015 6:01 am

This Messi kid is pretty good.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu May 07, 2015 7:15 am

At this rate we'll have the entire Dutch national team living in Manchester.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu May 07, 2015 7:44 am

AB_skin_test wrote:At this rate we'll have the entire Dutch national team living in Manchester.

Works for me.

howard · Post by **howard** » Thu May 07, 2015 10:51 pm

I think this would be genius.

Opinion: Why Not Liga MX for the (Sacramento) Republic FC?

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Mon May 11, 2015 3:52 pm

So glad I'm not an Arsenal fan. How in the world did they lose this game today? Classic Arsenal.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Mon May 11, 2015 3:59 pm

govmentchedda wrote:So glad I'm not an Arsenal fan. How in the world did they lose this game today? Classic Arsenal.

FUCK! Spoilers don't go in this thread! And FUCK for losing. Doesn't matter much, as 3rd is almost sewn up.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Mon May 11, 2015 4:05 pm

The Sybian wrote:
govmentchedda wrote:So glad I'm not an Arsenal fan. How in the world did they lose this game today? Classic Arsenal.
FUCK! Spoilers don't go in this thread! And FUCK for losing. Doesn't matter much, as 3rd is almost sewn up.

Apologies for the spoiler.

Post by **brian** » Mon May 11, 2015 7:11 pm

I'm sure Newcastle would run roughshod over the Championship next season. But I still want to see that shit.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Tue May 12, 2015 6:51 am

Every time I want to dislike Cristiano Ronaldo, he does something impressive.
http://time.com/3854968/cristiano-ronal ... -children/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue May 12, 2015 7:00 am

wlu_lax6 wrote:Every time I want to dislike Cristiano Ronaldo, he does something impressive.
http://time.com/3854968/cristiano-ronal ... -children/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

He's a douche on the field but not off of it for sure. Really seems like a nice guy, who just happens to be a brillinat athlete and get to bang supermodels, so it's very easy to want to dislike him.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Thu May 14, 2015 1:52 pm

congrats on a great career

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Thu May 14, 2015 2:04 pm

govmentchedda wrote:
The Sybian wrote:
govmentchedda wrote:So glad I'm not an Arsenal fan. How in the world did they lose this game today? Classic Arsenal.
FUCK! Spoilers don't go in this thread! And FUCK for losing. Doesn't matter much, as 3rd is almost sewn up.
Apologies for the spoiler.

I watched Monday night anyways, and I am glad I had the spoiler, otherwise I may have resorted to taking up cutting to deal with the pain. Utterly dominated the entire game with no sign of Swansea threatening. The final 25 minutes, you just knew Arsenal were going to score. Wilshire was getting to the goal line and swinging in dangerous balls at will (too bad Theo replaced Giroud at that point). I really thought Swansea's goal went off the post, and I didn't think there was a chance in hell it went in. It looked like the ref didn't see it as a goal, either. Classic expression on his face when he pointed to the goal tech watch and shrugged his shoulders. That has to be such a relief to get that call taken out of his hands.

I also realized United is closer to Arsenal than I thought. If ManU wins on Sunday, Arsenal is 1 point down with a game in hand. That would make it tightttttt, tighter than an Arsenal shirt.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu May 14, 2015 2:28 pm

TighT

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Thu May 14, 2015 3:53 pm

govmentchedda wrote:TighT

Ah, much better way to get the point across. I knew you'd realize what I was going for. I can't hear the word without hearing Davo repeat it in my head.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Thu May 14, 2015 11:11 pm

Syb: If Barca win the Champion's League, Arsenal get an extra $4 million from the Vermaelen deal. That's almost enough for a bench warmer.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Fri May 15, 2015 12:51 pm

AB_skin_test wrote:
wlu_lax6 wrote:Every time I want to dislike Cristiano Ronaldo, he does something impressive.
http://time.com/3854968/cristiano-ronal ... -children/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
He's a douche on the field but not off of it for sure. Really seems like a nice guy, who just happens to be a brillinat athlete and get to bang supermodels, so it's very easy to want to dislike him.

hmmm
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102682854" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Wed May 27, 2015 6:39 am

Sooo ... is it just a little weird that the rumored informant is white and immune and he's rolling on a whole big group of black guys and South Americans?

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed May 27, 2015 6:50 am

Yeah so nothing like having the fuzz show up at your 5 star hotel in Switzerland and extradite you to the U.S. on corruption. Still not sure how everyone but Sepp is going down over this. Also love the timing of this arrest as the FIFA presidential election is on Friday.

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed May 27, 2015 7:04 am

mister d wrote:Sooo ... is it just a little weird that the rumored informant is white and immune and he's rolling on a whole big group of black guys and South Americans?

If these arrests were just about Qatar, maybe. It sounds like they are focused on shenanigans in South/Central America, so no? Maybe they can get these guys to roll on the big guys back in Europe. Who I am sure are mostly white.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 11:00 am

There's not much better than facing up against your rival and watching their wheels completely come off. Especially in their USOC "fortress". Looks like Deuce could be facing a major USSF suspension for taking the referees book and ripping it up. The end of the match saw Seattle fans throwing garbage at the Timbers bench and the refs had to be police-escorted out of the stadium. Total meltdown.

Post by **brian** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 11:02 am

Not often you see a team end a game with only 7 players on the field.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 5:36 am

brian wrote:Not often you see a team end a game with only 7 players on the field.

Highlights here - http://www.soundersfc.com/post/2015/06/ ... s-open-cup

That second red card was given based on an absolutely comical dive. And I have never seen a player do what will hereafter be known as "doing a Dempsey".

howard · Post by **howard** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 7:18 am

Snatching the ref's book and tearing it up cracked me up.

How many seats at that little field? Interesting they don't choose to play at the big stadium.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 7:19 am

Where the fuck are they playing that game?

howard · Post by **howard** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 7:51 am

Sounders' training facility: http://www.starfiresports.com/campus/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:58 am

Pruitt wrote:
brian wrote:Not often you see a team end a game with only 7 players on the field.
Highlights here - http://www.soundersfc.com/post/2015/06/ ... s-open-cup

That second red card was given based on an absolutely comical dive. And I have never seen a player do what will hereafter be known as "doing a Dempsey".

There is some Argentine flair in the reaction, but it was a legitimate cleat-stomping. (And that's been pretty much been a straight red consistently in MLS this season.)

[media]https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CHrkp88WcAAJM_C.mp4[/media]

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:12 am

P.D.X. wrote:
Pruitt wrote:
brian wrote:Not often you see a team end a game with only 7 players on the field.
Highlights here - http://www.soundersfc.com/post/2015/06/ ... s-open-cup

That second red card was given based on an absolutely comical dive. And I have never seen a player do what will hereafter be known as "doing a Dempsey".
There is some Argentine flair in the reaction, but it was a legitimate cleat-stomping. (And that's been pretty much been a straight red consistently in MLS this season.)

[media]https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CHrkp88WcAAJM_C.mp4[/media]

Mea Culpa - I thought the card was for an elbow (which is what the announcer had said).

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:15 am

(we all thought it was an elbow initially until video surfaced showing the ref doing a stomping motion)

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:25 am

But that seems like an awesome rivalry. I'll make sure to watch the next time they play.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:34 am

howard wrote:Sounders' training facility: http://www.starfiresports.com/campus/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I was wondering the same thing. Maybe fans don't show up for Lamar Hunt Cup games? But I would think the rivalry with Portland would bring a crowd.

Dempsey's stupid act should cost him the first 2 Gold Cup matches. US Soccer rules call for a 6 match ban for "assaulting a referee," and the definition of assault includes damaging the referee's property. Going to be hard to argue that one. The suspension calls for a ban from all matches, regardless of competition, so he would miss 4 Sounders games and 2 Gold Cup games. That is if they count concurrent games. The Sounders play one day before the USMNT, so he obviously wouldn't have played in both. I have no idea how they determine which games count towards the suspension. It'll be interesting to see if Jurgen names Clint to the team if he is suspended.

I'm very curious to see how US Soccer handles this. Do they have Dempsey file and appeal, and rule on the appeal after the Gold Cup? The Sounders would be pissed, as it means Dempsey missing games for the Gold Cup, then having to serve 6 games. Can Jurgen keep Dempsey as the captain after that? Really an unbelievable move.

Post by **brian** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:42 am

I don't think they can suspend him for MLS games since this wasn't an MLS competition. All punishment would have to come from US Soccer, meaning it can only be US Open Cup or USMNT games. If what I've read is correct.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Sun Jun 21, 2015 4:37 pm

Does anyone have any tips for someone playing outdoor soccer for the first time in his life?

First game was last week. Played RB and RM for the first part and found I enjoyed the midfield much more (This team was... interesting. There was no tactical discussion until halftime, so the first half was awkward). And then for the final 15 minutes I was in the middle, which wasn't as bad as I was expecting because at that point I had learned to read the game decently and was able to use my running around ability to compensate for my utter lack of skill.

Shining moment was playing a guy offside on purpose on a corner. He scored because I left him unmarked next to the near post. He was off by two steps and had no desire to move.