Never been but they missed the boat on not putting it downtown. Could've been a piece for the revitalization effort and made a play for the Revolution.
We let a criminal chase the Patriots, let the Whalers walkaway doing so, and this is what you get; a concrete dumpster for the state's university in the middle of nowhere playing G5 football.
The bid was actually pretty good. 10 matches in Canada, 10 in Mexico and 60 in USA. Quarters on all in the US.
I don't like sharing it but it was much better than I expected after everyone knew they were submitting a joint bid. Improves chances to almost a lock of hosting now
It looks like 3 Groups in Mexico, 3 Groups in Canada and 10 Groups in US. 1 Round of 16 in Mexico, 1 Round of 16 in Canada, 14 Round of 16 in US. All additional games in the United States, so basically the US is trading a few games to Mexico and Canada of an extremely large tournament to guarantee that it gets the Cup. It is still more total games in the US than WC 1994. The new format of the WC is so big it will be hard for most single countries to host moving forward. US could obviously do it though, but WC is US is spread out anyway, so you are going to lose the madness of having a WC in a country the size of France or Germany anyway.
Will Dom Dwyer ever make a USMNT camp? Sounds like there's at least a chance of it happening, though it seems unlikely?
One main downside to hosting is that now we don't have to qualify and will have mostly meaningless games for 4 years. The last 2 years of qualifying before a WC are awesome. And UEFA scrapping friendlies with CONCACAF likely to follow means we'll get nothing but meaningless games against shitty central american and caribbean teams. Hopefully the combined copa america becomes permanent.
Why is UEFA scrapping friendlies with CONCACAF? Hopefully we at least schedule friendlies against quality SA teams. As the host we would get to play in the confed cup the year before the WC, though how they'll decide on that with three hosts is a good question.
After next WC uefa is replacing friendlies with a thing called Nations league. So its like a new competition where UEFA completes against each other. Concacaf is supposedly considering doing the same thing, so instead of friendlies we will be playing a tournament against all the shit teams of concacaf. Even best case is we don't copy but we still wont be playing euro teams for friendlies, unless its on an unofficial date, which likely means most top players wont play.
The new format starting in 2026 almost renders WCQ meaningless for us and Mexico anyways. I wish the Caribbean would break away from CONCACAF and just leave North and Central America, which would allow for a similar format to CONMEBOL with 10 teams in the confederation.
Gold Cup is a possibility. Forward pool is actually decent with Jozy, Wood, Morris, Dempsey plus Zardes, Agudelo, Johannsson. If the Top 4 plus Zardes are with the qualifying team then that leaves Dwyer in a prime position with the Gold Cup squad. If he impresses there then he could work his way into the mix with the A-Squad. If not Gold Cup then Camp Cupcake next year is another opportunity. He is a good MLS player, but borderline USMNT player.
Will he even start for Sporting once Rubio comes back? Yes, he will but he's been bad this year. Needs to find that pre-Sydney magic before he gets called in imo.
pulisic was outstanding. thought he was, at worst, a top 5 player on the pitch and he only played 45 min.
When Pulisic gets better at crossing that's when his game will really take off I think. That's the one knock on him right now.
CCV picked up a knee injury at a US U20 training camp. Fuck. Hope it's not serious. The U20 is in less than a month. Roster has to be announced soon, right?
Right and no one seems to know when it will be Stars and Stripes tried to take a guess as the roster http://www.starsandstripesfc.com/us...roster-prediction-tab-ramos-christian-pulisic
Gonna be some hard decisions. Lots of guys doing very well in great academies abroad, but also plenty of new guys who were great in the CONCACAF tournament and will be hard to leave off.
U.S. international striker Bobby Wood typically wins his battles. The 24-year-old uses his explosive frame to fight off defenders and force past them on his way to goal. He rarely gets knocked down. But at a U.S. training camp in Ohio in November, Wood spent a lot of time on the deck. So much so that his teammates made a running joke of it. "Bobby, how many times you end up on the ground today?" they would ask him. More surprising than Wood’s plight was the man putting the hits in: Tottenham’s Cameron Carter-Vickers. The defender was attending his first national team camp and relishing his duel with one of the squad’s most aggressive players.
welp that settles which match I'm watching this afternoon. can't believe Dembele isn't starting either.
With Reus back it would seem his days as a consistent starter are over. No shame in that. Surprised at no Dembele though. Guess Tuchel really likes how Kagawa has been playing.
p conservative lineup tuchel is putting out imo. dembele has been struggling lately, but pulisic was doing whatever he wanted on that right side vs monaco last outing. def surprised to see him on the bench. wouldn't surprise me to see a double change at half with him and dembele coming on assuming bvb are still behind.
Rough memories for my 12 year old self yelling for the pk and red card. Can only imagine how bad we would've been fucked by the refs if we played South Korea in the semis.
That was my first thought when I read this article. The refereeing in the South Korean games that year were hilarious. Sometimes I go back and watch some of those videos on youtube for laughs.
Bobby would have at least 15 goals if he played for a mid table club like Werder or Koln. If Hamburg doesn't get relegated, they need to sign some attackers. Nearly all of Bobby's goals this season he's created by himself.