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  1. Venezuela and Ecuador absolutely are the two best teams in this group. Ecuador is far and away the best team in this group, but they got fucked by the Valenzuela red card. We are lucky that Mexico’s 3rd game will mean something to their opponent. This way they won’t be given a free point or three.
  2. Napoleon

    Euro 2024

    The Turks are like the Serbs of Asia Minor.
  3. GERMAN LESSON #1 So people realize that “Schloss” (or “Schloß” as it’s normally written) just means “Castle” GERMAN LESSON #2 “Gretchen” is really just German for “Karen”.
  4. Vamos Fucking Ecuador!!! 🇪🇨 Plus, I like their kits.
  5. Napoleon

    Euro 2024

    A 6 on 4 break when Czechia would have been bunkering because they would have had the lead. This ref may need to be burned at the stake.
  6. Napoleon

    Euro 2024

    Absolutely Czechia should be up and going through. 60K angry Turks are more than this ref wanted to deal with.
  7. Napoleon

    Euro 2024

    The drama was real! Willie Nelson put down Trigger and pulled on a Croatia 🇭🇷 kit! He then gets a PK in the 2nd half to take the lead, which would send them through to the round of 16, but Italy’s gargantuan goalkeeper, Gianluigi Donnarumma (actual name), knew exactly where the musical elf was going with his shot and made a beautiful save to his left. As the ball circled the field with Croatia retaining possession, cameras catch Willie with his hands on his face in disbelief. He completely blew it! But before FOX/FS1 can show a replay of the failed PK, the ball return to in front of the goal where Donnarurumma once again makes a stop, but the spritely elf darts for the rebound and turns and skies a shot over Mount Etna to redeem himself. Late in regulation Willie is taken off because he is 90 years old and his chicken legs need to be saved for the knockout stages as long as Croatia can hold on. Due to mafia ties with UEFA, 8 minutes of stoppage time were given to help the Azzurri come back for a draw that would send them through to the knockout stages , but all looked lost, before… Father Guido Sarducci got the ball… …and no one expected the defender to dribble the ball, but Guido took Autobahn Route 1, straight up the middle of the field to the edge of the 18 yard box where he lays the ball off to his left before clattering into a Croatian wall that would make the fortified walls of Dubrovnik’s port jealous. On the left wing was dual national, Leonardo Di Caprio, who not surprisingly had never score before for Italy, but no matter. Leo lined the ball up and with his right foot, he hit a beautiful curler around the keeper to the back side netting sending the Italian fans into a frenzy! And the cameras then cut to Willie on the bench. The whistle was blown immediately after the restart, Italy was moving on, and the coroner was called for Willie.
  8. US Soccer finally saved themselves from themselves and hired a top coach who is NOT from the USA. 🇺🇸 Unlike that disaster of an assistant-turned head coach who took them to the last Women’s World Cup, and who had “Women’s soccer’s answer to Gregg Berhalter.”, they got a coach who wants to win with the best team. I think that having a reduced roster, which is the way at the Olympics, helped the new coach trim the olds, because everyone is going to need to be able to run their asses off and likely be available to play a second position. Thanks Alex, your work is done here.
  9. Napoleon

    Euro 2024

    Reminds me of the USMNT with Berhalter.
  10. One of my favorite things is hear “GOOOOOOOOLLLL!!!!” Out of windows… -Di Maria’s goal vs Switzerland late in O.T. (118’)* -Higuaín’s goal vs Belgium (YouTube) Fucking love the screams when I can’t be in front of a TV. *I was in the Recoleta Cemetery giving a tour to some UT business school students (some undergrad, some grad school), so I had to miss OT. We’re not too far into the tour, but fairly near the middle of the walled cemetery with 12” to 20” tombs of various architectural styles around us and I heard… A low wind blowing sound that slowly started building and then exploded in a tidal wave of sound that came crashing down on us like several tons of ocean water and I got goose bumps as some of the kids kind of wondered what that sound was. I was grinning like the Cheshire Cat and taking huge breaths before explaining what we just heard. Love that memory. Love hearing “Gooolll!!!” out windows. Something I definitely miss.
  11. Two Argentine’s offsides but were at both posts, so it’s a good goal. In my opinion.
  12. The ball seems to be crawling along the grass. I don’t think that they re-watered at halftime.
  13. Rodrigo de Paul is looking like a Canadian in tonight’s match.
  14. Carli is getting more and more pregnant with each half of soccer.
  15. If Canada had scored again, Peru would have lost another player. No question the chippiness would have gone to another level.
  16. Most of the Canadians have show a first touch comparable to an MLS team in 2003.
  17. Napoleon

    USMNT 2024

    THIS IS LONG!! Summary: US Soccer’s #1 priority is not winning, it is money. START: US Soccer supposedly fired Klinsmann for starting off the 2018 cycle with 2 losses. 1) We lost at Azteca 🇲🇽. 2) We lost 4-0 in New Jersey (NYC area) to Costa Rica 🇨🇷 (who were the best team in CONCACAF & had the best player in CONCACAF, Keylor Navas). -Both of those games were expected losses, but a 4-0 loss was not expected. 3) After Arena did not lead the team to qualifying in 2018, U.S. Soccer expected Arena to stay on as manager, but he quit* because he knew that he had failed. *If Bruce Arena was telling the truth in his recent Kate Abdo/Clint Dempsey+ interview. 4) MLS owners have a massive influence over US Soccer and how they want things run. They didn’t like the following… 5) Klinsmann told the U.S. media that players needed to get over to Europe as soon as they could go. -Pulisic went through the US Development Academy and then went to Dortmund at the age of 16 (Croatian passport) in 2015. -Weston McKennie led FC Dallas to two Development Academy national championships, but refused to sign with FC Dallas so that he could go to Europe asap after turning 18 (2016). -Kelly Acosta was featuring for FC Dallas before falling out with FC Dallas because they wouldn’t sell him to Europe. -Haji Wright was a U.S. Yourh National Team star and LA Galaxy Academy product who didn’t sign with the Galaxy due to wanting to go to Europe asap, so he signed with the NY Cosmos to get paid a bit in 2015 and then jumped to Europe as soon as he could in 2016. Klinsmann was a fairly shitty game manager, but he knew what shakeup American soccer needed to get better, but that was costing MLS owners money, so he had to go. 6) MLS teams headed to the suburbs or expansion went to “suburban-esque” cities: Chicago, Dallas (went to quaint suburbs) Austin (rather than San Antonio), Denver, Nashville, Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Cincinnati, Vancouver, Minneapolis… (though Atlanta, Orlando, St. Louis have more grit to them). 7) USWNT was long nearly all white with long hair. Latinas were told that they may want to explore other options (translation: “Perhaps playing for Mexico would be a good idea.”) Now that the world has caught up to and passed the women’s team, the player pool is looking more diverse. 8 The “Soccer moms” have been a segment of society talked about since the ‘90s and these ladies’ households seem to be where US Soccer/MLS have tried to cultivate into the primary incubators of their future fan base since the ‘90s. They want those middle class families as their fan base. US SOCCER is not “In it to win it.” They are in it for the Power & Money.
  18. She’s slowly developing into a Top 100 player.
  19. Napoleon

    USMNT 2024

    Or… We price our tickets to keep out our lower class fans so that our middle class (and up) fans feel comfortable coming to games. Middle class (and up) fans spend a lot more money once they are through security, so if they don’t feel comfortable and stop going, that could be an issue. I don’t care about the people around me (usually…), but families and groups with women might. There is definitely a desire to cultivate the right kind of fans, not “fans in general”.
  20. Napoleon

    Euro 2024

    “And it is Austria! Taking the lead three times! [✅] Holding on twice! [❌]” CORRECTION: Once. They held on once, lady.
  21. Napoleon

    Euro 2024

    And almost a 4th !! Southgate is watching this match and wondering if Austria is playing with different rules. Teams aren’t allowed to have a lead and go for another goal, are they?
  22. Napoleon

    Euro 2024

    Memphis celebrating his goal being allowed.
  23. From UT to UT, congratulations! Welcome to the winners club.
  24. Napoleon

    Euro 2024

    For many years I rooted against Italy. Basically from 1994 on => But I like Chiellini in the studio, they have missed the last two World Cups, they don’t dive as much as they used to, but more than anything else… Italy 🇮🇹 beating England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 in the final of Euro 2020 (held in 2021) has endeared those greasers to me. They have me the pleasure of watching England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 fail on the second biggest stage in the world, the Finals of the Euros. For that, I am throwing my support behind Italy.🇮🇹
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