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[quesarah]

hurray we suck.

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[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

Um yeah. Just a bit. I thought you were going to do quite well too as the side is ranked in the top 10 in the world. Oh well, guess not :-(

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I guess it'll be a while before football really gets good in the US. Not that these guys aren't good, but they need to consistently be able to find whatever it was they used to play so tough against Italy.

Ah well, Mexico's still in it. Go El Tri!!

[kensson.livejournal.com]

Trouble with the FIFA rankings is, a win over - say - El Salvador in a friendly counts for as much as beating Brazil in the World Cup final. The North America/Caribbean confederation really doesn't have many decent teams in it - USA and Mexico, maybe Costa Rica - so the US tend to win a lot of games against poor opposition. Japan and South Korea's rankings are artificially high for the same reason.

Europe and South America, in contrast, are full of good teams, so a team like Switzerland will have an artificially low ranking because they lose more often against good opposition - they were in the same qualifying group as France and Ireland, and had to beat Turkey (3rd place in 2002) in the playoffs.

Hell, the US can't even beat Scotland. That's shocking :o)

(Icon is inappropriate, but it's the only footy one I have handy.)

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

And here we were thinking that since more of our athletes are playing on Eurpean teams, we'd actually field a decent side...

[madenglishbloke.livejournal.com]

excellent trainspotting quote...

[madenglishbloke.livejournal.com]

trinnidad & tobago thought that as well, as most of their players play for english or sctooish teams - totally forgetting that most of them struggle to get games at 2 & 3rd division clubs.
not sure where the american players do club football, but could be a similar situation

[kensson.livejournal.com]

You know... I've been using the icon for at least six months and I think you're the first person to mention it :o)

[kensson.livejournal.com]

Looks like they USA squad is based in mid-table Premiership and high-flying Championship sides - Reading, Leeds, Everton, Fulham. Same story with the Bundesliga. Ghana have many more Europe-based players, although Essien (Chelsea) is probably the only one in a very good side.

[madenglishbloke.livejournal.com]

first time ive seen it, as well...