Im bout to leave work and go home to watch the USA scrape Italy:ugh2:

I'm watching France vs Germany (sup blue). It's just a friendly, but I'm hoping it'll be a fun watch. Germany are a blast to watch; France are defensive, but with midfield quality to exploit any defense.

wow, cabaye got the starting nod on the french national team?

nice to see olivier giroud get some reward for some top class performances he's put in for montpelier this season

I think it's less a reward & more Benzema & Remy are injured.

Giroud has made two previous appearances, though.

& he scores. Nice.

remy's hurt? he made the bench though?

Hi. Germany ftw. Also, LOL @ Arsenal getting Poldi :excited:

I may have misremembered.
Why lol?

GOALLLLLL for USA

Even though he is the man he isn't consistent enough playing club games.

That's fair. I know he was more or less a flop at Bayern, but I'm hoping he'll do the whole "older/ wiser/ better" thing if he actually joins AFC.

Besides, all he has to be is a poacher next to RvP in the 10 role :rofl2:

Robben OMG WTF


oooh, the floodgates are open. Huntelaar now right after Robben just basically ran through England and toss it into the goal.

oof, looks injured too. Glad that wasn't Robin in there lol

I'm planning to watch Netherlands vs England when I get home.

13 min from a USA win !!!!! Glad Jozy is playing well.

When isn't Robben hurt :rolleyes:

Bayern need to ditch his ***.

yeah....i think i want to buy the holland jersey now. now debating if i want to put rvp on it or not. probably not.

while i'm at it, i'll pick up the new galaxy jersey. it looks weird, but it's growing on me.

Kitbag.com have pretty good deals on European shirts. I'd like to get one, but I'm undecided if I like the new away shirt, the WC 2010 away shirt, or the traditional Oranje home shirt. They looked sharp against England.

Impressive and memorable victory for USA! Italy have lost some muscle in the past few international tournaments since winning it all in 2006, but still a nice win for Klinsmann and the boys.


:( Deutschland...

i have goal club membership on soccer.com. if anybody would like some help ordering stuff let me know.

i'm getting the away kit just b/c i think it's more flexible. i can actually walk around in it after watching a game if i wanted to :rofl2:

:usa:

I just got a $25 gift card thanking me for being a member for over ten years. I also had a $10 sitting in queue & needed some new keeper pants. I ended up paying $5.xx. I was quite ecstatic.

cow u play as keeper? i always thought by ur comments you'd be a defensive midfielder or something

I play in goal for my indoor teams. I played dm/ right back (preferred position) most of my life. I'd like to play the field, but I've gotten good at keeper, so i just stay in my lane.

Im finally playing outdoor again for the first time since 2005 (sprained my MCL so badly I had to rehab harder than if I'd just have torn it & had surgery & didn't play for a while, then moved & started playing indoor as it was my only option here)-- our first match was Sunday, but I twisted my knee earlier that day playing flag football & could only watch from the sidelines. It's only 7v7 on a 50x80 yard field with smaller goals, so I'll probably keep there too. Next year, though, they'll offer 11v11 & I fully intend to play the field as I have zero desire to be diving across that huge goal. I'm not tall enough at 5'10".

maybe you are graced with massive hops :tup: lol

as knee injuries have robbed me of all my speed, i've just been working on my hops and hopefully i'll re-deploy as a centreback. until then...i'm playing bball.

Just got home from a charity friendly between the Sounders and Jaguars de Chiapas and considering all the new key position players (holy crap Gspurning is a giant compared to Keller!), tonight's 2-0 win looked very promising. The new guys seemed to be meshing with the core players pretty well so far. Hoping for similar or even better results as our competitive season starts next week in the CONCACAF quarter finals v Santos Laguna!

^^^
I want to go to a Sounders game. I went to a Timbers game last year & loved it.

I'm definitely not graced with massive hops, lol. I can barely touch a basketball rim with a running start.

Ditto on not being fast anymore. Is there any way to regain speed we lost?

You're Asian....how the hell are you big enough to be a CB? :icon17:

honestly, at 27, I feel i'm the fastest i've ever been, i just bought some new AdiZero f-50's with the micoach in them, i'm gonna upload my data on here when i've played a match, hoping to see if i'm at Dani Alves level :tup:

I have the F50. They are great.

Yeah, i'm usually a predator guy, but I tried a pair of the f50's on and the preds felt like cement blocks afterwards, they might not increase your speed by much, but they sure feel like they can. I'm a right side winger and it seemed like it was easier to whip in driven crosses with them on as well.

I have F50s (among others), but they were too lightweight-- every time I'd go into a challenge, I'd feel it. I switched to Copa Mundials & haven't worn anything else since.

i'm 6'1 and i can outjump everybody i play against :rofl2:

dani alves variable: amount of dives = ?

Lol at dives.

Can't wait for the Cascadia matches this year! We got the short end of the stick this year and have to go to Portland twice, but they are opening the upper bowl of CenturyLink for Cascadia derbies, probably going to be a riot of 60,000+ fans

fvck you Suarez you diving cunt, justice was served.

Van persie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

we had no business winning that game.

with that said...SUCK IT REDS!

on the day, we were poor yes, but that flop by suarez was not warranted. 3 points to us, and barring a new contract, another shirt sold to a gooner in deutschland...

bought the holland away jersey :tup:

What a goal!

do you guys know what happened to Arteta??