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Soccer Announcers Suck, Too

Here's a recommendation for any one watching the World Cup in a condominium or apartment building.  Make sure you don't pause or rewind the playback at all.  Because being even five seconds behind is enough for someone across the courtyard to yell "Gooooaaallllll" and ruin the US's only score of the first 180 minutes.

A lot will be made of the two red cards against the US.  The first, on Mastroeni, seemed excessive to this entirely untrained eye.  The second was actually the result of a second yellow card on Pope.  This one seemed deserved in my book.  Just because you already have a yellow card should not mean you get more leniency on every subsequent foul.

But, really, it's all moot.  Because Italy got 100% robbed of a goal, and the moronic American announcers never mentioned it after it happened.  Late in the first half a ball was served into the US box and was headed back out by some tall Italian dude who was called for being offside.  Except he wasn't.  Not even close.  The ball went right to a shorter Italian dude who rocketed a shot off a US defender, off a post and into the net.  Should have counted.

It's one thing to have a bad red card levied against you, it's a whole other thing to have a goal taken away.

I don't know jack crap about soccer, but Bruce Arena needs to go.  He still had a sub left at the end of the game, when it was clear that about half the team was sucking wind.  The US needs to overpay for some Dutch guy.  At least some European.  Shit, even my niece has a coach from Turkey who played for Manchester United.  And she's 6 and lives in Texas for Chrissakes.

I am going to pretend to know what I'm talking about some more.  The problem with the US is that it has a bunch of so-so players and absolutely no superstars.  No big-time strikers.  No one that puts the fear of God in the other team.  No Ronaldo or Ronaldinho or Kaka or Crespo or Van Nistlerooy or Henry or that taller fellow for Sweden or Klose.  Not even a go to guy on set pieces like Beckham.  They got McBride, who's good with his head but couldn't even get the ball on net after a perfect layoff from Donovan.  Then there's Reyna, who plays his ass off the whole game but when it matters most he fires a weak-ass shot instead of hitting a wide open and on-side Donovan on a diagonal cut.

Pathetic.  I don't care what their FIFA ranking is or how confident they are.  The US soccer team is still two notches below contender status.

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Re: Soccer Announcers Suck, Too
I think the US is only one notch below contender status, but still not a contender.

Pope got ball on the second yellow; that's frequently not even a foul, and certainly not a yellow.  And the first yellow wasn't deserved either; there was no foul.  

And it's not just my bias: read the post from an Bristish neutral fan: http://www.blogfc.com/theblog/?p=512

We were playing better than Italy when we were at even men (despite the score...).  Who knows how it might have gone without such a poor referee, but we all deserved to find out...

by jrduncans on Jun 17, 2006 4:52 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

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As you'll recall, I predicted the refs would fuck the US team two weeks ago...

The only part about the game that was a surprise was some BS PK call wasn't given in the 89th minute.

The single biggest problem with this sport is that the refereeing is beyond atrocious.  I mean, we complain about the NBA, the NFL, even baseball, but they're all quality compared to soccer refs.

There is absolutely no rhyme or reason to anything.  What's offside to one guy isn't for someone else, what a PK is for some guy isn't for someone else, and same with red and yellow cards.
Nobody has any idea how each game will be called.  I guess the sport is so hard to ref because of all the diving but still, getting offsides right shouldn't be brainsurgery.  

And don't give anyone a straight red unless they're bleeding.  

People shouldn't be afraid of their government, their government should be afraid of its people.

by Aaronstampler on Jun 17, 2006 8:04 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

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Cards should be reviewed after the game by a group of officials, as they can result in a one-game suspension.  There's no good reason not to improve the accuracy of such decisions by having them decided with the benefit of time & replays, rather than at the mercy of the referee in the heat of the moment, with a single opportunity to assess what happened.

by jrduncans on Jun 18, 2006 11:35 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Re: Soccer Announcers Suck, Too
This makes way too much sense.  It will never happen.

by sungo on Jun 18, 2006 10:09 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

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I don't like the card calls sometimes, but I love that they exist.  I totally agree with Simmons on this, the NBA should make their refs use yellow and red cards instead of T's.  It'd be the funniest shit ever and the fans would get into it.
People shouldn't be afraid of their government, their government should be afraid of its people.

by Aaronstampler on Jun 19, 2006 3:06 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

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problem with refs in fifa football is that it is fifa. fucking whole world. nba cant control few well trained and well bihaved americans....

of course that's only making the problem more appereant, it's not that uefa games dont get fucked.

massive boisson aka chicken

by massive boisson on Jun 20, 2006 6:18 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

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