The Official FIFA World Cup Thread - QATAR 2022

[Harry B]

I don't. The path to greatness partly stems on what you can do with the trash around you.

That doesn’t make sense, so Brady, MJ, Kobe and them aren’t great cause they had great players around them?

The important thing is to be the difference maker. Dude provided like 7 10/10 assists which resulted in nothing.

It’s like a QB throwing a perfect 50 yarder and the receiver has Kwame B hands…

 

[Peak]

Argentina is gonna get really embarrassed if they get far enough to face a big team

Meh. There is no one big team who is without a mistake a Messi can exploit.

 

[nyknick]

1. Fire Berhalter

2. Hire Roberto Martinez. Not a dazzling choice, but the most obvious. Yes Belgium just crashed out under his watch but that was destined to happen since 1) that team was old and 2) they showed why no national team manager should coach longer than 1 WC cycle. He picked woefully out-of-form players like Hazard and Lukaku simply because they were great in 2018.

3. Recruit Folarin Balogun to the USMNT. That's your starting striker in 2026.

4. Move heaven and earth to make sure USA are invited to the 2024 Copa America.

Man created a dream scenario in which he hires Roberto Martinez

That's like dreaming about fukking Lizzo

 

[Astroslik]

Came in just to say fukk USMNT

Still waiting on your crackhead junkie racist mexican ass to overdose

 

[Tres Leches]

Messi thinking it was all good when Higuain left only for Lautaro to say, You thought.

And the coach can’t give dybala no minutes

 

[jj23]

The US don't need a foreign coach. They just need a competent American one.

Hell, we saw the adjustments the US needed to make watching on TV.

 

[Peak]

That doesn’t make sense, so Brady, MJ, Kobe and them aren’t great cause they had great players around them?

The important thing is to be the difference maker. Dude provided like 7 10/10 assists which resulted in nothing.

I said partly. Great players tend to inspire average ones and mould great teams. Not everyone gets the pick of the litter like the players you mentioned. Greats get it done regardless (see Maradona 86).

 

[jmg30]

Nope we need a foreign coach ... Pochettino would be great for this team

 

[jj23]

Nope we need a foreign coach ... Pochettino would be great for this team

You already had a foreign coach. It's good when there is winning but the knives come out when there is failure.

You guys need someone competent, who will be given a chance to build a team

 

[Slim Charles]

I said partly. Great players tend to inspire average ones and mould great teams. Not everyone gets the pick of the litter like the players you mentioned. Greats get it done regardless (see Maradona 86).

to be fair Argentina 86 was a very good team. Maradona elevated it sure but that team relatively is much better than any Argentina squad Messi had.

 

[jmg30]

There's some YouTubers that follow the usmnt that want Roberto Martínez... I don't know why they want that if having the opportunity to get Pochettino I'm taking my chances with him... Their is no USA coach that's ready... Jesse marsch want to stay in club football. So no the us team requieres a foreign coach no American is ready it shows in their tactics and selection of players. ..

 

[Harry B]

I said partly. Great players tend to inspire average ones and mould great teams. Not everyone gets the pick of the litter like the players you mentioned. Greats get it done regardless (see Maradona 86).

Maradona 86 is a special one, but back in the days football wasn’t as international. Hard to say that a player wasn’t a star if he played in Boca for example.

Nowadays all the great players are in the biggest CL clubs. Back then, you could have a great player in Boca or River. Most teams were filled with local players. So Argentina was one of the best teams.


But of course, like Bale with Wales. Messi been carrying this team, even with big names on the team. So I also blame the coach. But the biggest problem has been the midfield.

 

[MVike28]

to be fair Argentina 86 was a very good team. Maradona elevated it sure but that team relatively is much better than any Argentina squad Messi had.

94 Argentina pre-Maradona suspension was destined for the final

 

[LiveFromLondon]

Wright so trash the only way he'd score would be a one in a million fluke

 

[Jmare007]

to be fair Argentina 86 was a very good team. Maradona elevated it sure but that team relatively is much better than any Argentina squad Messi had.

That 86' squad was famously slightly above average (like a lot of Messi's teams). It's why Argentinians love them so much more than the 78' squad. It was a bunch of dogs that would've went to hell with Diego as their leader and Bilardo's coaching.

It's actually kinda similar to this current squad. There's a whole mystique around Escaloni -they call this team "La Escaloneta"- and Argentinians love them because there's players that aren't world class but leave their heart out there for this team (De Paul, Acuña, Romero, Lautaro and Martínez, to name a few) and they will literally do anything to get Messi a World Cup because they all idolize him. It's a stark contrast to previous squads that were kinda afraid of Messi and just wanted to give him the ball and stay out of his way (plus had other big egos to deal with like Mascherano's).