Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - RIP Diogo Jota

[concise]

Going all out for the Confederations Cup was a huge mistake. We thought it wasn't because all we needed to do was win 2 of the last 4 games (3 of them being really easy in the context of CONMEBOL) but the team went to shyt during the "offseason"

I always thought it was a mistake going so hard in confed cup.

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

Wait what happened?! I thought the US were already qualified?!

@frush11 @yoyoyo

Not with that performance :mjlaff1:

 

[Faneto4]

Where them usa fans at

 

[AkaDemiK]

Trinidad

Bum ass US

 

[Jmare007]

Yall won the last two Copa Americas and over Argentina nonetheless, you will be fine, now would you trade one of those championships for a spot in ghe WC?




I'm glad y'all are out though, that shot that hit the crossbar in our quarterfinal encounter in the last world cup still haunts me till this day...think i lost a couple years of life cuz of that

I would trade Copa Centenario for a spot at the WC, sure.

We'll not be fine breh next time we'll be a competitive team might be in 15-20 years

 

[shadowking]

 

[nyknick]

Wait what happened?! I thought the US were already qualified?!

@frush11 @yoyoyo

Bruce Arena in 2017

 

[Concerning VIolence]

Y'ALL REALLY THOUGHT THIS UMSNT DESERVED TO GO TO RUSSIA?

Y'ALL REALLY SURPRISED?

 

[THEREALBRAND]

Wait what happened?! I thought the US were already qualified?!

@frush11 @yoyoyo

Everything that had to happen for them to get eliminated happened. At worst it looked like they would have to play in a playoff with Australia, but literally all the other games went the wrong way for them and they lost. It was a perfect storm of failure.

 

[1970s HeRon Flow]

Everything that had to happen for them to get eliminated happened. At worst it looked like they would have to play in a playoff with Australia, but literally all the other games went the wrong way for them and they lost. It was a perfect storm of failure.

Perfect storm of joy
@LinusCaldwell :ABum1::Deion:

 

[CoochieMane]

TriniMUDDASc*ntdad
@CoochieMane

just like them fakkits to play to their potential when there's nothing to lose.

 

[Spades Of Aces]

Ugh...I’m so disappointed in the US team right now. I mean WTF!? Damn...

 

[TheFryingDutchman]

What a pathetic squad usa is. No urgency at all

I was watching confused as hell. I was like do these fools realize that they cant lose. Looking like a bunch of kids on the last day of school giving zero fukks. But thank God we brought Bruce back right

At least Gulati will get fired

ETA: Help Mexico get to the World Cup and expect them to do the the same for you next cycle brehs

 

[Jmare007]

I always thought it was a mistake going so hard in confed cup.

I mean on one hand you had a generation that was running of fumes and wanted to win another title. I got why they went all out and everyone wanted to be in the squad. And to be honest, no one thought we would squander two of the easiest games on the whole damn schedule (Paraguay and Bolivia in La Paz, a place were Chile doesn't have troubles as other countries). The fall off in form between the Confed Cup and the September games was astonishing. The lack of vacation and players doing whatever the fukk they wanted did us in at the worst time and it wouldn't have happened if some of the key names take a rest in June

But hindsight is 20/20, there's no excuse for THIS team to lose both those games in Sept, that shyt was a horrible chokejob that will haunt a group of players that made history for this country.

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

USA didn't get a single W on the road during qualifying.

@Costa Rica, L 4-0
@Panama, D 1-1
@Mexico, D 1-1
@Honduras, D 1-1
@Trinidad, L 2-1