9 CommentsBwog would not want to be Landon Donovan–or anyone associated with the US Soccer Team–after our boys’ 2-1 loss to Ghana yesterday. Sunil was not happy.
“This is where the entire world is watching,” said the United States Soccer Federation president, with the kind of icy disapproval reserved for those who confuse Lorentz curves with Edgeworth boxes. “This is where you measure yourself. That didn’t come out well.”
Read the full New York Times article here .
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@germany-argentina! the match of the millennium! but who to root for?
@what's soccer didn’t we already have the world cup? I thought the world was watching that.
@oh dear. right, well. but haha, at least we won’t have to watch any more TERRIBLE soccer-playing by the american team. nor be judged and humiliated (used loosely) for not rooting for “the home team”
@baseball no one outside of the western hemisphere and japan/korea really cares.
@umm. .. remember that entire continent south of us? I’m pretty sure soccer’s big down there, too
@reading comprehension? his post is entitled baseball. he’s referring to the fact that it’s only popular in the western hemisphere and parts of east asia. and yes, soccer fanaticism can overlap with that. the end.
@also if i remember correctly, that continent is pretty much still in the western hemisphere.
@rumor is gulati might try to persuade klinsmann to take the US top job for ’10 in south africa
@if we had more of a culture here in terms of soccer…that german ref would go the way of bartman