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U.S. Men's National Soccer (Official Thread)

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Yanks dominated the final 30 while the ref blew 3 foul calls that killed chances. Definitely liked the effort, and probably deserved a better result.
 
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Jake said:
Yanks dominated the final 30 while the ref blew 3 foul calls that killed chances. Definitely liked the effort, and probably deserved a better result.
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Yep. US still showed fight and Jurgen looks like he found some more guys in the pool to look at in future matches.

I'll take the tie given everything. Just a friendly. Definitely excited for the future of US.

Eh, who am I kidding? Just a friendly? FUCK MEXICO and FUCK THAT REF!
 
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whistle 30 secs early? my as well go for the full boat of a bend over!! Only watched last 25 mins of game and was SHOCKED by what I saw. I know only a "friendly" but hard to play against 3 extra people on the pitch!! Good things ahead for Team USA!!
 
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OHSportsFan9;1967546; said:
Yep. US still showed fight and Jurgen looks like he found some more guys in the pool to look at in future matches.

I'll take the tie given everything. Just a friendly. Definitely excited for the future of US.
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I'm definitely more optimistic after the showing in the final 30 minutes. Shea, Rogers & Agudelo acquitted themselves quite well. Put them in the mix with guys like Donovan, Dempsey & Holden and you might have the makings of a legitimate attack.

It's only one match and it's only a friendly, but to me it encapsulated why the managerial change was necessary and will prove beneficial. For better or worse, we got a look at a lot of players tonight. Does anybody think we would have seen Rogers or Shea if Bradley were still managing? Does anybody think we'd get a look at anybody at the expense of guys like M. Bradley and Jones?
 
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Snappy_Jay;1967549; said:
whistle 30 secs early? my as well go for the full boat of a bend over!!
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It's the referee's discretion. Say what you will about about entrusting that kind of responsibility to a guy who missed the other things that he missed, but he keeps the official time. If it was meant to be that precise, they'd keep the official time on the stadium clock and count it down instead of up.
 
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jlb1705;1967547; said:
Eh. I can live with that.
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It was just weird. I don't know that I've ever seen a ref add a number of minutes and then blow the whistle before that amount of time ran off. If you're not going to let em play to 3 minutes, then 2 minutes is the correct number to toss up there on the board.
 
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sepia5;1967556; said:
It was just weird. I don't know that I've ever seen a ref add a number of minutes and then blow the whistle before that amount of time ran off. If you're not going to let em play to 3 minutes, then 2 minutes is the correct number to toss up there on the board.
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Happens more frequently than you'd think. The Serie A was notorious for it last season. They'd blow the whistle some 30-40 seconds before the actual end of the game.
 
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Grant Wahl's recap for SI.com:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/grant_wahl/08/10/usa.mexico/index.html?sct=hp_t2_a5&eref=sihp

Interesting blurb:

? Come on, ESPN. It was strange: ESPN sure treated USA-Mexico like a big game before it started. The SportsNation crew was here today with Michelle Beadle, and a cavalry of a half-dozen ESPN broadcasters was also on-hand, causing me to think the network was sort of overhyping this friendly. But the Worldwide Leader undermined everything by shunting the first 20 minutes of the game over to ESPNews so that a Little League World Series *qualifier* could finish on ESPN2. The network may have policies that call for such measures, but it sure came off as a statement that this game didn't mean much at all. With today's announcement that NBC Sports has signed a new deal to broadcast MLS and some U.S. games in addition to ESPN, I'll be curious to see how the presence of NBC Sports impacts ESPN's soccer decisions. The fact is that ESPN sees NBC/Comcast as a much more serious competitor than it ever saw Fox Soccer (which is being dropped by MLS/USSF at the end of the year). How will that impact things moving forward?
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