How u figure. You're saying 6 PTS vs Germany 4 is locked up?

AMERICA.

I would imagine there's a difference in fit between the (stupid expensive) authentic kits and the (almost stupid expensive) replica kits most people buy. I usually wear an XL but sometimes get away with a L and the replica kit fits me fine. It's probably snugger than normal but not overly snug.

Most sporting goods stores are selling replica kits at the moment. If you aren't sure just make a trip down and try one on.

USA #1 THO

I have the home white one in an L (6'2'' 195) fits snug. XL would probably work too but its not like an L is too small

My sisters bf has the authentic kit. It's literally the same shirt with holes on the side. Complete waste of $75 extra

I ordered mine from China for $15 - it has the stitched logo and holes on the side, perfect quality other than it saying "BRADLEY" on the back. I usually wear large shirts and ordered XL based on my 2010 Donovan jersey being too small. The XL fits perfect.

Considering GER and USA both will be happy with a draw, there's a chance it looks like this:

People blaming Bradley are the same ones who wanted to fire Klinsmann two weeks ago.

For better or worse USA are rarely diving.

I live in China and ordered fake jerseys from Chinese website. Look authentic, feel good, jersey number 1, name on back is Freedom.

Jersey is definitely snug. Get one size bigger than you normally would.

I defended Bradley earlier, but after reviewing the end of the game I must admit, Bradley deserves the criticism he's getting and more. Watch him from 92:00-93:00. You'll see the entire team reacting in unison to the movement of the ball. Meanwhile Bradley looks like that guy in gym class, technically moving his legs in a running motion to fool the teacher but not really expending energy. It's sickening to watch his flat-footedness cost us possession at 92:25. Jones got blamed for the pass but it was in a perfect spot for an alert, active teammate to run onto it. Inexplicably, Bradley looks like he's daydreaming. I haven't noticed if he plays that way all the time, but he needs a wakeup call.

I don't know how, but I really wish someone would post a gif of that play at 92:25. It's so obvious that Jones is about to pass it to him and he looks completely asleep.

This is a few seconds later. Yes, that's not an optical illusion. Bradley is literally walking. This is at like 93:00! Just unfathomable that you could be this lacking in WIM with so much at stake. It's infuriating.

"When we get back to the hotel and we hear about Grant Park in Chicago having 10,000 fans out to watch the game and friends and family are sending pictures and videos of what's going on, it can't help but push you on because we want to make every person watching back home proud of us and proud to watch our team," said midfielder Michael Bradley.

*TILT*

I tend to place a decent amount of blame on Bradley, because the WC is all about narratives and he committed several grave sins, but pretty hard to be that angry at him for being gassed when he just ran for 90 minutes in a rainforest. If anything, it's Jurgen's fault for not noticing and making sure that players were conservatively covering for him when the subs came on.

He wasn't THAT gassed. Look at the GIF above where he gives up the ball. He can still sprint. It's not like he just collapsed on the ground at the end of the game. Hard to give him a pass for that reason. Everyone's gassed, but only two people are walking: Bradley and Ronaldo.

JJ was on the ground in exhaustion for a good 15s+ during a Portugal attack in the box and he didn't even run as much as Bradley. Not to be a dick, but if you have watched 120m of USA soccer in the past 4 years, you might not want to post 1k words bashing our best player who had the highest work rate because he was tired at the end of running 12k+ box to box in the rainforest in 90 minutes. He gave up possession badly because he was gassed at the end of the game that caused Portugal to have an attack where our defenders made an even worse play, **** happens. It doesn't mean Bradley is the worst player or something like your casual fan analysis of watching him play for 10 minutes seems to think.

Basically he's made some pretty crucial mistakes and has been playing poorly because we've been asking him to be some sort of super athlete midfielder who attacks in the box and defends in the other box and pressures possession at every opportunity while being available as a passing outlet and super creator at all times. He obviously can't handle the responsibilities given to him without paying worse than he usually does but the US can't really have anyone else play the way he is with JJ and Beckerman in the lineup. Basically we have 0 attacking midfielders centrally besides him and the way the group is with the quality of opposition we also need him to defend centrally as well. We made him a super roaming 10 in the middle of the ****ing rainforest. It's ****ing brutal and it's not lack of WIM causing these errors, cause he's working and wanting it more than anyone on this team.

So now we got someone trying to construct a bradley is lazy theory. We have stats on who ran the most for us dude. It was Bradley by over a kilometer than anyone else in this game.

And yet found the energy to sprint to try and cut off the attack in the photo above. If Bradley was so gassed that he had to walk, he should have asked to come out. There is no excuse for the way he played in stoppage time. None. Okay, blame it on JK if you want.

If you ever start a sentence "Not to be a dick, but.."

The "you only watch 120 minutes of soccer" jab is so ****ing lame. It's like sup bros who think that your opinion on American football is invalid because you didn't play. I've watched, played and reffed plenty of soccer to be able to offer an opinion in this thread. And who cares if I hadn't. Any noob can see that he was awful in stoppage time. Your argument should be that he should have asked to come out or that JK should have removed him, not that he wasn't awful.

P.S. I'm not just some hater. You can see just a few posts back I was defending him. But I'm also not a close-minded fanboy who refuses to see the truth. I watched the tape and it changed my opinion.

Maybe he's walking because there's no need to be anywhere else? Mostly he needs to worry about the player at the left hand side of the picture. Secondly he can get into a spot where he can support the on-ball defender (Beckerman?) if he gets beat. I haven't gone back to look at the video, but he's in a perfectly good spot right there based on just looking at the picture.

Also, the best soccer players aren't sprinting for 90 minutes straight. Watch Messi. He walks around a ton, then turns it on when he has to.

English school of defense, man.

Running a lot > being in position.

hmm

knuckleheads!