Fox outbid ESPN for the WC tv rights. So there's that at least

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Just want to do nothing for a few days.

I thought a goal would be enough against the 99th ranked team in the world.

This will makes us happy!

Add me to the camp of those who think that Howard wasn't responsible for either goal.

Having gone back and watched the highlights, the Omar Gonzalez own goal was inexcusable. He either completely misjudged the bounce of the ball or simply reacted too slowly causing him to hit under the ball instead of getting the laces on it.

This is basic defending. We can't be fielding players who screw up the fundamentals in make or break games. It boggles the mind.

MLS playoffs are right around the corner, laddies. It's always darkest before the dawn of some more terrible soccer.

We can list failures all day but, imo, the worst failure of this cycle was our complete inability to find a CB pairing. We are weak all over, but we leaked so many goals aside from the just general lack of luck on final match day.

blaming anyone other than arena seems like a yuge leak. however weak the roster was it qualifies 99 times out of 100, literally just had to not lose to ****ing trinidad and toboggan. falls entirely on him and that sunil idiot for allowing him to privilege to betray america worse than benedict arnold

Just gutted, the World Cup is so infrequent none of us have that many left.

At least when they expand the field to 48 we'll be safe. Right? At least when we host.

Watched the highlights, I guess blaming it on Howard is harsh in a way but I reckon most top european goalkeepers definitely get a hand on the ball on both goals. His reaction/leap on the 1st goal is pretty weak

My boss just pulled me aside genuinely concerned about me. He thought my wife left me or something. #theseyanks

They should have put LeBr0n in goal.

Tens of millions

Silver lining is I never have to watch Michael Bradley play ever again

USA squad has been beyond pathetic for a while now. Glad I don't have to see them trip over themselves on the biggest stage

I'm not a Costa Rican football expert but they seem to have made three pretty standard looking substitutions. Besides which, I don't see any incentive for Costa Rica to tank the USA - there's no great footballing or geopolitical rivalry i know of, deliberately losing to **** over your opponents is basically unheard of in.

Do you have a Trip Report? I read the Panamanian president declared today a national holiday - yesterday must have been pretty wild!

Pretty good response from Suge Nut

Maybe Trump can annex Brazil.

Panama or Iceland would suffice for the moment

I will find a way to actually email arthur blank

based on wikipedia it seems all this clown has done is fail in a bid to get the world cup here, start some stupid woman league that will fold in a few years, and now fail to make the world cup.

Why? So he can get that valuable experience to lead us to the next World Cup where we get knocked out in the group stages? The US is never going to seriously compete in a World Cup unless major changes occur. I highly doubt even missing out on the competition will cause those changes. People will talk big for a few weeks but it will all go silent as those in power do what is necessary to stay there.

It’s more then MLS though. It’s the entire system that has been set up which is holding us back. The entire system needs to be torn down and rebuilt from the bottom up. Unfortunately, will never happen as those in power will do whatever is necessary to stay at the top.

theyve made the knockout rounds the past two world cups and gone to extra time in both...evidence suggests they certainly have the ability to compete with all but the small handful of elite teams.

Yup. This right here. Don’t push yourself to improve on a daily basis, take the easy road and settle with what you have, you become a completely average player.

Of course he is. He is going to need a new job soon.

I do hope that we use players in that age group. In order to really compete though you need a core of players in the 23-27 age range. Pulisic will be in that age range during the next World Cup but do we have anyone else that will be good enough to make a difference or are we still going to be playing Beasley and Dempsey?

Yup. Unfortunately isn’t going to happen. The DA system is relatively young so whoever is in charge, most likely Gulati, will stick with it.

Gulati has done a good job bringing the US to this point. Someone else needs to come in and finish the job.

The problem with the academies is they are developing teams. They are not developing international level players. I’ve watched quite a few academy games and it’s like watching robots play. They all play the exact same way with very very little creativity and imagination in the games.