omg, Brazil in the lead!

Brazil win 3-2....very unlucky USA, you certainly took the game to them.

The USA gained a lot of merit/kudos and admiration from the footballing world over on this performance. :up:

Good game, congrats to Brasil, they showed how to finish.

+ We want a replay :salute:

I think Brazil earned the win with their performance in the 2nd half. Still a great accomplishment by the U.S. Soccer team.
I wish our team was as good as yours. It's actually a shame soccer isn't more popular in the U.S., I mean the Austrian soccer team is one of the worst teams in Europe (although there have been promising steps in the right direction), yet soccer is still hugely popular. Yours on the other hand certainly has the quality to beat the best in the world, but the popularity is nothing compared here.

Yeh... for what it's worth. Football sucks. :D

I'm still trying to get over the idea that we have a soccer team. When did that happen?:-? Do we have any other international sports teams lying around that I don't know about?

Me too. I think they live a feral existence in the basement off the scraps that the NFL, MLB and the NBA throw out.

Oh...and congrats to Brasil. :up:

You mean those guys wearing protection suits carrying a ball in their hands and being struck down like bowling pins ? :haha:
Yep football does suck, soccer on the other hand rules. :rock:

How could they lose with a team like this?

Just plain unfair ...

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x.../spiderman.jpg

Most intriguing......:hmmm:
Perhaps we, as a nation, can reach out to these primitive peoples and show them the wonders of civilized sports that people actually watch.
This sport they play involves kicking a ball of some kind at a goal, yes?
Maybe we could teach them to kick field goals:DL

You line up against a 250 lb mass of muscle that can run 40 yards in 4.5 seconds and you'll need the "protection suit", too.

Well you have a whole team for winter olympics including biathlonists. Oh yea and you're actually pretty good in curling. :)

Uhm, me wonders why such "protection hazard suits" are not necessary in rugby. I don't think the guys playing rugby are "thin sized human beings". :D

There really is a saying which I think is fundamentally true, americans love sports were it is possibile to score a lot. You can score tens of points in baseball, american football, hockey, basketball not so in soccer. So soccer is kind of relegated to a minor sports. If by a miracle the US won the next world championship it wouldn't do anything to make this sports popular.
Right now its only popular with girls, isn't soccer mom a term invented by americans by the way ? :03:

That sound you can hear is rugby players laughing at you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwDTIiGSEYs

The haka alone makes rugby better than American football. Coolest thing in all of sports.