Confederations Cup

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Maybe someday we'll see Canada play for the first round of eliminations... that's not totally impossible, ya know... ok unlikely for the 10 next years but one has to hope first hehe.

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US should at the very worst take 3rd. Good win over egypt and perhaps a point from either brazil or italy and who knows what might happen.

Gotta believe it`ll be brazil-spain in the final though!!

For anyone wishing to put a few quid on the next world cup however do not look past argentina or the netherlands!!!

The same Argentina that lost 6-1 to Bolivia? Not sure why anybody would pick them out of all the favouritues with the form they have been showing in qualification.

Holland/Spain/England on the other hand....

England?? Lol come on mate there more chance of Gordon Brown winning the next election, England are shite, did you miss them against Spain in Feb? It was a massacre, Spain,Brazil,Argentina,Holland,Germany,Italy and France i would take over England everyday off the week.

Yeah but thats a typically English thing to do. Over-rate everybody else while under-rating our chances. You don't have to be the best side to win the world Cup. You just have to be in the mix and a decent draw and a bit of luck can go a long way. Spain in Feb was a friendly and at best was a 2nd string team. Looking at competitive games and England have been right up there with the best of them.

Italy don't look up to much imo. Ageing team who don't seem to have any major talents coming through.

Brazil probably have the weakest squad they have had for a while. So weak that Elano is a starter when he can't dislodge Ireland from the team at City. Roberto carlos has gone, Ronaldinho is a shell of a once world class player, Ronaldo is fat and finished - so is Adriano, Kaka isn't quite the same player anymore after 2 years of injury after injury. Defensively they aren't so strong. They do have a top class keeper but even in qualifying they have been up and down.

Germany don't have anything that particularly worries me. They will be there or there abouts but i'd fancy our chances.

Argentina - much like Brazil, have been up and down. 6-1 loss to Bolivia a prime example.

Obviously you can't discount any of the above but i wouldn't say they have a much better chance than England.

The only teams i would worry about are Spain and possibly Holland.

[OumaFan]

Spain's starting 11 look a bit better than ours on paper

[OumaFan]

haha we've actually played kind of ridiculously well but nothing

[Master]

USA could pull this off

[OumaFan]

1-0 on a nice goal actually but we have to score a second (at least), they're just putting too much pressure on.

[OumaFan]

LOL I'm listening to a British stream and it is a bit of "how bad are Spain fucking up to be losing this" haha, I'm not bitter, they are Spain.

[OumaFan]

I feel like throwing up. I almost wish Spain would just go ahead and score.

[OumaFan]

[El Kabong]

GGGGOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAALLLL!!!! Great job by the US thusfar!

[OumaFan]

As good as that is still not over, they score pretty soon here it will be nerve wracking

[OumaFan]

fucking piece of shit ref was just waiting for his chance to do it

[OumaFan]

Haha, 2-0. Craziness.

Bring on South Africa. Or Brazil. Bring on South Africa!

[El Kabong]

fucking piece of shit ref was just waiting for his chance to do it

Yeah, I think whenever the US plays on an international level, we're playing against 12 guys.

We're going to miss Bradley BUT that does free up a start for Feilhaber who once again played great.

I tell you, I wasn't sold on Davies to begin with, but he has given us a lift. Jozy played pretty well, Dempsey did well, Coach Bradley has done a wise thing in subbing a midfielder for a forward and allowing Clint to move to forward it has worked well. I think the absolute star of the game besides Jozy and Clint and Tim Howard was OGUCHI ONYEWU, man he showed his true potential yesterday blocking shots, heading the ball clear, using his size but not committing fouls.

I was disappointed that Freddy Adu didn't get any run, if there is a guy who can hang on to the ball and pass cleanly and consistently it's Freddy, he's also mighty fast too. But I can't be too disappointed on account of the fact we FINALLY played up to our potential, sure we got a little lucky but the big deals are #1 Everyone on the team has that mental block that says "We're the US we can't compete" removed #2 We won this game AWAY from the US which is HUGE.

This win is something to build upon, we have to keep our momentum pushing forward, we cannot allow Brazil to slam us the way they did before. We need to play smart, we need to play fast, and we need to try and score...seems to me most teams attack Brazil the way opponents used to attack a Prime Mike Tyson, they try and play it safe or just go through the motions because something tells the players "If we don't score, then we won't piss them off, and they in turn won't run the score up on us".....huge win, but we have to build on it

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Fair play USA!

Spain had a top side out too

This could spell the end of football as we know it if they go on and win