Soccer Weak
Lamest week of soccer ever.
The U23s won 1-0 against a whiny and undersized Panama tonight in Tampa, FL.
Approximately 102 fans saw Freddy Adu blast in a first-half PK for the game’s only goal. The US will play group leaders Honduras on Saturday night to complete group play and end everyone’s boredom.
Apparently fitness weights don’t exist in Panama – that was a very skinny and undersized squad. (Poor Gabriel Torres is 20 but he looks 14 and always about to cry.) Many of the US fouls were merely due to the slightest pushes. It’s man’s game Panama, you got stop whining to referee and play the game.
The tie with Cuba makes more sense today after learning seven players left the team. The Cubans gave everything they had to the US knowing they weren’t planning to give anymore in the tournament.
Christian Miles had another superb night mangling names (”Ay-doo”?) and sputtering out nonsense:
- 26th min. in reference to Holden: “maybe we should call him little Bravehart”
- 30th min “meaty challenge” – this is doesn’t mean anything, it’s just Christian’s favorite gay porn movie and he loves to give it free pub.
- 70th min in reference to Sal Zizzo: “the Bundesliga star . . . although he’s still trying to play his way into the first team.” Classic Miles. Hyperbole followed up by a contradicting thought. Christian, you can’t be a “star” and “second team.”
- Every time Jozy Altidore got the ball: “a chance to stretch those big long legs!”
But the best exchange of the night was this broadacsting gem:
After a Panama player took a Dax McCarty clearance square in the nads:
Brian Dunseth: “He just took one . . . south.”
Miles: “YES!”
Overall this has been a miserable week of soccer. The US has only scored two goals and against much weaker opponents and DC United was positively boring last night. Here’s hoping the weekend treats us better . . . after all, Mils promised us the Liverpool – Reading match “oughta be a good one!” Um, my guess is it won’t. But thanks for pimpin’ the network’s game Christian! You’re a company man.
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