I've got world cup fever bad right now. Figured it would be cool to have a thread for it. If you watch the US games or any of the other ones, post thoughts here!


I Believe That We Will Win!

All I really want is for the USMNT to beat Ghana. Anything more than that is gravy for me.

My rooting hierarchy is always:

USA
Netherlands
Germany

And I root for England to implode lol

mtnjax wrote:All I really want is for the USMNT to beat Ghana. Anything more than that is gravy for me.

My rooting hierarchy is always:

USA
Netherlands
Germany

And I root for England to implode lol

Very similar for me:

USA
Ireland (obviously not in this WC)
Netherlands

England implosion

My top five:

USA
Whoever is playing Germany
Whoever is playing Argentina
Whoever is playing Italy
England

I may not enjoy this World Cup...

My Top teams:

USA
England
Spain
Uruguay
Belgium
Netherlands

(Most of my choices come from the fact that I am a Liverpool fan: England obviously; Spain - Torres and Reina; Uruguay - Suarez and Coates; Belgium - Mignolet; Netherlands - Dirk Kuyt)

I think the dark horse this year is Belgium. They have a ton of great players who are just under many people's radar: Courtois (Atletico) and Mignolet (Liverpool) in Goal, and Vermaelon (Ars) Kompany (Man City) Vertyonghen (Tot) Fellaini (Man U) Dembele (Tot) LuKaku and Hazard (Chelsea) and Mirallas (Everton).

USA
England
Ireland...maybe in 2018
Scotland...maybe in 2018
Germany
Slovak Republic...maybe in 2018

The Biggest Question: How soon will J. Klinsmann regret leaving Landon Donovan at home?

asu66 wrote:The Biggest Question: How soon will J. Klinsmann regret leaving Landon Donovan at home?

I personally would have brought him with me if I was the coach. It wouldn't have thought twice. However, the story of Landon staying home got blown WAY out or proportion. I definitely understand why has wasn't selected as compared to the 23 that were from a tactical perspective. This squad minus Donovan is still much better than 2010 with Donovan.

I don't know much about the Futbol. But Ill name some teams.

Of course the good old US of A.
Ireland
New Zealand
Norway(wife's great grandfather was 100% Norwegian).

Are any of my top 4 outside of the US even in it?

Sorry, no. http://www.itv.com/worldcup/teams

asu66 wrote:Sorry, no. http://www.itv.com/worldcup/teams

Its settled then.



USA USA USA

Game Day for the USA

Coverage for the game against Ghana will be on ESPN at 5:30. Kickoff starts at 6:00.

1. 'Murica
2. Who cares? 'MURICA!


For those of you listing more than one team to pull for, I will take the same approach that some App fans do when you tell them you pull for another team in addition to App - label you a treasonous deserter who is responsible for holding the home team back.

USA
Australia
Whoever is playing England

The German trashing of Portugal COULD be good for the US.

It took less than 30 seconds to send a message. Hope we can keep it up, and not move back into a defensive formation.

For those who don't know, Clint Dempsey is a Furman alum who is married to an App State alum from Boone.

US wins 2-1. Three big points.

great win - really was a MUST win --- especially since Ghana controlled the game for 85 minutes

What a finish and a great win over a very good Ghana side! Will be awesome if we can pull out a win over Portugal and sew up the 2nd spot out of our group.

We now advance with a tie vs. Portugal and loss of two or less vs. Germany I believe, but yeah let's just beat Portugal.