USMNT should recruit LeBron James to play goalie temporarily in 2022.

USMNT doesn't have a problem at goalie (or with athelticism, for that matter). It's mostly an issue of the mind - tactics and creativity. Skills could be better, but I don't think that's the problem.

Gotcha. Haha

I'm rooting for the USA. I'm not paying close attention.

Well, that bites.

Oh give me a break, that team is littered with tons of guys who weren't good enough to play basketball or football, and had to play soccer.

If we had Russell Westbrook, LeBron James, Mike Trout out there it would be over.

Obama

Uruguay, time to finish Team Terrorist off

No, it wouldn't. It takes a lot more than speed and strength to make a soccer player.
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Like having feet so you can kick the ball?

Well yes, that is helpful too.
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:clap:

Kinda a shitty slate of games today. I was hoping to see Uruguay wreck the head choppers.

I would love to give you a soccer ball and ask you to do the most basic drill in soccer and dribble through some cones at a fast pace.

:P

Team Philip II versus Team Obama!

Go Spain! Send another terrorist team home!

Just what this world cup was missing!

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Making me drowsy.

lmao no no they wouldnt be good at soccer

they might...if they were raised with the game and they happened to have an aptitude for it....and they might just be another fast player with mediocre skill and no feel for the game that flames out
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Athletes are athletes. I get what you are saying, but I don’t think players like Lebron James would do well in soccer. Maybe American football, but not soccer. His body type I believe would just not bode well with the game.

His greatest asset would be fielding headers on corners.

Iran is scrappy, Obama jizzed a little. ;)

EDIT: REAL Scrappy.

Russel and Trout could be, Lebron is just too damned big.

1-0, 1-0, 1-0

Riveting

Why would they not be good at soccer? Is athleticism not important? Just get short guys that are agile?

Well I bet there are a ton of NFL punters and kickers that would be soccer phenoms!! They can kick for days.

He would make an excellent goalie, no?

Soccer is such a complex game, with such a particularized set of skills to draw from, that there really are only two physical attributes that qualify as automatic advantages.

Straight-line speed on breakaways and height when performing headers.

Maybe, . . . fast twitch reflexes for a goalie.

So much of the rest of it can be game planned and platooned.

Soccer is so much more about skill, endurance and team synergy than imposing your will physically.

Poor Obama, his team almost pulled it off. He better send them more money.

Did they disallow that Iran goal? Wtf happened?

Offsides on the free kick, . . . there appeared to be handball in there as well, but I think the offsides pre/superceded it.

Look at #15 at the time of the kick, then #6 right wrist.

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As much leading with the head on headers surprising you dont see any concussions and players getting knocked out cold. Has there been any documented CTE in soccer. I know there is a lot or flopping but heads coming together is another matter.

edge of your seat close!

pallets of cash of course

Huge issue. I think a lot of youth soccer has even stopped allowing headers. Which means the future of us soccer is pretty ****ed

Yup, right idea wrong example. There are lot of fast and quick as hell basketball and football players especially who might be excellent if they committed to soccer at a young age. Hard to think of good examples because the game is so different. Just the point that our best athletes are often focusing on different sports. Other countries, their best athletes start playing soccer in the womb.

Nah, there's an age below which the size and weight of the ball is greater proportional to the head and neck. Though many can head safely, there is at least an argument for banning it in recreational play.

But by your mid-teens, a regulation ball poses no risk for a healhy individual to knowingly strike with their head.

There's still danger in being blindsided by a ball strike, or a point-blank strike. But the kind of headers where you return a goalkeeper's volley or try to redirect a ball in the box is just fine.

There is someone thumbs downing our posts. They must be butthurt. ROFL

Yeah, I oversold that a little bit. I'm just of the mindset that sports comes with inherent dangers. I'm not a fan at all of limiting the game and the soccer coaches I've talked to think it's teaching kids bad soccer habits early. I

You're a no-running, fat-ass, no-sports, homo. Eat a bag of dicks!

Wrong.

Gooooooooooooooal! Denmark! Lovely Goal. Text delayed....

Pretty brutal injury. Hope that Pepe guy survives.

https://i.redd.it/kg5lh49646511.gif

Pepe gonna Pepe.

If you don't know, he's a dirty player AND he's well known for doing stuff like that. He also looked like an alien when he had a shaved head a few eyars back.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sflhl7vyqw...Pepe+Alien.jpg
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Had that been your shoulder that was tapped I'm sure that you would be singing a different tune. Red jersey #5 should have been given a red card

Rooting for Peru to kick ass vs. France. I do do want FRANCE to advance

That Spain game yesterday was so frustrating to watch. Iran is ****ing garbage and would never make the WC if they didn't get to qualify through Asia. The play acting, cheating and time wasting was so cringy. I've seen teams outmatched and still go down swinging but having 11 players in the box and then not even trying to counter, just booting the ball up the field on every dispossession? How big are their gaping vaginas? It was the most pathetic "effort" I've ever seen at the world stage.

OTOH, Belgium looks really good. They have a litany of starters, in their primes, who are either the best in the world or top 5 in the world at their positions. Unless FIFA interferes I completely expect to see them in the finals.

You and about 80k people who are there in person. It looks like a Peru home game. Holy shit, lol.

Bad news - France wins

Screw Iran. That was horrible soccer.

We need more European and South American teams.

Just wait til they water this tournament down with more Saudi Arabia tier teams.

I wouldn't put it past FIFA to give them their own region to "validate" more oil countries being in it. Their greed and corruption knows no bounds.

Eastern European national anthems = best national anthems.

JR Smith the goalie for Argentina

That was a huge **** up by the goal keeper, but a beauty of a finish by Rebic.

He just gave up one. I pray for his safety

Is Messi some massive choker?

not necessarily. He and Argentina made the finals in the last cup. They seem to be having a terrible tournament.

Modric just rips a goal for Croatia. See ya, Argentina.

Dagger.

Argentina shouldn't have decided to test the all saltpeter diet this go around.

85th minute is s stupid time to try to wake up.

ROFL

Argentinian defenders just standing in the box with their hands in the air, watching Croatia net another one. Stay in the damn play.

Ignimony

Damn. Now 3-0 Croatia....Good bye Argentina

Best victory for Croatia since the Battle of Sisak!

sometimes

mostly he's just a little midget bitch
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This is what happens when the hand of god doesn't appear

Shut the **** tub-o-lard, get out of a soccer thread if you don't like it. You troll!

In the days before replay, that flop by Neymar may have won Brazil the match.

Wow! Brazil kinda melting down here.

That was inevitable.

Costa Rica was flopping too much. Ridiculous.

It was really their only tactic to try to get Brazil out of sync. Didn't work.

Why is Neymar acting like they just won the Cup? They basically beat Vermont.

He probably was just emotionally drained from thinking they could have ended up in a draw. Or he is a drama king?

I'm leaning towards the drama king option. Great player, though.