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Which team will advance the Farthest?

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I’ve just now found myself hoping that Carmelo Anthony makes an appearance at the World Cup Final. You already know why…
 
tlongII said:
I disagree. We’re seeing better and better athletes playing soccer every year. MLS is helping grow the sport here. We’ll be a tough out in ‘26.
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Ive been hearing this same sentiment since 2010
 
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theres no shame in losing to holland, theyre much better team after all
 
Argentina 2 - 1 Australia

Out of the World Cup but not embarrassed by our performance or the result.

They got a lucky goal, we got a lucky goal. We fought to the end and almost levelled it. In the end the match was decided by an absolutely class goal by Messi.

We’ll done Argentina.
 
DUB said:
Argentina 2 - 1 Australia

Out of the World Cup but not embarrassed by our performance or the result.

They got a lucky goal, we got a lucky goal. We fought to the end and almost levelled it. In the end the match was decided by an absolutely class goal by Messi.

Well done Argentina.
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Would have been tough to win in extra time if Australia tied it. Argentina looks to have regained their form.

Shouldn’t be embarrassed at all. Great job by the Socceroos
 
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Where’s the Dame Dolla Memphis Depay
collab?

*Explicit lyrics*
 
You can’t give that man that kind of space. What a horrible mistake by Poland.

That is the highest paid player in the world. You give Mbappe that space, and time… He got to take exactly what he wanted.

2-0 France, Poland - Out
 
Mbappe 2 goals and 1 Assist

France - 3
Poland - 0

Insane
 
illmatic99 said:
This is gonna always be the fate for USA teams until they get better athletes into the programs earlier on. Just no interest in the country on the mens side for the youth to build a stronger roster.
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Exactly. The best athletes play Basketball and Football and the smartest athletes play Baseball.
Soccer gets what’s left over.
 
tlongII said:
I disagree. We’re seeing better and better athletes playing soccer every year. MLS is helping grow the sport here. We’ll be a tough out in ‘26.
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Been hearing that soccer is ‘ready to take off in the US” since the mid90s. Kids have been playing this game for decades and really not much of a change in the national teams performance. Unless it’s a fluke group coming through, this country will always be 2nd or 3rd tier in the sport and that’s fine.
 
I see that people are all of a sudden jumping on the France bandwagon. I'm sticking with them even though the next game is England-France - I hope I'm wrong... Although: I'm experiencing an unfamiliar sensation as an England fan. I believe it's called "optimism". I'm sure it won't last. Probably has something to do that England, for all its dreary reputation, is currently the highest goal-scoring team, and has had 8 different scorers.
 
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Fairly-Hard said:
Exactly. The best athletes play Basketball and Football and the smartest athletes play Baseball.
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Wrong in two respects.
1. As John Kruk said when somebody criticized the chubby slugger with "aren't you ashamed of yourself as an athlete?", "Lady, I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player."
2. Baseball players are notoriously the dumbest of all American-sports-players. Oddly, I believe Football players are the smartest. Probably because they get paid a shit-ton for 10 seconds of action every half hour.

One thing has changed radically in my time in the US: used to be, Americans didn't even know the names of real football teams. Now everyone has a fave EPL or Spanish League team.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Wrong in two respects.
1. As John Kruk said when somebody criticized the chubby slugger with "aren't you ashamed of yourself as an athlete?", "Lady, I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player."
2. Baseball players are notoriously the dumbest of all American-sports-players. Oddly, I believe Football players are the smartest. Probably because they get paid a shit-ton for 10 seconds of action every half hour.

One thing has changed radically in my time in the US: used to be, Americans didn't even know the names of real football teams. Now everyone has a fave EPL or Spanish League team.
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No.
Your response simply doesn’t make sense and isn’t relevant to what my statement said.
By the way if you really want to know a study was done on this issue. Crazy as it might sound bowling is said to have the smartest athletes if you want to believe they are athletes. That is another conversation.
 
Japan with quite possibly the worst penalty kicks I have ever seen in international competition. I was rooting for them, but come on.
 
Not surprisingly, nobody outside of Europe or South America winning a game in the KO rounds. I assume the pattern continues the rest of today and tomorrow.

Cream rises to the top.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Not surprisingly, nobody outside of Europe or South America winning a game in the KO rounds. I assume the pattern continues the rest of today and tomorrow.

Cream rises to the top.
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brazil in these rounds sometimes shits the bed. let's see what they do today. the quarterfinals are gonna be absolutely stacked on paper if/when the favorites win.
 
Now we are really seeing that these are the best players and the best teams in the world.

Some separation in performance. Keep Brazil on the list.
 
ehizzy3 said:
I think Morocco has a good chance at beating Spain tomorrow
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Wouldn’t be incredibly surprised, but I think they will need to do it in regular time. It will still be an upset, and I think Spain are decently favored.

Definitely an underrated and seldom discussed team Morocco

I don’t even know anything about their players, but I know they are En Fuego right now.
 
Wait… Ronaldo is signing with Saudi Arabian club Al-Nassr?!?
 
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