The Soccer Thread (Version 7.0)

[Big Circus]

I really like Shea as an offensive sub. I'd feel comfortable with him in that role in Brazil. He just provides such a dose of athleticism, and he seems to have a knack for the goal, even if he poached that one today.

 

[UPChip]

Oh Brek, what are you doing stealing Donovan's goal like that?

Replay showed Donovan whiffed. Kind of vultured one off Bedoya, but got to finish it in a 1-0 game.

 

[Webster]

I really like Shea as an offensive sub. I'd feel comfortable with him in that role in Brazil. He just provides such a dose of athleticism, and he seems to have a knack for the goal, even if he poached that one today.

Shea looks slightly out of shape, but he is super skilled.

 

[kkoczwara]

I really like Shea as an offensive sub. I'd feel comfortable with him in that role in Brazil. He just provides such a dose of athleticism, and he seems to have a knack for the goal, even if he poached that one today.

Shea looks slightly out of shape, but he is super skilled.

Shea should be better suited to evolve as a player under Mark Hughes as opposed to Tony Pulis, which is a plus. The negative, he's playing for a Mark hughes side all year and a manager change should happen sometime soon and he will have to fight to be in the side again. A loan deal to a Championship side or a recently promoted team would do him well.

 

[AtticusFinch]

Ugh, torn ACL for Stu:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/news/20130729/united-states-stuart-holden-torn-acl-panama.ap/?sct=hp_t2_a2&eref=sihp

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

Ugh, torn ACL for Stu:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/news/20130729/united-states-stuart-holden-torn-acl-panama.ap/?sct=hp_t2_a2&eref=sihp

He'll be 28 in a few days. Those knees are probably closer to 35 now.

 

[TrooperBari]

Ugh, torn ACL for Stu:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/news/20130729/united-states-stuart-holden-torn-acl-panama.ap/?sct=hp_t2_a2&eref=sihp

This is a ******* Greek tragedy. Holden's the new John O'Brien, only more so. No way is he in playing shape by next July. Would it be too much to hope his knees hold out long enough to give him a chance in 2018?

What's more, that's one less player standing between Jermaine Jones and a starting spot in the US midfield. Maybe Roma missing out on the Champions League wasn't so bad after all....

 

[Big Circus]

Damn, damn, damn. That's awful news. This may be his last World Cup cycle.

 

[Big Circus]

And yet it should be said, without minimizing how ****ty this injury is, if there's one position where we've got ample cover, it's DM. We can throw any two of Bradley, Cameron and Jones out there and feel decent about ourselves. Diskerud can slot in back there, and hell, even Beckerman showed something in the Gold Cup, although we'd be in dire straights if he's playing much in Brazil.

Basically, I'm just reassuring myself that Maurice Edu isn't going to get any run.

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

Damn, damn, damn. That's awful news. This may be his last World Cup cycle.

He's got one more comeback in him. Any setback and it's retirement (if he knows what's good for him). I would think his USMNT career is over.

 

[Football_Bat]

Fresh off his Gold Cup heroics, Brek Shea injures his knee with Stoke City in a friendly at Philadelphia.

http://www.delcotimes.com/articles/2013/07/30/sports/doc51f86dea4fdf8452846982.txt

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

Garber says MLS will add four teams by end of decade.

ESPN announcers teeing off on Garber about Chivas USA. He wants no part of it.

 

[Captain Obvious]

Garber says MLS will add four teams by end of decade.

ESPN announcers teeing off on Garber about Chivas USA. He wants no part of it.

The original investors want some of their money back.

 

[champ_kind]

didn't see first roma goal, but stats credit it to kevin strootman, so why does espn.com main headline keep insisting it was an own goal? did an editor see the name and assume it was an mls player?

 

[kingcreole]

It's still kind of hard to tell on the first goal, but I'm certain Strootman scored. Aurelien Collin got his foot in there, there were three touches, and it looked like it went Strootman, Collin, Strootman.

Landon Donovan's miss when it was 2-0 was the play of the game. Instead of 2-1, Roma made it 3-0 less than a minute later.