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With Tony Sanneh, Oguchi Onyewu, Cory Gibbs, and Chris "White Chocolate" Albright (ok, I'm reaching there) manning the backline, and Eddie Johnson scoring the first and only US goal of the first half, the theme of tonight's US team is pretty clear. To think that Eddie Pope, DaMarcus Beasley and Edson Buddle - three guys who could have started as well - didn't even get in the game is saying something. Think back just a couple years, when people were talking about Pope and Beasley as (relatively) groundbreaking role models for the African-American soccer stars of the future. US Soccer isn't there yet - outside of the Latino base, it's still a sport primarily played and watched by suburban middle-class white boys like me - but it's coming along slowly. I'm glad. The more diverse, the better.
#1 Rob Stone Howler of the night:
On the yellow Nike ball: "It makes it look like we're at a Champions League Qualifier in Iceland!"
Er, Rob, Icelandic teams like KR Reykjavik tend to crash out at the first qualifying stage - that's usually around July. I can't imagine there's knee-high drifts of snow in places like Reykjavik even then.
By the way, those invisible numbers on the Jamaica kits suck.
We tied. Blah. No biggie.
#1 Rob Stone Howler of the night:
On the yellow Nike ball: "It makes it look like we're at a Champions League Qualifier in Iceland!"
Er, Rob, Icelandic teams like KR Reykjavik tend to crash out at the first qualifying stage - that's usually around July. I can't imagine there's knee-high drifts of snow in places like Reykjavik even then.
By the way, those invisible numbers on the Jamaica kits suck.
We tied. Blah. No biggie.
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