The Official Soccer/Futebol/Futbol Thread...

[FCB_M3]

Wow.... you should see my collection.... shirts from as far back as 1985. Tons of serie A, Premier league, Liga Espanola, and of course Argentina and Racing Club (my team)... all with Argentine players official names and numbers on the back. I have FAR too many. I should take and post a pic of them!! And I only got the official shirts.

sick! lemme see them! 1985?!?! i wasn't even born till 5 years later! hahah

ya i started following BaRCA back in 06/07 i really wanted to get the official jerseys nothing cheap but each where at least 120.. I was still in highschool and money was tight in the family so i couldn't really afford them, now im a little order and sometimes have cash to spare
and my collection is starting to grow :)
expect more!

I usually don't like mexico's jerseys lol ya i'm a big fan but i just dont like em there nice but eh.. maybe the only one i'll buy is the one that they used from the world cup!

[CleanAzzE30z]

Wow.... you should see my collection.... shirts from as far back as 1985. Tons of serie A, Premier league, Liga Espanola, and of course Argentina and Racing Club (my team)... all with Argentine players official names and numbers on the back. I have FAR too many. I should take and post a pic of them!! And I only got the official shirts.

[FCB_M3]

Barcelona champions!!!

My collection of jerseys...
It's a start :)

[M42Power]

You should see it over here, every one is a soccer nut, and most of them are fat and stupid.

[CleanAzzE30z]

The US and Mexico ALWAYS give us good games.... I respect them for that. They do so much with so little. When the US also puts its mind to something, they dont fuck around. After they woke up to "soccer" in 1994 they have improved exponentially.

[Maluco]

anyone watch the Real x Barca game? Damn hard game, what 5 yellows, two reds. Damn, Messi. So now both Barca and ManU have their first two victories at 2 - 0. It's going to be a badass final!!! Can't wait.

[yobless]

LMAO!

Buahahahahaha I've always wondered how the club team coaches communicated w/ players from different cultures/languages...this answered it lol

[Maluco]

LMAO!

[mbonder]

Right, clearly they had a more offensive approach in the second half, but the post that I quoted made it appear as if every pass/shot/move that was made was somehow influenced by the coach, which I find difficult to agree with.

Overall strategies, yes, definitely influenced by the coach, but individual movements are dictated by circumstances, the actual variables on the field, not the coach.

[Dozyproductions]

I get that they choose the players that end up on the field, but being a soccer player myself for my entire life, I can honestly tell you I never considered what my coach was thinking before I made a pass or scored a goal.

I just think that people read into the influence a coach has on the team way too much because they want to believe that the coach is either a god if the team succeeds or a demon if they fail.

An example to illustrate this, would you consider Spain's head coach the reason why they won the world cup? If so, then you should be able hypothetically transplant that coach to any of the other world cup teams and have an instant winner. Still think its all the coach...

You're reading way too much into this. Coaching had much to do with how we played against Argentina. Noticed how we were ultra defensive in the first half and aggressive in the second? It's not like the players just decided to want to score all of a sudden in the second half, it's just what Bradley used as a strategy.

[mbonder]

I get that they choose the players that end up on the field, but being a soccer player myself for my entire life, I can honestly tell you I never considered what my coach was thinking before I made a pass or scored a goal.

I just think that people read into the influence a coach has on the team way too much because they want to believe that the coach is either a god if the team succeeds or a demon if they fail.

An example to illustrate this, would you consider Spain's head coach the reason why they won the world cup? If so, then you should be able hypothetically transplant that coach to any of the other world cup teams and have an instant winner. Still think its all the coach...

[Maluco]

Maybe some explanation? I haven't seen all of the recent US games, but most of them. The coaches make no passes, take no shots, I've always wondered why everyone puts so much emphasis on the coaches.

they pick and choose those who make the passes, take the shots (who gets called to the national team), from what position they make those passes and take those shots (what position/area on the field they'll play), the overall team formation on the field, whether the team will be offensive or defensive in nature, their attitudes affect the players, etc etc...

[mbonder]

Looks like you haven't been watching US games then. It comes down to the coaching.

Maybe some explanation? I haven't seen all of the recent US games, but most of them. The coaches make no passes, take no shots, I've always wondered why everyone puts so much emphasis on the coaches.

[FCB_M3]

too bad they lost by three goals! and @ italy against the team that were supposedly the weakest!

[selturk]

^ lol that one is from Turkish League.