Past Results

Let me inform you a little bit on why the U.S. is considered a joke in international soccer. Four years ago in the last World Cup, the U.S. did not win a single game. They tied the future champions of the tournament which almost counts as something but the win column still consisted of a goose egg.
The way the World Cup works is 32 teams qualify by winning or placing in other tournaments before the World Cup qualification comes to an end. Any country that can find 11 semi-decent players can get this far so it is nothing to celebrate. From there, 8 groups of 4 are split up. These four teams play the other three teams in their group with the two best records of the group moving on. So essentially, a team just has to be in the top half of their group of four in order to move out of their group. Not a challenging task. From there it becomes a lose and go home elimination style. Winning four games after getting out of your pool wins you the tournament. Now let me tell you how the U.S. did last tournament. We came dead last in our opening group. To some countries this would be a huge disappointment and the citizens would be mad, but not here. In the U.S. we barely even know who we are playing or who is on the team. I see this as a huge lack of country pride. This is a worldwide competition against every country in the world. With that in mind I say, GET INVOLVED AND SUPPORT OUR TEAM!!!

World Influence

Everyone already knows that the U.S. is the strongest nation in the world. We dominate in almost every aspect that is comparable. We win all of our wars, we have the most freedoms for the citizens, and we are just all around awesome. Americans pride themselves on this idea. We want to be the best at everything because it is the American way. Why not continue that is the world's sport? We have all the ingredients we need to accomplish this delicious goal. Take the large population, add some national pride, stir in some competitive nature and sprinkle on a little bit of hard work and you get a wonderful national soccer team to be enjoyed by all people. It is pretty simple recipe. Americans love to be treated as better than the rest. NEWSFLASH! Our soccer team has been a joke for a long time. We have a couple strong runs every once in a while that gathers some support, but I say lets make this success a constant thing. Let's be contenders for the world cup every year. Let's build some gargantuan stadiums to be awed at. I say we forget about that insignificant MLS league that no one knows about and start over correctly. Soccer needs to come to America because without it we are below all other countries that have it.

shut them up

OK a bit off topic but it is my blog and I will do what I want on it. Shut up those babies at church. I was at a typical 11 o'clock mass on Sunday at Nativity when this chaos took place. How can I listen to the wonderful words of God coming out of Father's mouth if there is a deadly squeal coming out of the monstrous sound bomb sitting next to me? Maybe my 18 years of going to Nativity every Sunday has misled me, but I'm pretty sure there is a cry room for those demons that are called children by their embarrassed parents. I know this is not the work of the Devil because even he wouldn't be able to stand this abomination. People should not have to leave mass cursing God for such a horrible thing in this world. Mass is supposed to be a place to find peace with thy fellow neighbor rather than to find a to creatively shut up an annoying instrument of earaches. I leave you all with this advice, muzzles do not necessarily have to be used on dogs alone.

World Cup South Africa 2010 Commercial

Fans!

The biggest factor in my love for soccer is the fan supports. Nothing like it in the U.S. even comes close to comparing to this. As one of the largest events in the world, the record attendance at a World Cup game was 199,854 fans in 1950 for a match between Brazil and Uruguay. This number is over 90,000 more than the largest Super Bowl attendance which is considered the largest sporting event in America. Distance away from home does not affect a soccer fan the way it would a fan of any other sport. Soccer fans travel to the other side of the world to support their country's team.
Soccer fans are also willing to die for their team's respect. The most outrageous rivalry in all of sports is between Glasgow soccer teams Celtic and Rangers. Granted this is added to because of the contrast in religion, but none the less it is the most violent rivalry in the world. Every game between these two teams involves murders of those fans of the other team. I am not saying I support this but I am saying there is nothing compared to this in the U.S. We need to be more open to sharing in worldly passions rather than being stuck up and sticking to our own sports.

Hello!

Congratulations! You have successfully stumbled upon the blog of all blogs. Some blogs are over the top with end world hunger while this blog focuses on a simpler idea. Soccer! Futbol! Football! Whatever you want to call it, the entire world will understand. The United States must bring soccer into the mainstream of the sports society. As a way to better connect to the rest of the world, we should participate in the most popular sport in the world. And what better time to make this revolution than right before the World Cup. Let's gain support now so that when the time comes to support the Americans in battle we will have a fan base we don't have to be embarrassed about.