World Cup Thread
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Loki
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So are you saying go get Klinnsman?
While Bradley was a definite upgrade from Arena, I think we could benefit from a foreign coach. The US system is not going to catch up if all the progress has to come from within. We could learn some things from a coach who came up through a world class system. It's nice to have players playing around the world, in the elite leagues, but individual players cannot change a team philosophy. A coach, if respected, can.
Archie Moses
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Would you like this in football or basketball?
I wouldn't like soccer if a goal was scored every 24 seconds or so. Apples and oranges...
Loki
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Fair question.
There are a few things that kind of make it a non-issue.
First the existence of a play clock or a shot clock makes finite time of the essence.
Second it is a lot harder in basketball and football to force a change of possession. In soccer change of possession can happen many times a minute. The game is a lot more fluid and is measured in terms of quality attacks in the natural flow of the game versus set plays or things that must be executed within a specific time limit.
I think that for soccer it works. I don't think it would for football or basketball.
Archie Moses
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Fixed.
Archie Moses
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Not really, every major professional sport in the world has time that shows fans when the game will end.
Baseball????? It doesn't really have a time.
Since they don't stop the clock in soccer when guys are down and stuff like that, I think it's only fair to add a few minutes at the discretion of the refs. I agree it makes the end of the game much more exciting to think that the team that's behind has a bit of an extra chance to tie and or win.
There are plenty of close basketball games where the momentum shifts at the end and I wish they could just add two more minutes to the end of the game.
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Let me tell you the main reason I like the way soccer is timed: I know the last 2 minutes of a game aren't going to take 45 minutes of actual time, a la football and basketball.
Archie Moses
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Yeah, I thought about that too, but it's still no mystery when the game ends, the same with tennis. Anyways, I just thought it was odd they don't show stoppage time cause I have no idea when the game is going to end and they players don't too.
That's not entirely true. The stoppage time to be played is displayed on the substitution board. Players know from that point they have that amount of time to wrap it up. No, they don't know down to the second, but the referee is not going to call the game in the middle of a run, either. He will wait until the play is neutral.
CONAN
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Maybe. Seems like he'd be a good fit. But I think definitely I'd like to see a foreign coach give a shot.
Gyp Rosetti
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Germany 2
Argentina 1
Book it.
Argentina 1
Book it.
Gyp Rosetti
Banned
Yep, I think Argentina's been coasting and I usually find that teams who aren't tested early on at some point fall asleep and lose a game they perhaps otherwise could have or should have won. I also think that Argentina's defense is nothing special. Add in the fact that Germany's still pissed about 2006 and I like our chances.
Archie Moses
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That's a pretty good one Archie.