Team USA Appreciation thread

[angrychair]

Hats off to Men's US Football Team for a great effort and leaving it all on the pitch!! Tim Howard is Master of the Universe!

[mcar]

1. K&R

Howard was amazing. Well done team USA!

[Suich]

2. That was a good game!

Not sure about the announcers on Canadian tv, though. They said the US didn't deserve to be there.

[shenmue]

4. Funny, 'cause Canada didn't even make it to the WC this time.

See what I did there.

[iandhr]

6. They usually don't

[shenmue]

3. We loves u!

Rah, rah USA!

[iandhr]

5. They played well.

No one thought they would survive the group of death. They almost had the equalizer in extra time. The future of the team looks bright.

[msongs]

7. are there any actual American citizens on that team? nt

[rpannier]

14. All of them are. Only 5 were born abroad. All to at least 1 American parent

Tim Howard - New Brunswick, N.J., to an African-American father and his Hungarian mother.
Nick Rimando (G) - Montclair, CA
DeMarcus Beasley - Ft Wayne, IN
Matt Besler - Overland Park, KS
DeAndre Yedlin - Seattle, WA
Kyle Beckerman - Crofton, MD
Michael Bradley - Princeton, NJ
Jozy Altidore - Livingston, N.J., to two Haitian-born parents
Alejandro Bedoya - Englewood, N.J., to two Colombian-born parents
Julian Green - Tampa, Fla., to an American serviceman father and a German mother; moved to Germany with his mother as a young child.
Aron Johannsson - Mobile, Ala., to Icelandic parents
Omar Gonzalez - Born in Dallas, Texas, to Mexican parents

There are 5 players on the team who weren't born in the US but have at least one parent who is an American
John Brooks
Tim Chandler
Mix Diskerud
Fabian Johnson
Jermaine Jones

According to Politifact... all of the members of the USMNT are citizens of the USA (fact check on Nancy Pelosi's idiotic tweet about the team)

[erpowers]

17. Others Were Pushing That Idea

Nancy Pelosi should have done research, but the New York Times did a story that seemed to push the idea that most of the team was not American. I did not read the article, but the title was something like the coaches' plan to make Team USA better was to make it less American.

[rpannier]

8. Disappointed they lost

I thought they'd beat Belgium. My WC predictor on ESPN had them in the final 8 from the beginning.
So that hurts too

Didn't see the game... came on 5 a.m. here and I don't have cable

from the descriptions on FIFA and ESPN seemed good

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. Nothing to be ashamed of

That goal they scored towards the end was a thing of beauty.

[Ron Obvious]

10. Great performance by the US

The team can hold their heads high. They've won over a lot of the neutrals with their battling performance tonight.

[malaise]

19. The US actually had a chance to win the game in the dying minutes of

regular time but Chris Wondolowski missed a good chance. That would have finished it.
Exciting match although it would have been humiliating without Tim Howard.
The US team has improved big time. The aim must be at least semis for Russia.

[sarisataka]

11. Great run

I hopped for a bit of magic and one more game.

They found their spark a little too late

[littlemissmartypants]

12. Thank you. nt

[senseandsensibility]

13. Proud of them!

[big_dog]

15. even Capt. Jean Luc Picard was impressed

Patrick Stewart ✔ @SirPatStew
TIM HOWARD!!!!!!! 4:38 PM - 1 Jul 2014
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[BumRushDaShow]

16. Hooray for this guy!

[big_dog]

22. if Ann Coulter is against it, I am for it!

[TantaLois]

18. Fantastic Effort

They played wonderfully. And for Ann Coulter's info I saw no sign of moral decay!

[LiberalElite]

20. I'm not much of a sports fan and know next-to-nothing about the game but

When they won the first game (and I think they weren't expected to) it piqued my interest and I watched the next 3, the last two at work where they kindly turned on tv in conference room and provided lunch & snacks (!!) Great game tonight even though we lost - and Howard saved our collective butts numerous times. I'm going to read up on the game so I know better what's happening next time. USA! USA!

Edit: And anything Ann Coulter doesn't like, can't be all bad.

[certainot]

21. great run, so close

[Skeeter Barnes]

23. They got me interested enough to watch all their games.

Every one of them was exciting and they played hard to the end.

[big_dog]

25. a lot of other people were watching it too :)

[Skeeter Barnes]

30. I came up with an entirely new language because of this team.

Every time they'd get the ball near the goal, I'd start blurting out random nioses that don't mean anything. "GEET, DAH, DOH, MAH!"

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

24. I was so pumped that I almost fell into the trap of watching a game

Almost...

Hockey has the chance EVERY YEAR with the Stanley Cup, and they haven't managed to get me to watch yet. So I can't blame the World Cup.

Now if it were the Quidditch World Cup, I would totally watch that.

[Cha]

26. Fun Fact Tim Howard is personal friends with VP Joe Biden..

Mike Hayes ✔ @michaelhayes
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Fun fact: American hero Tim Howard is personal friends with Joe Biden
12:48 PM - 1 Jul 2014 67 Retweets 116 favorites


Dudette @Dudette9t9
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“@NOTSportsCenter: Incredible shot of Tim Howard in action against Belgium

#BELvsUSA #WorldCup pic.twitter.com/DthQCSAlTp”
1:01 PM - 1 Jul 2014

LOL

TOD

mahalo achair

[joeybee12]

27. It was close perhaps entirely due to Tim Howard...

But congrats to the whole team...they had everyone here watching and cheering!

[3catwoman3]

28. Tim Howard is totally deserving of the...

...all-too-often-overused AWESOME!!!

On to 2018 -

[tularetom]

29. Could have been 3 or 4 to 0 if it weren't for Tim Howard

I watched all 4 of their games and this was by far their weakest effort. Their defense was caught out of position on more than a few occasions leading to a lot of Belgian shots on goal, all of which were successfully blocked by Howard in regular time. Judging from all the hamstrings and muscles pulls I'd say conditioning was more of a problem than Klinsman is willing to admit.

They look better every World Cup and I wouldn't be surprised to see them in the quarter finals or beyond in Russia.

[Ryano42]

31. Tim Howard welcome to an elite club...

USA's excellence between the pipes! We don't always have the best teams but we have some of the greatest keepers!

[BlueCheese]

32. The world loves our athletes.

No matter how bad our reputation gets in other ways, the world appreciates our athletic ambassadors. There was a lot of praise for the US team and how they played hard, maximized their talents, and displayed good sportsmanship (no diving or vicious fouling).

If we could make people think of Michael Phelps and LeBron James when they think of America, and not so much Dick Cheney or the NSA, we'd be a lot better off.

[Blue_Tires]

34. all is lost

The united States was the only barrier protecting the free world of decent, liberty-loving soccer fans from the godless Argentine hordes who will now roam unchecked to destroy our civilization and our way of life...

[lovemydog]

35. I admit I've started to succumb to the greatness

of Lionel Messi & the Argentinian team. I know it's outrageous & egregious but I can't help myself.

[Aristus]

36. Well done, guys!

[Surya Gayatri]

37. My French football fanatic friends were very impressed

with the US team. They get better with each "Coupe du Monde".
And that's no small praise coming from "Le Pays des Bleus".