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Combined age on that Bellingham-Reyna hook up for the goal is less than Cristiano Ronaldo’s age.

 

Pulisic was 100 days younger on his first league goal so that record remains safe. Operation “admire the development of a teenage boy” continues to be a success.

 

When I was 17 I was suspended from school for a week for brandishing a paintball gun in the back of a convertible in my high schools parking lot. Local cop said I was lucky he wasn’t there or he would’ve shot me. Me & Gio are equally cool is what I’m saying.

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Drew a penalty. My jr year I got a 29 on my act without a calculator. Basically the same dude.

 

 

Guys, I turned 35 yesterday and I’m working through some aging stuff emotionally.

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Drew a penalty. My jr year I got a 29 on my act without a calculator. Basically the same dude.

 

 

Guys, I turned 35 yesterday and I’m working through some aging stuff emotionally.

 

ah, welcome to life where everyone in sports is younger than you . . .

 

terrible touch by Reyna but good movement and finish!

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Chris Richards got 20 minutes for Bayern. Who is Chris Richards?

 

Center back, Dallas academy product that Bayern bought before he made it to the FCD first team. Those who follow youth internationals seem to be really high on him, to the point where he could be a USMNT regular by the end of qualifying depending on how he develops and what time he gets.

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Best CB prospect we’ve ever had.

 

 

MLS academies are really doing their part. Can’t wait to see them further developed. Really like MLS embracing being a selling league.

 

 

oh right, I remember reading about this but knew nothing about him. Awesome - he went on for Boateng. I am starting to feel like the USMNT has a pretty bright future.

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Yedlin was the first academy product to go big, but even he spent time at Dayton playing college ball. He was the growing green shoot peeking up through the dirt that showed the value of investment. Seattle got millions and reinvested in the club, began an MLS dynasty.

 

Richards, McKennie, Reyna, and others are the first real fruits the tree has yielded, so if you think about a future where all MLS clubs have a pro development academy and they’re willing to sell the best products young, we will never be without world class talent at the senior level ever again. Not at every position, but we’re going to have players at elite clubs from now on.

 

Young black dudes from SEC country like Weston and Richards playing soccer is obviously a recipe for American athletic success. Now, MLS has two clubs in Florida, 3 in Texas, and clubs in Tennessee and Georgia. Charlotte is coming. The kids in those regions now have a legit path to a pro soccer career in their backyard. USYNT are going to get more athletic and more black & brown, which is obviously a good thing for US Soccer.

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Good Lord is Barca's management incompetent. How did Bartomeu get to his position?

 

It is interesting to note the last vote of no-confidence (which failed) was in 2008 - right before one of the most dominant runs in soccer history.

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Is Serg Dest the USMNT’s first iconic clout douche? Another important step in our development as a soccer nation. Jermaine Jones had the douche but not the profile or talent.

 

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easy penalty, imo

 

For every other foul call we don’t care about intent or if it was possible to avoid, if you don’t want to give up a penalty then win the ball or don’t challenge for the header if you need to extend your arms away from your body. That’s harsh and I don’t think the current state of things is the best solution, but I don’t find the intent/avoid-ability argument very compelling. The real answer is making penalties less valuable by making them harder(which also removes some of the perverse embellishment/diving incentives), but that’s a topic for a different post.

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There’s no horsefeathering way that’s an easy penalty. The rule is garbage. That shouldn’t be a penalty. The one called against Spurs at the end of the game last week shouldn’t have been a penalty. The one Everton got yesterday shouldn’t have been a penalty. These are stupid calls that shouldn’t be given.

 

The easy and obvious solution, which I’ve said before, is to make unintentional ones like that which don’t directly affect a goal being scored, indirect free kicks. Attacking team still gets a free kick, defending team doesn’t give up a PK for some BS reason and we as fans get to see some creative indirect free kicks.

 

But this? This handball rule ruins games. It’s dumb and it needs to go away yesterday. It’s a bad rule.

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