The United States Soccer team dropped their first game to second ranked Czech today (3-0). What I don’t understand and perhaps the commentators (talking heads) do not understand is how our next game (on Saturday) against Italy will be an automatic ass whipping because Italy is a tougher team. All right, let’s follow the logic here. Germany is ranked #1. The Czech Republic is ranked #2. But for some reason Italy (ranked 11th) will be a tougher opponent than the 2nd ranked team in the world. I think not. Sure the U.S. has never advanced after losing its first round match, but we’ve never fielded a (men’s) team with this much talent and the 11th ranked Italians will not stand a chance against the U.S. on Saturday.
There are two reasons why the Italians will not win on Saturday.
First, the U.S. team did not play aggressively because they were nervous, the Czech’s scored in the first 5 minutes and one of the team’s leaders Landon Donovan hasn’t scored a goal in almost a year (Donovan last scored July 2005). However, on Saturday expect the team to settle down and Donovan will call Stella for tips on getting his groove back producing an aggressive level of offense that no 11th ranked team can contend with.
Secondly, everyone throughout the world knows that Americans to quote General Patton “Love to fight”. When our back are against the wall is when we do our best work. And our American Futbol (Soccer) team’s back are against the wall. But we should have expected that. Americans are a dominating people; we are the new Romans. And just like the Romans, we are not loved in every corner of the globe, partially due to our foreign policy pissing off numerous countries in the past four years. I digress; when you combine our global image with our team’s success on the pitch in the 2002 World Cup and you have a lot of pissed off plebes around the world. They want to embarrass us on the stage of the largest, most watched world-wide sporting event. But we won’t let it happen. I expect our team to settle down, roll up their sleeves, and put their boots down on these naysayers. America is here to play, and here to win.
Final advice to the U.S. team, remember the best defense is a strong offense, and heed your coaches words-don’t let the Czech’s beat you twice. To all of you haters around the world, I would like to offer some advice from my old Platoon Sergeant Jeff Houston (now Capt. Jeff Houston, USMC) “Who wants a piece!” USA! USA! USA!
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