USA vs England(friendly)

by **0ojakeo0** on Wed May 21, 2008 8:51 pm

Any guesses?(soccer)

by **muy_thaiguy** on Wed May 21, 2008 8:54 pm

As in?

by **InkL0sed** on Wed May 21, 2008 9:05 pm

I'm guessing soccer?

by **muy_thaiguy** on Wed May 21, 2008 9:09 pm

InkL0sed wrote:I'm guessing soccer?

Hit for hit?

by **bedub1** on Wed May 21, 2008 9:13 pm

does the US have a soccer(football) team that competes on the world cup level with all the greats in Europe?

by **Timminz** on Wed May 21, 2008 9:42 pm

bedub1 wrote:does the US have a soccer(football) team that competes on the world cup level with all the greats in Europe?

No, but they seem to be getting better. Not good enough to be any competition to England, but better than they were.

by **muy_thaiguy** on Wed May 21, 2008 9:50 pm

bedub1 wrote:does the US have a soccer(football) team that competes on the world cup level with all the greats in Europe?

We went to the last World Cup and beat Italy (how that happened, I don't know). But we focus a bit more on American Football. As do the Japanese (70 years its been over there apparently).

by **rhoges6** on Wed May 21, 2008 10:07 pm

muy_thaiguy wrote:
bedub1 wrote:does the US have a soccer(football) team that competes on the world cup level with all the greats in Europe?

We went to the last World Cup and beat Italy (how that happened, I don't know). But we focus a bit more on American Football. As do the Japanese (70 years its been over there apparently).

Actually they tied Italy, but did beat Portugal and almost Germany in 2002. Anyway, I'm guessing 2-1 England.

by **jonesthecurl** on Wed May 21, 2008 11:26 pm

maybe it wasn't about soccer?
I'm no soccer fan, but if it was, the question was surely rhetorical.

So: what did you mean? Or were you just fishing?

by **got tonkaed** on Wed May 21, 2008 11:28 pm

bedub1 wrote:does the US have a soccer(football) team that competes on the world cup level with all the greats in Europe?

does England have a football team that plays in the European Finals this summer?

They probably have plenty of time for friendlies

by **jonesthecurl** on Wed May 21, 2008 11:31 pm

Best sandwich: US (Philly Cheesesteak done properly, one of the world's finest foodstuffs)
Best comedy: UK (though I'm a huge fan of many US series)
Best Dressed?
Best educated?
Best actors?
Best skiers?
Best authors?
Best CC players?
Best soaps?
Best lackwit ChatterBox posters?
Best beer?
Best women?
Best men? Best civil rights record?
Best politicians?
let's have some answers and some more categories.

by **muy_thaiguy** on Wed May 21, 2008 11:44 pm

jonesthecurl wrote:Best sandwich: US (Philly Cheesesteak done properly, one of the world's finest foodstuffs)
Best comedy: UK (though I'm a huge fan of many US series)
Best Dressed?
Best educated?Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are all considered top schools in the world...
Best actors?
Best skiers?
Best authors?Depends on the book
Best CC players?If you want to go by the scoreboard, US.
Best soaps?
Best lackwit ChatterBox posters?What?
Best beer?Depends on what you like.
Best women? Stereotypical or real?
Best men? Same as above.
Best civil rights record? US only a couple hundred years old, made a lot of leaps in a short amount of time. UK, several centuries old, and people in the same town hate each other for being Polish and the what not.
Best politicians?Past or Present?
let's have some answers and some more categories.

Best Fighters (MMA)?
Vocalists?
Most genres of music?
Military records?

The list goes on...

by **El Capitan X** on Wed May 21, 2008 11:51 pm

The US made it to the Quarter-Finals in the 2002 World Cup...

ECX

by **got tonkaed** on Wed May 21, 2008 11:52 pm

El Capitan X wrote:The US made it to the Quarter-Finals in the 2002 World Cup...

ECX

they took a slight step back in 2006...

by **El Capitan X** on Wed May 21, 2008 11:54 pm

got tonkaed wrote:
El Capitan X wrote:The US made it to the Quarter-Finals in the 2002 World Cup...

ECX

they took a slight step back in 2006...

The way I see it, they just got extremely lucky in 2002.

ECX

by **bedub1** on Thu May 22, 2008 1:54 am

Now the question is....does England have any Football (not soccer) teams?

by **Minister Masket** on Thu May 22, 2008 3:51 am

bedub1 wrote:Now the question is....does England have any Football (not soccer) teams?

That would be Rugby then.
Yes we do, and a pretty damn good one at that.
We won the Rugby world cup in 2004, and lost it to South Africa in the finals this year.

by **Pedronicus** on Thu May 22, 2008 4:53 am

I remember that England tried to start a league of American Football. The only team I remember was the London Monarchs.

I think it all fizzled out, but not too sure.

Even if a future sport like Rollerball was invented - it wouldn't be able to topple Football in England as the nations favourite sport.

edit - just googled it....
Year Founded 1991
Year Retired 1998

by **0ojakeo0** on Thu May 22, 2008 6:24 am

i meant soccer as i just got done watching the champions league so i forgot

by **hahaha3hahaha** on Thu May 22, 2008 6:31 am

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by **Spittle!** on Thu May 22, 2008 7:27 am

Timminz wrote:
bedub1 wrote:does the US have a soccer(football) team that competes on the world cup level with all the greats in Europe?

No, but they seem to be getting better. Not good enough to be any competition to England, but better than they were.

They do compete...look at the world rankings:

1 Argentina
2 Brazil
3 Italy
4 Spain
5 Germany
6 Czech Republic
7 France
8 Greece
9 Portugal
10 Netherlands
11 England
12 Romania
13 Croatia
14 Ghana
15 Scotland
16 Cameroon
17 Mexico
18 Bulgaria
19 Colombia
20 Israel
21 USA
22 Côte d'Ivoire
23 Sweden
24 Paraguay
25 Turkey
25 Russia
27 Poland
28 Uruguay
29 Norway
30 Egypt

Better than Sweden, Ireland, Russia, Turkey, Norway, Australia, Belgium, Serbia, Ukraine and Nigeria....all of whome are strong teams. Although, the fifa rankings system is flawed, in the sense that Greece, Ghana, Spain, Scotland, Israel and Ivory coast are all grossly over-ranked.

Plus, at least USA qualify for all of their major competitions, unlike the fucking over-pampered english fairies.

by **Spittle!** on Thu May 22, 2008 7:28 am

I reckon the USA might do us 2-0....it's the kind of game we'd lose.

by **Spittle!** on Thu May 22, 2008 7:31 am

IMO, top ten at the moment:

1. Italy
2. Argentina
3. Brazil
4. France
5. Portugal
6. Germany
7. Croatia
8. Netherlands
9. Czech Republic
10. Spain

by **suggs** on Thu May 22, 2008 9:13 am

Oh, the US will win. England alwyas seem to lose aginst the US - something to do with colossal overconfidence and arrogance on our part, whilst not really being that good.
Plus the USA have had a decent football team (I refuse to use the word "soccer", sorry) for years.
So 1-0 to the USA.

by **cena-rules** on Thu May 22, 2008 9:51 am

*raises hand*

Im going

2-1 to us