Well the weekend didn't go as expected. Finishing bogey, bogey to miss the match play playoff cut by two was not the game plan for the Maryland Amateur. The only positive is that I got to watch all the World Cup matches, including USA - England. Here is my post for the Frederick News-Post about watching the game at Bushwaller's:
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/blogs/blog.htm?bid=17
Still have a good bit of other information for you that I'm tying together. Expect a few posts of more substance sometime this week. Happy Monday!
Showing posts with label Team USA Soccer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Team USA Soccer. Show all posts
Monday, June 14, 2010
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Hasta luego bandwagon soccer fans
The problem with the U.S.'s loss to Brazil today wasn't so much that the team lost the match. It was that it lost a number of fans who were tuning in just to see what this whole soccer thing is about.
Call them bandwagon fans if you wish - hell, you can even call me one, although I'd be offended - but those "bandwagon fans" are exactly what soccer needs to thrive in mainstream America.
Unfortunately, that group of fans saw a U.S. collapse. Most of them probably missed the first half in an ultimate bandwagon effort to watch the final 45 minutes and say they witnessed the U.S.'s first FIFA-based tournament victory. So what they really saw was Brazil outscoring a defenseless (in more ways than one) U.S. team 3-0.
The adage of "there's always next year" holds true in this case, because the World Cup will be right back in South Africa in 2010. To even make the quarterfinals in the World Cup would proabably be a surprise. And a championship opportunity like today's? Almost out of the question - much like the re-acquisition of all the fans lost today.
Call them bandwagon fans if you wish - hell, you can even call me one, although I'd be offended - but those "bandwagon fans" are exactly what soccer needs to thrive in mainstream America.
Unfortunately, that group of fans saw a U.S. collapse. Most of them probably missed the first half in an ultimate bandwagon effort to watch the final 45 minutes and say they witnessed the U.S.'s first FIFA-based tournament victory. So what they really saw was Brazil outscoring a defenseless (in more ways than one) U.S. team 3-0.
The adage of "there's always next year" holds true in this case, because the World Cup will be right back in South Africa in 2010. To even make the quarterfinals in the World Cup would proabably be a surprise. And a championship opportunity like today's? Almost out of the question - much like the re-acquisition of all the fans lost today.
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