The most popular tournament in the world has finally come to a reality after 4 long years. 32 teams battle it out for the once every four year tournament known as the FIFA World Cup.
USA Eliminated from the World Cup, and did not qualify for the tournament for the first time since 1986. USA plans and vows to be back as a power house for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
USA, Mexico, and Canada will host the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with USA hosting 60 of the 80 matches. Below is a link for the 2026 possible venues for play, Arrowhead being one of the possibility's as a venue for the cup.
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
Soccer is such a complex game, with such a particularized set of skills to draw from, that there really are only two physical attributes that qualify as automatic advantages.
Straight-line speed on breakaways and height when performing headers.
Maybe, . . . fast twitch reflexes for a goalie.
So much of the rest of it can be game planned and platooned.
Soccer is so much more about skill, endurance and team synergy than imposing your will physically.
Musa demonstrated one of the few pure physical advantages one can possess in soccer. If you can dribble with that much control and speed, it opens things up like nothing else in the entire game. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
Missing a PK will never not boggle my mind. It's like missing a free throw if the basket was the size of a car hood.
It's one thing if the keeper makes a save or you bad luck off a post or something. But to miss the entire cage is simply a choke. No two ways about it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Why Not?:
It's one thing if the keeper makes a save or you bad luck off a post or something. But to miss the entire cage is simply a choke. No two ways about it.
Goalkeeper went the wrong direction, he could have rolled that ball in. [Reply]
