View Poll Results: How much further will USA get in the World Cup Soccer?
No further at all, that's it, they've done their dash! 13 17.33%
Into the second round 33 44.00%
Into the quarter-final 12 16.00%
Into the semi-final 1 1.33%
Into the final but will lose 1 1.33%
Into the final and will win! 7 9.33%
They'll create their own "World Series" of soccer, meaning USA only! 8 10.67%
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Old June 12, 2002, 06:43   #61
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Sorry I meant soccer. My mistake. Damn this language barrier!
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Old June 12, 2002, 06:46   #62
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Sorry I meant soccer. My mistake. Damn this language barrier!
Imagine being the odd man out all the time with this football business. I played both sports in school and in the Army, and needless to say I love them both. I wish soccer was bigger here, I have only managed to catch a couple of games, and I haven't seen the Americans play since their last friendly.
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Heh... when did the americans stop speaking english?
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Old June 12, 2002, 06:53   #64
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Heh... when did the americans stop speaking english?
It's the Brits who have drifted away from the true tongue. We are the center of gravity now!

Seriously, my grandparents speak a dialect of English which was used by the upper class in the 1600s. It only lives on in the U.S. in a couple of clusters in mountainous areas of the south. They live in northwest Arkansas, and the other group lives in Appalachia.
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Old June 12, 2002, 10:02   #65
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Frosty, The MLS has a league championship. And then there is an American Cup Competition for all soccer teams in the US, from the MLS, the A-League, etc. Any pro team can try for it.
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Old June 12, 2002, 11:10   #66
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Frosty, The MLS has a league championship. And then there is an American Cup Competition for all soccer teams in the US, from the MLS, the A-League, etc. Any pro team can try for it.
Thanks Imran. I just wasnt sure, thats all.
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Old June 12, 2002, 11:35   #67
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People, the term "Soccer" is NOT an American invention, bastardization, or anything of the sort. We didn't create it at all. Soccer is an ENGLISH word used to differentiate the game from Rugby, since both games were once known as football (Soccer Football, Rugby Football).

While most of the world commonly knows the game as merely football, there are various versions of the game including Australian Rules Football, Gaelic Football, and the gridiron football played by the NFL, among others.

So back off with you pseudo-purist nonsense about how we don't even call the game by it's proper name. We're merly being more specific than you are, because, well we more diverse in our athletic pursuits.


As for the"World Series" that title goes back to the day when a New York City newspaper or magazine, called 'The World' used to sponsor a series of baseball games between the champions of two baseball leagues. The title just stuck from there. Their are no world championships for baseball like there are for soccer, basketball, hockey, figure skating, alpine sports, and track & field, primarily because outside of Japan, the Philpines, and the Dominican Republic no one else plays baseball. Incidentally there is a youth world championship called the Little Leage World Series, which does have international competition.



PS: Funny line about the US giving a goal back to Portugal. Ouch!!!
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Seriously, my grandparents speak a dialect of English which was used by the upper class in the 1600s. It only lives on in the U.S. in a couple of clusters in mountainous areas of the south. They live in northwest Arkansas, and the other group lives in Appalachia.
Why would upper class English folk, from the 1600s, emigrate to the mountains of Arkansas and remain in linguistic isolation?
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I've heard that both the dialects in Scotland and in the US (particularly Appalachia) are linguisitically closer to Shakespear than current day English English.
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