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If that is the case then please instead of being an internet tough guy IF YOU REALLY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH ME DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. I will gladly provide you with the opportunity.
Everything else is just hater noise...
Get it?
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If that is the case then please instead of being an internet tough guy IF YOU REALLY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH ME DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. I will gladly provide you with the opportunity.
Everything else is just hater noise...
Get it?
MakeAPlay
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Wearing the flag on clothing is un-American. Voting for a traitor is un-American. Cheating on your taxes is un-American. Spare me your subjective tripe. My player is more American than you could ever hope to be with your flag waving. They called Martin Luther King Jr. un-American. They called Lincoln un-American. The called Mohammad Ali un-American. Your judgement means little to me and my kid definitely wouldn't care about your opinion if I cared to share it with her.
See you in August in Malibu. I'll buy the beers at Duke's.
Umm, what are you talking about? Did you reply to the wrong person?
MakeAPlay
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Stop trying to act innocent clown. You have talked $hit about my player several times but she keeps on killing the game so you just look dumber and dumber by posting it. Now it's about me being an a$$hole. I really don't care what you are anyone other than my wife and kids think. If you have a problem with me I have no problem giving you the opportunity to solve it. Otherwise you are just a punk hater who's talking shit about a kid that will be in the national championship game 2 more times before she is done.
MakeAPlay
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Yes I was trying to reply to one of espola's posts. I apologize for the confusion.
So you agree than that her game on Sunday was not up to Friday's standard.
The Driver
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MakeAPlay
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I didn't say that. What I said is that she played a ton of minutes 36 hours before playing a ton of minutes again against a rested opponent. Take a look at the film from the first time that they played Stanford. You are a dilettante in the realm of soccer anyway so I'm not in the mood to actually explain it to you. If you ACTUALLY are interested I am positive that you can find film of all 47 of her college games. Please watch them and you tell me.
It would be great if this was the type of soccer we have to look forward to but lets face it UCLA and Stanford have a crazy amount of talent and have the ability to play the style they do. My worry is other coaches will see how Northwestern was able to take UCLA to OT and they had little to no talent on that team. Lets face it the players need to be trained properly before they get to college so we have an opportunity to see more teams play like we did on Sunday.
Dilettante? I was involved in the game before you were born.
Yeah. Unfortunately I suppose you are correct.
I guess the problem really is that, in order to play like UCLA or Stanford, you need just about all 11 to be technically sound. If you just have 4 or 5 it breaks down somewhere and you routinely turn the ball over in your own half. It is much easier said than done to put together a full team like that, and you almost certainly are going to take some lumps along the way until everyone "gets it."
A person can wish, though.
Yes Espola. Just another example of arrogance and deplorable behavior sitting in an ivory tower. I am willing to bet 75% of the people on this board have spent more time inside this game than he has but none of know shit about the game.
IMO - I don't think it will ever really change unless you limit re-entry. Teams are constantly rotating players like hockey lines to press the entire game. So unless the team is the over the top talented like UCLA or Stanford allowing those two teams to consistently hold the ball against a relentless press, the game is always going to look a little ugly. Defense is never pretty and the re-entry rules favor tactics geared toward defense.
Aren't the rules the same for both sides?
We tend to approach playing possession soccer from a negative or doubtful perspective. Yes, it helps to have 11 players and a bench that can play in this manner. But lets look at what we do have. Lets look at some positives. We can start with UCLA and Stanford. Right now they are prime examples of teams that can play this way. We have some youth clubs (not many, but growing) trying to teach this play and/or coaches sprinkled around also advocating and teaching it. There are international examples being televised daily who are kids can watch and eventually model. At times we can see it with our USWMNT (not as much as we may want yet we know they can). The idea of playing this way is discussed continually on this board which means many see it is needed to further the game. Right now we are in a good place going forward. The fact that the USMNT failed (yes not a positive) to reach the World Cup could (hopefully) bring some changes (the positive) on how players are developed.
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I agree on the development point but when it comes down to College Soccer coaches “play to win the game”. This is how somewhat inexplicably, UCLA lost to Washington State and tied both Arizona and Pepperdine. Those teams gameplaned around a very transparent strategy and found a way to get a result. Coaches are coaching for their jobs and sometimes the defend and counter game is fruitful. People may not think it’s pretty but it is a viable strategy to get a result
I understand and agree that coaches need to produce to keep their jobs. The question is for long playing in this manner? Will their employers be okay with them never beating a top team? Like UCLA or Stanford? Will their employers ask why they are not playing like those two schools? Agreed there is nothing wrong with playing defensive and countering on attack, but if its the only thing a team can do, well I hope these coaches can teach more than that in regards on how to play on the field.
I do as well. But when the Stanford’s UCLAs and small few others don’t have to lift a finger to get top talent the rest will do the best with what’s leftover
And, that's where change in our structure needs to change. So, the gap between programs have been narrowed and we have no leftovers. Just dessert!
The Driver
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