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10/11/2017 6:26 am  #1


United States to Miss World Cup After Loss in Trinidad and Tobago

United States to Miss World Cup After Loss in Trinidad and Tobago

COUVA, Trinidad and Tobago — There was always a chance that a year would come when the United States again failed to qualify for the World Cup, when the hurdles in the nearly two-year slog of regional qualification — the matches on steamy afternoons and muggy nights, the hard tackles and the coin-throwing fans, the lousy fields and the dubious refereeing — all proved too much.

That year is 2017.

Trinidad and Tobago, whose World Cup dreams ended months ago, stunned the United States, 2-1, on Tuesday night. The result, combined with just-as-shocking outcomes in two simultaneous games in Honduras and Panama on the final day of qualifying for the Concacaf region, ushered in the unthinkable: The American men, mainstays of the World Cup for more than a generation, are out of next summer’s tournament in Russia.


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
 

10/11/2017 8:50 am  #2


Re: United States to Miss World Cup After Loss in Trinidad and Tobago

The world game may someday become a US favorite, but that day is for future generations. 

 


"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
 
 

10/11/2017 11:38 am  #3


Re: United States to Miss World Cup After Loss in Trinidad and Tobago

Maybe we should’ve sent the U.S. Women’s Team.

They seem to do pretty well.

 

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