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If you guys want a ray of sunshine poking through the USMNT clouds:



Weah's second was a banger, but judging from those highlights alone, Carleton had himself a monster game. That ball to Sargent was sensational.

On to the semis and probably England. That will be a test. I know zero about this England u-17 team, but they've been cranking out some great youth national teams lately.

I would really love to win this tournament. I think it'd go a long way to show what we can improve on what we have rather than blowing everything and starting over in youth development. I think we can make major changes that are important without rolling back the clock.

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Ska-doosh!

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Is a very Cascadia West as the dust has settled.

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Upcoming friendly of sadness has a roster and it's the youngest ever.

http://americansoccernow.com/articles/a ... u-s-roster

Time to panic about losing Jonathan Gonzalez to Mexico.
Josh Sargent (StL product) has debuted for the u-17, u-20, and senior national team in the same calendar year. That's nuts.

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Does it feel a tiny bit better that Italy also failed to qualify for the WC? Yes, but just the tiniest bit.

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Hope Solo wants to be president of the USSF. She already has experience driving the team bus, so it might work.

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Well thank God for that. I thought Seattle was going to get absolutely dominated all the way to their second star.

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Your timbs hired Gio Savarese (good imo), traded Nagbe (bad), but got an s load of money and essentially have double the cap in allocation money, so if they spend, they should be good. Busy offseason for an org that sure didn't seem like they needed a rebuild but are getting one anyway.

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It will be interesting to see what happens with Nagbe. He's played most of his adult life for one coach.

I'll miss him an awful lot. For all the hundreds and thousands of times he could have (especially his first few years when the Alonsos and Beckermans of the world would just foul the bejesus out of him with extremely limited discipline before he could blow right past them), he never once writhed around in fake pain. He was literally above the bull [expletive] of soccer. I'll always remember him for sitting facing the opposite direction AND burying his face under a towel during that epic shootout with SKC in 2015. Great memory of a magical night.

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"The Last Boy Scout" almost played out on a Greek football pitch yesterday.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/43369490

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