I think my takeaway from the current state of US soccer on the biggest stage is that there’s a fundamental disconnect between how players on the team expect each other to play. The European league players and the MLS players are not on the same page and there’s no connective tissue.
You’re not watching a US attack from the backfield thinking “Oh damn they’re gonna work this thing through and generate a legitimate chance,” you’re thinking “I hope the ball finds a way to bounce to someone in a position to score”
This I mostly agree with. There are no patterns of play, though that is really different from the first two years after GGG took over, when those patterns were obvious, but labored and ineffective.
Yeah, it’s the company that makes the game, Grinding Gear Games, frequently short handed to GGG. Basically, your comment reads to a weird part of my brain as “And then when Blizzard Entertainment took over the USMNT…” :p
Not sure how into the crunchy aspect of character building in ARPGs you are, but despite my niche issues with the game (due to having played it for over a decade), Path of Exile is Diablo 2 on every steroid known to exist and most that don’t
I do the same thing all the time, and honestly, a mutant ninja turtle soccer league would be the most american thing ever and probably make all the money
It always feels like a failing that we don't have good nicknames for our national soccer teams. We treat the teams like products stamped out of a factory (USMNT and USWMT sound like products made by Raytheon). Suffering of lack of imagination on and off the field.
