Well, Rapinoe might actually have the self-restraint to not make waves during the Olympics when she's not even on the team.
Unless they would rather not have a big discussion?investigation about the extent of the cheating.
You just popped back over here for the first time in 3 years to talk shit in the wake of your whole federation getting caught cheating over the past half decade? Nice.
I mean, if USSF has some sort of systematic spying on other teams thing going on,
Get lost. I am not talking shit. It sucks and the entire program is going to be dismantled, both coaches etc. I asked a question, because it isn't my area. Lighten up.
Successfully resisting the allure of drone puns
I mean just from the phrasing it's transparent that Marsch himself is the "sources tell". Like Matthew isn't even trying to hide it. What secondhand source would quote verbatim the "wasn't part of his coaching philosophy" bit? Only a guy who went to Princeton would think that was normal-person phrasing, which you'd say when summarizing what you overheard someone else saying.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/soccer/fifa-bans-canada-coach-bev-priestman-1-year-1.7277691
Doesn't sound good for the Tokyo Olympics medals, unfortunately.
This one part though is inaccurate
Shoemaker in his interview said Canada soccer was proud of its accomplishments and would investigate everything, and said he feared accomplishments may be tarnished and then listed his favorite Soccer Canada moment. He did not admit that spying had happened, but that he would investigate.
Maybe it does, but does it have direct flights from Buenos Aires, Brazil, Mexico, South Korea, Australia, Japan, etc.?
I don’t catch nearly as much Serie A as I used to, but he’s fun to watch. Left footed winger who can score. Pretty sure he led Frosinone in scoring last season while leading Europe in successful dribbles. He’s tough to defend 1v1, if not impossible. He really wants to take guys one on one, and he’s good at it. He relies mostly on his left foot but will go right once in a while to keep defenders honest. Think a less gangly looking Angel de Maria. If he can use his dribbling to create more chances for his teammates, then Roma might really have something. If not, then they’ll have an “exciting at times but mostly frustrating” type of player.
Some will, but read about Leon Bailey's complaints re the Jamaican FA and I think you get a feel for where the middle of the WC squads will be in terms of their situations for 2030.
That sound you hear is Messi's ankle injury healing a bit faster.
As I understand it, Leicester were beyond jurisdiction because, having gone down to the EFL, they were no longer within PL purview.
Wait, so PSR only applies to the Premier League and not the rest of the pyramid? I’m not saying that I agree with all of these financial rules as it makes it difficult (or impossible) to break up the elite clubs, but there are some advantages by forcing a degree of financial stability on clubs that otherwise might be forced to shut down. Most of those advantages are felt down the pyramid where clubs often are surviving more on the margins, not at the top of the food chain. Often it’s clubs that had experienced a degree of success and overextend themselves to keep the good times rolling that are most vulnerable. They’re the ones who might need to be saved from themselves when the results go against them.
I am a lawyer, so I might be able to confirm if I read it more closely. As I understand it, Leicester, then in the Championship, was beyond the PL's reach *at the time that some of the proceedings took place. The pyramid works as it did pre-PL with regard to pro/rel, but the PL and the EFL (tiers 2-4), are separate governing entities, despite that the top four tiers are together referred to as "league football." The whole point of the PL was to separate the elite from the high minors as an entity, which of course was done for revenue purposes.
This is tough, but my vote would come down to Carvajal, Rodri, Jude, and Rudiger. My hate-respect of Carvajal knows no bounds, and while I freely admit he has no chance of winning, he's kind of a key player at FB in the mold of Dani Alves, Marcelo, or perhaps more closely Lahm. That said, Rodri plays a much more scarce position but doesn't have the UCL title to show for it. Rudiger likely doesn't win it because Germany went out to Spain in the QF but that seems harsh. Jude is probably the winner and a justifiable one at that. His individual skill got England thru to the final and his box crashing and finishing stirred the drink in Madrid between Vini and Rodrygo (who get docked points because Brazil's underperformance at the Copa).
This is certainly a take. I'd argue Carvajal is not close to being one of the 4 best players on his own team, nevermind in the world. He is not in the mold of any of those fullbacks you mentioned, he's a solid glue-guy player on a great team. What does he do that makes him great? This isn't a lifetime achievement award (anymore)
He's a shutdown defender at a key position while still contributing quite a bit in attack. He played 5th most minutes on the team over the course of the season. He also had a kinda big goal in a kinda big game.
