After One Year, Eddie Lewis Is Still #1 In My Blog
If there's one thing that I absolutely love is when one of my off-the-wall predictions comes true.
So regular readers of the footcer sections will realize that I've long made fun of Ecuador for their complete inability to win when they're off their mountaintop. Well back on May 18 in a thread on myspace.com, I made the following claim:
"Look for [Ecuador] to lose to Colombia in a warmup friendly in the United States (Ecuador is Colombia's whipping boy and beat them almost every time) followed by a loss to Macedonia in Spain.
Seriously, they will lose to Macedonia but they couldn't find a weaker UEFA team willing to play them. :)"
Sure enough, by giving up a late game penalty kick, Ecador managed to lose to one of the worst team in all of UEFA 1-2. That's a 53 place gap in the FIFA ranking (39 to 91) outdone by the fact that Ecuador is a joke.
Uruguay has got to be really pissed off right now that they're not the 4th team representing South America.
I just love this time of year for the very kind of phallus measuring going on in the footcer world as teams that would ordinarily never play each other meet in Europe (or wherever) and kick the ball around in friendlies.
Other fascinatingly meaningless scores today include:
Ukraine 4, Costa Rica 0 - speaking of embarassing results for a federation, Costa Rica is quickly becoming, for my money, the worst CONCACAF team at the World Cup. Sure Trinidad & Tobago lost to Wales but they scored in the effort. And had a 1-0 lead at one point. Meanwhile Costa Rica lost to Iran (don't even get me started about Iran as I've been in an argument with a few of their supporters in which I've had to, of all things, defend Mexico).
New Zealand 3, Georgia 1 - this match answered the question of just how bad Georgia is. Or it could just mean New Zealand is ready to take over the mantle of OFC team that no one respects despite their results.
Serbia & Montengro 1, Uruguay 1 - besides being one of the last friendlies that S&M play as one country (possibly the last one), it marks the first time they've been scored on in ages. Maybe the defense was ready to split in two or something. Or the goalie went schitzophrenic.
France 1, Mexico 0 - la, la, la. Tin foil hat on. Mexico is a legitimate contender for the quarterfinals. La, la, la. France was the much better team in this match and I don't see El Tri's chances being better against Holland in the next friendly. Like I said, phallus measuring. There's no real reason for Mexico to have scheduled france. Though Holland was a good idea as they actually have to play Portugal which is similar.
Spain 0, Russia 0 - of all the foreign friendlies I chose to watch live, why'd it have to be this one? It was a good match but by the 20th scoring chance Spain botched, I was honestly hoping for a good fight.
Czech Republic 2, Saudi Arabia 0 - the good news is the Czechs looked human, for a while. At least the Gol TV announcers were high on the United States' chances after this one. La, la, la. Tin foil hat on.
Chivas USA 1, Chicago Fire 0 - this international friendly really sucked. Though to call Pablo Palencia's performance friendly is a misnomer.
Of course the only friendly that really, really mattered yesterday and today was the United States against Latvia. Wow! How was that game not 5-0?
Who game the United States team magical spinach? Was it Landon Donovan, the California hippie?
The picture of Brian McBride's forehead needs to be made into an inspirational t-shirt!
Good thing he's right headed. :)
Speaking of which, I noticed something really odd. The United States could, if it starts a midfield of Beasley, Convey, and Lewis could start a 3/4 or 3/5 left footed midfield.
You could line it up Lewis - Beasley - Convey - Donovan.
Reyna and Mastroieni lining up behind it.
That could confuse the opposition. Though it probably wouldn't be the best formation idea.
Yeah, always thinking like a left hander. Sorry, it's a hard habit to break.
By the way, Bobby Convey can impregnate my future wife any time he'd like to (so long as this girl I've yet to meet agrees). I want a little piece of Convey's recent performances to keep for my very own. Videotape just isn't good enough. I want any kid I have to be that good a crosser from the left.
And, well, Eddie Lewis is going to be too old to have truly healthy seed by the time future children come into the picture.
On that pleasant note, I think I'll end this entry here. :)
Oh, not quite yet. It all comes full circle as one year ago tomorrow I wrote about Eddie Lewis' attempt with Preston North End to secure promotion to the Premiership as the first entry ever in footcer!
Happy One Year Anniversary to the Footcer Socblog. And, hey, why does no one include Socblog when they talk about this thing? It's half the name.
So regular readers of the footcer sections will realize that I've long made fun of Ecuador for their complete inability to win when they're off their mountaintop. Well back on May 18 in a thread on myspace.com, I made the following claim:
"Look for [Ecuador] to lose to Colombia in a warmup friendly in the United States (Ecuador is Colombia's whipping boy and beat them almost every time) followed by a loss to Macedonia in Spain.
Seriously, they will lose to Macedonia but they couldn't find a weaker UEFA team willing to play them. :)"
Sure enough, by giving up a late game penalty kick, Ecador managed to lose to one of the worst team in all of UEFA 1-2. That's a 53 place gap in the FIFA ranking (39 to 91) outdone by the fact that Ecuador is a joke.
Uruguay has got to be really pissed off right now that they're not the 4th team representing South America.
I just love this time of year for the very kind of phallus measuring going on in the footcer world as teams that would ordinarily never play each other meet in Europe (or wherever) and kick the ball around in friendlies.
Other fascinatingly meaningless scores today include:
Of course the only friendly that really, really mattered yesterday and today was the United States against Latvia. Wow! How was that game not 5-0?
Who game the United States team magical spinach? Was it Landon Donovan, the California hippie?
The picture of Brian McBride's forehead needs to be made into an inspirational t-shirt!
Good thing he's right headed. :)
Speaking of which, I noticed something really odd. The United States could, if it starts a midfield of Beasley, Convey, and Lewis could start a 3/4 or 3/5 left footed midfield.
You could line it up Lewis - Beasley - Convey - Donovan.
Reyna and Mastroieni lining up behind it.
That could confuse the opposition. Though it probably wouldn't be the best formation idea.
Yeah, always thinking like a left hander. Sorry, it's a hard habit to break.
By the way, Bobby Convey can impregnate my future wife any time he'd like to (so long as this girl I've yet to meet agrees). I want a little piece of Convey's recent performances to keep for my very own. Videotape just isn't good enough. I want any kid I have to be that good a crosser from the left.
And, well, Eddie Lewis is going to be too old to have truly healthy seed by the time future children come into the picture.
On that pleasant note, I think I'll end this entry here. :)
Oh, not quite yet. It all comes full circle as one year ago tomorrow I wrote about Eddie Lewis' attempt with Preston North End to secure promotion to the Premiership as the first entry ever in footcer!
Happy One Year Anniversary to the Footcer Socblog. And, hey, why does no one include Socblog when they talk about this thing? It's half the name.
posted by incendiarymind at 10:30 PM
3 Comments:
Congrats on the year of blogging!
I would like to volunteer to be impregnated by Convey. We can discuss marriage later.
Kristy. We have the same birthday. That is crazy! I added you over on LiveJournal.
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