7 min in. Colombia dominating possesion, but not really doing anything with it.
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for making these statements is, but soccer has a wider variation of time of possession compared to football and basketball by a substantial margin.
You regularly see games where a superior team controls the ball for 60-70%+ of the game because teams are allowed to simply play keepaway if they can. It's a good tactic to essentially do just that. There is no shot clock or game clock arbitrarily forcing a change of possession at regular intervals if one hasn't already occured.
Couldn't find data on hockey but I suspect turnovers are far more frequent in hockey such that it's not as variable as soccer (and I suspect that why it's hard to find the data, hard to track in hockey).
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The US has really lost its skill in winning balls in the air. We rarely win 50-50 balls.
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He's doing well.
Dumb question...why was Guzan starting over Howard for the rest of the tourney? Is he simply better? I don't follow soccer much and thought Howard was as good as they get. Is he over the hill?
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It was excellent play from Colombia, but yeah, Bedoya and Yedlin both let people behind them. I also thought Bradley looked late breaking out of the backline.
Close there from Yedlin and Jones.
Might be more like 15 players away.
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Still giving the ball up too easily. This time it's in their end instead of our end.
That's progress, I guess.
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you think there are many south american leagues worth a damn? Yet some of the best national teams are there. An american can just as easily go to europe for a lucrative pro career. The problem is no one encourages this, their talent goes unnoticed until it's too late to churn out a messi, or they get steered to other sports. The US will never compete with the top teams on a consistent basis unless soccer becomes the #1 sport in this country or damn close to it
Not sure if serious...
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Yeah, I think you're trolling in a soccer thread. I mean, you're claiming soccer athletes can't get paid. You're claiming that because we play a couple of extra sports, we don't have enough talent to compete with a country 18 times smaller than we are.
/shrug
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The problem isn't a lack of athleticism. It's a lack of skill.
This^
There are 10,000 guys in this country that are better athletes than Lionel Messi. But it does not matter. That's not why he's the best player in the world.
And that is why americans hate soccer. Not even close to getting hit in the head and goes down holding it like he got hit with a bat.
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