we set up ok but seem allergic to taking any shots on goal.

LOL, of course it was him who scored...sold out 100% to get it too.  Our #9 needs to get at it.

Yeah, some creativity would be nice, but this team is already so much better talent-wise than it used to be.  Really looking forward to seeing what they can do in four years.

If you don't have a TV you could always just paint a wall and watch it dry.

You neg but deep down inside I know that you know that I'm right 😀

It's the magic soccer spray

That looked so painful, and it seems like he had nothing to gain out of pretending anyways.  Ouch.

Fuck eye-ran.

That was pretty funny when that first come out, back in the day 🤣 😆 😂 

That was Fox trying to get a couple commercials in between the anthems and the kickoff. But yeah, really feel for Iran's players who were super brave to not sing the anthem in their first game.

What about the families, sheesh...

It was reviewed, but they never showed the graphic version of the offside. If he was off, it was by an inch.

My advice,

1. I would go with a Premier League (NBC) team because their games are just easier to find on tv (German Bundesliga and the Spanish La Liga are also 2 options whose games are on ESPN+)

2. European leagues are very top heavy, so if you want to see that team win any sort of Championships, going outside the top 3 in any league is not going to end well for you.

3. Specific teams I like, Man City (new money team with an entertaining style of play), Dortmund (team that will constantly give you new young talent to root for, but may not win the big trophies, has American Gio Reyna), Chelsea (has American Christian Pulisic)

Counterpoint:

You don't need to. I mean, you can pick a team to follow closer and like to see win, but if you enjoy the sport, you can enjoy it without having to live or die with every result. There are already a bunch of sports whose results are live-and-die material here in the States.

Plus, and I don't mean to be unkind to people here who do this, I find randomly picking a European team to root for as an adult to be a bit... artificial. I mean, you genuinely want them to do well, hate it when they lose? That's real. But it's not the same as a team you grow into domestically.

I mean, I got on the Man U bandwagon a bit in the 90s. I followed the Treble season in 99 pretty closely, whooped when Sheringham and Solskaer mugged Bayern to win the UCL that year. They're still my go-to European team (and since they've been mediocre for years, I don't even have to feel like a frontrunner). 

But it's not the same following them as it is following Michigan or even Detroit teams like the Pistons or Lions. I grew up on these teams. I celebrated the Bad Boys and was gutted when Michigan lost to Miami in 88. I sweated through every minute of the 89 game against Seton Hall; I got utterly soaked at the 96 BC game; I watched Barry do magical things and hated (who am I kidding, my hostility toward them has not abated). I lived and died with these teams.

I simply can't share that same experience rooting for Manchester United (or Leeds or Barca or Inter or...) because they aren't a part of who I am in remotely the same way. I don't live there and never have. I don't remember the gut-punches the same way.

And it's freeing. I like watching EPL and other stuff, but one of the nice things about it is that when a team I prefer (frontrunner that I was in the late 90s, I was first-choice partial to Man U but also like Arsenal and I have the jerseys to prove it; this is proof on its own that I'm not a serious, committed EPL fan) does poorly... it's no big deal. It doesn't even keep me from enjoying other matches the same day. 

(But if you really must pick a team, pick a team that you can identify with apart from any players they might have right now. Right now I'm enjoying Leeds a bit, but they're a four-game losing streak from axing the American coach and a year from now all of the Americans could easily be gone, because EPL stands for "Not For Long" in old English. Find something about the team that strikes you even if their star player won't necessarily be there in five years.)

Or consider rooting for Leeds.

(1) They have an American coach

(2) They have two exciting young American players (Adams and Aaronson)

(3) They play an aggressive attacking style that leads to high scoring games (as well as blown leads sometimes)

(4) Part owned by the 49ers - another American connection

(5) Not a trendy / "new money" club - not like choosing to root for the Yankees

The pulse of America beats in Ann Arbor...

I think this is less about us sitting back and more about Iran having to get a goal all of a sudden.  Honestly this favors us bc it opens up the counter.  Its going to get more desperate...