On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Medic <[email protected]> wrote: > > I didn't see Japan v Cameroon ending that way either. Good on Japan. > > One side note regarding the England v US game. Yes the US played well, but > let's call a spade a spade here. They had a goal gifted to them and England > played horribly. Stevie G came out and attacked only once and the result > was > a goal in the opening minutes. After the goal they stopped using him. > Rooney > was a non-issue as well. You put Stevie G in his usual role and get Rooney > on his game and England will look like a completely different team. Put the > US on the top of their game against England on the top of their game and > it's a four or five goal routing. Sure there's a bunch of US players that > play in the EPL, but they aren't stars and they don't play on the top > teams. > Save for Howard of course. He's a star for sure. The same can not be said > for England. Most of its players are on top 4 teams. > > Don't take this as US bashing though, because that's not what it is. It's > simply a statement of fact. That's my $0.02 anyway. >
I don't know how true this is in soccer, but in the other sports I watch....a team of stars does not necessarily equal a star team. The sports landscape is littered with teams who thought they'd bought championships by loading their team up with stars...only to see them crumble to a team of supposedly "lesser" players. Too many stars can be a detriment. You need a TEAM. -- It was long ago and it was far away It was so much better than it is today ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:321223 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
