Alejandro Bedoya has reportedly been called in to Bob Bradley's Gold Cup roster following an injury to the New England Revolution's Benny Feilhaber.
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What do you think of Bedoya's call up? Has he done enough for Orebro to deserve it? Where does he fall into Bob Bradley's plans?
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Why does it always have to be overachieving, why cant it be us playing a solid game and winning?
I don’t take any of his comments with any merit, he’s perfectly content with just making it out of the group, and paying BB a sorry amonut of money as a International manager.
Its comical that you would bet your house for the US over Mexico, that’s hilarious. In addition Mexico does farely well against those teams, and have put together positive performances in the Copa America as well. At the same time BB fails to filter out the underperforming players in the squad, which aggravates me to no end.
LOL, okay but if he plays bad which I hope he proves me wrong I will be the first to say I told you so.
I don’t have zero faith in our national team, I have zero faith in Bob Bradley to lead us further, in this country we seem to feel content with subpar performances, and see a success when we narrowly get by, and that mentality holds us back, we don’t get enough criticism when we undoubtedly deserve it.
If I had to bet my house, I would pick the U.S. over Mexico in this Gold Cup and you would be living in a 1960 Buick . You sound like these guys that said the same thing in the 2007 Gold Cup. Mexico can’t even beat, Venezuela and Ecuador with their A team, while the U.S. has been merely experimenting with formations and implementing new players. Your comments are comical.
England’s won a World Cup, and on there best day they can truly bring the house down.
Yeah bro, we get it. Well said, Supsam. Sure our team isn’t as technically gifted as others, and probably not as talented individually as Mexico’s. But guess what? In the last decade we have absolutely destroyed Mexico and gotten results against some of the world’s best. Yes, we have plenty of room for improvement in how we get those results, but that ultimately doesn’t matter. If you’re not willing to support this squad, even with a coach, players and a USSF head you dislike then find another team.
Does Bedoya deserve a call up? Well first of all Robbie Rogers is on the team so he automatically warrants a call up!!!!
SETS UP WINNING GOAL VS ATVIDABERG IN SWEDISH CUP.
SCORES GOAL AND GETS ASSIST VS GAL.
PLAYS AND CONVERTS A PK VS LJUNGSKILE
SCORES GOAL (AND EXECUTES THE BERNIE DANCE) VS KALMAR.
GETS ASSIST VS HACKEN
SCORES VS GEFLE
SCORES VS SYRIANSKA
SCORES TWICE IN PRESEASON
He is playing in the highest Swedish league, Allsvenskan, in form and SCORING goals…..scoring goals. BB just redeemed himself because he should have been in the first line-up from the start.
He made the team at the expense of Benny (never a good thing), who isn’t having a season like bedoya and he’s playing in a more inferior league.
The kid deserves to represent the RED, WHITE & BLUE in this tournament
Benny played a major role in the second goal of the Spain game in the Confed up. He made Spains defenders look silly. I wish Bedoya well but I look forward to Benny’s return.
i was talking about ignoring trolls
neither can chicharito. See: Champions League Final
jozy altrolldore cant survive without service
I love some of the Nats ‘fans’ on here
That’s unfair to Benny. He’s a very creative player on a squad coached by a guy who doesn’t know what do with with creative players (see Dempsey, Torres, Holden).
Quit feeding the trolls, guys. They thrive on your responses.
Do you have any respect for how difficult it is to win any game in the World Cup? Slovenia is a small country but they qualified from Europe and they were fighting to advance. And the U.S. came from two goals down. The second half of that game was an impressive performance by any standard.
+100000000000 I was getting tired of this guys bitching.
my bad..not norway…denmark…and i’m not hating. I just don’t think he’s a major loss…come on..Chivas and Philadelphia passed on him. Salary reasons or not…they didn’t believe he would make their team better.
The “sealing” fan? Is that some of the King’s English I keep hearing about?
wait, …what?
do you have one positive thing to say about the USMNT?? We get it. You hate Bob Bradley. You hate Sunil Gulati. You hate Altidore. You hate Bedoya. You hate our “lucky” WC run. You hate our Gold Cup performances. Now you have zero faith in our national team’s ability to get a result against a powerhouse even though history has says otherwise….
Good riddance. One thing i love about the US fan base is that its not full of annoying bandwagoners. Just fans who will support the stars and stripes though thick and thin.
…and you make it sound like England has a top notch national team. Did you enjoy watching your grandfather’s team during the last Euro’s??? haha
That’s a testiment to the great players like Donovan, Dempsey, Holden, Edu, Howard, Michael Bradley, etc…..it is not b/c of Bob Bradley.
Bob needs to go.
There is most certainly a thing called luck.
Jozy Altidore’s goal against spain was completely lucky.
Jozy side footed it in and Ikar Casillas was way too far to the opposite side of the net, but he should have stopped it.
I suppose you think that Clint Dempsey’s goal against England in the World Cup wasn’t like either.
c’mon man. I love the USA team, but you have to be honest. Jozy’s goal against Spain was luck.
I think the USA has some great talent, but I agree with you that Jozy Altidore is horrible.
He rides the pine in frickin’ Turkey. I think he has scored one goal each for his last two clubs in two seasons!!
Jozy “out da door” is soooo overhyped. It is time to give someone else a shot. Bob Bradley has a man crush on this kid obviously.
Edson Buddle and Hercules Gomez should have gotten a call up for the Gold Cup!
Jozy is not good and doesn’t deserve it!
Post world cup quote:
“…we felt we could have done better…”
– sunil gulatti
I’m a us supporter and I am all about it. But let’s be real for a minute. Mexico is young and talented. They are to be respected as a real threat to whip our asses. Guardado, torrado and gio can deliver really well. If it wasn’t for howard, our record against them wouldn’t be what it has been. Just being real
Benny is great in a league where there is no ball pressure. Unfortunately, that type of game doesn’t exist on the nationall stage. This iis the main reason why benny can’t start and fails to make an impact.
His cameo against Holland was good.
You have a point…think of it. If bedoya can hit a once in a life time shot, he too can stay on bradleys radar for 4 under achieving yrs
Simmer down. Even though he plays favorites and his teams are boring to watch, he generally overachieves when we bring the A team.
Sapin will win the friendly probably 3-1.
US sucks balls, that’s why I follow my grandfather’s team England, US doesn’t know how to play the game correctly, the players hav horrible soccer IQ’s, no imagination with the ball whatsoever, their style is so stale, its like watching a kid throwing marshmellows at his dad who’s spacing out staring at the sealing fan.
Defiencies we have we never correct, Bob Bradley sticks with the players who continue to put up subpar performances like Bornstein,Klejstan and alot more, use to be Ching, and besides Costa Rica “los Ticos” have beaten Mexico in the Azteca before it isn’t impossibe we surrendered the lead there. England’s ego got out of hand and that’s the reseon they drew with us, any other day BB and his “blue collar suad” would be handled with ease, I hate that term for the team to, why can’t it be skill to beat the opponent, and not this whole “we have spirit” we work hard, that’s nice, but paly with actual skill, not this we have to claw our way back all the time.
We’ve played Spain a couple of times under Bob Bradley with this player pool and each time they have struggled to score on us, and so has Argentina, and when it mattered most England could only draw us. How many results does it take before it is all luck and divine intervention, especially when we often get calls against us (Slovenia to name a big one)? We do have our deficiencies, as does any team, but we have shown we can get results. Bradley, Edu, Chandler, Lichaj, all play in strong leagues and get time. We also have a good core of veterans playing in top leagues like Dempsey, Cherendolo, Bocanegra, Howard, and even though Donovan plays in MLS he has proven himself as a international and at Everton as a player who can compete at the highest level. Mexico has quite a good team, but I would not give them so much credit, if they were so much further ahead of us then why have we been able to get the better of them so much recently? As for losing at Azteca, who doesn’t lose to Mexico there?
I have nno means of optimism for the U.S. team, concerning this GC, we always come out flat and lost and cannot string together 4-5 clean passes to save our lives, its ridicoulous, I think a healthy RSl could beat the national team.
There not huge figures by any means, and besides Guatemalan clubs have beaten MLS clubs in the CCL, countless times. Most of them are old, with the exception of Holden, we have no “real” future talent that’s doing it big right now in the EPL at the present. By 2014 when the WC comes up again who will feel these guy’s shoes when by then there in their 30’s, I haven’t seen any suitable rreplacements.
Any given day Spain beats us 7 out of 10 times maybe more if their on their A game. Point is we are inconsistent with our play and I’m tired of people making up excuses for this team, because we play like garbage half the time even against lesser opponents, and don’t get me started with the cowardly defending we always do, wich is starting to become our achilles heel by the way as of late. We didn’t BEAT Spain, they beat themselves by coming out flat.
Our strikers cant even make the bench for those top clubs! and besides not many latin or spanish players succeed in the EPL. usually the La Liga and Seria A, much more conducive to their styles which is more about technical skill than physical.
Here is the thing, nearly beat/almost/luck and all the little things you say, mean nothing in the end. We BEAT Spain. Period. That’s all the matters at the end of the day. “david villa could have/should have/would have/” etc., means nothing because he didn’t do it.
Have you watched him play for the US? Also he has never played in Norway. Feilhaber is an American player good at keeping possession and adds creativity in his passing, who also happens to have big game experience at the international level.
Well, he is already contributing to his club on a much much more higher level than our strikers. C;mon jozy has been with Villareal a smaller club in Spain since 2007, and has only scored one freaking goal in like 1 goal in 15 appearances, counting cup and league appearances. I meant players from their league our getting looks and lots of positive feedback, and are scoring loads of goals when givin the oppurtunity.
Oh yes GIO!!! I forget, he TRIED playing at Tottenham for the last few years. Didn’t he play one game at the beginning of the year and then go to some mid-level Spanish team because he couldn’t handle the physical nature of the EPL.
Also, Vela was pretty much a bench warmer for West Bromich Albion at the end of the EPL year, so stop pumping him up like he lit up the league.
By “Divine intervention” the U.S. scraped by Slovenia, El Salvador nearly beat the U.S. back in Rio Tinto in 09′, Mexico defeated them with realative ease in Azteca, most of their slow start that ultimately led to their second place finish in qualifiying was due to coaching turmoil, we had none and almost lost to T&T nat. team, mexico defeated them handily. As far as the Confed Cup, by “divine intervention” we made it as far as we did, in every game played we were outclassed, except until the Egypt game, Spain’s mistake was underestimating the U.S. on defense, none of our goals were truly earned, they were due to defensive lapses by Spain’s defense, and David Villa could have definently beaten our defense single handily, hadn’t it been for stellar goalkeeping by howard in a otherwise lackluster tournament by the U.S. Always have a habit of not only surrendering the early goal 5 min-10min span, but the lead as well countless times.
How is SBI missing the biggest story of the day, the suspension of Bin Hammam and Jack Warner?
Donovan? Yes, he played at Everton last year. I mean we don’t have anyone playing in the EPL. Tim Howard, Stuart Holden, Jermaine Jones, Clint Dempsey, Marcus Hanehman, Jonathan Spector, etc, I mean these guys play in some backwater league in Guatemala..
Fyi chicharito plays for Man United already if that is what you mean by primera.
Bedoya isn’t that good, and from what I’ve seen from him hasn’t warranted enough of the praise he’s been getting, American fans are just desperate to have a potentially good young player who could be a stellar player, but the reality is he isn’t all that good, during his national team performances he has looked slow, passes have lacked too. Against Chile, the chileans they ran through our midfield like they were playing some amateur soocer players.
By leaps and bounds, all you mean is Chicharito. The defense has not improved (and I like Salcido), Rafa is getting old, and the goalkeeper situation is, esshh. Hey, at least we never lost to El Salvador during WC qualification. If I remember correctly, Mexico lost to El Salvador during qualification as I remember it was the night of Jozy’s hat-trick.
We BEAT Slovenia as far as I am concerned and I’m pretty sure the majority of people would agree that Edu’s goal was good and the score should have been 3-2.
Oh, always the, “spain didn’t take it seriously,” excuse. I call BS on that one. Spain was hustling all night trying to score and they lost dos-cero, due to Howard, Demerit, and co playing tough and disciplined.
“In my experience, there is no such thing as luck” -Obi-Wan Kenobi-