So ashamed.....

The US lost. The US did not show up for this world cup.....

This sucks!!!

I want to cry.

Soccer fanatic's thoughts on the US in the World Cup so far.

Hello all, its been a while. Almost a whole month.

Really, not much has been happening. I have been working a lot and watching a lot of the World Cup. Went to a bar called Summers, on the US vs Czech game. Oddly enough, my friend and I got interviewed for a local channel. As such, during the misrable display by the US team, my friend recieved a text message stating that his friends saw him on ESPN. That was pretty cool, I guess.

After the thumping that the US team recieved, we stayed to watch the Ghana vs Italy game. I started a cheer for Ghana and this guy, an Italian supporter, jumped out of the booth that he was sitting in and proceeded to step forward yelling at me, how great the Italian team is. I honestly thought he was wanting to box. But, I just talked a bit o' trash back stating "We play you next, we shall see".

So, Italy beat Ghana. US got pummeled by Czech Republic. It was a sad state of affairs on that day. In celebration of the US playing in the World Cup, many beers were drunken between me and my 4 friends that went to Summers with me. All in all I had a good time, even though the US lost.

Now, in the first game, the US looked like and played like they did not want to be in the greatest tournament in all of professional sports. Well, not all played like that but most of the team. Claudio Renya played pretty good and when his shot bounced away from the goal, I had a feeling that the US was going to lose.

Bobby Convey had an ok game. He was not agressive enough. Mostly, once he got the ball, he would pass it back. Same with Beasley. I mean, come on, what is that?!? Both Convey and Beasley are known for their attacking skills and "running at players" with the ball, otherwise known as getting past the defender and crossing the ball in.

Convey did that twice and had one crappy cross and one good cross. It happens, so he should have done it more. None had their heads in the game. Keller looked like he wasnt there either.

Beasley had the audacity to say that he was doing his job. "I was defending". If he was defending, then he was doing a horrible job of it. So during the days after the game we have a little pissing contest between the coach, Bruce Arena and Beasley. Bruce said it best when he said "If he is a player and a man, he will understand that he didnt have a good game. If he doesnt then he wont be able to help in games 2 and 3."

So, after a lot of hype and nervous anticipation, finally June 17th came around, US vs Italy. With a lot of jawing and Eddie Johnson equating the World Cup to war, it caused the Italians show their true colors, yellow. And so kick-off came about.

That game was how the Americans have to play all their games. They came out stronger, more determined and had the Italians on their heels, when they were not rolling around on the field, screaming in pain at the horrendous tackle that never happened. There were too many fouls called on the US in the first half, compared to the Italians. 90% of the fouls called were the Italians acting. So anyways, we go down 2 men, Italians down one man. We still tied them. Hell, if McBride wasnt in the way, it would have been 2-1 US victory. Regardless, it was a victory in my eyes.

The boys played extremely well and with a lot of heart.

Now, on to Ghana. Personally, and I dont mean to take anything away from the Ghanain team, but I think the US can beat them. They are fast, yes, but I think if we play a solid defensive line, we should be able to beat them.

If we do beat Ghana and Italy beats the Czech's then the US moves on!!!!!

So, as much as I dislike the Italian's I gotta root for them vs the Czech's.