Will Parchman
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Weird uncle of American soccer Twitter. Director @txstudentmedia. Credits: @theathleticsccr, @topdrawersoccer, @mls, @soundersfc, @wacotrib, et al.
Austin
Joined October 2011
I cannot tell you - it is literally impossible to convey - how much this photo means to me.
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There is no way Messi just did what he did and dedicated that game to a Homegrown he met like five minutes ago. Can he be my dad.
Leo Messi: āLet me dedicate this victory to Ian Fray (Inter Miami teammate) who was suffering in the locker room from the injury he sustained. He comes from two serious injuries and today he has the bad luck to go through an injury again.ā .
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Sergio Ramos truly is the Joffrey Baratheon of world soccer. Every time he lifts a trophy it feels like heās lifting Ned Starkās head.
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This is so stupid but I have to talk about that Messi two-touch goal against Nigeria for a minute. Iāve never seen anything like it before. I frankly donāt think many understand how impossible that was.
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South Korea beat Argentina 2-1 yesterday. Goal-scorer Paik: "Where's your paper?"
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If Pulisic looks this ineffective with the USMNT. And this effective with his club. Maybe. Itās not a Pulisic problem?.
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UEFA A license cost vs licenses issued:.Germany - $530 (6,000).Spain - $1,200 (12,700).England - $4,600 (2,000). USSF A license cost vs licenses issued:.$4,000 (2,500). Which model are we emulating? The one that wins Euros and World Cups or the one thatās. England?.
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Ibra coaching Galaxy academy kids on attacking positioning is quite possibly the coolest thing Iāve ever seen.
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Zlatan is the greatest pure scorer in soccer history. This is the overall percentage of club games he played where he also scored goals during his career. These numbers are absolute insanity. Sweden: 40%.Netherlands: 47%.Italy: 59%.Spain: 55%.France: 92%.England: 53%.USA: 75%.
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An American 20-year old was just elaborately feted after his last match in front of 80K+ adoring fans. Itās worth taking some time every now and then to generally marvel at Christian Pulisic. Never been any American remotely like him.
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Whatever happens with Pulisic at Chelsea, Americaās insistence upon ignoring FIFA rules is robbing PA Classics, the club that developed Pulisic, of about $730K in solidarity payments off the transfer fee. Tragic.
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Dortmund will end up making $100m+ on Pulisic and Reyna after paying $0 to acquire them. Can a soccer team be my financial advisor.
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The USMNT's most talented, Europe-seasoned generation in history has had to fight through a cycle with an inept U17 coach, a U20 coach who played a 442 out of 1970s hooligan culture, two missed Olympic cycles and now Gregg Berhalter for half a decade. What a waste, man.
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Next friendly. Just do it, man. Clear it out. Have fun. Be weird.
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This is easily the largest delta between USMNT and El Tri, let alone CONCACAF, youth propsects I've seen in 15 years of covering national team prospects. It's not Pulisic, it's just a steady wave of MLS youth underpinning int'l transfers. I don't know how you don't get hyped.
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Walker Zimmerman is in the best form of any USMNT center back I can remember heading into a World Cup out of qualifying. Probably since Gooch in 2006. Absolute lightning growth on the international stage this cycle.
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Excited to pick up a full kit in Ross for $5 next summer.
More leaks + some confirmation from a handful of trusted folks. Your 2022 USA World Cup shirts everyone.
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The Red Bulls have now been knocked out of the postseason by 10 different teams in 10 years. The most Red Bull stat of all time.
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Watching the world be introduced to Mark Geiger is like sending my grown illiterate son to a college he didnāt get into.
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Number of college players to make a US U20 World Cup roster over the last 10 years:. 2009 - 9.2013 - 4.2015 - 2.2017 - 4.2019 - 0. Pretty important milestone we just reached.
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Since 2011, the US has now missed a U17 World Cup, a U20 World Cup, two Olympics and a senior World Cup.
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I once saw a billionaire extent a hand to Clint Dempsey, who did not take it, instead offering a fist while saying, āWhatās up player.ā. I will think about this at least once a week for the rest of my life.
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Rosengarten, one of the top OTās in America, almost tripled his season QB hits allowed in one night and looked like a toddler against bears for four quarters. Michigan just playing on plaid speed all night, wild performance defensively.
Washington OT Roger Rosengarten this season:. š£ 610 Pass Block Snaps.š£ Zero Sacks Allowed.š£ Two QB Hits Allowed
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Texas is the most important state in Soccer America in the next decade. Hereās why you should be excited:. - Tab Ramos cares about the youth of the fourth largest metro area in the US. - Claudio Reyna cares about kids. - FCD has so many kids you donāt even know about yet.
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Ref just issued a landmark court case on firing balls into opposing benches, let it rip boys, find a face, hit a coach in the kneecap, gift a ballboy his first concussion, let's go.
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The Premier League has like three different versions of the Warriors at once and Leicester City ran away with it. Still the most incredible sporting achievement Iāve seen in my lifetime.
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SKC continues to defy everything we thought we knew about MLS fandom. - MLS 1.0 club. Still sell outs. - Suburban stadium. Still sells out. - No international stars. Still sells out. - Not in a top 20 metro area. Still sells out.
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The most significant news in MLS development history. Davies traveled the pipeline: academy to USL to first team to one of the biggest clubs in the world, all for record profit. This is the standard. Your move, rest of MLS.
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Inter Miamiās stadium site in 2018 vs. Inter Miamiās stadium site in 2019
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Canāt wait for the first person to do this with a Colorado Rapids jersey.
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Mexico fans inadvertently drilling their own players in the head with beer bottles as their team valiantly loses in extreme extra time, this is CONCACAF in Websterās.
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Jurgen Klinsmannās greatest legacy is turning the USMNT into a powerful G5 program working the hell out of the transfer portal.
Rumors have been swirling that Malik Tillman šŗšøš©šŖ could be the next dual-nat to represent the #USMNT. Gregg Berhalter views him as a possible option for the #š positionā¦ in THIS cycle. If he accepts, he could be in June campā¦ but it has been a tough recruitment battle.
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Kind of disgusted with MLS leadership for the way they've treated Columbus. Hard to look at it the same.
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Josef Martinez is the greatest forward in the history of MLS and itās not even close. Like, not within miles.
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I feel extremely confident that, PSG aside, MLS could slip into Ligue 1ās spot in Europe and no one would notice.
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US Soccerās USMNT coaching list shouldāve been completed within a week of the T&T game, it shouldāve been large, and they shouldāve interviewed as many who agreed to sit. What a comically bungled process this has been.
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So, to recap, from the Atlanta-hosted MLS All-Star Game. - Atlanta Homegrown Andrew Carleton is named the MVP of the MLS Homegrown Game. - Atlanta United striker Josef Martinez scores MLSās only goal. - Atlanta breaks the all-time All-Star Game attendance record.
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Berhalter-coached USMNT groups are uniformly terrible against good teams not named Mexico. His most impressive win against a top 15/20 team not named El Tri wasā¦ Ghana? Ecuador? He cannot coach upward.
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David Ochoa talks like heās Tim Howard and plays like heās Rob Green.
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The ember of soccerās growth in the US is basically embodied entirely in Minnesota, not Atlanta. Team has been mostly trash on the field for 1 1/2 years, doesnāt have a clear development pathway, has a mostly nameless roster. And the fan base is f*ckn incredible.
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The cool thing is that literally anyone can do what Atlanta United is doing if you just pay the two largest transfer fees in MLS history woo the best coach in MLS history find the leagueās most invested owner and tap into a city desperate to explode into a soccer revolution.
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Luka Modric is everything I love about soccer in ways that are just anathema to any other team sport. Guy is 5-7 150, doesn't care about winning foot races, has zero interest in physical duals. He's a geometer, sees every angle, lethal in short bursts, Delphic vision. Legend.
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Reggie Cannon is in better form and is a better player than DeAndre Yedlin, who should never start again as long as Cannon is healthy.
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The year is 2642. The earth, a smoldering ruin for 329 years following the Fourth Zarblock War, is covered in 16 feet of ash. The remnants of humanity lives in tunnels underground. Except for one man, one hero, whose miraculous biochemistry adapted to the toxic atmosphere.
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We see a lot of goals because we see a lot of soccer. Itās tempting to delegitimize things because youāve seen every golazo more or less as it happened for the last 20 years. This Messi goal just reawakened the wonder in me. Itās important to retain the ability to be mystified.
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In light of everything, Messi dragging a bunch of disgruntled garbage cans to the 2014 World Cup final is one of the most impressive feats in history.
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If Kathy Carter wins, a whole lot of people are going to flat give up on US Soccer.
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Leeds start Americans, Leeds scores. Chelsea benches Americans, Chelsea falls into Danteās fourth circle of hell. The game isnāt complicated.
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This is wild. The last English team to beat Juve, eight years ago, involved some American dude.
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I love that FIFA's second tiebreaker is WeLl MaYbE yOu ShOuLd Be NiCeR.
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Reggie Cannon looks like he b.e.l.o.n.g.s. Yedlin should feel pressure. I hope he feels pressure.
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Probably typed and deleted six messages on Grantās kindness toward me, his generosity toward the community and his pioneering impact on everything we do. Just sad.
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Freddy Adu was on the last US Olympic team to qualify. I donāt know what else to say.
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Adidas has become MLS's obnoxiously drunk friend at the twilight of the party. Everyone is tired and embarrassed, adidas clearly has a problem, but it made friends with the party hosts so nobody can kick him out. Adidas is Chad.
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It's been a long road.
Haji playing like he wants a call-up, Jurgen.
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We will all remember the time Peter Vermes, the manager once derided early in his career for being a hitman coach who played concrete soccer, embarrassed Toluca with so much possession Mexicans mocked their own club.
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Every time I watch Pogba I hate Mourinho a little bit more.
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Three 2019 MLS first round draft picks were cut before the start of the season, if you were wondering how college soccer is going.
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I still think Berhalterās most difficult task has nothing to do with tactical or personnel matters. He has to convince one of the most jaded, disillusioned national team fan bases on earth to care again.
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You could say, like, the best defenders in the world would stop that, but then you remember when Messi put Jerome Boateng into the fourth circle of hell at the height of his powers and man this is just another matchday for that man.
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2017: Josh Sargent scores on his debuts at both the U17 and U20 World Cups. 2018: Josh Sargent scores on his debut for the USMNT.
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No drawn out season-long retirement promenade. No grand press conference. No formality at all. Just a quiet walk offstage and into the eaves. Based on the man himself, I can think of no more fitting way for Deuce to leave the game.
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More than anyone I feel poorly for Pulisic. The entire menās side of this federation is a tire fire, and here is a generational talent forced to hold up half the shieldwall by himself. I predict heāll often look out of sorts this cycle because heās trying to do too much.
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So Scally's never getting called up again, then.
āA coach that understands weāre not a club team, simple tactics/simple systemā. Joe Scallyās comments on what he would want from the next USMNT šŗšø head coach. My man said Berhalter out without saying Berhalter out š.
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Raise your hand if Caleb Porter as USMNT coach does not sound great!. šāāļø.
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All of MLS is summed up in Canada. Vancouver: Writhing, low-stakes mediocrity defined yet somehow produces a $15m transfer to Bayern. TFC: Spends like a reckless Vegas ether bender, wins a cup, creates the best MLS team ever and then. sucks?. MTL: Signs Bacary Sagna.
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God bless MLS, the only league in the world that can produce the best team in league history and then give us 11 guys farting into a tuba a year later.
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After orbiting the earth twice, Bradleyās PK will land in Russia just in time to serve as the American representative.
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While weāre engaging in random retrospectives, I think itās necessary to spotlight DaMarcus Beasley as the single most incredible USMNT player of all time. Not best. Not most skilled. But most unbelievable.
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Wynalda: We need pro/rel .Martino: We need better youth outreach.Solo: We need equal pay.Carter: We need to stare unblinkingly into the abyss, unafraid, until such a time as the infinite blackness appraises us of our destination.
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Sweden won the 2015 U21 Euro title. England won the 2017 U19 Euro title. Both in addition to myriad other major youth milestones. That they play each other in a senior World Cup quarterfinal is not a coincidence. Itās almost like focusing on youth is good!.
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Toni Kroos won his 20th major trophy today. He spent his most critical development years 165 miles from the closest Bundesliga city, in a city of 55,000 with its top club in the German 5th division. Hard to overstate how amazing the German soccer infrastructure is.
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Gio Reyna getting hit in the head by a full Bud Light can should just enrage everyone. All of us.
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Diego Maradona, who has history against South Korea, celebrated when Argentina was drawn in with South Korea at the U20 WC.
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Step 1: LA Galaxy gives Sigi a pat on the back, an Edible Arrangements and a pink slip. Step 2: LA Galaxy hires Thierry Henry. Step 3: LA Galaxy signs a deal with Netflix to document Henry's first year for an original content series. Step 4: Hell yes.
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Can you even believe the US missed the goddamn World Cup.
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We should see an avalanche of pictures of promising USMNT prospects in Europe/everywhere grinning and posing with Earnie Stewart after training sessions, games, meals, games of FIFA. He has literally nothing else to do. This is his job. He is a campaigner. Do more.
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Jesus the fact that the best USYNT coach weāve had in years, maybe ever, is practically begging to help on Twitter is the biggest indictment of our system that Iāve ever seen.
I hope I get the opportunity to interview for one of the NT jobs I know I can help not that I am better than anyone but because I worked their before I think I know what is needed to help our NTeams programs.
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The US had no business winning that game, and won that game, which is an incredibly American way to win a knockout match.
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Sarachan is literally just doing what people expected him to do and the USMNT is as watchable as itās been at any point in the last 9 years. The previous incompetence should never, ever be forgotten.
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Considering the team's professionalism and comparative resources to CONCACAF, biggest embarrassment in American soccer history.
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CONCACAF, where every camera angle is either delivered from a shaky 32-degree angle on the field or from a seat in the 27th row next to a drunk guy.
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From a developmental perspective, we can never discuss Clint Dempsey enough. Small town. Three hours from the closest academy. Played in dirt field pickup games. Utter contempt for convention. Best American player of all time. Give me XI Dempseys.
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After 17 seasons in @MLS, including 14 seasons with the San Jose Earthquakes, Chris Wondolowski has announced his retirement from soccer. Thank you for everything, Wondo. #WondoForever ā
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Oh boy.
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