Random Soccer Chatter

• ohiobucks1

  

  OSH;1469960 wrote:USMNT opens their Gold Cup tonight on FSC at 11ET. Tough opener against Belize...

  Hey. Canada didn't think their game was going to be tough, either.
  
  
  6-0
• Terry_Tate

  

  Hopefully Brek Shea gets to play in the second half and balls out tonight.
• Pick6

  

  Thoughts on Messi bailing on the 80 fans who paid $2500 a piece to meet him?
• ohiobucks1

  

  Pick6;1470001 wrote:Thoughts on Messi bailing on the 80 fans who paid $2500 a piece to meet him?

  I've always kinda thought he was a douche since he said that Palestine should be a country. But to each their own, he's still dirty.
• Mulva

  

  Pick6;1470001 wrote:Thoughts on Messi bailing on the 80 fans who paid $2500 a piece to meet him?

  Were they refunded $2500 when it didn't happen? If so, IDGAF.
• gorocks99

  

  Mulva;1470025 wrote:Were they refunded $2500 when it didn't happen? If so, IDGAF.

  They were not. They weren't promised a meet and greet with Messi specifically, either.
  
  "VIP" packages that promised to include "tickets with unprecedented field access following a meet and greet with the players, as well as a jersey and ball autographed by Messi" for a whopping $2,500 a piece." ... " The autographed ball and jersey turned out to be "a cheap plastic ball" and a "T-shirt" with the Messi autographs either stamped on or smudged and the pre-match meet and greet consisted of only a few of the professional footballers in a hot, windowless room"
  
  http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/fans-paid-2-500-meet-lionel-messi-match-030808034.html
  
  Still sounds like a shitty deal.
• Laley23

  

  Pick6;1470001 wrote:Thoughts on Messi bailing on the 80 fans who paid $2500 a piece to meet him?

  Sucks. But I dont understand why these promoters always sell this stuff without the "person of interest" being contractually tied to it.
  
  Its as if they said, "Messi will be here, we can probably have him meet some people and sign some stuff...so lets sell really expensive tickets and hope he agrees."
  
  Well, he didnt. Sucks for the fans, but blame the dumbass promoters.
• SportsAndLady

  

  I was going to go to the game, until I saw how unorganized it was. About every star I wanted to see ended up not playing last minute lol
• Automatik

  

  SportsAndLady;1470033 wrote:I was going to go to the game, until I saw how unorganized it was. About every star I wanted to see ended up not playing last minute lol

  Shoulda went to Wavefront!!
  
  
  Interesting lineup tonight. I'm surprised to see Landy in there.
• ohiobucks1

  

  list lineup please
• Mulva

  

  Rimando; Parkhurst, Orozco-Fiscal, Goodson, Beasley; Beckerman; Corona, Diskerud, Torres; Donovan, Wondolowski
• ohiobucks1

  

  Mulva;1470094 wrote:Rimando; Parkhurst, Orozco-Fiscal, Goodson, Beasley; Beckerman; Corona, Diskerud, Torres; Donovan, Wondolowski

  
  Fuck those apples. No Holden, Shea, Hamid, or JackMac? GFY klinsy
• Fab1b

  

  Heading to my first MLS game Saturday. Real Salt Lake @ FC Dallas. Looking forward to it.
  
  I expect a US route tonight regardless of the lineup!
• gorocks99

  

  Speaking of MLS, my honeymoon is in August to Seattle and Portland and like an idiot I scheduled the first three days in Seattle before going to Oregon (wine country and Portland) for the last six days. On day four of our trip, Sounders play the Timbers at CenturyLink. Fuuuuck that'd be fun to go to.
• ohiobucks1

  

  Clint Mathis sounds funny
• like_that

  

  gorocks99;1470110 wrote:Speaking of MLS, my honeymoon is in August to Seattle and Portland and like an idiot I scheduled the first three days in Seattle before going to Oregon (wine country and Portland) for the last six days. On day four of our trip, Sounders play the Timbers at CenturyLink. Fuuuuck that'd be fun to go to.

  
  That would definitely be fun. The two best fanbases in the MLS.
• OSH

  

  ohiobucks1;1470104 wrote:**** those apples. No Holden, Shea, Hamid, or JackMac? GFY klinsy

  No surprise on Holden. He's not a full-90 ready. Same goes for Gooch. Same goes for Gomez.
• Mulva

  

  Man Belize is horrible.
• OSH

  

  Wondo gets a first half hat trick with a misspelled name on his shirt...
• Fab1b

  

  Straight beat down last night. Poor Belize!!
• ohiobucks1

  

  I still wanted to see Jack Mac up top with Donovan out right. Corona is balls deep terrible
• gorocks99

  

  Belize is balls deep terrible. Tahiti would give them a good game.
  
  Our next one vs. Cuba should be about the same as well - punch an easy ticket to the next round.
• Fly4Fun

  

  Apparently some Belize players were approached by match-fixers. According to the article, the reason to approach players for the first time in a game they will most assuredly lose is so that they might agree for the extra cash, then the fixers permanently have a hook into those players for other matches where the odds might matter.
  
  http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2013/07/10/match-fixers-tried-to-get-to-belize-players-before-match-with-u-s/related/
• ohiobucks1

  

  Anyone get their usa mexico tickets today? Looks like I'm going to make bank selling them online (have guaranteed 14 tickets possibly up to 25).
• Classyposter58

  

  ohiobucks1;1470944 wrote:Anyone get their usa mexico tickets today? Looks like I'm going to make bank selling them online (have guaranteed 14 tickets possibly up to 25).

  Is stubhub the only way to get those tickets?