the 370Z.com OFFICIAL football (soccer) thread

[Jon@AAMComp]

Originally Posted by blue660r01

and lets not say USA is eh.. Lets remember they shoulda beat this good German team who made the finals

YouTube - ‪2002 World Cup Quarter Finals: Germany vs United States‬‏

Lets look at the US side from that time.

1 Brad Friedel
3 Greg Berhalter
2 Frankie Hejduk
4 Pablo Mastroeni
23 Eddie Pope <-Local DC legend
22 Tony Sanneh
21 Landon Donovan
7 Eddie Lewis
5 John O'Brien
10 Claudio Reyna
20 Brian McBride

These were QUALITY players we had then. I thought for sure that that squad during the '02 would take us to the semi finals, but we were unlucky. I think if we did beat Germany in that game, there was a good chance we would get to the final, because remember, Germany faced South Korea in the semifinal, and we had already held them to a 1 all draw in our group stage. As I said before, the US is moving in the right direction, we're just not there yet. Our best needs to get better. We'll see how the rest of the Gold Cup shapes up, and hopefully it will mean our qualification for the Confederations Cup come 2013 in Brazil.