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Don't know if you knew, but soccer is an English word and pre-dates the word 'football'.

I'm not keen on it and absolutely hate 'footie', which belongs in the same bin as 'doobry', but it is a pukka term for the game we love.

I hate when people call it "footie" as well, that just sounds silly. I actually prefer "soccer" to "footie"

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Also, Yedlin featured mostly as a substitute, and while he had a good World Cup, Tim Howard ran the show for USA, Brooks and Jones both looked very good also. Brooks will have drawn a lot of interest. Yedlin too, but possibly within our Dane and definitely in our targeted areas.

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I'd really like us to sign Sam Byram amongst the Leeds crumble.

 

I think he has the potential to go on and play at the very highest level. I'd be banging the door down for him, but I have no idea what Cellino would want for him.

 

My gut feeling is that

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I didn't realise MLS took part in the World Cup?

 

Tim Howard - Everton

DeMarcus Beasley - Puebla

Mikkel Diskerud - Rosenborg

Jermaine Jones - Be?ikta?

Julian Green - Bayern Munich

Alejandro Bedoya - Nantes

Jozy Altidore - Sunderland

Geoff Cameron - Stoke

Fabian Johnson - Hoffenheim

John Brooks - Hertha Berlin

Aron Johannsson - AZ Alkmaar

Brad Guzan - Aston Villa

Timmy Chandler - Nuernberg

13 out of the 23 man squad don't even play in the Sunday League/Retirement Home MLS

Interestingly (or not, maybe I need to get a life) 8 of those 13 have never played in the MLS. Youth development in Germany, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

 

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This makes me laugh.. You obviously know nothing about MLS and you're taking it at face value.. MLS is growing faster than any league in the world, that's fact. We have no comparison to champions league? It's called the concacaf champions league my friend. The only set back the league has is popularity. Yes Seattle, Kansas, LA, Portland, and NY has big attendance but the rest of the league doesn't, you have to be stupid to believe that a nation with 313 million people can't develop a top 5 world league.. The MLS is growing in popularity and that means more kids playing, those kids who knows.. Maybe the next messi's.. But without popularity those kids will never play the sport and never reach there possible potential.

This makes me laugh, the concacaf cup? really? I'm sure we will hear of top players moving to America for a chance to play in that :lol:

And it maybe the fastest growing and that's because it's starting from nothing, doesn't mean it will ever become a top league and I'll bet my left testicle it won't, any talk of it being a top league is just plain daft.

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Don't know if you knew, but soccer is an English word and pre-dates the word 'football'.

I'm not keen on it and absolutely hate 'footie', which belongs in the same bin as 'doobry', but it is a pukka term for the game we love.

I was sure that soccer was short for association, dunno how that works but that's what I'd read

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I was sure that soccer was short for association, dunno how that works but that's what I'd read

I remember reading that somewhere as well. Back when the sport was referred to as Association Football and rugby was still commonly referred to as Rugby Football it was used to differentiate between the two sports. I think soccer came from the "assoc" part.

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Definitely rubbish, but looking at wiki he could be good.

 

24 goals in 66 games, and has a cap for the full Dutch national team. (32 games and 13 goals last season on loan in Dutch second division)

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