You Are Number Six!
"I am not a number, I am a free man!"Ooops, sorry, got a bit carried away there; I was thinking of that excerpt from The Prisoner that also opened the track of the same name by Iron Maiden on their Number of the Beast LP ;)
"Hahahahaha"
What I'm really talking about is my B team, my underdogs, as I mentioned here. You see, the thing is that on the US Soccer Men's National Team website there's a graphic like so...
...saying that "Less than 20 years ago microscopic islands laughed at us, now we rank Top 10."
Now... microscopic islands? I'll leave that to the geographers and marketeers to try and explain how land mass, smaller than a continent, roughly equivalent in size schema to plankton and yet large enough to harbour life of enough power to be able to be heard ridiculing American football skills within the last 2 decades can actually exist! The fact that there's still a remnant of hurt and a vengeful ad means they must be pretty spectacular to punch so far above their weight and yet to have landed a blow felt below the belt. Aw. *lip out*
But it's the boast of being top 10 that struck me! Holy shit, in the FIFA world rankings currently (today, 25th May 2006, at 4pm GMT) the US football team are joint 5th with Spain! Damn, that blows away the title of this post because me and BBFK were checking it out at 2pm and they were joint 6th!
As you can see England are a mere 10th, meaning that the US are also ranked higher than Argentina, France & Portugal too with Italy a lowly 13th and Germany way down in 19th place!
Can you adam & eve it?
There's an England friendly tonight against Belarus, who are 65th, so bye bye biking, I'm watching the match.
And as for those microscopic islands... could they mean Guam or American Samoa? (203rd and 205th respectively)
Today's word is scrimmage.
Blue Skies thinking @ 5/25/2006 02:30:00 PM
7 Comments:
At Thu May 25, 06:41:00 PM,
BeckyBumbleFuck said…
:O
We're 5?!?!? I guess I'm routing for an underdog relative to my homeland team...who woulda guessed? ;)
I f@cking adore socc...er...football.
At Thu May 25, 07:18:00 PM,
woman wandering said…
Maybe it was my people ... lol, I come from two microscopic island-continents at the bottom of the world but we don't care too much for that competitive advertising stuff however it's unlikely to be us on second thoughts, as we might have some kind of ...'football's for girls' thing going anyway. ;)
At Thu May 25, 07:31:00 PM,
Lever said…
My BBFK: Yes, dear, up from 6 to 5 in the space of 2 hours - but I'm not convinced the US football team actually did anything in that time to move to that position LOL
And yes, my darling BBFK, it's FOOT-BALL because we, and you lot too, infact everybody who plays football, play the BALL with... er... their FEET. Apart from Diego Maradona, of course. American football has next to nothing to do with feet and you know it ;) :p :) :*
Wandering Woman: Hmm... south island and north island, right? I understand there's an element of rivalry between the two... I must ask my kiwi buddy for some info when I can find him ;)
Ah, now "football's for girls" is down to your love of rugby I suppose? Last time I watched rugby with my half-maori friend we actually beat you guys for once in our lives!! My bro buys rugby boots from NZ 'cos it's the only place on earth that makes boots big enough :)
At Fri May 26, 11:55:00 AM,
woman wandering said…
Ah, now 'football's' for girls' was said with a wicked grin but yes, something to do with the demanding physical nature of rugby as compared to the 'sometimes' theatrics of football.
Of course, I'm a football fan here ... as the clearly culturally sensitive type ;)
At Fri May 26, 12:02:00 PM,
Mummy/Crit said…
Yay, we're at #42, and Greece who the Socceroos beat last night a _lot_ further up. Apparently 100,000 ppl applied for 3000 travel tickets to Germany. We like our football here. Thank you John Safran.
At Sat May 27, 11:59:00 PM,
Tawcan said…
Hi I added your site to my blogroll, hopefully you could do the same. Thanx. :)
At Tue May 30, 02:11:00 PM,
Lever said…
Wandering Woman: LMAO. It's the Mediterranean footballing types you have to watch for... but then Klinsmann was a "performer", as is the Dutchman Roben, and that Lehmann...
Ah, I'd have croissants and champagne for breakfast then go watch football ;)
Mummy/Crit: Wow, good going. There was a report on the Beeb about you guys playing Brazil... that is going to be one helluva match.
And you've got a decent squad too, some tough players there, I expect a take-no-prisoners style of football :D
I hear Australia hasn't been in the World Cup for many years, 30, is that right?
Tawcan: Hey there :) I shall be over for a looksee, Tawcan.
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