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-- I use Winodws 7 for clients and for my own gaming needs.
-- I got it on sale.
-- It really is a very good gaming OS. If you want something to use your 64 bit multi core in Windows gaming, and all your more than 3 gigs of RAM, you either use this, or its two crappier brethren. Vista and Vista 2.0 (I mean, 8, sorry.)
Weep over this the way you wept over XP when you got Vista shoved down your throat.
-- Recall that this version is the "home" version. Great for gaming, but devoid of many network tools of which you might make very frequent use, if you're like me.
-- This is still windows, use with caution, if you surf naughty sites, do it off of a secured non windows machine if you don't want to give some dude with an accent unwitting control over your boxen straight from the UEFI. Not sure if software sandboxing will work on something like that.
-- Also, this version doesn't support virtualization out of the box, no direct hypervisor client, even if the drivers are available and aware of support, last I checked. If I say it, they whip out their 3d theater glasses. You can be assured that if any security threats can use your hypervisor, they'll have their own driver and client for it and won't ask your permission to root your box. The average user won't notice, but a gamer with a memory profiler might notice when their 2 gig *60/*70 series GTX suddenly detects as an emulated half gig radeon or geforce from yesteryear or at least behaves as such.
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Windows 7 was a fantastic OS for a user who didn't mind not having the breadth of command line tools and control flexibility one gets in a unix OS. I am not a fan of the company very often, but I believe they had a home run with 7 and I'm not afraid to say it. This OS is well done and well executed, though to be fair, they were the last to the market with 3d/GL desktop effects, being preceded to the punch by both the various open source desktops and that fruity company.
Honestly, if Microsoft didn't have gaming in their pocket from the early days of Wolf3d shareware, most of us geeks would not have ever brought them into our computer rooms, and thus an MS PC into the household. Lets face it, gaming is Microsoft's forte, the day people start coding killer games for open platforms, MS will be left with nothing but governments and large institutions.
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Yes, yes. Of course the election is supposed to be about policies and not personalities, and the main parties should be detailing just what precise cuts they are planning to make to public expenditure, and just what they mean by "family" and "society", and what is the "clear water" between them on a host of issues from defence to education.
But in reality, as we all know, the British public makes its mind up not on policies, nor even necessarily on self-interest, but on their judgement of which side appears the better able to manage the country.
There are occasions when the voters put a decisive mark on change and reform. The end-of-war vote of 1945 remains the most obvious and dramatic example. But they are few and far between. Most people finally decide – other than through a diminishing party loyalty – on whether one lot looks tired, whether another team should be given a chance or whether the voters can't quite make up their mind.
It may not seem very ennobling. It may mean more often than not the public votes against one party rather than for another. It certainly has not produced the results that many of us might have wanted in any particular election. But, in a peculiarly British way, it more often than not leads to a result that reflects the broad consensus in the country.
In 1945, people wanted change. By 1950 the Labour government had exhausted itself with reform and, if the electorate were still unconvinced by Churchill's leadership of the Tories (as they had every reason to be), they weren't quite ready to throw out Labour. The result was the slimmest continuing majority for Clement Attlee before a new election 18 months later brought back Winston Churchill and the Tories with a only a marginally more comfortable majority of 17.
By 1964, after 13 years of Tory rule, the public were equally – albeit still uncertainly – ready to give Harold Wilson and Labour a chance again, but only confirmed that decision on the experience of a year and a half in the election of 1966. When Wilson returned to the hustings in 1970 it was with a Cabinet so divided and a programme so shaken by the failure of union reform that Edward Heath seemed the essence of a firmer and better economic team.
And when he dithered over the election timing and went to the country on a platform of "Who Runs Britain" in February 1974, it was with a strangely uncertain note, although not so uncertain as to give Harold Wilson a majority in the Commons. Even when Wilson went back to the voters that Autumn, he still gained a majority of no more than three.
How much actual support Mrs Thatcher had for her policies when she was returned first in 1979 was debatable. But the desire to turf out Labour as no longer fit for rule after the "Winter of Discontent" was palpable, just as the sentiments turned the other way for Tony Blair's election in 1997, after the national humiliation of Black Wednesday and our exit from the ERM.
The lot of the Liberal Democrats in this has always been, and may still be, as the beneficiaries or otherwise of stronger passions about the main parties. Despite the occasional surges of popularity accompanying a particular leader, they have profited from the rejection of other parties rather than enthusiasm for their particular policies.
In that sense, it is wrong to talk about the British voting for a hung parliament. They don't. Nor do they have the mechanism for doing so in the first-past-the-post system even if they wanted to. What they can, and do, is vote against the ruling party while witholding their support for the main opposition party that only a very narrow majority – or even not one at all – emerges, as it did in 1964 and then a decade later.
It is always a mistake trying to draw historical parallels, especially when it comes to elections. But, if anything, it would seem that we are in a 1964 situation. The public has decided that New Labour's day is done. And they are right.
As with the Tories at the end of the prime ministership of Sir Alec Douglas Home, there is the sense of an administration past its sell-by date. The Cabinet is no longer a team. The party has the air of defeat. And the Prime Minister, despite a dogged refusal to lie down, has all the air of a man promoted above his level of competence.
The more he feels it necessary to speak on everything, from talent shows to Afghan deaths, the lesser the man he appears. He can claim to understand finance, although not excuse his part in its downfall. But he can't quite rise to being a premier.
Yet the more the voter has turned his or her attention to the opposition, the less impressed they have seemed to be. This is not a matter of fleshing out policy, as some would have it. If anything David Cameron is over-active in producing new policies, from teenage pregnancies to marriage vows.
But it is a question of straight competence. The more he talks of budgetary discipline the less he, or his Shadow Chancellor, seems to have a command of the policies he intends to pursue to bring the deficit down. It's not a matter of detailed proposals, but a sense of "grip" in intention.
Yet there is no real sign that the public is ready to move enthusiastically to a third party. This is not so much the fault of the Lib Dem approach, which has tried to make itself eminently reasonable and electable, so much as the fact that the protest vote is going to the BNP, UKIP, the Greens and the so-called "fringe parties" (although none would accept that moniker) and even more, perhaps, to those who won't vote at all.
This certainly makes the psephologist's task more difficult. But it also makes this election infinitely more depressing. Here we are at a moment which, in economic terms at least, is the most important in nearly 80 years and we have an electorate that has lost faith with the Government, doesn't have confidence in the main opposition party and is likely to vote in protest for the fringes if they are going to vote at all.
In 1964 and again in 1974, we were at least talking about the real possibilities of change, whatever the doubts about the individual parties. Now we view only the possibilities of struggling on, one way or the other.
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Lord Bingham's ruling that the minimum wage does not apply to pupil barristers should not send a negative message to prospective students of the bar (The Lawyer, 13 March). In any event most chambers pay pupils considerably more than the minimum wage.
Immediately after last week's ruling, I commented that it was perhaps time for the bar to reconsider its recommended minimum level of payment to pupils – currently £5,000 per annum. Your magazine had that statement, but sadly your editorial chose to ignore it.
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As the seven-year anniversay of his much-hyped entry into the league approaches, quarterback Joey Harrington has landed another new contract.
The Saints have announced that Harrington has re-signed with the team.
Harrington bounced on and off the Saints' roster last year, his first season with the team. He made no game appearances.
Harrington started at least ten games in each of his six NFL seasons before signing with the Saints.
The third overall pick in 2002 spent four years with the Lions before being traded to the Dolphins. After one year in Miami, Harrington spent a season in Atlanta.
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As the seven-year anniversay of his much-hyped entry into the league approaches, quarterback Joey Harrington has landed another new contract.
GrabbinPills says: Mar 30, 2009 5:46 PM
for serious? even the lions wouldnt resign joey…..
lionfan419 says: Mar 30, 2009 6:06 PM
Go Joey!! Give him an o-line and he is solid..
akuehn713 says: Mar 30, 2009 6:20 PM
He got such a bad rap in Detroit. He is the perfect example of an extremely talented rookie getting forced to start on a terrible team. David Carr, Akili Smith, Joey, Alex Smith, etc. Draft a QB in the first round and sit him a minimum of 1 year. No ifs ands or buts.
Kotite says: Mar 30, 2009 6:33 PM
$1 million for a tackling dummy seems a bit exorbitant.
SlickSociety says: Mar 30, 2009 6:38 PM
it is what it is
Wrathchild says: Mar 30, 2009 7:09 PM
If they really needed another training camp body that bad, I would have taken a leave of absence from work to help them out. Sheeeet, I would've done it for $100K less than the veteran minimum too!
Hey, in this economy, every penny counts!
Cjd1 says: Mar 30, 2009 7:09 PM
@akuehn713: for every David Carr, Akili Smith, Joey, Alex Smith, etc. there is an Aikman, Manning, McNabb, Palmer, etc. drafted by an equally bad team that succeeds.
ty@thelionsinwinter says: Mar 30, 2009 9:05 PM
Good for him. He always seemed like a too-nice, too-smart guy who got forced into the worst possible situation for him. I hope he (finally) catches on as a solid #2 down there.
Ty @ The Lions in Winter
empty13 says: Mar 30, 2009 9:16 PM
aikman, manning, mcnabb were drafted by teams that were well run, and palmer's bengals were talented or awhile.
smith blew chunks, carr was a tackling dummy, detroit was badly run and still is after jo-ey, and frisco had no sustained decent coaching for smith.
i saw harrington play a lot for detroit, and it was far from being (just) his fault. i bet he has a real second act.
iggle4lifeee says: Mar 30, 2009 9:59 PM
How does this guy continue to get a job???????
Darth Ringo says: Mar 30, 2009 10:08 PM
I hope Joey does well, as other posters have said he seems like a genuine good guy and it's obvious he loves the game & puts the team first.
obscenery says: Mar 30, 2009 10:32 PM
Good for him! This guy got so much flack for Detroit sucking, even though that was management. The problem is that people in the league have a bias against him because he's almost exclusively positively minded. Couple that with the fact that he's a very talented pianist and a-hole meat heads think "soft!". It's unfortunate the league is so homophobic (NOT saying Joey is gay. I play football, piano, and keep a positive disposition as well and i prefer my porn to be solo girls, or girl/girl). Such is life, and in time meat heads will catch up with the people who work out their minds, and the judgmental behavior will fade.
If the Fins started Harrington from the start instead of Daunte they'd have been in the playoffs that year. Joey fights hard in games. Put him (or Jeff George?) on the Vikings this year and they are a formidable opponent for ANY team.
I will say this about the GMs and coaches in the NFL. If their team is full of homophobic players who are judgmental then their hands are tied when it comes to decisions regarding players with an unfair reputation for being "soft". The locker room IS important.
Make no mistake about it: This current culture in the locker rooms MUST change, and it will… in time. Too bad meat heads are so slow.
FumbleNuts says: Mar 30, 2009 10:45 PM
For serious? even the lions wouldnt resign joey….. No Shit Sherlock! The Lions ALMOST destroyed his confidence, he is a VERY talented QB and with a GOOD O-Line he WILL be just fine. Make Oregon proud Joey.. we believe in YOU!!
ronmexico says: Mar 30, 2009 10:56 PM
if Drew Brees gets hurt, kiss your season goodbye Saints fans. i don't see the Saints defense keeping them in any games next season.
JimmyLions says: Mar 31, 2009 12:57 AM
In Detroit, Harrington was on an offense where he had no support whatsoever. The offensive line sucked. RB James Stewart was injury prone. WR Charles Rogers was utterly useless. Sometimes the team's leading receiver was Bill Schroeder! The defense frequently allowed opposing teams to score over 30 points, but were blaming Harrington for losses.
He was always behind the 8-ball, being forced to try to make something out of literally nothing.
In Miami, he was suddenly thrown into a situation where he had to run an offense designed around Duante Culpepper — a completely different style of QB.
In Atlanta, he was suddenly thrown into a situation where he had to run and offense designed around Michael Vick — again, a completely different style of QB.
He's been thrown to the wolves pretty much everywhere he's went, and has never played in a situation that was stable – where he had reliable teammates and time to learn the system.
obscenery says: Mar 31, 2009 1:55 AM
"even the Lions wouldn't resign Joey"
When a team has no Superbowl appearance, no playoff wins in 50+ years, and the only 0-16 season in NFL history, nobody should assuming any of the decisions they make are intelligent. GrabbinPills, your comment is as much of a joke as Charles Rogers collarbone.
Pea Tear Griffin says: Mar 31, 2009 10:00 AM
I agree, if old school guys like Terry Bradshaw were drafted today, they would be out of the league after 2 years. IMO it takes some time to develop a QB. Manning, Ryan are the exceptions, not the rule.
"Aikman, Manning, McNabb, Palmer,"
Aikman didn't start every game his rookie season. Manning is the exception, not the rule, McNabb started less than half the games during his rookie year. Palmer was essentially redshirted.
Harrington was the unquestioned starter day one on a talentless team. (Same could be said for multiple other 1st round busts at QB) He does have a ton of talent, but once you lose confidence, it's all over and so very difficult to get that back.
Who ever takes QB's in round 1 this year should think long and hard (that's what she said) about playing them at all in year 1.
finsbooyah says: Mar 31, 2009 10:06 AM
I wish Joey well. He is a class act. He had no chance in Detriot and showed promise in Miami after being thrown into the fray to save an underachieving team while running an offense designed for Culpepper. The guy just needs a legit chance. He may not get one to be a starter, but he is one of the most capable and team-oriented back ups in the NFL. Good signing, Saints fans rejoice.


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NEW YORK — The U.S. Soccer Federation did not just hire the 35th head coach in national team history, but it perhaps altered the direction of the entire national team program.
Jurgen Klinsmann, the first foreign-born U.S. national team coach in 16 years, touched on a few topics during his first press conference since being hired to replace Bob Bradley on Friday, but he frequently emphasized the culture and direction of soccer in the United States.
Klinsmann mentioned numerous times that "it's important to understand your [U.S.] culture." And after living in the United States for the past 13 years, Klinsmann feels he is ready to incorporate more of this country's melting-pot society into the U.S. team.
"There's so much influence from the Latin environment that has to be reflected in the national team," Klinsmann said.
This Latin influence could mean a bigger role in the national team for multi-national Americans such as Jose Francisco Torres and Edgar Castillo. Also, this Latin infusion will certainly have an affect over one of the Klinsmann's most difficult tasks: finding a style of play for the national team.
"One of my challenges will be to a way to define how the U.S. team should represent it's country," Klinsmann said. "And what should be the style of play? Is it more pro-active and agressive kind of forward thinking style of play or is it more of a reactive style of play? That comes with the obviously the players you have at your disposal, but also with the people that your surrounded with.
"I think it is important over the next three years that I have a lot of conversations with people involved in the game here to find a way to define that style. What suits us best? What would you like to see?"
Style of play was not the only big question that U.S. fans were pondering for which Klinsmann didn't have clear answer. He said that he has only had contact with a handful of U.S. players and hasn't picked his squad for the Mexico friendly yet. That announcement will come Wednesday. Also, Klinsmann hasn't picked a full-time staff yet.
"I want to see what's out there," Klinsmann said. "There are a lot of good, highly qualified coaches in the U.S. that I might not even know. So, I need to talk to people and understand what's out there."
The former VfB Stuttgart and Bayern Munich star will accomplish this task by trying out different assistant coaches ahead of World Cup qualifying in June. Then he will pick a permanent staff based off his experience with these assistants. However, Klinsmann did make individual reference to two current figures in the U.S. system.
"I want Claudio [Reyna] very close to me in terms of helping in his new role as Technical Director of Youth Development," said Klinsmann, whose previous coaching stints were with the German national team and Bayern Munich. "He will always be part of the staff. He will sit with us coaches on the table, so I can tell him how I look at the game. As well as Tab Ramos, who is the U-20s coach for right now. I want his perspective and information on what's going through at training at the 20s and the U-17 level."
The youth system and staff will be a huge emphasis for Klinsmann. He was nearly hired two different times in the past five years, most recently after last year's World Cup. But, the sticking point between Klinsmann and U.S. Soccer was the amount of control over that very youth system. This time around, Sunil Gulati and Klinsmann have seemingly put that conversation to rest.
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With those "power" concerns put to rest, expect Klinsmann to make some changes to the U.S. youth system. Some of the changes he briefly touched on include making youth teams' style of play and culture reflect that of the senior team and to continue to build on the growing academy system currently in place. Klinsmann pointed that the biggest difference between the game in this country and any of the top 10 soccer nations is the amount of time youth players spend field.
"This is what is really missing compared to the leading soccer nations around the world, the first 10-12 nations around the world, is the amount of time kids play the game," said Klinsmann. "If you have a kid that plays in Mexico 20 hours a week, and maybe four hours of organized soccer but 16 hours of unorganized soccer just banging the ball around in the neighborhood, but if he gets up to 20 hours it doesn't matter how he plays it, with his dad or with his buddies in the street, this will show later on with his technical abilities, with his passing, with his instinct on the field and all those things, and I think that's certainly an area where a lot of work is ahead of us."
These changes Klinsmann hopes to make will only become palpable if he is able to stay past his current contract, which Gulati revealed runs through the 2014 World Cup. Gulati and Klinsmann certainly see eye-to-eye on a lot of strategies and outlooks, but that won't matter if Klinsmann can't get results on the field.
The German is replacing one of the more successful U.S. coaches in it's history. While unpopular among groups of fans, Bradley took the United States to it's highest-ever finish in a FIFA tournament and won the 2007 Gold Cup and its group at the 2010 World Cup. Klinsmann has to meet or exceed the results of his last two predecessors in Bradley and Bruce Arena, otherwise, his big ideas may never come to fruition.
Yeah try again
You have an argumentum ad ignorantiam, an argument from ignorance. You don't care enough about the issue, or you care more about looking intelligent, so you lay down an impossible burden of proof.
Also, this is a message board, so I'm going to assume that everybody that posts here is unqualified to speak on most issues, and doesn't know the first thing about street soccer culture, or how to run a national team.
but nice try.
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I'm all for hiring Klinsmann and think it's the best way to move forward right now. However, I'm not getting ahead of myself with my expectations for what he will do. We still have a problem with a lack of players who can finish as well as a porous defense.
People go on gotsoccer.com or the ussf academy website and look at the teams roster and you will see half the players are latino. Race doesn't determine a players skill. There are plenty of ways for players to afford to play but the problem is most of the talented kids are immigrants that are better because they are more educated about the game but want to play for another country.
I have to agree with the park pick-up games. When I was a kid many decades ago there was an American-style football field at the park. Every day at a scheduled time any kid who wanted to play showed up, and there was a teenager paid by the town to monitor it. It was a hellish free for all at times. But you learned how to get attention for passes, dribble in crowds on the busy days, and fight for the ball. There was one older kid who was huge and would run you down if you had the ball. You learned to pass quickly. The best education I got.
I'm a bit sick of hearing kids should have to play organized soccer and they rarely touch the ball because leagues are rotating in kids who'd rather play with weeds.
"street soccer" is unquestionably important. where it thrives, then kids are constantly playing. When they are constantly playing, they are getting better.
Drawing upon my growing up years in Germany, we'd play in driveways, tennis courts, sandlots, parking lots, school entryways, grassy knolls–with all size fields, obstacles, goals (a gate, between two posts, a ball, a crumpled up coat, etc) with all kinds of balls, from plastic to legit to tennis. All of that honed our thinking and skills in unimaginable ways.
If you merely play a few days a week on a large field, you don't have as great a chance to develop and hone your skills, thinking, and how you read situations.
It IS a big part of what is missing. I am sure it exists, but we are not tapping into those kids as much, it seems.
Simply, I don't think our average soccer player logs as many miles on the ball as avg. players across the world.
If it was all about street soccer african countries would dominate international competitions. The key to developing young players is top level coaching at all levels. France, Spain, Germany and Holland are all great examples of that.
Only the senior national team level latins haven't really been excluded but on the youth level our system leaves a lot of players falling through the cracks in many cases those are latin players.
Jen Douglas
i like him already
"they are more educated about the game but want to play for another country."
You has anything in the way of, you know, data that could back up such a claim? Or are you just generalizing without support?
Oh, "have", of course. iPhone posting. 🙂
running trains
well said
The thing is, it needs to start with "street" – aka non-coached – soccer. You can't take players who've never been coached, and put them right onto a professional stage. But the problem, to me, comes down to 2 things: kids are over-coached and youth teams place too much emphasis on winning at a young age, which also has to do with parents.
Kids learn to play with the ball, keep it at their feet, take people on, when they don't have coaches yelling at them to pass all the time. I just watched the WWC final at a friend of a friend's house, and the mom there was telling her 5 year old to watch how the players pass to each other, as his coach always talks to them about. Five year olds should be doing all individual stuff, TBH, their minds aren't even developed enough to understand the space and movement around them. Yes, passing should be mentioned, but not a focus in any way whatsoever. Being a player who can dribble around everybody can be seen as a negative thing by many parents and coaches who've never played – don't be so selfish, such a show off.
In terms of winning, if you want to win at the young ages, there's a very simple formula, get the biggest kids who can kick it the farthest. Kids inevitably make mistakes, so the more you kick it down the end, the more likely you are to cause a mistake and score. Learning how to play with the ball takes patience, but if you have overly competitive coaches, along with parents who think winning is everything, and don't understand the long view, they'll think that winning at u10 will automatically translate to winning in high school, and then a college scholarship.
Playing skillful soccer takes a lot of patience at the youth level, and an understanding that nobody cares about who won a championship at u10 or u12. The truth of the matter is, if you don't develop certain individual skills when you're young, you'll never develop them. Though to finish the though from the top, if highly skilled players can't also learn high level tactics (once they get older), they'll never be all that successful, never mind become stars.
Paul Thomas
If US Soccer is akin to the American political system, then God help us all, because the American political system is almost certainly unfixable without revolutionary overthrow of the government.
(Before anyone starts speed-dialing the FBI, I'm not actually advocating that. It's not clear that it would actually be better than what we've got right now, which is basically a steady but relatively slow decline.)
At least US Soccer does not have the burden (or, if you prefer, excuse) of being hog-tied by a hopelessly obsolete but unchangeable governing document.
Was Klinmann rsponsible for bringing Plata to Toronto? That kid is amazing.
But that is not over coaching that is poor coaching. Because a poor coach would only look at the short term gain and good coach would look at what is better for players in the long term.
uh, tomato tomah-to. Over coaching is poor coaching, doesn't that go without saying? It's also bad coaching, dumb coaching, ignorant coaching, or whatever other synonym you like. Or was your point that the phrase over coaching can be used to refer to good coaching (aka smart coaching, proper coaching, etc), such that I shouldn't have used it?
NC Jeff
With Klinsmann, here's what I'm hoping the USMNT accomplishes over the next 5+ years: Winning their qualifying semifinal group, winning their qualifying final group, winning their world cup group, either winning or at least getting to OT in the world cup round of 16, finishing at least 2nd in the confederations cup, and making the finals of all 3 gold cups (winning at least 1).
Well, the Midfield plot thickens. Klinsmann was quoted in a German sport magazine today (sportbild (dot) de) saying, "Jermaine Jones can be an important player for the USMNT." That's the only quote he gave about Jones, but tends to make you believe that Klinsmann at the very least will call him up a few more times and give him a chance to prove himself. In the same article, Klinsmann also says he wants to schedule a friendly with Germany. Man, that would be fun to see. (And if you go to the Web site, Hope Solo is on the front page. If you click on her, you get a bunch of photos of her. The German guys fell in love with her during WC2011…)
Fred Garvin
The guy knows how to talk with the press..
You have no clue about traveling teams. It's been a huge issue for years and even the USSF is publicly trying to address it. And you apparently can't read, because you didn't read my comment. It's not exclusion based on race, it's exclusion based on finances. It happens, though, that many Latin players don't have the finances or connections to get on these traveling teams so we miss out on a lot of really good Latin talent. Right now, the system is promoting mostly suburban kids, when everyone knows that, throughout history, the best athletes have always come from immigrants and lower socioeconomic groups. These are exactly the kids we are missing out on, though. We've caught a few of them in recent years but, by and large, most of our pipeline consists of individuals from the middle and upper middle class socioeconomic groups (which happen to be predominantly white). This is particularly bad because the Latin and immigrant groups are the most passionate about the game. These groups are so disconnected that they don't even come out to support the MLS, yet they come in droves when a foreign team comes into town. We must, must, must find ways to bring those groups into the fold of US soccer or else we will never field a top side.
The US will not even be in the Confederations cup, that ship already sailed. Unless you are speaking of 2017 which is sort of out of your 5 year window and would require winning the Gold Cup in 2015.
Brent McD
lol. accordians and tubas in sam's army from hence forth!
here's the Klinsmann press conference video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C426_vKV8I&feature=youtu.be


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