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Filed under: Lionel Messi, Uncategorized | Tags: 1986 World Cup, 2005 FIFA U-20 World Championship, 2007 Copa America, 2008 Beijing Olympics, 2014 World Cup, 2015 Copa America, Alfredo Di Stefano, Argentina, Bobby Wood, Chile, Clint Dempsey, CONCACAF, Copa America Centenario, Cristiano Ronaldo, DeAndre Yedlin, Diego Maradona, El Pibe de Oro, FC Barcelona, FIFA World Player of the Year, Gabriel Batistuta, Geoff Cameron, Giants Stadium, Gold Cup, Gyasi Zardes, Italy, John Brooks, Jozy Altidore, Juergen Klinsmann, La Albiceleste, La Liga, Landon Donovan, Lionel Messi, Michael Bradley, Napoli, Panama, UEFA Champions League, Venezuela
Five-time FIFA World Player of the Year Lionel Messi announced his international retirement immediately after Argentina fell in the Copa America Centenario to Chile on penalty kicks, 4-2, following a scoreless draw at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, before 82,076.
The defeat capped a string of Argentina disappointments for the 29-year-old, including losses in the 2014 World Cup final and the 2007 and 2015 Copa America finals. Although he led La Albiceleste to an under-20 world championship in 2005 and a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he has never claimed a winners' medal with the senior team.
A back injury caused Messi to miss Argentina's Copa opener against Chile, but he came off the bench in the second group game, against Panama, and notched a hat trick in just 19 minutes. He scored against Venezuela in the quarterfinals to equal Gabriel Batistuta's Argentine scoring record of 54, then surpassed it with a brilliant free-kick strike against the U.S. in the semifinals.
However, in the final he was hounded by multiple Chilean defenders for 120 minutes, and he capped a frustrating night by blasting his attempt over the crossbar on Argentina's first shot in the tiebreaker.
"For me, the national team is over," the distraught superstar told reporters. "I've done all I can. I've been in four finals and it hurts not to be a champion. It's a hard moment for me and the team, and it's difficult to say, but it's over with the Argentina team." [June 26]
Comment I: Perhaps the frustration got the best of him. Maybe his tax problems back in Spain were weighing heavily. Perhaps Messi will take a deep breath and reconsider. (After all, he didn't quit last year when Argentina lost on a tiebreaker to Chile–and Messi made his PK that day.) But if he doesn't change his mind, he'll rue the day.
Messi has never been embraced by his fellow Argentines the way they adore Diego Maradona. Messi left home as a 13-year-old prodigy for FC Barcelona, where he grew as an academy player and went on to win four UEFA Champions League titles and eight Spanish La Liga crowns. In Argentina, he's been more closely associated with Barca than the sky blue and white, and while Maradona also played for Barcelona (and later became a hero in Italy with Napoli), El Pibe de Oro was the one who delivered the goods, singlehandedly lifting Argentina to the 1986 World Cup championship. Messi has no such clout.
If Messi does not change his mind, he will have forfeited any chance to change how he will go down in soccer history. As things stand, he will be recorded as probably the greatest player of his generation, better even than Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo. He'll be regarded as a the third member of Argentina's holy trinity along with Maradona and Alfredo Di Stefano. But, in a world in which kids still look up to their sports heroes, he'll also be regarded as a quitter. Worse, a coward.
And this with the next World Cup, in Russia, and possible redemption, just two years away.
Comment II: The question concerning the U.S. National Team was whether its Copa America Centenario performance had represented any progress.
Well, a year ago the Americans lost the third-place match at the Gold Cup, making it the fourth-best team in CONCACAF. Now it's lost the third-place game at the Copa America, technically making it the fourth-best team in South America. What fourth-place mantle would you rather wear?
On a practical front, the mad scientist, coach Juergen Klinsmann, stopped with the tinkering and would've trotted out the same lineup throughout the tournament were it not for suspensions and injuries. Young center back John Brooks grew into a genuine partnership with Geoff Cameron and was rewarded with a spot on the Copa America Centenario Best XI team, the only player from the U.S.–or Mexico–so honored. Bobby Wood graduated from minor pest up front to major concern and will challenge Jozy Altidore for playing time in the future.
But then there were the questions raised over the course of the tournament. Such as, will young right back DeAndre Yedlin couple his scintillating runs forward with some reliable defense? Will Gyasi Zardes continue to have the first touch of a block of cement? Will Michael Bradley's skills as midfield maestro continue to erode? Will 33-year-old Clint Dempsey, who scored three goals at the Copa to close to within five goals of Landon Donovan's U.S. career record of 57, continue to defy Father Time?
Those are the questions that matter. They were raised at the Copa, not answered, but perhaps they'll be answered where it really counts, when the U.S. resumes World Cup qualifying for Russia '18, in September.
Filed under: Jordan Morris, Uncategorized | Tags: Ante Razov, Aron Johannsson, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Bobby Wood, Brazil, Canada, Clint Dempsey, Colombia, CONCACAF, Costa Rica, DaMarcus Beasley, Darlington Nagbe, DeAndre Yedlin, FIFA Confederations Cup, FIFA Under-20 World Cup, Foxboro, German Bundesliga, Germany, Gyasi Zardes, Hermann Trophy, Hertha Berlin, Holland, Jermaine Jones, John Brooks, Jordan Morris, Juergen Klinsmann, Kyle Beckerman, Landon Donovan, Liberia, Los Angeles Galaxy, Lukas Podolski, Matt Miazga, Mercer Island, Mexico, MLS Cup, NCAA Division I championship, Nelson Valdez, New Jersey, New York Red Bulls, Obafemi Martins, Per Mertesacker, Philipp Lahm, Port of Spain, Portland Timbers, Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Rose Bowl, Seattle Sounders, Sigi Schmid, St. Louis, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Stanford University, Sunderland, Sunil Gulati, Tim Howard, Trinidad & Tobago, U.S. National Team, UCLA, Union Berlin, Werder Bremen, World Cup
Homegrown player Jordan Morris signed with the Seattle Sounders in a splashy ceremony at the team's fan clubhouse in Pioneer Square, capping a whirlwind six weeks in which the 21-year-old striker led Stanford University to the 2015 NCAA Division I men's national championship, was awarded the Hermann Trophy as the country's top collegiate player and took part in a trial with Werder Bremen that left the German Bundesliga club poised to offer a contract.
Morris earned seven caps with the U.S. National Team last year, scoring in a 2-0 victory over Mexico in April and becoming the first college player to make an appearance with the full national team since UCLA forward Ante Razov in 1995. He also scored six goals and added four assists in 11 appearances in '15 for the U.S. under-23 side, including two goals in a 3-1 victory over Canada in its opening qualifier for the '16 Rio de Janeiro Olympics; that campaign will be decided in March with a home-and-home playoff with Colombia .
The signing of Morris reunites the Mercer Island, Wash., native with U.S. and Sounder striker Clint Dempsey. Sounder coach Sigi Schmid was delighted by Morris' signing, saying he possesses "unteachable" qualities. The Sounder rookie, however, is expected to spend his first MLS season in a supporting role, watching Dempsey, Obafemi Martins and Nelson Valdez start ahead of him. [January 21]
Comment: Here comes Mr. Jordan, and possibly others. Can embattled U.S. National Team coach Juergen Klinsmann channel his inner 2006?
In recent months Klinsmann has been blessed by an interesting wave of fresh young talent. Before the broad-shouldered, baby-faced Morris there was another forward, Bobby Wood, 23, a promising poacher who scored late winners in friendlies against Holland and Germany last spring, plus equalizers against Mexico in the CONCACAF playoff and the World Cup qualifying opener against St. Vincent & the Grenadines. Wood continues to produce for his club, Union Berlin of the Bundesliga 2. There's also midfielder Darlington Nagbe. Born in Liberia, raised in the U.S., the 25-year-old naturalized American made his U.S. debut against St. Vincent & the Grenadines and dazzled in leading the Portland Timbers to their first MLS Cup title. Finally, defender Matt Miazga, 6-foot-4 and a mere 20. He went from buried on the New York Red Bulls roster last spring to becoming one of MLS's best central defenders in '15. Before bowing in with the full national team in the St. Vincent match, Miaza helped the U.S. reach the quarterfinals of the FIFA Under-20 World Cup and became a starter on the U-23 team.
Then there are youngsters who appeared in the 2014 World Cup: defender John Brooks, 23, of Hertha Berlin, defender-midfielder DeAndre Yedlin, 22, of Sunderland, and forward Aron Johannsson, 25, of Werder Bremen. Johannsson battled injuries in 2015 but Yedlin and another attacking player, Gyasi Zardes, 24, of the Los Angeles Galaxy, appeared in 19 of the USA's 20 matches in '15.
Is this the cavalry thundering down the hill? Klinsmann can only hope so. Dempsey is 32. Defensive midfielders Jermaine Jones and Kyle Beckerman and left back DaMarcus Beasley are 33. Goalkeeper Tim Howard is 36.
Klinsmann, in his fifth year as national team coach, is on a hot seat, becoming the first national team coach in this soccer-averse country to experience a modicum of public scrutiny. In 2015, after historic wins against the Netherlands in Amsterdam and Germany in Cologne, the U.S. stumbled badly at the CONCACAF Gold Cup, finishing fourth, its worst showing in a Gold Cup in 15 years. A humiliating 4-1 loss to Brazil in Foxboro followed, which served as a warm-up (or down) to the lifeless 3-2 overtime defeat to Mexico in a CONCACAF playoff at the Rose Bowl that cost the Americans a berth in the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup. Three days later the U.S. tumbled to Costa Rica, 1-0, in a friendly in New Jersey, but it salvaged the year by opening a new World Cup cycle by routing St. Vincent & the Grenadines, 6-1, in St. Louis and escaping Port of Spain with a scoreless draw and a point against Trinidad & Tobago.
As the mixed results mounted, Klinsmann came under increasing criticism for his often baffling player selections, his lineups (20 different lineups in 20 games), his tinkering with formations (a 3-5-2, a 4-2-3-1, a flat 4-4-2 and a diamond 4-4-2) and tactics. At one point, former U.S. star Landon Donovan said that Klinsmann should lose his job if Mexico won at the Rose Bowl. The U.S. lost, and Klinsmann got a half-hearted vote of confidence from USSF President Sunil Gulati.
This cavalry of young talent may yield a couple of riders or, in Klinsmann's dreams, a full platoon. And what the U.S. coach does with it will determine the course of the national team for the near-term, although it figures to be closing in on a 2018 World Cup berth when 2017 dawns. He's nurtured young talent before, steering a bunch of young Germans to third place at the 2006 World Cup, becoming a national hero in the bargain. Among his players were defenders Philipp Lahm, then 22, and Per Mertesacker, 21, midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger, 21, and forward Lukas Podolski, 21. That was a generation of talent that would go on to win the 2014 World Cup.
Can Klinsmann do it again? He could succeed. He could fail. This new crop–and possibly others to emerge over the next 18 months–could win in spite of him. Or too many of them could prove to be all false promise. Time will tell. But for the U.S. to nail down a World Cup berth and go into Russia '18 with any hope of a better showing than the last World Cup, Klinsmann is going to have to succeed, and once again engineer a successful changing of the guard.
Filed under: Futbol de Primera Player of the Year, Landon Donovan, Uncategorized | Tags: 1999 FIFA Under-17 Tournament, 2014 World Cup, Belgium, Brad Davis, Brazil, Carson CA, Chris Wondolowski, Clint Dempsey, Cobi Jones, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, English Premier League, Eric Wynalda, Everton, Futbol de Primera Player of the Year, Jermaine Jones, Juergen Klinsmann, Julian Green, Kasey Keller, Landon Donovan, Los Angeles Galaxy, Los Angeles Lakers, Major League Soccer, MLS Cup, Most Valuable Player, NBA, New England Revolution, Real Salt Lake, Seattle Sounders, StubHub Center, Tim Howard, U.S. Soccer Male Athlete of the Year
Landon Donovan went out a winner on his last day as a professional player as the Los Angeles Galaxy defeated the New England Revolution, 2-1, in extra time at the StubHub Center in Carson, CA, to capture its third MLS Cup in four years and its Major League Soccer-record fifth overall.
Donovan, 32, announced in August that he would retire after the MLS season. Thanks to the Galaxy's victories over Real Salt Lake and the Seattle Sounders in the playoffs, his season was extended through November into December.
Though he had an unspectacular afternoon against New England–drawing a caution at the end of the first half and missing on a 20-yard free kick in OT that would have put L.A. ahead–Donovan in the end lifted the MLS Cup trophy for a record sixth time.
He also exits as MLS's all-time scoring leader and assist leader, and he holds so many other league regular-season and post-season marks that the only ones left involve either goalkeeping or defender-of-the-year awards. His list of U.S. international records is equally long. Donovan's 57 goals include five in the World Cup and 10 game-winners, nine multi-goal games, 14 goals scored in the final 15 minutes of a match, nine alone in 2007 (tied with Eric Wynalda for most in a year) and 15 penalty kicks in 15 attempts. His 58 assists–10 of which were recorded in 2009 alone–are 36 ahead of No. 2 on the list, Cobi Jones. Donovan is second all-time in international appearances at 156 games, and if he weren't left off the U.S. roster for the 2014 World Cup, he might have picked up seven more caps (three World Cup warm-ups and four games in Brazil itself), leaving him one behind Jones' American mark of 164. Of course, if Donovan, who logged nearly 13,000 minutes–nine days on the field–for the national team, hadn't been dumped by U.S. coach Juergen Klinsmann, he might have continued adding to his numbers into 2015 and beyond. (He's only 32. Galaxy teammate Robbie Keane, 34, says he expects to play until he's 38. The great Pele retired just shy of his 37th birthday.)
The individual awards in his trophy case are topped by the Golden Ball he was handed as the best player at the 1999 FIFA Under-17 Tournament, and he was voted the 2002 World Cup's Best Young Player. [December 7]
Comment: Donovan has won several other individual honors during his career, including the U.S. Soccer Male Athlete of the Year (2003, '04, '09 and '10) and Futbol de Primera Player of the Year (2002, '03, '04, '07, '08, '09, '10). His exclusion from the U.S. World Cup team, of course, left him out of the running for either trophy this year.
Howard was the clear favorite for both awards as he set U.S. records for career wins, 55, and goalkeeper appearances, 104, blowing past the now-retired Kasey Keller (53 and 102). His 15 shutouts in 2013-14 helped his club, Everton, finish fifth in the English Premier League. And there were those World Cup-record 16 saves in the USA's 2-1 overtime loss to Belgium in the second round in Brazil. Howard won the U.S. Soccer award with 64 percent of the vote from a panel of U.S. players, coaches, administrators and others; midfielder Jermaine Jones was second with 19 percent. Some 200 journalists made Howard the runaway winner in the FDP balloting, giving him 363 points to Jones' 160 and Clint Dempsey's 147.
Anticipating the Howard landslide, one FDP voter gave Donovan one final first-place vote (with Howard second and Jones third). However, it was based not on sentimentality but a nagging doubt.
Naming Donovan the best player in America in 2014 requires a look through a different prism. That is, Donovan may have demonstrated his value to the U.S. National Team at the 2014 World Cup not through his presence but through his absence.
Watching players who took his place on the roster, like Brad Davis and Chris Wondolowski, struggle in Brazil, must have made Donovan squirm. Couldn't the greatest player in American history, perhaps a year beyond his prime, have made a difference in this or that situation? Should he have been left behind in favor of 18-year-old Julian Green, and could he have scored the goal Green scored against Belgium in overtime? Many would say no and yes–Donovan wouldn't have mis-hit his shot like Green's star-kissed volley. As for what Donovan might have done with Wonolowski's chance at the end of regulation against the Belgians . . . .
This upside-down look at a player's value isn't new. Long ago, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, coming off an NBA championship in his rookie season, suffered a serious knee injury midway through his second, in 1980-81. The Los Angeles Lakers were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs, and the argument was raised in many quarters that Johnson proved that he deserved the league's Most Valuable Player award because the Lakers struggled and ultimately crashed without him.
As for Donovan, it was only one Futbol de Primera vote in the face of a landslide. It mattered not. It was worth using it to lift the question "What if?" into a statement.
Filed under: Away goals rule, Uncategorized | Tags: Brad Evans, Bruce Arena, CenturyLink Field, Clint Dempsey, Columbus Crew, FC Dallas, Juninho, Landon Donovan, Los Angeles Galaxy, Major League Soccer, NASL, NBA, New England Revolution, New York Red Bulls, NHL, Real Salt Lake, Seattle Sounders, StubHub Center, Village People
The Los Angeles Galaxy lost to the Seattle Sounders, 2-1, on a frigid night at CenturyLink Field but won the Western Conference final on away goals to advance to Major League Soccer's championship game.
The Galaxy, which a week earlier took the first game of its home-and-home series, 1-0, will return to the StubHub Center on December 7 to play host to the New England Revolution in the MLS Cup final. New England defeated the New York Red Bulls, 2-1 and 2-2, in the Eastern Conference finals for a 3-2 aggregate.
Brad Evans, in the 26th minute, and Clint Dempsey, six minutes later, scored to give the Sounders hope of reaching their first MLS final, but nine minutes into the second half L.A. midfielder Juninho pounced on a deflected corner kick by Landon Donovan and ripped a shot in off the left post for his first goal in 13 months. [November 30]
Comment: The last stupid MLS idea has died peacefully of natural causes.
And we don't mean the Columbus Crew's decision to dump its Village People logo once and for all (that's called "re-branding").
MLS finally succumbed to the use of the aways goals rule this playoff season, and the world did not come to an end. Both the Eastern Coference semifinals and finals were decided on aggregate goals, as did one Western semifinal, won by L.A. over Real Salt Lake. And when the Galaxy walked off the CenturyLink Field at the final whistle after the road leg of its Western Conference final, the partisan Sounder crowd of 46,758 accepted the fact that its side, winners on the night by a goal, were losers overall.
Some in the media here didn't quite know what to make of this new gimmick, although it's used in cup competitions the world over. "Rules of the road lift Galaxy into the final" read one newspaper headline. Another: "Galaxy's Goal is One for the Road." But a worthy winner was produced. Galaxy coach Bruce Arena called the concept of the away-goals rule–an incentive for the road team to attack in the first leg–"garbage," and it certainly didn't inspire Seattle to produce an away goal or two in the first leg. But no one at CenturyLink exited wringing their hands over an injustice. Everyone knew the rules going in. In fact, the Sounders were the first team in MLS history to advance on away goals, eliminating FC Dallas nearly three weeks earlier in the Western semifinals (1-1 in Texas, 0-0 at home). And there was no effect at the gate: MLS drew a record average attendance of 19,151 during the regular season–once again better than the NBA and NHL–and 21,275 during the playoffs. Not a tremendous accomplishment, unless one recalls the days in the not-too-distant past when most MLS post-season matches drew crowds embarrassingly smaller than many regular-season games.
Americans fans, apparently, have been more adaptable than MLS gave them credit for over its 19-season run. Or at least they were tolerant. They've had to endure earlier MLS playoff concoctions, such as the ponderous best-of-three-games playoff. And the ridiculous "first-to-five-points" system. Once it got to the simple home-and-home formula in 2003, it counted road goals equal to home goals, perhaps in the belief that a romp by the visiting team in the opening leg would kill interest in the second leg.
Fans here also–some of them–survived other MLS innovations, like the silly countdown clock, and they survived leftovers from the old NASL, like the shootout, back when it was believed that American DNA made it impossible for folks here to understand, let alone appreciate, the concept of a draw. Perhaps the seamless debut of away goals signals the end, once and for all, of its "unnecessarily creative" period.
Filed under: Klinsmann, Uncategorized | Tags: 2014 World Cup, Boca Raton, Clint Dempsey, commissioner, Don Garber, Florida, Honduras, Juergen Klinsmann, Landon Donovan, Major Soccer League, Michael Bradley, national team coach, national technical director, Sunil Gulati, Toronto FC, U.S. National Team, U.S. Soccer
Major League Soccer Commissioner Dan Garber fired a broadside at U.S. National Team coach Juergen Klinsmann, accusing him of comments damaging to his league and the sport in this country.
Garber summoned the media to rip Klinsmann for comments made two days earlier in which he said Clint Dempsey and Michael Bradley hurt their international careers by returning from Europe to play for MLS clubs. The commissioner also said Klinsmann's decision to leave Landon Donovan, the face of MLS, off his 2014 World Cup squad was "inexcusable."
Said Klinsmann on Monday, the day before the USA's friendly with Honduras in Boca Raton: "I made clear with Clint's move back and Michael's move back that it's going to be very difficult to keep the same level that they experienced at the places where they were. It's just reality. It's just being honest."
Garber fired back the day after the 1-1 draw in Florida: "Juergen's comments are very, very detrimental to the league, to the sport of soccer in North America, detrimental to everything we're trying to do. Not only that, I think they're wrong.
"To have a national team coach saying that signing with our league is not going to be good for their careers, and not good for their prospects with the national team, is incredibly damaging to our league.
"I will do anything and everything to defend our league, our players and our owners. I don't believe anyone is above the sport, and I believe everyone has to be accountable for their behavior." [October 15]
Comment: They both need to shut up.
But, of course, they can't. Klinsmann will continue to be asked point-blank about this player and that, and Garber has to protect his product.
Klinsmann was only telling the truth. To grow, anyone in the U.S. player pool needs to play for a club at the highest level possible, and that's in Europe, not MLS, provided it's in the top division of a top soccer-playing nation. Garber's reaction–writing angry letters to Klinsmann and U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati and publicly blasting the national team coach/national technical director in a hastily arranged press teleconference–made him look peevish and unprofessional.
However, Klinsmann has to face the fact that any U.S. player, no matter how talented, is taking a risk in signing with a European club. A player has to play, and if he's shelved by injury or a drop in performance or a coach who thinks little of American players (there's plenty of those), he's regressing and probably should have remained in MLS, where he'd be considered a star. (That description fits a player like Bradley, who left Roma for Toronto FC and a healthy pay increase after the Italian club brought in several new players, threatening the midfielder's playing time.) These guys have to think of their career as a whole, and they're not on the level of Klinsmann, who in his day would have started, and starred, for any powerhouse club in Europe.
Garber needs to rein it in, skate past this ongoing issue and resume talking up MLS's strengths, which are a tremendous fan experience unique to American sports and a level of talent that will entertain all but the Euro-snobs. If he continues to have a beef with Klinsmann, Garber sits on the U.S. Soccer board, the body that serves as Klinsmann's boss, and he can air his disagreements behind closed doors with the people who matter when it comes to the fellow at the helm of the men's national teams program. As for Klinsmann, he needs to become a better diplomat without losing his credibility with a press and public that is growing increasingly sophisticated and demanding. Either that or hope that MLS both improves on the field and stops making itself an increasingly attractive choice for top American players faced with a difficult career decision.
Filed under: 2014 World Cup final, Uncategorized | Tags: 2014 World Cup, 2016 European Championship, Albiceleste, America, Andre Schuerrle, Angel Di Maria, Argentina, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Beto, Brad Friedel, Cafu, Chile, Clint Dempsey, David Luiz, Dunga, Edmundo, ESPN, Ezequiel Lavezzi, FIFA Confederations Cup, Germany, Gonzalo Higuain, James Rodriguez, Jo, Joachim Loew, Juergen Klinsmann, Kasey Keller, Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Lukas Podolski, Manuel Neuer, Maracana Stadium, Maracanazo, Marcos Rojo, Mario Goetze, Miroslav Klose, Netherlands, Olympics, Pele, Per Mertesacker, Philipp Lahm, Portugal, Preki, Rivaldo, Roberto Carlos, Rodrigo Palacio, Romario, Ronaldo, Russia '18, Sergio Aguero, Sergio Romero, Spain, Tim Howard, Toni Kroos
Germany defeated Argentina in overtime, 1-0, before a Maracana Stadium crowd of 74,738 to win the 2014 World Cup.
Substitute Mario Goetze, who had not started in Germany's last two games, scored the game's only goal in the 113th minute. Another sub, Andre Schuerrle, lofted a cross from the left wing that Goetze, on the run at the top of the penalty area, chested and volleyed inside the far post past Argentine goalkeeper Sergio Romero. [July 13]
Comment I: The best team won.
The overhaul begun by Juergen Klinsmann ahead of the 2006 World Cup and maintained by successor Joachim Loew in 2010 bore fruit in 2014. All-time World Cup scoring leader Miroslav Klose (36) rides off into the sunset, and captain Philipp "The Magic Dwarf" Lahm (30), has announced his international retirement. But Bastian Schweinsteiger, Per Mertesacker and Lukas Podolski are all 29, and the rest of the nucleus, with some tweaking, figures to be around for the 2016 European Championship and beyond. Much can happen in four years, but for now, the first European team to win a World Cup in the Americas is well-positioned for Russia '18.
Comment II: The not-best team did not win.
Years from now, the 20th World Cup may be remembered not for Germany's triumph or Luis Suarez's bite or James Rodriguez's arrival but the incredible collapse by Brazil. The 7-1 loss to Germany in the semifinals and the 3-0 loss to the Netherlands in the third-place match were shocking on their own, but put them together and you have the most unbelievably pathetic 180 minutes in World Cup history.
If anything, it was all for the best. This was a not-so-great team that was riding a wave of emotion provided by its thousands of yellow-clad supporters and the inner pressure created by the need to wipe away the nightmare–the Maracanazo–of 1950. It needed penalty kicks to beat Chile in the second round and a fine free kick by David Luiz in the quarterfinals to keep up the facade. It was unconvincing in the group stage, leaving the suspicion that its triumph the previous year in the FIFA Confederations Cup, capped by a 3-0 romp over defending world and European champion Spain, was an anomaly. Not only could this team not be mentioned in the same breath with Pele's 1970 champions, it was a far, far cry from another Brazilian also-ran, the 1998 array of stars headed by Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos, Rivaldo, Cafu, Beto and Dunga that bowed to host France. If that side needed a late jolt, it could look down the bench and call on Edmundo. This Brazil's bench had … Jo. Had the current team pulled off two miracles and lifted the trophy at the Maracana on July 13, Brazilians would be the first to rank it behind its non-champions of 2006 and 1990 and 1986 and 1982 and 1978 and 1974 and 1966.
Comment III: The second-best team could've won.
A 4-1 pick to win it all, Argentina coulda, shoulda wrapped up a 1-0 or 2-0 victory over Germany in regulation. One goal could have come 21 minutes in, when Toni Kroos headed a ball back toward his goal only for it to be intercepted by Gonzalo Higuain. Perhaps seeing Manuel Neuer standing before him and believing the German goalkeeper immortal based on his earlier performances, Higuain skulled a hurried shot outside the left post. Eight minutes later Higuain had a goal disallowed for an offside call he easily could have avoided.
Either chance, if converted, would've thrown Argentina into defensive mode, and we saw what the Argentine defense (with the help of the midfield) was capable of against Germany for 113 minutes despite the Germans' having greater possession. Ironically, it was the back line that was regarded as the weak link heading into this World Cup while the team's strength was Lionel Messi and his supporting cast of Higuain, Angel Di Maria, Sergio Aguero, Ezequiel Lavezzi and Rodrigo Palacio.
Adding to Argentina's frustration was Palacio's chance six minutes into overtime. Left back Marcos Rojo chipped a ball into the middle of the box to Palacio, alone with only Neuer to beat. But he tried to chip the ball into the net and sent it wide left. That was the Albiceleste's last chance and only made Goetze's goal seem inevitable.
Comment IV: The bottom line on the impact Brasil '14 had on America:
The U.S. media finally stopped referring to soccer as "perhaps the world's most popular sport" and the World Cup as "after the Olympics, the world's biggest sporting event." Instead, soccer and the World Cup became an unqualified "most" and "biggest."
Comment V: Naturally, those Americans who don't like soccer came out with their sharpened knives in June and July, and to soccer fans, their increasing desperation was another sign of progress.
Most of their criticisms–too low scoring, foreigners running around in shorts–have fallen by the wayside over the years, but they concentrated their efforts on two issues in particular this time.
The most curious one involved how time is kept during a soccer match. "The game ends, and then it keeps going–no one but the referee knows when it's gonna end!" Of course the entire crowd and a worldwide television audience sees the fourth official hold up an electronic board indicating how much time has been added. Two minutes, four minutes, and so on. We all get the idea. And TV viewers see the clock continue ticking in the upper left corner: 91:05 … 93:41 …. with a +4 next to it, for example. However, "getting the idea" isn't good enough in a country grounded in gridiron football countdown clocks and basketball games in which the final 30 seconds are massaged through 10 minutes of TV commercials. Maybe they were fired up by Portugal's late equalizer against the U.S., when it was mystifying to some that the game seemingly went on and on, but soccer fans who saw the man with the electronic board knew that enough time remained for Ronaldo's heroics, plus a subsequent kickoff and a few additional seconds of play. If anything, that game should have been a lesson to the uninitiated. Soccer is not a Hail Mary pass or buzzer-beater shot type of sport. There is no way to "stop" the clock, so there is no need for a clock that shows 0:013 remaining. And some people like being freed of that sort of nonsense.
The other complaint has merit. "They flop, they roll on the the ground and act as though they're in their death throes." From one ESPN radio talking head: "This country will never embrace a sport in which the players are encouraged to be pansies."
Good point. We've seen all sorts of histrionics on the soccer field, and we all know it's in an effort to draw a foul or induce a yellow card, not because the player has an incredibly low pain threshold. But all that rolling around runs contrary to American sensibilities. When Clint Dempsey is fouled hard he goes down like he was shot by a sniper. No movement, no drama. Stoic. It's the American way. (Usually, Dempsey is either really hurt or trying to give his teammates a breather, or both. If he's trying to get the call, it's by making the referee feel guilty over this lifeless figure on the turf.)
FIFA hasn't been able to come up with a better tiebreaker than what it refers to as "The Taking of Kicks from the Penalty Mark." So it would do well to instead address its chronic play-acting problem–at least if it wants to win over America and its treasure trove of potential corporate sponsors. There is a form of soccer that is played with a minimum of dives, flops and various sundry simulation. It's called women's soccer, which is quite ironic. These were, after all, the people who were once deemed too delicate to play this sport. Instead, they cut each other down–hard–and the fouled party usually bounces to her feet and gets on with the game. And no one questions their macho.
Comment VI: And finally, while many Americans had finished applauding Tim Howard's heroics in the USA's 1-0 overtime loss to Belgium and had wandered away by the time Germany's Manuel Neuer was awarded the Golden Glove as the World Cup's best goalkeeper, it should be pointed out that Howard's was not the greatest performance by an American 'keeper in a meaningful match.
For those who saw it first hand, nothing will top Kasey Keller's string of miracles to help the U.S. upset Brazil, 1-0, in the semifinals of the 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup in front of a sparse crowd at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Keller made 13 saves that cool, damp night to Howard's 16 against Belgium, but while Howard was masterful in handling several difficult shots, Keller made saves that left the Brazilians shaking their heads. Two rapid-fire reflex saves on Romario defied belief, and the Brazilian striker later said of Keller, "It was an honor to be on the field with him."
It should be recalled that this was mostly an under-23 Brazilian side preparing for the Olympics; that it took a goal by Preki in the 65th minute against the run of play to win it; and that the U.S. would go on five days later to lose to Mexico by the same score back at the Coliseum before an overwhelmingly pro-Mexico throng of 100,000. But it also should be remembered that for one night, Keller, an outstanding goalkeeper very much the equal of Howard and Brad Friedel, was otherworldly.
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In a match that looked like a re-enactment of the siege of the Alamo, Belgium pounded away at the U.S. defense for 93 minutes before breaking through and ultimately winning, 2-1, in overtime to earn a World Cup quarterfinal showdown with Argentina.
Midfield dynamo Kevin De Bruyne and substitute striker Romelu Lukaku combined on both Belgian goals, beating an exhausted U.S. defense that was bombarded with 38 shots. Three minutes into extra time, Lukaku beat U.S. defender Matt Besler down the right wing to set up De Bruyne for the first goal, then a pass by De Bruyne allowed Lukaku to score on a powerful short-range shot. The desperate Americans staged a furious comeback and were rewarded in the 107th minute when 18-year-old substitute Julian Green volleyed home a chipped pass into the box by Michael Bradley, but the rally fell short.
The game was played in Salvador, and fittingly the man of the match was the USA's savior, Tim Howard, who put on a two-hour goalkeeping clinic. He made 16 saves, many of them spectacular, in sparing his side an embarrassingly lopsided defeat. It was the most saves in a World Cup game since the statistic was first kept in 1966.
Remarkably, the Americans nearly won the game in the final seconds of regulation added-on time. Substitute Chris Wondolowski, a natural poacher, latched onto the ball in a goalmouth scramble but put his shot over the bar in an effort to lift it over sprawling Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois. [July 1]
Comment: Now, following the handwringing, the postmortems start. Americans caught World Cup fever in a big way for the first time. But the Belgian police banged on the door and broke up their party, and they want the next party to last beyond midnight.
How can the U.S. get better and go farther at Russia 2018 (the team's qualification being a given)? A stronger Major League Soccer? An expanded U.S. academy program developing more and more young talent? The U.S. goal will soon be in the capable hands of Brad Guzan–unless the unpredictable Juergen Klinsmann tries to make Howard, now 35, the USA's answer to Dino Zoff. DaMarcus Beasley isn't likely to play in a fifth World Cup, so there is a need for a left back, and forward Clint Dempsey will be 35 in four years. Whether it's Besler or Omar Gonzalez or Geoff Cameron or a newcomer in the central defense, Klinsmann needs to find the right duo and stick with it. And the midfield must somehow get better without a Xavi or Andres Iniesta on the horizon.
Who knows if a "Group of Death" awaits the U.S. if it reaches Russia. And if it reaches the second round there, will its opponent be Belgium, or a side like Ghana (2010), or Mexico (2002) … or Brazil (1994). But it is a sure thing that the U.S. will be better–by how much is unknown, but it will be better.
The U.S. is nowhere near reaching its considerable potential. Participation figures that exceed 20 million and our soccer infrastructure say so. There's also that intangible, the slowly continuing evolution of the soccer culture here. Since the Pele Generation of the 1970s, the sport has improved on the grassroots level by leaps and bounds–and, admittedly, sometimes by small increments–but it has improved, and that improvement goes on uninterrupted . Compare that, then, with countries where soccer is well-established and yet the fortunes of the national team waxes and wanes, like Belgium. Or Chile, or Portugal, or Uruguay, or Romania, or Holland, or Norway, or Colombia, or Costa Rica, or Paraguay, or Sweden, or the remnants of the former Soviet Union or former Czechoslovakia. Most are left awaiting the emergence of its next "golden generation," which may require several generations of waiting. A nation like Spain played in the first World Cup in 1930 and didn't win one for 80 years. Hungary peaked in the early 1950s with one of the greatest teams ever and has been mostly an international soccer afterthought since.
The U.S. isn't any of those nations. Plot the national team's progress on a graph and the red line continues upward, sometimes sharply (Korea/Japan '02), sometimes not (France '98). It's why many of the countries in the soccer-playing world would trade their past and present for the USA's future in a heartbeat.


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Observation. From Uggs to mugs. Living in NYC, we get the best of both worlds. Whether we want to or not we are exposed to over 1,000 different people (on a daily basis). Our eyes are prone to observation, interpretation and judgment. Taking a subway almost everyday, I can openly admit to seeing it all.
From the guy dressed in last nights clothing (with a paper bag of vodka underneath him), to
the woman with a baby sling begging for money, and the three teenagers trying to sell stolen and stale candy for just "$1".
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After missing our stop and getting off at Broadway & Lafayette, we were welcomed to a huge Crate and Barrel, followed by crowds of tourists. I wondered my way into Victoria's Secret (looking at bikinis) while Mauro looked for the closest Starbucks using "Siri".
Finally, after spending 1/2 an hour in Victoria's Secret (poor Mauro), and spending my $20 angel reward card (the perks of being a shopaholic) we made it to Starbucks.
Mauro proclaimed we had "uptown problems"when I said a line of 37 people was "ridiculous" and we needed to find another Starbucks for him to get his coffee fix. He then decided that instead of having coffee, he wanted to get "a Brussels waffle" from "wafels n dinges" (A popular waffle speciality truck, located in NYC). As we were walking towards this "special truck" of his, we got lured into Bloomingdale's by a Nylon representative, ending up in the mens department-on the bottom floor.
Well apparently some party was going on in Bloomingdale's that led us to, two djs, great music, and...jeans (no hors d'oeuvres or champagne, but we did make the best of our little trip together by trying on multiple pairs of sunglasses and laughing at our silliness.
As we were about to leave, I ended up bumping into an old friend who I used to work with at Bendels. Chatting away I found out that she works at one of my favorite makeup counters (Benefit) and told her that the next time I needed something, I would most defiantly stop by and purchase it from her. I was majorly excited and once again, not surprised at how small the world actually can be!
After making it to the waffle truck, realizing the line was also absurd (for waffles, at least)!, we decided to negotiate our cravings down to ice cream. Heading to the fro-yo truck and sharing a vanilla soft serve with sprinkles, we were expecting the best for $7. Unfortunately it didn't live up to our expectation, and the flavorless dessert ended up in the garbage (fail).
By this time it was 4 Pm and we decided to head home and start planning what we would do tonight. As most of our friends are in Miami, we negotiated it down to Boom Boom room (simply because the song "I follow you" was blasting in Bloomingdale's). But where we actually end up, will be decided half an hour before we head out (thanks to my indecisiveness!).
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New Delhi: Promotion of rural tourism, wasteland cultivation and enhancing grain productivity can create upto 40 million new jobs and Rs85,000 crore additional income in the countryside by 2012, a report by CII-McKinsey said on 1 June 2007.
According to the report presented to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by a CII-McKinsey joint delegation, the per capita rural income can be jacked up by 25-30% if the report's recommendations are implemented.
"Wasteland cultivation is the second largest job generator after tourism and we have requested the government to make policies for easier release of this land for cultivation of crops like jatropha," McKinsey & Co managing director Adil Zainulbhai said at a press conference here.
The report said government and community-owned wasteland could be released for cultivation through tri-patriate agreements that will benefit the government, private players and rural communities.
However, the success would depend on providing tax holidays for private sector industry involved in developing wasteland. It also recommended setting up a National Wasteland Development Board.
The UPA government has started implementation of its flagship 'Bharat Nirman' programme, under which Rs1,74,000 crore would be spent on building rural infrastructure like roads, telecom, electricity, housing, irrigation and drinking water.
The CII has set up a 'Bharat Nirman' Council headed by ITC chairman Yogesh Deveshwar.
Four activities — cultivation of jatropha and pulpwood on the wasteland, improvement in the production of grains, wine and poultry and tourism development — are capable of generating Rs40,000 crore, Rs20,000 crore, Rs5,000 crore and Rs20,000 crore respectively by 2012, the report said.
These sectors would create three-four crore jobs primarily in areas like tourism and wasteland cultivation.
The report outlined the concerted actions needed by the Central and state governments like setting aside Rs 2,25,000 crore for Decentralised Distribution Generation (DDG) of power.
It has also suggested setting up a Rural Water Authority and gearing up rain water harvesting projects.
With an aim to catalyse service network extension, the report seeks creation of National Grain Mission and a National Grain Market, Deveshwar said.
The report has also asked for setting up of Special Tourism Zones Authority to create special tourism zones and two-three world class tourism destinations in each state.
It has sought creation of policies by the Centre and the states to prepare master plan to utilise such lands. At the local level, Panchayats and community organisations should actively participate in the programmes of the government, the report said.
It also emphasised the private sector to work as a supplier in infrastructure building under Bharat Nirman and capture the large rural market opportunity, estimated to be around Rs25,00,000 crore by 2020.


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In the increasingly litigious world we live in, simply being of good character and stating the whole truth often isn't enough. Pictures can be taken out of context, witnesses can lie, and a good lawyer can spin situations to the point where you're no longer in the right in the eyes of a jury. That's where the Taser Axon Flex comes into the picture, providing officers (and others) the ability to capture an entire event, not just what happens in front of the cruiser's dashboard camera . . .
The idea of a wearable camera isn't exactly new. First person cameras have been around since they could make cameras small and light enough so they don't break your neck. But they're still typically too heavy to leave on your head continuously. What police officers wanted was something light and unobtrusive enough that they could put it on and forget about it, turning it on only when needed. Something like this:
The video camera itself is tiny, as seen here in relation to the shooting glasses to which they're attached. It's also remarkably lightweight — when I was wearing it, I could barely feel it attached to the glasses. The way it does this is by leaving all of the battery and power components in a remote package that straps to your belt.
The downside is that you need a wire to run between the power pack and the video camera, which gets annoying. You can run the cable inside your shirt, which will keep it from getting caught on your equipment or ripped out by accident, but then you run into problems where you don't have enough slack and the camera can get ripped off its mount.
Speaking of mounts . . .
The Axon Flex system comes with everything you see here, which includes a headband mount, a collar mount, a shirt mount and a sunglasses mount. The camera has a small yet very powerful magnet embedded on its side, and that marries up with a similar strong magnet in each of the mounts. The mount is designed in such a way that it doesn't move very much, if at all, once it's locked in place. It's a well-made, simple system that allows the camera to be quickly attached and fall away harmlessly if someone (like an attacker) tries to grab it.
While all of the mounts seem to be pretty useful, I found that the sunglasses mount works the best. There are fewer things to get in the way, and it's always pointing in the right direction. If you were to go for only one mount, sunglasses mount is it.
At this point, I know what you're thinking. There are tons of personal cameras out there already, why not with one of those? Something like a GoPro or a Contour? Well, two reasons. First is the weight, and second are the features.
Like I said, the camera weighs so little that you con't really feel its presence. In contrast, a Contour or GoPro strapped to your noggin would be a noticeable increase in weight and you'd probably take it off at the first opportunity. Having something lightweight that "just works" is essential to ensuring that it's actually used.
Second is that this was designed from the ground up to be a "police" camera. Normally, cameras only record once you hit the record button. With the Axon Flex, the camera is constantly buffering, and will record the 30 seconds BEFORE you hit the button as well as everything that happens afterwards. There's no sound for the first 30 seconds, but all of the video is of the same quality. The video is also stored in a tamper evident file format that has all sorts of forensic goodies attached to it, and requires proprietary software to recover the video.
Speaking of the video quality, it's acceptable. The first person video segments in this competition segment were recorded using the Axon Flex system, and while it's good enough to figure out generally what's going on, we aren't talking about cinema quality footage here.
For police work, I can see a definite need for something like this. In a world where the jury expects to be spoon-fed all the evidence and to have fingerprint and DNA matches for simple possession charges, having irrefutable video evidence of illegal activities is a huge benefit to law enforcement. The constant 30 second buffer means you'll never miss a second of the action, and the "officer proof" design of the on/off buttons and record feature means that anyone can be trained to use the camera.
For regular citizens, though, I don't know if there's really enough to recommend this over other camera systems. Assuming you get Taser to sell you one, that is. The video quality is low, the software is more complex than required and the wires are annoying as hell. My recommendation for consumers: get a Contour instead. Unless you find yourself — for some reason — regularly needing to record defensive gun use situations, in which case the Axon Flex would work well.
Ratings (out of five stars):
Ease of Use * * * * *
No fancy settings, and no complex menus. Click and record.
Utility * * * * *
For officers, there really isn't anything better. Lightweight and with all the bells and whistles you could ever want.
Overall * * * * 1/2 (LEO) / * * * (Citizen)
I'm dropping a half a star for the annoying cable, but otherwise I don't know why every police department in the country doesn't have these already. For citizens, though, there are better and cheaper options for first person video recorders.
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For citizens, though, there are better and cheaper options for first person video recorders.
..so what would be those options?
are you daft? He states it already in the body of the article. Is reading too hard for you?
Actually it's you who didn't quite read the article. Nick mentions the GoPro and the Contour but dismisses it as "Contour or GoPro strapped to your noggin would be a noticeable increase in weight and you'd probably take it off at the first opportunity. Having something lightweight that "just works" is essential… "
Therefore my question still stands. What is a BETTER, CHEAPER option as the 2 he listed are clearly not better according to Nick.
A cheaper option is the "Looxcie 2" @ $149.99
… or even the 1080p "Looxcie HD Explore" at $329.99.
The "Axon Flex" system is $1129.89.
However, as I don't personally own either, I'm not qualified to say whether or not the Looxcie is better. But it sure is cheaper and less tacticool as it clearly has a more "civilian" market.
Echosense Check Mates stream live video through glasses. The captain of police of the police force can see and hear live what is going on. Recording and down loading is old school. A thing of the past. Great maybe in the 80s but we are in 2014.
Each piece of equipment on a police officers belt of tools is there for a reason. To give the officer more choices of action against a threat. That being said, NO COP IS GOING TO PULL A TASER ON A MAN OR WOMEN WHO HAS A KNIFE OR GUN, thats a deadly reponse senario. Just as a flashlight is an illumination device not a batton(club).
Did you even bother to read the article David? This gear is not a taser, it's a video camera.
In his defense, the title is a little misleading on this one and it's not clear at all by the photo what this little device is. Doesn't excuse the obvious jump to conclusions…
My five D-cell Maglight isn't a baton!?
Maglights are remarkable only for delivering the fewest lumens per pound of just about any flashlight.
New rule: read, or at least skim, the whole article prior to commenting.
But then you can't make one of the high-on-the-page early comments so that everyone pays attention to you.
At some point in time, my guess is Google Glass (or its inevitable competitors) will fill this role fairly ubiquitously. And not just for cops.
"The idea of a wearable camera isn't exactly new."
It's at least as old as Dick Tracy.
Careful with the inexpensive options like the Veho Muvi and all of its spinoffs. They have some definite drawbacks over the ones made for law enforcement, including a lack of security features that can get the recordings thrown out in court. I'm biased since I work for Digital Ally, but I've got to recommend the FirstVu or FirstVu HD. Great body systems that will cost a lot less than the AXON, especially with the ongoing charges.
Great challenges listed here. I am willing to peer this post. Thanks a ton with this particular taking a look toward get in touch with a person. Are you going to nicely shed me a e-mail?
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It's About Time: Hardee's, Carl's Jr. Marketing Matures
Yeah, yeah, yeah—sex sells. But it's certainly not a sophisticated approach when a major international brand resorts to scantily clad models and junior-high-level sexual innuendo to sell its products. I suspect I'm but one of many in the franchising industry breathing a sigh of relief as Hardee's and Carl's Jr. finally, mercifully announce a new marketing approach that's focused on food quality, innovation and its history as a QSR pioneer.


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Cosmic Balance
Libra, the scales of the Zodiac, is a reflection of the cosmic scales, the equilibrium between the two opposite and complementary principles, thanks to which the universe came into being and continues to exist. The symbol of the scales, which we find also in the sephirotic Tree of Life, dominates the whole of creation.
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The sense of place and uniformly superb performances make it worth seeing, and maybe ultimately singing along with.
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"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
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An article about my hope for the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Far flung correspondent Seongyong Cho writes about a warm contemporary romance drama from South Korea.
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"Bad Turn Worse" joins a long line of movies about people who stayed in dangerous, desperate places just a little too long (it was originally called "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"). Simon and Zeke Hawkins' confident thriller opens by name-checking Jim Thompson, and proceeds to tell a tale that Thompson himself would have admired in its duplicitous simplicity. With its constant state of twilight lighting, cinematography that somehow conveys what feels like oppressive heat, and characters stuck in criminal quicksand, "Bad Turn Worse" actually earns that Thompson comparison at its best. It's a confident, engaging film, undone by some narrative sag in the middle but worth seeing for its opening and closing acts.
Bobby (Jeremy Allen White of "Shameless") and Sue (Mackenzie Davis of "Halt and Catch Fire") are leaving the podunk town in which they've grown up in Middle of Nowhere, Texas. They're going to college, leaving behind Sue's lunk of a boyfriend B.J. (Logan Huffman). On one of their last nights together, B.J. decides that the trio should go out in style. He bankrolls the partying by robbing the safe of his moronic boss Giff (Mark Pellegrino), after figuring out that everything, from his pin number to the combination in his office, is based on a variation of his favorite number: 69. B.J. is the kind of testosterone-heavy man-child who doesn't think before he acts and seriously underestimates the malevolence in the heart of his employer.
Bobby and B.J. come in the next day to work to find Giff repeatedly kicking the Mexican employee that he thinks robbed him. To try and stop the violence, Bobby announces that he took the money, protecting B.J. and, foolishly, thinking he can now make things right. Giff tells Bobby that in order to repay him, he'll have to do a job, an even bigger robbery of a crime lord named Big Red, who launders money through Giff's place of business. Of course, this can't possibly end well.
"Bad Turn Worse" is a story in which the dread comes from well-defined feelings like desperation and jealousy. B.J. lashes out at the two friends leaving him behind in this desolate Texas landscape with nothing but the inevitable path to his asshole employer's life. B.J. becomes Giff becomes Big Red. It's the circle of criminal life. Dutch Southern's script works because we can feel the emotion behind B.J.'s lashing out at the two people leaving him behind. As played by Huffman, B.J. is the kind of kid who figured out a long time ago that Bobby and Sue are smarter than him, and likely headed to lives that will leave him behind. Therefore, his violent stupidity feels organic to the emotion of his character and not merely a plot device as in so many lesser indie thrillers.
Huffman's performance is balanced by those by White, Davis and Pellegrino. The young star of "Shameless" has a face that Thompson would have loved—all sunken, sleepy eyes that disguise a mind that's always deciphering what to do next. Davis is a future star, so charismatic on the AMC hit and well-cast here as the girl who outgrew her small town upbringing through literature and intellectual exploration. She needed to get outta this place a long time ago. And Pellegrino is fantastic here, truly disturbing in his gleeful propensity for violence.
"Bad Turn Worse" starts off with such energy—I wanted more dialogue-driven scenes like the opening diner bit about Thompson and whether or not it should be called "Bacon & Egg" instead of the plural if you only have one egg—that it's bound to sag a bit when the robbery plotting kicks in. It often feels like the trio is too often discussing the intricacies of the plot when more character development would have helped. The Hawkins regain the film's energy in a disturbing scene that reveals the depth of Giff's insanity and in the final scenes of inevitable double and triple crosses. Just as in Thompson's best work, "Bad Turn Worse" takes its characters and their fates seriously. And its accomplishment is that so do we.


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Brain researchers indicate that implicit prejudice comes from many unconscious "cultural factors" like jokes, catchphrases, overheard taunts, and so forth, from peers, parents and the media. It is not hard to imagine an angry parent making off-hand comments and making gestures about the other parent in the presence of the child, without consciously being aware of it. It's not hard to imagine the child absorbing all of this without being consciously aware of it as well. In alienation cases, the problem is very similar.
The Politics of Alienation: Resistance/Refusal Dynamics, 2010 Efforts & What We Can Do Now
I wrote this article seven years ago in 2010. I had just finished writing a book about child alienation (Don't Alienate the Kids!), broadly defined as when a child resists spending time with one parent after a divorce, without assuming the cause. Ironically, 2010 was the year that the issue of alienation escalated into the news with two opposite political efforts: one to officially recognize alienation and the other to officially ban it from existence.
In this article I want to explain what may have been going on, why alienation is now gaining more attention and what to do about it.
FAMILY LAW: 3 Theories of the High-Conflict Case
I do a lot of consulting to family lawyers and their clients (often on the phone together), as well as many self-representing people in family court cases. These often involve high-conflict custody and access issues, although finances can also be involved. One of the biggest problems I keep seeing is that many family law professionals (lawyers, judges, mediators, evaluators, counselors, etc.) have a presumption in high-conflict cases. Here are the three most common presumptions:
Talking to Children About Divorce: Using New Ways Parent-Child Talk
One of the first questions asked by parents who are beginning the divorce process is, "What should we tell the children, and how should we tell them?" Most parents, understandably, have a tough time telling their children about their pending divorce and describing how their lives will be forever changed. This daunting task can generate feelings of guilt, sadness, and regret. Instinctually, parents may want to avoid talking about the divorce altogether in an effort to protect their children from the pain. However, failing to tell children about divorce in a timely manner can leave them feeling hurt, betrayed and even more confused.
How the New Ways Skills Structure My Mediation Sessions: Lessons from a Mediator
In my mediation practice, I offer private mediations to families in transition and child protection mediation to families involved with child welfare agencies. A good proportion of the mediations, involve families in high conflict custody and access matters. A few years back, I attended a NWFF mediation training that Bill Eddy gave at one of the AFCC annual conferences. The small shifts in practice were noteworthy, and since then, I have used the NWFF techniques in my mediations. I had already been offering NWFF counselling, so incorporating the skills seemed quite natural. The following highlights some of the ways that I make use of the skills and strategies of NWFF program.
How Parenting Without Conflict Online Course is Different Than Other Parent Education Courses
Parenting without Conflict is based on the co-parenting curriculum of New Ways for Families®. New Ways is a counseling and coaching method for parents re-organizing their families after a separation or divorce. New Ways was specifically designed for parents who are stuck in an endless cycle of defensive thinking and extreme behaviors.
How do we know it's effective? In developing the Parenting without Conflict course, the curriculum from New Ways for Families in-person program was transferred in it's entirely to an online platform. The New Ways curriculum is based on interventions proven successful: Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy. (Read more about the research completed on the in-person New Ways program).
Handling Domestic Violence in New Ways for Families
The purpose of this article is to address how New Ways can be used in domestic violence cases to reduce the conflict between the parents, move both parents closer to getting needed help, provide useful parenting information, and serve as a partial assessment tool for the court in making future orders.
What is Transformative Mediation and How Is It Connected to the New Ways for Families Method?
Mediation is a negotiation that is facilitated by a neutral third party, whose job is to help disputants find a mutually acceptable resolution to their problem. Transformative mediation is mediation's Paleo diet. It's a back-to-basics and root-source approach to mediation. Instead of seeking resolution (a settlement/agreement), transformative mediation seeks to change (transform) party-interaction, perception and approach to conflict. And, according to the theory, this is exactly what parties are really looking to achieve in conflict resolution:
Taking the Assertive Approach in Family Court
Family court presents a difficult dilemma for reasonable people. If you act reasonably and use the cooperative problem-solving skills you use in daily life, you risk losing your case, because family court is a highly adversarial process that rewards combative thinking and behavior. This is why people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) traits are often attracted to court and often win.
The Six Strategies of Subtle Emotional and Psychological Abuse
Much is written about overt abusive behavior, the kind of in-your-face actions that are easily recognizable to virtually anyone. Those more obvious forms of abusive behavior include behaviors such as yelling, screaming, name calling, threatening and intimidating as well as physical forms of violence such as hitting, kicking, pushing, shoving and strangulating up to stabbing and shooting. But what of the more subtle forms of abusive behavior?
What Children Tell a Divorce Lawyer
New Ways & Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
New Ways for Families draws upon recent research and principles drawn from evidence-based therapies, including Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Child-Inclusive Mediation, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Recent research indicates that many people with difficult and abusive personalities can change with 1) lots of structure; 2) small skills taught in small steps; 3) focus on future behavior, and 4) lots of validation from everyone working with them. Research also shows that working with parents and children together is more effective than working with them individually.
This article explains PCIT from a therapists' perspective who works extensively with the therapy, and discusses the use of PCIT in New Ways for Families.
Parenting Coordination & Skills for High-Conflict Families
Parenting Coordination has been growing rapidly around the United States and other countries along with the increase in high-conflict families during and after a divorce. This article explains the background of parenting coordination; how the authority of the parenting coordinator originates; the role of the parenting coordinator after orders (both interim and final) have been made; its effectiveness; and some of the key issues to consider and why—in addition to helping families make decisions—it presents an opportunity for families to learn skills that will help them help themselves in the long run.
Relationship Air: The Scuba Airhose Theory and Borderline Personalities
Have you ever had difficulty catching your breath? If so, you know the feelings of panic it creates. The longer you're without air, panic gives way to hysteria. Scuba divers know the importance of oxygen supply. Without it, you don't survive. Divers usually dive in pairs in case their air supply is compromised. Every diver has a second air hose and regulator to loan to a scuba partner to prevent disaster. In those moments of oxygen shortage, a diver is going to feel some panic and possibly hysteria, mostly depending on experience. They need to attach to their partner's spare air hose to get the oxygen flowing through the blood stream again. Only then does panic and hysteria subside. They feel better, they relax.
This is the best analogy I can come up with to describe relationships for people who have Borderline Personality Disorder, Complex PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), anxiety disorder, and other issues that result in relationship anxiety. Not all, but some.
Misunderstanding Family Systems in Today's Divorces: Part 2
In this Part 2, I explain how family systems adapt when there is a mental illness in the family, and how family courts misunderstand the importance of these adaptations. Since courts – and most people involved with courts – focus on individual rights and individual behavior, they tend to misunderstand the powerful part that family systems play in past and future behavior.
Misunderstanding Family Systems in Today's Divorces: Part 1
Family systems theory has been around for decades, but there is little discussion of it today. Yet understanding how family systems work can help professionals and parents going through separation and divorce. In this article, I explain some of the basics, some of what happens to family systems in divorce and how to truly help families in divorce. I also point out why the adversarial process of family courts successfully managed family conflicts in the past, but is guaranteed to fail today's high-conflict family systems (regardless of procedural changes within the adversarial structure) – whereas skillful family mediation and other non-adversarial processes can succeed.
Times of High Risk with High-Conflict People
We all have dealings with high-conflict people, in our families, at work and in our communities. They often catch us by surprise with their extreme thinking, emotions and behavior, which can include: an inability to compromise, lying, spreading rumors, stealing, damaging property, hiding money, suing their employers, frivolous lawsuits, stalking, abusing children, alienating children, domestic violence and sometimes even killing people. Yet most people scratch their heads, wondering why – and how to prevent these extreme behaviors in the future.
Skills Before Decisions: Can Difficult Clients Learn Decision-Making Skills?
This article proposes some solutions to recent concerns raised by family lawyers, counselors, mediators and judges. How do we protect the children from their parents' high-conflict behavior in separation and divorce? How do we create a shift from their negative engagement with decision-making to a positive engagement that helps parents help their children – rather than harming them, perhaps for life. I believe the answer lies in a significant paradigm shift I call skills before decisions.
You Want Me to What? High Conflict Divorce Boundaries 101
When you ask someone what he or she wants or needs, they usually begin by telling you what the DON'T want.
Very few people can actually tell you want they DO want. Even when pushed, they will tell you what they don't want. And when you focus all of your energy and attention towards what you don't want, you end up attracting just that, everything you don't want.
Working with Resistance in New Ways for Families®
High-conflict people are highly defensive, so that negative feedback tends to trigger defensiveness rather than insight, and shuts down opportunities for teaching new skills. Therefore, working effectively with "resistance" to any feedback and criticism is one of the central issues of helping high-conflict people. Because of this defensiveness, they frequently deny that they have any problems and resist every effort that counselors and other professionals make to help them – even in their own self-interest.
Rather than engage in the usual "tug-of-war" with this resistance (which the clients are very used to), New Ways Counselors are encouraged to "dance" with the resistance, or to "go with the resistance" – by non-judgmentally exploring and discussing the client's concerns while providing information, rather than arguing with or confronting the client.


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