Comments on: Just-Football’s Confederations Cup 2009 Team Of The Tournament (Italian Free Zone) http://www.just-football.com/2009/06/confederations-cup-team-of-tournament/ Football news, views & analysis - Your world football blog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:55:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Just Football http://www.just-football.com/2009/06/confederations-cup-team-of-tournament/comment-page-1/#comment-944 Just Football Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:04:46 +0000 http://69.89.31.52/~justfoot/soccer-blog/2009/06/just-footballs-confederations-cup-2009-team-of-the-tournament-italian-free-zone.html#comment-944 I think you're right johnv, sitting back really only played into Brazil's hands. You also only have to look at the 2 teams' substitutions to realise the difference in both thinking and indeed calibre: Bornstein and Kljestan on for US, Elano and Dani Alves on for Brazil. Sort of sums up how the pendulum was swinging Brazil's way. <br /><br />I also thought it odd that Bradley took off Altidore, effectively giving the Brazil defence even less to worry about, meaning they could press further up the pitch and turn the screw yet more.<br /><br />As for Howard, poor guy: 2 cup finals, 2 defeat this season. If you see him in the supermarket send him our condolences ;-) I think you're right johnv, sitting back really only played into Brazil's hands. You also only have to look at the 2 teams' substitutions to realise the difference in both thinking and indeed calibre: Bornstein and Kljestan on for US, Elano and Dani Alves on for Brazil. Sort of sums up how the pendulum was swinging Brazil's way.

I also thought it odd that Bradley took off Altidore, effectively giving the Brazil defence even less to worry about, meaning they could press further up the pitch and turn the screw yet more.

As for Howard, poor guy: 2 cup finals, 2 defeat this season. If you see him in the supermarket send him our condolences ;-)

]]> By: johnv http://www.just-football.com/2009/06/confederations-cup-team-of-tournament/comment-page-1/#comment-945 johnv Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:21:17 +0000 http://69.89.31.52/~justfoot/soccer-blog/2009/06/just-footballs-confederations-cup-2009-team-of-the-tournament-italian-free-zone.html#comment-945 As an American, I was pleasantly surprised to see our team do so well at the tournament. I really think the game was there for the taking, especially after going up 2-0. Sitting back was only inviting disaster though and hopefully the team will learn from this mistake.<br /><br />A funny side note, Tim Howard lives some of the year in the same community as I do (Germantown, TN which is a suburb of Memphis). He's married to a local girl and I've seen him a time or two at the supermarket. It's funny, one of the best goalkeepers in the world can go out in the middle of the day and buy milk and eggs and no one even gives him a second look! As an American, I was pleasantly surprised to see our team do so well at the tournament. I really think the game was there for the taking, especially after going up 2-0. Sitting back was only inviting disaster though and hopefully the team will learn from this mistake.

A funny side note, Tim Howard lives some of the year in the same community as I do (Germantown, TN which is a suburb of Memphis). He's married to a local girl and I've seen him a time or two at the supermarket. It's funny, one of the best goalkeepers in the world can go out in the middle of the day and buy milk and eggs and no one even gives him a second look!

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