World Cup!
Jun. 12th, 2010 06:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inmyriadbitsI watched the US-England World Cup game this afternoon! Well, I missed most of the first half because I was caught up in something else, but still. It was an okay game; we got a squirrely lucky goal to tie it up 1-1, and then managed to hold onto the tie despite the fact that the US defense was giving me a heart attack every damn time the ball was in our half. Seriously, I don't know wtf was wrong with them, but they need to cut it out. MARK UP, ASSHOLES! We did well enough, though, particularly against England, and for the opening rounds. I always feel like the rest of the world resents having to play the US in the World Cup. They don't think we appreciate soccer enough. Which we don't, but that's not the national team's fault, is it?
It was enough to make me all nostalgic and emotionally engaged, though. I played soccer for 12 years, all through school until college (it is very hard to play non-indoor soccer in New York City, y'all), so I have a History with the World Cup. It's also why I won't call it football; even though it's a better and more accurate term, but I spent over half my life playing SOCCER, so I will continue to call it that, thanks very much. And I'm a Texan, so "football" just confuses people. Anyway, it got me thinking about things like when Landon Donovan was still an adorable newbie in the 2000 Olympics. I am really fond of Landon Donovan, btw; most of the smart plays in this game, I was like "Now, who was that? ...ah, of course." ♥ I also thought about the women's national team, and how they're generally much more awesome than the men.
The US team is lucky they've always had really great goalies, though. I don't know much about Howard aside from his performance here (I don't actually follow soccer most of the time. I'm just not a sports-watching lady; I like to play.) I miss Kasey Keller, who was the US goalie for most of the World Cups and Olympics since I was old enough to remember, and was totally fierce and intense and awesome. I like goalies – my dad was a goalie when he played; I was the backup backup goalie on my various teams (read: when we were crushing some weak team 10-0 and our keeper wanted to play on the field for once in her life, I got to stand there in the damn long-sleeved jersey), so I have some affinity for the SHEER TERROR of playing that position; and I was a fullback (that's a defender, o clueless ones) pretty much all the time, and you get this mindset where you're all that stands between your sweeper and keeper and the ravening hordes, and nobody but nobody's gonna mess with them. (Basically: you fuck with the goalie or the sweeper, you DIE. I was pretty protective, is what I'm saying.)
Aaaaannnyway. Most of you probably don't care about soccer. But you do care about hot guys! So here:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sarkastic's The Non-Football Fan's Guide to the World Cup or What to do When You're Just Here for the Hot Men.
There are some BEAUTIFUL men in that post. MMMMMM. I love male soccer player bodies. They pretty much embody my type exactly: long, lean, muscular and strong but not bulky, quick, graceful, agile, no-nonsense (i.e. no strutting/posturing; soccer players always have the most amazing posture and balance). And, um, limber. :D Part of that is probably due to spending most of my years of sexual development around soccer players (hello, first crush. god he was cute. and a drummer.), but it doesn't change the fact that they are GORGEOUS.
It was enough to make me all nostalgic and emotionally engaged, though. I played soccer for 12 years, all through school until college (it is very hard to play non-indoor soccer in New York City, y'all), so I have a History with the World Cup. It's also why I won't call it football; even though it's a better and more accurate term, but I spent over half my life playing SOCCER, so I will continue to call it that, thanks very much. And I'm a Texan, so "football" just confuses people. Anyway, it got me thinking about things like when Landon Donovan was still an adorable newbie in the 2000 Olympics. I am really fond of Landon Donovan, btw; most of the smart plays in this game, I was like "Now, who was that? ...ah, of course." ♥ I also thought about the women's national team, and how they're generally much more awesome than the men.
The US team is lucky they've always had really great goalies, though. I don't know much about Howard aside from his performance here (I don't actually follow soccer most of the time. I'm just not a sports-watching lady; I like to play.) I miss Kasey Keller, who was the US goalie for most of the World Cups and Olympics since I was old enough to remember, and was totally fierce and intense and awesome. I like goalies – my dad was a goalie when he played; I was the backup backup goalie on my various teams (read: when we were crushing some weak team 10-0 and our keeper wanted to play on the field for once in her life, I got to stand there in the damn long-sleeved jersey), so I have some affinity for the SHEER TERROR of playing that position; and I was a fullback (that's a defender, o clueless ones) pretty much all the time, and you get this mindset where you're all that stands between your sweeper and keeper and the ravening hordes, and nobody but nobody's gonna mess with them. (Basically: you fuck with the goalie or the sweeper, you DIE. I was pretty protective, is what I'm saying.)
Aaaaannnyway. Most of you probably don't care about soccer. But you do care about hot guys! So here:
sarkastic's The Non-Football Fan's Guide to the World Cup or What to do When You're Just Here for the Hot Men. There are some BEAUTIFUL men in that post. MMMMMM. I love male soccer player bodies. They pretty much embody my type exactly: long, lean, muscular and strong but not bulky, quick, graceful, agile, no-nonsense (i.e. no strutting/posturing; soccer players always have the most amazing posture and balance). And, um, limber. :D Part of that is probably due to spending most of my years of sexual development around soccer players (hello, first crush. god he was cute. and a drummer.), but it doesn't change the fact that they are GORGEOUS.
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Date: 2010-06-14 02:24 pm (UTC)Onyewu is a lot bigger/more muscled than I like my men, but I could not stop staring at that picture.
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