[JureM]

I was born and raised in New York City...I know all about having to have the doors locked...

Anyway, guys, I know the south isn't as bad as the stereotypes...but NY City is...joking....

Tim...I think they have some good soccer in Houston. Then in Dallas they used to have a big tournament called the Dallas Cup for youth teams...not sure if it still exists though. It was a pretty competitive tournament with teams from all over the US, Canada, and even other parts of the world....

 

[SCgoalkeeper]

Dallas Cup still exists, i hope one day one of my club teams are good enough to attend the tournament.

 

[JureM]

Good to know that its still around. That is a very good tournament...as is the Gothea Cup in Europe, which is a similar type tournament.

 

[Oldplayer]

Jure-M:

Dallas Cup is a very big deal in these parts.

As to the relaxed attitude, part of it is simply perception, but part of it is real. We lock the doors to our house in our small town . . . whenever we go on vacation. We'll have to spend an afternoon trying to find the damn keys athe day we leave! Haven't locked the doors to my '57 Chevy that I drive daily, for at least ten years. Yep, lost the keys! Some kids stole my tachometer in 1994. Didn't need it anyway.

Oldplayer

 

[Austin]

Houston has very good soccer !!!! Not only because I live here , but I think Texas' soccer in very under rated because we are a football state. But in 2 years of playing competitive tournaments and showcases my teams has only lost to 2 teams outside of texas. And one were state champs. We are a medocure team at best. Texas has some very good teams , especially the Dallas and Houston area. The Dallas Cup was not that big this year actually , mostly due to the sept 11 attacks.none of the euro clubs that usaully come didnt come this year. But in the past it was considered one of the premier youth cups in the world

 

[Pila]

Madonna's accent may be a farse, but don't make me wanna nail her any less though.

Noo Yawk is the joint! Some fine, fine skirt in Noo Yawk, youse know!

 

[Dae]

Tallahassee is pretty big into soccer on the high school level. On a few occasions since I've been here, a few of the local teams made the regional and final tournaments. One year, they held the finals in Tally. As a grad student, I had to volunteer at the snack booth selling cocoa. It was f*cking freezing and then they stuck my ass out taking tickets and I nearly died. It was in the 30's or upper 20's and I was not dressed for it. Those temps here are like 0 up north.


FSU girls have a decent team. They just started playing a few years ago and last year they actually made the tourney. Not bad.

 

[Pila]

Madonna's accent may be a farce... oh, I already said that, didn't I?

Seems as Soccer in the youth ranks are big everywhere (I know NJ definitely is) in the US. At some point, if for nothing else, simply because of sheer numbers, our talent pools are really going to start to bare fruit. Sh*t! I think our recent trip to the quarterfinals in Asia is already reminiscent of that fact.

 

[JureM]

Pila....New Jersey probably has some of the best soccer in the country...plus, remember how many NT players came from Kearny, NJ....here is a list from the players I can remember, you can add to it..

1. Tab Ramos
2. John Harkes
3. Tony Meola
4. Claudio Reyna

I want to say there are a couple more but the names excape me...but those are the big 4 that have represented our country well...

 

[Kerry]

In a couple of weeks I'm going to Blaine, Minn. for the USA Cup. Boys and girls from 10 to 19 in A, B, C flights. 800 teams, 12,000 players, 500 refs. It might be down from last year, but it should still be a great tourney.

I saw a team last year from a small town in Montana. 15 year old boys. They were outstanding. Every kid from the town in that age group was on the team. I told the parents they had a good gene pool. Hey, a refs got to get brownie points someway.

I guarantee you that we will get better. No doubt about it.

 

[Pila]

Pila....New Jersey probably has some of the best soccer in the country...plus, remember how many NT players came from Kearny, NJ....here is a list from the players I can remember, you can add to it..

1. Tab Ramos
2. John Harkes
3. Tony Meola
4. Claudio Reyna

I want to say there are a couple more but the names excape me...but those are the big 4 that have represented our country well...

There's three more you forgot to mention:

Pila: Product of Elizabeth (10 minute drive to Kearny)
RedEagle: Product of Newark (10 minute walk)
England66: Product of Kearny

 

[Freddie]

We have a Kearny native boy on my over 35 team, our keeper.... Mexican mom, Italian dad, great guy, 6' 4" about 230lbs, gregarious software salesman who makes tons of dough, smokes Cuban cigars after the game while we drink beers out of the back of his Cadillac Escalade. The Earth's environment must beware when Billy is around, as must opposing forwards.

 

[Pila]

I can handle him. Just look at my stats, freddie:

Portuguese mom.

Portuguese dad.

5'6 1/2 (with cleats on)

About 147lbs

Drinks beer, eats Pizza, smokes Marlboro, chases skirt (timed once in the forty at 4 minutes and 13.3 seconds with Pizza slice and beer in hand in my prime - though admittedly, it was on turf and indoors... with a favorable wind).

 

[Freddie]

You coulda just stopped at Portugese mom and dad. That is all you need to know to tell you someone won't back down. I was on this board for a week or so before I said the wrong thing to Alc when I stepped between him and another chop when they were fighting, and he ripped me about 6 new aholes electronically. That was my welcome to Portugese cyberspace.

 

[Dae]

Yes, they are a fiesty bunch, aren't they? roud:

 

[Pila]

You coulda just stopped at Portugese mom and dad. That is all you need to know to tell you someone won't back down. I was on this board for a week or so before I said the wrong thing to Alc when I stepped between him and another chop when they were fighting, and he ripped me about 6 new aholes electronically. That was my welcome to Portugese cyberspace.

Hehe Alc is a trip - and you'd be surprised at what a p*ussy cat he really is, though. Yet, the dude's rigged Boston jungle - multi-generations of manual labor conditioned genes that consists in his Portuguese personality leaves one no doubt what's what, should it come to that.

 

[Freddie]

My buddy was bangin' this chick for a coupla weeks or months, whatever, back in the day, when he was going to school in Providence RI. She was Portugese from Cranston RI, smokin' bod and face, with this gutter mouth and hard-ass street tough accent that would blow a buzzard off a sh!twagon. Not the home of Miss Teen USA, Cranston.

 

[Pila]

I pro'lly know her. Back in them pre-historic days of High school, I knew of such a girl. She had to be no taller than 4' 10… killin bod, pro'lly weighed in at about 85lbs. But, I saw her once knock this Puerto Rican group of 3 gangsta chicks out silly. One of them covered about 20 feet of new waxed hallway floor when she grabbed hold of the gangsta's hair and swung her around a couple of times like she was one of them there Olympic hammers. At the end of the fight, she was busted up pretty good, but she didn't look any worse than the other three. Had to be one of the most impressive things I have ever seen.

 

[Kerry]

Man, why can't I meet chicks like that.:fero:

 

[Pila]

Man, why can't I meet chicks like that.:fero:

Bwahahaha

I hear ya, man!