The Soccer Thread (Version 14.5) -- We Don't Need Another Euro

That looks to be the only really tasty match.

 

USMNT beats Bolivia on Sunday. On Wednesday, a military coup is happening in Bolivia. Coincidence? I think not!

 

Yeah, the World Cup is going to hotter than hell.

Copa América refs, players and fans are suffering in U.S. heat — with 2026 World Cup looming

 

The potential for a Miami match to be drowned out in tropical downpours is way higher than zero. But I have to say, this story strikes me as a little weird. It doesn't get real hot in Brazil, Jamaica and Costa Rica? In Mexico or Venezuela? I feel for Bolivia, there's just too much oxygen at these venues for them.

 

I can’t imagine playing at 6 pm in NJ. My son and I just took a walk and I look like Patrick Ewing after an hour in the sauna.

 

Dallas, Houston, Atlanta and L.A. will all be indoors.

Miami is less than enticing for that, but maybe all their matches will be at night?

How soon we forget that sites for USA '94 included RFK, the Citrus Bowl and the Cotton Bowl.

 

Own Goal with a golazo!

Ecuador socres on a nearly IMPOSSIBLE own goal by Jamaica | 2024 Copa América | FOX Sports

 

LA isn't indoors.
It can be an oven, it has been for a couple of Rams games. But it isn't an indoor stadium. Think of it as a car port.

 

I would never call that an own goal. I must not know the definition.

Jesus, there are so many empty seats there.

 

The news peg it is hanging on is the linesman collapsing from the heat.