Everything Soccer

[ACamp1900]

Haha no worries man.
yeah enjoying it so far dude. was lucky enough to get settled pretty quickly with a job, car lease, and then free accommodation with my wife's family. Going from five weeks holidays to five days per annum is tough but to be honest the work culture is kind of a myth. People might spend more time in the office here but they don't do any more work than folks do in Europe. There is a lot of time wasting here and people just running down the clock for the sake of it.

We went from living in a modern European capital to a small town in the midwest with very little diversity so there is always going to be that adjustment too but we have met some really open minded folks in the area with similar views to ourselves. I feel like this is quite common here, there are a lot of young couples with 1 or 2 kids who used to live in Chicago or places like that but have moved out here for the cheaper cost of living and the opportunities to not have to raise a family in a small expensive apartment.

Looking forward to the summer now and the chance to get out waterskiing, tubing and kayaking. Will have family over from Ireland for a few weeks in July and am excited to spend time with them. This spring I have been a volunteer assistant coach for a local high school girls varsity soccer team and I have loved every minute of it. I will either coach football or boys soccer in the fall if they will have me

All in all its been good and I am not homesick really, just enjoying life and meeting new people all the time and sharing my experience and viewpoints as a foreigner

Reps man, your lady is a yank correct (I think I remember you mentioning that)...??

Your timing is pretty good for a soccer fan. I work with a couple of Englishmen in their 50s. They grew up major soccer fans and all but gave up on sports when they came here during their early 20s and such because you simply could not get it on TV, like at all... ever. This whole soccer multiple channels and being able to follow Euro leagues is a very recent development. I grew up not even knowing who the hell Man U, Barca and the like were until well into my 20s and I was as rapid a sports fan then as I am now.

 

[zelezo vlk]

Haha no worries man.
yeah enjoying it so far dude. was lucky enough to get settled pretty quickly with a job, car lease, and then free accommodation with my wife's family. Going from five weeks holidays to five days per annum is tough but to be honest the work culture is kind of a myth. People might spend more time in the office here but they don't do any more work than folks do in Europe. There is a lot of time wasting here and people just running down the clock for the sake of it.


All in all its been good and I am not homesick really, just enjoying life and meeting new people all the time and sharing my experience and viewpoints as a foreigner

Are you telling me, that AS A FOREIGNER, you came and took a job out of the hands of a hardworking, red-blooded American patriot?

 

[ACamp1900]

Trump needs to build a wall between us and Ireland...

 

[dublinirish]

Reps man, your lady is a yank correct (I think I remember you mentioning that)...??

Your timing is pretty good for a soccer fan. I work with a couple of Englishmen in their 50s. They grew up major soccer fans and all but gave up on sports when they came here during their early 20s and such because you simply could not get it on TV, like at all... ever. This whole soccer multiple channels and being able to follow Euro leagues is a very recent development. I grew up not even knowing who the hell Man U, Barca and the like were until well into my 20s and I was as rapid a sports fan then as I am now.

yeah dude my wife is a MSU grad and spent 5 years in Ireland before we headed to the Mitt. Yeah as a young father I am loving the live EPL on weekend mornings when I am up trying to get our 1 and a half year old to simultaneously eat breakfast and not wake the whole house up

It's funny because obviously i have been following soccer since probably 1988 but alot of the folks i talk to about the sport will reference games from "history" that took place in like 2007 or so Funny to see too what teams the kids pick as their favourites. In Ireland growing up all we had really was English and Scottish Football so everybody liked Celtic, Liverpool, Man United because of their success at the time. Nowadays the kids in the US are fans of Barca, Real, Bayern, Chelsea, Man City etc. PSG are playing Roma in Tigers stadium this summer and I'd be interested to go along, pity its midweek though.

 

[dublinirish]

Are you telling me, that AS A FOREIGNER, you came and took a job out of the hands of a hardworking, red-blooded American patriot?

Trump needs to build a wall between us and Ireland...

Ironically my job sends me down to Mexico to do work there every few months. I am stealing a job from two countries at once

 

[zelezo vlk]

Ironically my job sends me down to Mexico to do work there every few months. I am stealing a job from two countries at once

 

[ACamp1900]

Going from five weeks holidays to five days per annum is tough but to be honest the work culture is kind of a myth. People might spend more time in the office here but they don't do any more work than folks do in Europe. There is a lot of time wasting here and people just running down the clock for the sake of it.

You take that back Irishman... I work very hard posting on IE all day.

my wife is a MSU grad

Fuck me.

... everybody liked Celtic, Liverpool, Man United because of their success at the time. Nowadays the kids in the US are fans of Barca, Real, Bayern, Chelsea, Man City etc. PSG are playing Roma in Tigers stadium this summer and I'd be interested to go along, pity its midweek though.

It went from A+ to F- real quick didn't it??? Freakin Americans with their McDonald's sweats and their mercenary team bandwagon fandom.

 

[GowerND11]

yeah dude my wife is a MSU grad and spent 5 years in Ireland before we headed to the Mitt. Yeah as a young father I am loving the live EPL on weekend mornings when I am up trying to get our 1 and a half year old to simultaneously eat breakfast and not wake the whole house up

It's funny because obviously i have been following soccer since probably 1988 but alot of the folks i talk to about the sport will reference games from "history" that took place in like 2007 or so Funny to see too what teams the kids pick as their favourites. In Ireland growing up all we had really was English and Scottish Football so everybody liked Celtic, Liverpool, Man United because of their success at the time. Nowadays the kids in the US are fans of Barca, Real, Bayern, Chelsea, Man City etc. PSG are playing Roma in Tigers stadium this summer and I'd be interested to go along, pity its midweek though.

Meanwhile I pick Arsenal... ARSENAL. I must be a Notre Dame fan to do that as I got into it. (Some will say Liverpool fits more, but Bah!)

 

[dublinirish]

You take that back Irishman... I work very hard posting on IE all day.

Fuck me.

It went from A+ to F- real quick didn't it??? Freakin Americans with their McDonald's sweats and their mercenary team bandwagon fandom.

Aha yeah I guess that's normal the world over now in regards to sports fandom because access is so available now to everyone through internet. I was down in Chihuahua in Mexico for 3 weeks and I swear the most popular sports team down there is the New England Patriots :S

 

[ACamp1900]

I was down in Chihuahua in Mexico for 3 weeks and I swear the most popular sports team down there is the New England Patriots :S

Build.
That.
Wall.

 

[NorthDakota]

Build.
That.
Wall.

MAGA. We we will take the wall down after the Mexican people embrace the Irish and Steelers.

 

[nlroma1o]

Who here owns soccer jerseys/kits etc??

I have quite a few jerseys...

I have some where around 15 club/national team jerseys, but I have lost quite a few... which annoys the hell out of me. And then I also have a few of my own team jerseys I wore during my younger days playing club, some old jerseys from my highschool that I took out of the field shed at the end of senior year. I have a bunch of old ND soccer jerseys from the 90s bc my neighbor growing up was Coach Berticelli and he just gave them to me and my brother. I still have socks from random clubs I guest played for when I was like 14/15 years old. Basically I just have a big box full of old soccer stuff my wife wishes I would get rid of, but I refuse because it like throwing out my childhood. lol

 

[Emcee77]

yeah dude my wife is a MSU grad and spent 5 years in Ireland before we headed to the Mitt. Yeah as a young father I am loving the live EPL on weekend mornings when I am up trying to get our 1 and a half year old to simultaneously eat breakfast and not wake the whole house up

It's funny because obviously i have been following soccer since probably 1988 but alot of the folks i talk to about the sport will reference games from "history" that took place in like 2007 or so Funny to see too what teams the kids pick as their favourites. In Ireland growing up all we had really was English and Scottish Football so everybody liked Celtic, Liverpool, Man United because of their success at the time. Nowadays the kids in the US are fans of Barca, Real, Bayern, Chelsea, Man City etc. PSG are playing Roma in Tigers stadium this summer and I'd be interested to go along, pity its midweek though.

Ha so true. This is how I became an EPL fan.

 

[ACamp1900]

MAGA. We we will take the wall down after the Mexican people embrace the Irish and Steelers.

Wars are fought over bullshit like this.

 

[NorthDakota]

Wars are fought over bullshit like this.

Anytime old man. This "war" will look a lot like Germany v. Brazil in the semi-final.

 

[ACamp1900]

Anytime old man. This "war" will look a lot like Germany v. Brazil in the semi-final.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Anytime old man. This "war" will look a lot like Germany v. Brazil in the semi-final.

Since Aaron is a Browns fan, I feel like this comparison is selling Brazil short. I mean, Oscar did at least score a pity goal at the end...

 

[ACamp1900]

Since Aaron is a Browns fan, I feel like this comparison is selling Brazil short.

Nothing but hardened warriors in the Browns fan foxhole... those bandwagon snowflakes waving around their sanitary napkins on the other hand....

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Nothing but hardened warriors in the Browns fan foxhole... those bandwagon snowflakes waving around their sanitary napkins on the other hand....

That's a funny way to spell "masochist".

 

[ACamp1900]

That's a funny way to spell "masochist".

Get back to me in three years... ND will probably be rocking a Browns jersey.

 

[Rogue219]

So Man United are going to buy Keane back from Burnley and Lukaku could be going back to Chelsea?

Some scene, this.

 

[ACamp1900]

Ironically Dortmund debuted a new jersey today.... straight fire. Like Celtic and Dortmund mixed...

 

[ACamp1900]

Aberdeen just earned their first win at IBrox in over a quarter century... securing second place.

 

[dublinirish]

Ironically Dortmund debuted a new jersey today.... straight fire. Like Celtic and Dortmund mixed...

Dortmund should never have left this colour scheme, was so typically 90's and German at the same time haha

 

[NorthDakota]

So Man United are going to buy Keane back from Burnley and Lukaku could be going back to Chelsea?

Some scene, this.

I honestly don't understand why these guys would want to go back to clubs that didn't think they were good enough earlier in their careers. It's as if these guys don't feel insulted at all.

 

[dublinirish]

I honestly don't understand why these guys would want to go back to clubs that didn't think they were good enough earlier in their careers. It's as if these guys don't feel insulted at all.

have you ever hooked up with an ex?

 

[GowerND11]

have you ever hooked up with an ex?

So I'm Manchester United... Niceeeeee

 

[NorthDakota]

have you ever hooked up with an ex?

Only the ones I've dumped. Not the other way around, fuck that.

 

[ACamp1900]

Only the ones I've dumped. Not the other way around, fuck that.

Yes, .... fuck that.

 

[Rogue219]

I honestly don't understand why these guys would want to go back to clubs that didn't think they were good enough earlier in their careers. It's as if these guys don't feel insulted at all.

The other end of it is what shitty business it is by the club.

Meanwhile, Juve is 2/3 of the way to a Treble despite selling off all these guys in recent years, including Pogba.