Preston Zimmerman is an Idiot

Preston Zimmerman is a 23 year old American playing with 3rd division German club SV Darmstadt 98. He also hates that Jurgen Klinsmann has used dual nationals. Based on a few tweets he put up it seems that he believes only “real americans”desere to play for the USA. It’s really not even worth mentioning, but it got me all hyped up so I figured I’d post it.

“I thought it would be cool getting Klinsmann as US National team coach, but I think it’s actually worse than when Bradley was coach….

“Requirements to get on US National team under Klinsmann: Be a fake American, be born outside the US, have one US distant relative

“I see the team is calling in guys who are really germans who know they’ve got no chance of playing for germany so they’ll settle with the US

“Thats embarrassing when a good friend of mine says he met one of the guys @ the airport & he couldnt reply back in English as US Natl player

“I try my hardest not to tweet US soccer stuff but there are some stuff out there that drive me crazy

“Don’t mistake any of my tweets for jealousy, I never expect to be called in or involved with anything and it doesn’t hurt my feelings

“I would just like to see true, real Americans who would live and die for this country representing our country

“But when the olympic team holds mini-camps in Germany with all ‘european players’ then something is wrong

“The kids in college are just as good, if not better, than some of the kids from the reserve teams getting invited to camp

“But the college kids don’t speak German and they don’t have ties outside the US so they don’t qualify for the US under Klinsmann

“Am I the only one here who thinks this or are there others? People have to speak up when they don’t like what’s going on

“If Klinsmann was winning and very successful with his approach then my words would carry no weight, but I don’t see any success

“squeaking out 1-0 wins against CONCACAF villages isn’t success…..

“People can bash me for whatever reason, but I hate seeing my country’s national team being misused and disrespected

“I know plenty of guys who are in the MLS and know what it’s like to play for their country who deserve a look for the US team

“I hope the US team wins and dominates just as much as anybody else because it’s my country and I want my country to be #1 and dominate

“Don’t want anybody to take my tweets negatively or as criticism to make somebody look bad, I just have passion and interest in the US team”

 

 

Just to note a few things, Tim Howard is Hungarian, Bocanegra’s Mexican, Onyewu’s Nigerian, Spector’s German, Klejstan is Bosnian, Edu’s Nigerian,Jozy’s Haitian, Stu Holden is Scottish,Landon’s Canadian and the list goes on and on. Global soccer is all about dual nationals, and if anyone should be able to understand that it should be the USA. They had these same arguments in Europe years ago and it was nothing but pure racism. We don’t need to go down that path.

Hating Giusseppi Rossi because he is arguably the best American player ever, and would fill is different from hating all dual-nationals.

Complaining about Neven Subotoc because he left the USa over a somewhat petty fight with Thomas Rongen is different.

Calling a military father a distant relative is a moronic stretch.And saying that only those willing to fight and die for the USA should be able to play really sounds pretty dumb when you recognize the military lineage.

Most importantly though, here’s a quote from Danny Williams on USsoccer.com. Think about it the next time anyone tries to say who is and isn’t an American. Their all citizens, they’re all eligible.

ussoccer.com: Have you watched U.S. National Team games in the past?

DW: “Not many because they don’t show that many games in Germany, but I always watch in the World Cup. I will never forget the game against Germany in the 2002 World Cup in the quarterfinal. This was the time that I started loving the USA. I watched the game, and normally I would support Germany. After the U.S. lost that match, I started crying. My dad asked what was going on. I didn’t know what to say, but I wanted the U.S. to win.”

March FIFA Rankings Are Out

As nothing has really happened (still) nothing has really changed that’s quite worth mentioning. The US switched places with France, dropping one spot to 19. The only match the USMNT have had that would change for these rankings I believe was the non-existent Egypt friendly. With Egypt being currently ranked 35, a win may have helped their ranking a bit and a loss wouldn’t have hurt all that much. Either way they have had no matches since the last ranking so this insignificant movement shouldn’t be shocking to anyone.

 

1	Spain	1880	0		-7
2	Netherlands	1730	0		7
3	Germany	1486	0		1
4	Argentina	1412	1		45
5	Brazil	1411	-1		-35
6	England	1212	0		17
7	Uruguay	1172	0		20
8	Croatia	1071	1		-4
9	Portugal	1060	-1		-30
10	Greece	1038	0		22
11	Italy	957	2		-8
11	Norway	957	0		-38
13	Russia	956	-1		-26
14	Chile	954	0		7
15	Japan	938	2		56
16	Ghana	931	-1		-9
17	Slovenia	916	-1		19
18	France	913	1		46
19	USA	894	-1		25
20	Serbia	872	3		35
21	Australia	870	0		23
22	Slovakia	861	-2		7
23	Switzerland	839	-1		-2
24	Paraguay	835	0		3
25	Côte d’Ivoire	824	1		11
25	Montenegro	824	0		0
27	Mexico	811	0		8
28	Denmark	788	0		-14
29	Korea Republic	749	3		14
30	Sweden	744	-1		-15
31	Czech Republic	739	-1		-12
32	Turkey	728	-1		-13
33	Ukraine	707	1		5
34	Republic of Ireland	699	1		18
35	Egypt	685	-2		-24
36	Hungary	654	1		22
37	Belarus	634	-1		-21
38	Honduras	620	1		7
39	Nigeria	609	1		5
40	Northern Ireland	605	-2		-10
40	Burkina Faso	605	1		7
42	Cameroon	580	1		-2
43	Iran	574	1		3
44	Guinea	569	2		5
45	Tunisia	568	3		8
46	South Africa	566	1		4
47	Bulgaria	558	4		3
48	Jamaica	555	11		30
49	Ecuador	553	5		16
50	Colombia	551	0		-7
50	Scotland	551	3		9

 

 

New FIFA Rankings

Since the U.S. has only played one friendly, a matchup of B squads against Chile, they were unlikely to do significant moving and have as expected remained at 18. The Asian Cup, which just completed in Qatar did have a major effect on the rankings, along with a few other friendly matches.

 

1	Spain	1887	0		0
2	Netherlands	1723	0		0
3	Germany	1485	0		0
4	Brazil	1446	0		0
5	Argentina	1367	0		29
6	England	1195	0		0
7	Uruguay	1152	0		0
8	Portugal	1090	0		0
9	Croatia	1075	0		0
10	Greece	1016	1		0
11	Norway	995	1		0
12	Russia	982	1		0
13	Italy	965	1		0
14	Chile	947	1		-3
15	Ghana	940	1		16
16	Slovenia	897	1		0
17	Japan	882	12		106
18	USA	869	0		2
19	France	867	-1		0
20	Slovakia	854	0		0
21	Australia	847	5		51
22	Switzerland	841	0		0
23	Serbia	837	0		0
24	Paraguay	832	0		0
25	Montenegro	824	0		0
26	Côte d’Ivoire	813	-5		-32
27	Mexico	803	0		8
28	Denmark	802	0		12
29	Sweden	759	4		47
30	Czech Republic	751	0		0