Red, White and Very Blue

I won't spend too much time recapping the USA-Czech Republic game, as it was easily the lowlight of an otherwise great trip. The smiles you see on our faces here were wiped off pretty quickly after kickoff.

The Czechs scored five minutes in, took a 2-0 lead before halftime, and won 3-0 over a U.S. squad that looked intimidated and scared. When I was eight and playing soccer, my dad once shouted at me "Stop being so tentative!" It's pretty funny in retrospect, because the other parents wondered how an eight-year old was supposed to know what "tentative" meant. Anyway, I kept thinking about that watching the U.S. play.

The best part of the game? The introductions.