the onetwo initiative

so today, after spending some lovely time at work on www.ussoccer.com and watching some videos to distract myself from the fact that i still had 6 more hours of work left, i stumbled upon the Men's National Team: Playing in Guatemala vid. it was talking about the stress of playing in a different nation and how some of the players deal with the adversity of not only playing in front of a hostile crowd, but the fact they deal with people calling their rooms at 3am, radio stations setting up outside their hotel, fans jeering them at the airport and the like. pretty legit stuff. but when these teams come to play the US in the US, do they face the same sort of treatment? not usually. why not? shouldn't their games on the road be as stressful as possible BEFORE the game starts too? I certainly feel like it. and that is where the onetwo initiative rears its (optimistically) very ugly head.

basically, the onetwo initiative is an attempt to organize US Men's National Team fans across the US to rally behind our boys and also make life suck for their opponents. i will start a group on facebook that allows us to connect and work on how to screw with the Guatemalans, the Cubans, the T&T fellows, and quite certainly the Mexicans, along with any other team the US might face along their road to WC2010. Unfortunately, because a) i am poor and b) i am on the west coast, I can only do so much. but if someone can get me the hotel name and room numbers in Chicago, Columbus or any other city in the US, I would love to waste my precious family plan cellphone minutes giving mr. ruiz and mr. blanco calls to discuss items such as why they suck and that nobody likes them. because its time to take being a fan of the USMNT to a whole new level. so, if you are interested, post, or look on facebook for "the onetwo initiative" and join up, so that we can start acting like the rest of concacaf, while playing like the beast the US national team is.

peace