Who do u think is going to win??

me: Mexico of course ;)

I say mexico.

COSTA RICA!

it would be tough for mexico, my national team is going to send "rookies" :D :(

MEXICO

WOW i didnt knew mexico was keeping its popularity in CONCACAF after the game VS CR in el estadio azteca

Mexico 1 CR 2

I think it's Mexico, but remmeber last time. Who won? Yeah, Canada!!!!!!!!! Nevermind, they won't win now, but i will be hoping for them to win, only if they will even play. But Mexico is good, i still like that Boghretti guy or whatever he is no.9, becuase we have the same boots!

Originally posted by Help?
I think it's Mexico, but remmeber last time. Who won? Yeah, Canada!!!!!!!!! Nevermind, they won't win now, but i will be hoping for them to win, only if they will even play. But Mexico is good, i still like that Boghretti guy or whatever he is no.9, becuase we have the same boots!

Borgetti, yeah he is a very good player, although he is not playing this championship

im hoping for el salvador altough i really dont care :)

Originally posted by terrorcop
im hoping for el salvador altough i really dont care :)

sorry about that :)

Originally posted by terrorcop
im hoping for el salvador altough i really dont care :)


El salvador??? i know u dont care, but why el salvador??? :confused:

go USA
USA
USA

i hope they win it

Originally posted by ShearerM4
go USA
USA
USA

i hope they win it

What a come back of the USA

bTW the part i hate of this is that al editions r in the USA :mad:

i wish USA win too.....but.........:rolleyes:

Originally posted by IceBlu
i wish USA win too.....but.........:rolleyes:

yeah i know

*but what?* :D

Canada will repeat as Champions!!!

Go Canucks!!!:D :D :D

Costa Rica is going to take it this time. Martinique surprised us ticos in the opening match, but C.R. came out on top. Mexico didn't look like too much of a "giant" against El Salvador. I still think Mexico will make it to the semis. The final four are going to be the U.S.A, Mexico, Ecuador and Costa Rica.

Ok amigo Mexico has send to Gold Cup the sub23 except for 3 players,this players havent play together so it will be tough for Mexico but i think we can do it

BTW Ecuador lost against haiti jaja

Mexico IS the giant of CONCACAF

Oh why oh why couldn't Ecuador just have made life easy by beating Haiti. Canada is still in a good position to win the group, but a win by Ecuador would've guaranteed Canada a spot in the quarters.

Oh well... I guess we'll just have to beat Ecuador ourselves on Tuesday to see whether we'll have the pleasure of taking down Costa Rica or Trinidad & Tobago.....

:D :D

I can't believe Ecuador lost. What a surprise. Costa Rica should have come out of the last game with three points, but that last call was indeed a penalty.

BTW I don't think Aguirre is using the sub-23 team. Remember, he wants to get six players from this gold cup team and put them on the World Cup squad. I doubt that he would pick players out of the sub-23 team. And besides the sub-23 Mexican team is very bad. They didn't even qualify for the "mundial juvenil". Mexico is still a good soccer country, but you have to admit that they use to be much better and that other countries in the CONCACAF (Costa Rica, Honduras) use to be much worse.

And Canada is most certainly in the next round. Ecuador has to beat them 3-0 to adavance. I doubt that will happen.

"Canada may never score, but we're sure good at coin tosses"

-unnamed Canadian Football Fan

Well, after being robbed of a goal against Haiti, having a handball allowed as a goal, and penalized for a dive in the box, Canada emerges with a little justice off the field for actions on the field.

Somebody shoot me.....CANADA WILL WIN.....no!!!!!!

Originally posted by still_nameless
I can't believe Ecuador lost. What a surprise. Costa Rica should have come out of the last game with three points, but that last call was indeed a penalty.

BTW I don't think Aguirre is using the sub-23 team. Remember, he wants to get six players from this gold cup team and put them on the World Cup squad. I doubt that he would pick players out of the sub-23 team. And besides the sub-23 Mexican team is very bad. They didn't even qualify for the "mundial juvenil". Mexico is still a good soccer country, but you have to admit that they use to be much better and that other countries in the CONCACAF (Costa Rica, Honduras) use to be much worse.

And Canada is most certainly in the next round. Ecuador has to beat them 3-0 to adavance. I doubt that will happen.

But this is a new generation of sub 23 players

Gareth...

<BANG>

It WILL happen... next to fall.. Fearsome Martinique..

Originally posted by strobe_z
Gareth...

<BANG>

It WILL happen... next to fall.. Fearsome Martinique..

yeah whatever :rolleyes:

the gold cup suckssssssssssss
i dont undestand why is always play in the usa( i think money)
the gold cup is the only turnament that is play in the same ****ing country year after year which i think sucks
the american always have home advantage which i think is not fair
i think other countries should have the right of holding the tornament , i mean the african countries do it and the asians and the rest of the world
why not the concacafffff???????????????????

Mexico will win.

i would say mexico although i dont go for any team nut i'll just settle with mexico.

I put myself up to the challange of watching a little "gold cup" football, and i wasn't impressed...it's very boring, it lacks essence and excitement. I hope the MLS will add 2 more divisions to their league and form a "European like" league. That would seriously improve the quality of football in the U.S. I agree that it's not fair for the U.S. to host the gold cup every single time...but it's all about the $$$ not football.

yeah its like US cup

Gold cup sux, imagine mexico use it for training

I think the US hosts the gold cup because there are so many soccer loving immigrants living within its borders. This guarantees attendence at the games. Its just all about the money. Imagine the attendence at a Trinidad vs. Martinique game in Mexico City.

Once again, final four: Canada vs US and Mexico vs. Costa Rica

Final U.S vs Costa Rica

What do you guys think??

That's exactly why the US always hosts the Gold Cup... and why in those 2 cities in particular. It's just about the ONLY place in the CONCACAF that you can host a tournament with so many minnows and hope to have ANY kind of draw.

I think you're spot on with the final four predictions. Korea may give Mexico a bit to handle, but they looked a little uninspired in the match against Cuba, and Mexico seems to be getting better.

I'd LOVE to see a Canada/US matchup... But I'm not convinced that Costa Rica is a lock on the final two. They've looked a LOT less than spectacular. 2-0 over Martinique? One of the goals OBVIOUSLY offside (not 1 but 2 men!!)... that's less then spectacular, a 1-1 draw with a really subpar T&T team? Mexico should (assuming they get past Korea.. that's probably the toughest matchup in this round) have a good shot at taking out Costa Rica... if Haiti doesn't do it for them first.

damn!! martinica sux..they could have defeated canada in the penalty kicks..i think they did it on purpose..damn martiniques...and,HA!!! korea eliminated mexico!! :D :D :D i think the final will be costa rica vs canada

ISS sucks Tom!

Originally posted by Tom Green
damn!! martinica sux..they could have defeated canada in the penalty kicks..i think they did it on purpose..damn martiniques...and,HA!!! korea eliminated mexico!! :D :D :D i think the final will be costa rica vs canada

this **** is fixed did you see how he missed that penalty man i almost threw up i saw it coming from a mile away and btw even touigh martinique was on the defence they played better then canada(just by a bit) altough canada was unlucky for that second goal but anyway that penalty was really on purpose im not ever again going to watch a canada soccer game in my life

hmmph..:mad: :confused:

korea will won gold cup

This mexina national team SUX

we lost vs Corea in penalties

It was a really interesting game against Martinique, but once again Canada was robbed of a completly legitimate Goal. Thank god justice was served in the penalties, but it should've never happened!

Martinique is a good team, and they too were ripped off in their game against Costa Rica.. 2 men were offside. Canada had a legitimate goal against Haiti disallowed.. the whole drawing lots also never should've happened.

God, against Corea¡¡¡ that humiliating, thanks coach nice work hope u learned that experiments 6 months before WC r not good F*cking bastard

I truly feel sad for Mexico and Korea (especially in 2002). That match today was one of the worst games I've ever seen in my life...

I'll just summarize: Korea ruled Mexico in every department...they could pass better, tackle better, dribble better, ran better, but when it came to making the easiest goals, they looked like 1st time footballers.

Mexico, on the other hand, were probably the ugliest team I've ever seen...for the full 90 minutes, they resorted to longball...whenenever they had the ball to the halfway line, they'd always boot it as far as they can...what they didn't realize is that the Koreans could not only run twice as fast the Mexicans, but they could also jump several feet above them...so, why boot it when there's no chance of getting the ball?

Bottom line: Korea deserved the win over Mexico...but when they get to the World Cup, I predict a world of embarrassment for both nations...

Originally posted by Voltaire
I truly feel sad for Mexico and Korea (especially in 2002). That match today was one of the worst games I've ever seen in my life...

I'll just summarize: Korea ruled Mexico in every department...they could pass better, tackle better, dribble better, ran better, but when it came to making the easiest goals, they looked like 1st time footballers.

Mexico, on the other hand, were probably the ugliest team I've ever seen...for the full 90 minutes, they resorted to longball...whenenever they had the ball to the halfway line, they'd always boot it as far as they can...what they didn't realize is that the Koreans could not only run twice as fast the Mexicans, but they could also jump several feet above them...so, why boot it when there's no chance of getting the ball?

Bottom line: Korea deserved the win over Mexico...but when they get to the World Cup, I predict a world of embarrassment for both nations...

Wait, Mexico DID played ugly BUT we didnt send the REAL team it was just an "amateur team" but belive me mexico is going to do like 98 or better

Originally posted by strobe_z
It was a really interesting game against Martinique, but once again Canada was robbed of a completly legitimate Goal. Thank god justice was served in the penalties, but it should've never happened!

Martinique is a good team, and they too were ripped off in their game against Costa Rica.. 2 men were offside. Canada had a legitimate goal against Haiti disallowed.. the whole drawing lots also never should've happened.

the concacaf referees are the worst in the world..i cant believe how much they sucked in this gold cup..a lot of penaltys not called,a lot of red card fouls not called,fake fouls and offsides being called..gosh,they really suck ass:mad:

okay enough complaining you guys should know that we it doesnt matter if it is amateur or professional mexicans suck at penaltys and i admit it we never been good at penaltys:( :(

Mexico's level of soccer has gone down, plain and simple. Don't use the shoot out as an excuse. The korean gk stopped TWO shots. Korean was undeniably superior.

Also, don't use the fact that it was an "amatuer" team as an excuse. Yes, I will acknowledge that Mexico does have a better team that they didn't use. But don't forget to realize that using a team of complete amatuers means one of two things:
1. That country doesn't care about the tournament.
or
2. That the "A" team isn't that good and the coach needs to experiment in order to put together a better squad.

Obviously, Mexico DID care about this cup because they wanted to make up for a bad qualifying round. So this elimination demonstrates that Mexico is, bluntly put, in deep sh.it. I hope that they can pull it together for the World Cup. I want all three CONCACAF teams to go far and get some more respect.

oh well.
canadian guy: u said costa rica played bad against caribean team....you mention trinidad as a weak team....maybe u forgot that trinidad kick your ass last wc elimination. and, u said that cr will not reach the finals....i hope we do it, and i hope canada do it too.....so u can continue talking crap of cr after ur team lose.

mauricio: i can hardly understand why aguirre didn´t take his boys to the gold cup, you as fans should let him know how angry u are, cause this is a serius tournament.....remember that the champions reach copa américa and copa confederaciones!! dont worry costa rica will give their best to beat the coreans.

tomgreen: la bala gomez.....callando bocas otra vez!!!!


referres: SUCKS!!! there was a clear penalty against wanchope.....and theen again.....to the D.A. who said we won against trinidad because of an ilegitim goal, i remember u there was another CLEAR penalty shoot not called cause a HAND of one of those caribeans.

nice going cr!!

LOL...

I guess I'm "canadian guy"


Enzo, Costa Rica is pretty much the only team in the competition with their full on World Cup squad, I was merely saying that I expected more out of them. I've yet to see the Ticos blow away any of their competition.. something I thought was going to be a sure thing seeing as how just about every other squad (including Mexico and Canada) brought teams which are far from their best.

Martinique (a team I've grown to respect) played CR a lot closer than I expected and got ripped off on the first goal with CR having 2 men offside. T&T got lucky to get that weird penalty in injury time, but still the fact that the CR couldn't put them away earlier was surprising. The Haiti game was also closer than I expected seeing as how we handled them so easily.

Oh.. I haven't forgotten the WCQ losses to T&T, but I also haven't forgotten the 2000 Gold Cup wins against CR and T&T either. Canada ran into some bad injury luck, and got behind... as everyone here knows, a loss in football makes it even harder to win the next game.

I do agree that the officiating is crap though... I was surprised they didn't try to call back our penalty shots goals on an offside! They've ripped us off of 2 legitimate goals already...

to the german guy:
neither mexico or corea are gonna make a bad wcup or end humillated as you said. let me remind you that in world cup 94 the korea team give a HARD time to germany......end the match 3-2..... and let me remind you....that your team whas the one and only true humilliated last year......being defeatead home 5-1 (or 4 cant recall) against england. (they do have a team)

so shut up....cause u dont have any reason to be talking **** about mexico and korea.

lol
canadian guy
thanks for ur reply.
ok....

FIRST!!!!! u did not defeat costa rica in gold cup!!! :PPPP haha so i see ur memory is failing. in fact..... u should remember how lucky you where in the coin toss against corea....cause costa rica won the group :P

second!!!! yes we are using almost the entire wc team. so? GIVE ME A BREAK.... there´s no such thing as excuses in this kind of heavy cups.... teams must bring their best stuf... so dont give me the "oh we bring the second team" . In fact....is kinda funny canada got that much players..hehe. where are the first team? and why.... u dont send it? the gold cup is the must important competition u can expect to play...so i dont understand!
far from beein their best? come on....dont make me laugh :P

third!!! i respect ALL caribean teams. and i must admit i whas expecting better futbol from costa rica, but i must say....what is it with mex gringos and now canadians talking about costa rica playing bad? seems to me u all forget pretty fast.... and ou are not actually watching the games. the worst part is the "oh we send or 2nd team" ask mauricio..... mauricio.....are you happy with the 2nd team thing? hell tell you the hell with 2nd team thing. a) take gold cup seriously and send ur "best" team. b) any caribean team must be respect it, they are black players....pretty fast and strong.....they just need more organization. look what jamaica all ready did in 98....they reach the world cup!!

4th: yup that goal was offside..... but the game end it 2-0 so? we didn´t have so much trouble as you have going to penaltys (oh i forgot....u send ur 2 team.....)

5th...as everyone here knows, a loss in football makes it even harder to win the next game. i can´t share that. look at mexico...they did as ave fenix...rise and defeat everybody to reach the cup (well not everybody.... ) :P

6th.... any way.....the only thing that trully sucks is the fact that us ALWAYS play home this cup. thats why they will always have my suppourt for the other team... in this case i wish canada to won the game and get to the finals.... and if case costa rica lose to korea i aslo hope canada reach the championship. it would be cool.

cheers!!

still_nameless
i must agree with you. totally.

Enzo,

FIRST!!!! you're right... We drew against Costa Rica in 2000... and Costa Rica won the group because they also drew against Korea, but scored more goals overall....

SECOND!!! :D I didn't say that bringing a second rate team was the way to go! I can't comment on Mexico, but for Canada it's 'cause we don't have any choice... We're using our 3rd string keeper 'cause 1 an 2 are injured. Our top striker Carlo Corazzin (who won the golden boot in 2000) is injured as is one of our best mid-fielders Paul Peschisolido. Having a team of under-23's for the most part wasn't our first choice, but we're making do.

THIRD!!! :cool: I respect the Caribbean teams too... and I didn't say CR was playing bad, just not as well as I expected!

FOURTH!!! If that offside goal hadn't counted who knows what would've happened. From experience, Martinique is a counter-attacking team.. once they got behind they had to move forward. If that hadn't happened maybe they would've caught CR on a counter... who knows though... (and I didn't see the game).

Also, Canda was ripped off on ANOTHER goal called back because of a phantom offside.. that game should NEVER have gone to penalties... you can check any replay if you don't believe me....

FIFTH!! I didn't say it was impossible! Just harder!!:rolleyes:

SIXTH!!! I have no idea what you mean... but if you're saying you'd rather see the Gold Cup in the hands of CONCACAF countries.. I totally agree with you. I like the Korean team ('cause I lived there) but I don't want them to win 'our' Cup!

:p

Originally posted by Enzo
oh well.
canadian guy: u said costa rica played bad against caribean team....you mention trinidad as a weak team....maybe u forgot that trinidad kick your ass last wc elimination. and, u said that cr will not reach the finals....i hope we do it, and i hope canada do it too.....so u can continue talking crap of cr after ur team lose.

mauricio: i can hardly understand why aguirre didn´t take his boys to the gold cup, you as fans should let him know how angry u are, cause this is a serius tournament.....remember that the champions reach copa américa and copa confederaciones!! dont worry costa rica will give their best to beat the coreans.

tomgreen: la bala gomez.....callando bocas otra vez!!!!


referres: SUCKS!!! there was a clear penalty against wanchope.....and theen again.....to the D.A. who said we won against trinidad because of an ilegitim goal, i remember u there was another CLEAR penalty shoot not called cause a HAND of one of those caribeans.

nice going cr!!

Well mexico send those ameteurs players to see if he coukd find good young players to reforce the bench of Mexico, but Why the f***do that, the only thing u gain is to be humiliated by Corea.

I think Aguirre most put together the best players NOW, no more experiments.

Well, anyway i have faith in Mexico i think we have pretty good players playing in europe and here in mexico

Thanks Enzo

Ticos and canadians don't worry, we will see the full power of our national teams at the World Cup.

Well, maybe just the ticos.
:D :D :D

Originally posted by still_nameless
Thanks Enzo

Ticos and canadians don't worry, we will see the full power of our national teams at the World Cup.

Well, maybe just the ticos.
:D :D :D

Go ticos, go and kick some coreans asses

mauricio: thanks. hope we can do it. won the cup for the zone. once again hope concacaf make a great world cup.

stillnameless: thanks!! we are possitive here about reaching the finals...and why not? won the cup! (er......usa......er......someday things will change and the cup will rotate....canada and mexico have great stadiums.....trinidad too, centroamerica can share as korea and japan)

srobre (guess u like better ur name than canadian guy) :P

1. i told you :p u didn´t won against us, and we won the group :)
2 Carlo Corazzin and Paul Peschisolido both i know well, both are top players of canada, i also miss graig forrest who is amazing stoping penalties. Sensible losses.... but remember such a big country must be prepared.... and have top quality substitutes. remember that paulo wanchope (must known player od cr) didn´t play the first 2 games. and know fonseca (top scorer in our history) was sent back home cause he injured in the game against trinidad. But we have still good players tu substitute, take a look to sunsing, he can always make a nice surprise.
3. so i must agree with you in that.
4. hm....martinica was hard to beat....but trinidad was more offensive....and haití too. ill tell you, the game against martinica...would never end tie, they dind´t have any real chance.

i believe you, referes are skn bananas this tournament.

5. hehe.

6. yup.... you almost got the idea. but the true is that i have a special suppourt feeling for canada, i have been in that country and love it. then again...... the only concacaf team i dont really care if reaches the final agains corea would be prob usa :)

:p

Originally posted by Enzo
mauricio: thanks. hope we can do it. won the cup for the zone. once again hope concacaf make a great world cup.

stillnameless: thanks!! we are possitive here about reaching the finals...and why not? won the cup! (er......usa......er......someday things will change and the cup will rotate....canada and mexico have great stadiums.....trinidad too, centroamerica can share as korea and japan)

srobre (guess u like better ur name than canadian guy) :P

1. i told you :p u didn´t won against us, and we won the group :)
2 Carlo Corazzin and Paul Peschisolido both i know well, both are top players of canada, i also miss graig forrest who is amazing stoping penalties. Sensible losses.... but remember such a big country must be prepared.... and have top quality substitutes. remember that paulo wanchope (must known player od cr) didn´t play the first 2 games. and know fonseca (top scorer in our history) was sent back home cause he injured in the game against trinidad. But we have still good players tu substitute, take a look to sunsing, he can always make a nice surprise.
3. so i must agree with you in that.
4. hm....martinica was hard to beat....but trinidad was more offensive....and haití too. ill tell you, the game against martinica...would never end tie, they dind´t have any real chance.

i believe you, referes are skn bananas this tournament.

5. hehe.

6. yup.... you almost got the idea. but the true is that i have a special suppourt feeling for canada, i have been in that country and love it. then again...... the only concacaf team i dont really care if reaches the final agains corea would be prob usa :)

:p

Anyway i think Mexico sux(thos national team) and Gold cup sux

I hope I'm not repeting anything, because I did not read all the thread :)
BUT... here's the truth about Mexico:

*Aguirre said before going to the Gold Cup: "We're not going to win it, we're going to TEST this 18 new players to get about 7 to go to the world cup"
so, there you go, that's the truth, the coach did exactly what he said he was going to do, he always does, he promised to qualify us to the World Cup and he did it, he said he was getting ready for Jamaica before the Copa America, and we luckily went all the way to the final game.

see what I mean?
first of all, the Gold Cup is not that important to Mexico because is a second class tournament, and well, that's why Mexico didn't take the star players, some of the other teams did and the still had problems.

Anyways, I think that's all I needed to tell, this was NOT in any way the Mexico that will go to the World Cup, this was a test.

strobe-z i agree with u,CR hasnt played at their top level..hope we defeat korea and get to the finals..prob against usa,i think usa has been playing alot much better than canada..see how they kicked el salvador´s ass.. i think that we´ll have a tough game against them if we get to the finals..i hope we reach our top level to kick their asses :D

mauricio: the gold cup may suck for u,but this is our best oportunnity to have a good preparation for the world cup..i dunno what will javier aguirre do to prepare his team for the world cup..

Originally posted by hiryuu.com
I hope I'm not repeting anything, because I did not read all the thread :)
BUT... here's the truth about Mexico:

*Aguirre said before going to the Gold Cup: "We're not going to win it, we're going to TEST this 18 new players to get about 7 to go to the world cup"
so, there you go, that's the truth, the coach did exactly what he said he was going to do, he always does, he promised to qualify us to the World Cup and he did it, he said he was getting ready for Jamaica before the Copa America, and we luckily went all the way to the final game.

see what I mean?
first of all, the Gold Cup is not that important to Mexico because is a second class tournament, and well, that's why Mexico didn't take the star players, some of the other teams did and the still had problems.

Anyways, I think that's all I needed to tell, this was NOT in any way the Mexico that will go to the World Cup, this was a test.

ok,if the gold cup isnt important for mexico,then whats important for mexico???the world cup?? yeah the WC is important for everybody,but what else?? i didnt know mexico wasnt good enough to win a "second class tournament" i mean,if the gold cup was such an easy tournament then why didnt u win it with your 2nd team?? arent u the best team in the concacaf?? if u were that amazing i think u could have won the gold cup with your 3rd team :rolleyes:

Originally posted by Tom Green
i dunno what will javier aguirre do to prepare his team for the world cup..

he will play games with international teams like Yugoslavia, or Holland, etc

Originally posted by Tom Green


ok,if the gold cup isnt important for mexico,then whats important for mexico???the world cup?? yeah the WC is important for everybody,but what else?? i didnt know mexico wasnt good enough to win a "second class tournament" i mean,if the gold cup was such an easy tournament then why didnt u win it with your 2nd team?? arent u the best team in the concacaf?? if u were that amazing i think u could have won the gold cup with your 3rd team :rolleyes:
the World Cup is important for Mexico, the Copa America, the Confederations Cup, but NO the Gold Cup, and I did not say it was an easy tournament, I said it was a second class tournament, is like if France got invited to the Copa Caribe (Caribbean Cup) you think France will get their better players and get them to play against San Vincent? or Barbados???, NNNNNOOOOO and why? because is not a important tournament for them, same with the Gold Cup, and the "2nd" team wasn't really a team, they had one week to be together, Costa Rica has been together for more than a year now... so, that's why our national team did not win it...

Originally posted by Enzo
to the german guy:
neither mexico or corea are gonna make a bad wcup or end humillated as you said. let me remind you that in world cup 94 the korea team give a HARD time to germany......end the match 3-2..... and let me remind you....that your team whas the one and only true humilliated last year......being defeatead home 5-1 (or 4 cant recall) against england. (they do have a team)

so shut up....cause u dont have any reason to be talking **** about mexico and korea.

Dear Enzo, I have every right to criticize these 2nd rate national teams (S.Korea and Mexico)...and what do you mean humiliation?

In 1994, the Korean national team was a whole different team than this one...if you want a more recent glimpse of Korea, look at World Cup 98...that's the one where Korea was torn asunder 5-0 by Holland...by humiliation, I define it by Korea not even making it to the 2nd round. Don't blame me for using this example: you brought up WC 94.

If I remember correctly, in WC 98, Germany made it to the Quarterfinals AFTER dispatching Mexico.

As for last year, is the 5-1 loss to England the only example you can give? Germany has really shaped up...a 1-1 draw away in the Ukraine, and a 4-1 drubbing over Schevchenko & Co. was quite impressive, if you ask me...the game against England was quite a fluke, and I seriously doubt that would ever happen again if they met...besides, Mexico lost to England 4-0 by the same margin, but Germany is probably the better team having dispatched England in the first leg at Wembley by the odd goal.

As for your attitude, why are you so tearful by my post? I was being critical of S. Korea and Mexico...I wasn't trying to embarrass or offend anyone...but pointing me out as a German guy, and saying my team was humiliated (every team has been humiliated at some point) was quite an adolescent response from you...congratulations.

You say I don't have a right to "talk **** about Korea and Mexico?" Why do you single me out when everyone else is talking poorly of them? I'm not the one saying they "sux"...I'm actually telling you where their weak parts are in their game (for example, playing Longball against a more physically fit team)...

So, are you saying I can't be critical about Mexico and Korea simply because I'm not Latin or Korean?

You would do well to choose your words wisely next time, kiddy.
lol

Originally posted by Voltaire


Dear Enzo, I have every right to criticize these 2nd rate national teams (S.Korea and Mexico)...and what do you mean humiliation?

In 1994, the Korean national team was a whole different team than this one...if you want a more recent glimpse of Korea, look at World Cup 98...that's the one where Korea was torn asunder 5-0 by Holland...by humiliation, I define it by Korea not even making it to the 2nd round. Don't blame me for using this example: you brought up WC 94.

If I remember correctly, in WC 98, Germany made it to the Quarterfinals AFTER dispatching Mexico.

As for last year, is the 5-1 loss to England the only example you can give? Germany has really shaped up...a 1-1 draw away in the Ukraine, and a 4-1 drubbing over Schevchenko & Co. was quite impressive, if you ask me...the game against England was quite a fluke, and I seriously doubt that would ever happen again if they met...besides, Mexico lost to England 4-0 by the same margin, but Germany is probably the better team having dispatched England in the first leg at Wembley by the odd goal.

As for your attitude, why are you so tearful by my post? I was being critical of S. Korea and Mexico...I wasn't trying to embarrass or offend anyone...but pointing me out as a German guy, and saying my team was humiliated (every team has been humiliated at some point) was quite an adolescent response from you...congratulations.

Hey,u cant compare Mexico with Korea

Mexico: 2nd class yeah i agree
Korea: 3rd class

Lets see what happens at the WC before criticize a team, ok??

Fair enough, I won't PREDICT what will happen at the World Cup, but I will say if Mexico doesn't overhaul their roster, strategy and tactics AND if Korea doesn't learn how to score, then I foresee a world of hurt. But, they still have half a year to shape up, so maybe we'll see improvements?

Mexico has very good players and some of them play in europe youll see

Originally posted by Mauricio
Mexico has very good players and some of them play in europe youll see

yeah...3 of them play in europe..thats a whole lot of top class players playing in europe,isnt it?:D hahaha j/k ;)

Originally posted by Tom Green


yeah...3 of them play in europe..thats a whole lot of top class players playing in europe,isnt it?:D hahaha j/k ;)

In fact r 4:

Blanco Valladolid
Torrado Sevilla
Palencia Español
Marquez Monaco

All of them top class players
;)

*I forgot CR has like 120 in Europe :D

Originally posted by Mauricio


In fact r 4:

Blanco Valladolid
Torrado Sevilla
Palencia Español
Marquez Monaco

All of them top class players
;)

*I forgot CR has like 120 in Europe :D

when did i say CR had a lot of players in europe??

and actually i dont think those mexicans players are TOP CLASS(top class is like ronaldo,zidane,figo,etc,etc..) theyre very good but not TOP CLASS..maybe palencia and blanco..but the rest,i dont think so
:monkey:

Originally posted by Tom Green


when did i say CR had a lot of players in europe??

and actually i dont think those mexicans players are TOP CLASS(top class is like ronaldo,zidane,figo,etc,etc..) theyre very good but not TOP CLASS..maybe palencia and blanco..but the rest,i dont think so
:monkey:

It was JOKE and Marques is even better than Palencia, Real asked for him a year ago.

He is a DF

Originally posted by strobe_z
It was a really interesting game against Martinique, but once again Canada was robbed of a completly legitimate Goal. Thank god justice was served in the penalties, but it should've never happened!

Martinique is a good team, and they too were ripped off in their game against Costa Rica.. 2 men were offside. Canada had a legitimate goal against Haiti disallowed.. the whole drawing lots also never should've happened.
i knew some canadian was gonna be saying this acting like canada didnt fix the match when it was so clear that canada was meant to win it i dont really give a **** but its bad to see a team that completely sucks but has some $ arrange matches even tough im canadian i cant stand the soccer in here!

voltaire
i said german guy becausa thats your country. still can figure out whats wrong with that? if some one call me costarican guy i will not be offended . but its ok i u think so.


yea...u have ur right. what i was trying to said, is that you just came here, and start talking **** about mexico and corea and makin really silly predictions for the world cup.... so i am telling you, my point of view and how much ia disagree with you.

must of all.... i am not going to argue with you, everybody knows germany is in a one of the poorest moments in their history. and is kinda fun u challenge me to give u more examples... HELLO u enter the world cup thru the back door.... HELLO the eurocup in netherlands and belgium?

so if u think your team is class a and sure gonna make a great world cup, good for you. it is your national team after all. i also like to dream about costa rica reaching semi finals.

your korea example is good. actually they have sucked 3 wcups in a row... but i wasn´t talking about holland :p

england example was also quite weird.....i just saiid....england is A REAL class A team. (as germany was in other times)

thanks for ur last attemp to offend me. actually i am 13 and thats why my reply sound it so teen for you mister master. good

"You would do well to choose your words wisely next time, kiddy. "

so... thanks for that....if u where so mature as u think u are you surelly know that attacking the other part in a argumentation, is a ..er.... cant find the word in englis.... "falacia". i mean.... u dont earn any more power to your point by offending me. u should know that.

and of course.... u can said what ever u want of latin futbol or korean. as i would say whatever i want of europe futbol..

so. nice to talk with you. but i have enough of your mature point of view. thanks.

Originally posted by terrorcop

i knew some canadian was gonna be saying this acting like canada didnt fix the match when it was so clear that canada was meant to win it i dont really give a **** but its bad to see a team that completely sucks but has some $ arrange matches even tough im canadian i cant stand the soccer in here!

Yeah "con dinero baila el perro"

Originally posted by hiryuu.com

the World Cup is important for Mexico, the Copa America, the Confederations Cup, but NO the Gold Cup, and I did not say it was an easy tournament, I said it was a second class tournament, is like if France got invited to the Copa Caribe (Caribbean Cup) you think France will get their better players and get them to play against San Vincent? or Barbados???, NNNNNOOOOO and why? because is not a important tournament for them, same with the Gold Cup, and the "2nd" team wasn't really a team, they had one week to be together, Costa Rica has been together for more than a year now... so, that's why our national team did not win it...

aja.....y como crees que llegan a la confederaciones y a la américa...
ganando la copa de oro como lo habían hecho hasta ahora!!
(cuando si la consideraban importante)
tu ejemplo es absurdo... (el de francia) campéon del mundo con zona muy debil (caribe). mexico es concacaf. y la copa es concacaf. punto.

Originally posted by Enzo


aja.....y como crees que llegan a la confederaciones y a la américa...
ganando la copa de oro como lo habían hecho hasta ahora!!
(cuando si la consideraban importante)
tu ejemplo es absurdo... (el de francia) campéon del mundo con zona muy debil (caribe). mexico es concacaf. y la copa es concacaf. punto.

who cares about the confederations cup is not THAT important anyway and copa ameria well i think mexico is going to go to the next one and maybe host one soon

i knew some canadian was gonna be saying this acting like canada didnt fix the match when it was so clear that canada was meant to win it i dont really give a **** but its bad to see a team that completely sucks but has some $ arrange matches even tough im canadian i cant stand the soccer in here!

You think Canada fixed the game against Martinique???

Did you even watch the game? That's just Bizzarre?! The CSA certainly doesn't fix matches!! If they do, they do the worst job I can possibly imagine of it!

I love discussing the matches with supporters of other teams, even a little trash talking is to be expected within reason...

.. but's simply the weirdest thing I've ever heard..... :confused:

Pretty funny a german guy complaining bout how other countreys playing "ugly" football considering how germany plays ;)

In the 2-3 game in 98 Mexico clearly played the good football, and Germany the "ugly".

High balls to Bierhoff`s head was the way to go :D ;)

mauricio te contradices con tu compadre mexicano.

and who cares about confederation?
THE WHOLE FIFA ORGANIZATION!!!!!

as we can see, only mexico dont care. mexico is so great they just care of the world cup. **** dude this kind o atittude only make unhappy people with mex. why always so defffensive.

confederations cup is an important cup....ask the world champions if the gice a **** about it or not!

DHU!

ovcourse i am going for canada to win but there facing the us so i dont think there gunna win but i think t and t or us will win the gold cup

Originally posted by bulldrig
Pretty funny a german guy complaining bout how other countreys playing "ugly" football considering how germany plays ;)

In the 2-3 game in 98 Mexico clearly played the good football, and Germany the "ugly".

High balls to Bierhoff`s head was the way to go :D ;)


It was actually 2-1, but as you said so yourself, German won. But playing ugly, EFFECTIVE football is what Germany is all about...and of course, there was a reason for Germany consistently playing for the cross: it's because Bierhoff was the best header of football at the time...but why was Mexico resorting to kickball for 90 minutes when it was clear from every "kick," the Koreans easily gained re-possession of the ball.

Apart from that, I cannot argue about the artistic style of Germany; Voeller made one goal for the World Cup: play more attractive, attacking football.

Originally posted by Enzo
voltaire
i said german guy becausa thats your country. still can figure out whats wrong with that? if some one call me costarican guy i will not be offended . but its ok i u think so.


yea...u have ur right. what i was trying to said, is that you just came here, and start talking **** about mexico and corea and makin really silly predictions for the world cup.... so i am telling you, my point of view and how much ia disagree with you.

must of all.... i am not going to argue with you, everybody knows germany is in a one of the poorest moments in their history. and is kinda fun u challenge me to give u more examples... HELLO u enter the world cup thru the back door.... HELLO the eurocup in netherlands and belgium?

so if u think your team is class a and sure gonna make a great world cup, good for you. it is your national team after all. i also like to dream about costa rica reaching semi finals.

your korea example is good. actually they have sucked 3 wcups in a row... but i wasn´t talking about holland :p

england example was also quite weird.....i just saiid....england is A REAL class A team. (as germany was in other times)

thanks for ur last attemp to offend me. actually i am 13 and thats why my reply sound it so teen for you mister master. good

"You would do well to choose your words wisely next time, kiddy. "

so... thanks for that....if u where so mature as u think u are you surelly know that attacking the other part in a argumentation, is a ..er.... cant find the word in englis.... "falacia". i mean.... u dont earn any more power to your point by offending me. u should know that.

and of course.... u can said what ever u want of latin futbol or korean. as i would say whatever i want of europe futbol..

so. nice to talk with you. but i have enough of your mature point of view. thanks.

About Germany's "backdoor" entrance to the World Cup, I think it's fair to say that Europe is a much tougher region to qualify for compared to Asia and North America: call me crazy, but that is my opinion.

And yes, Germany IS at its worst moment in history, but that doesn't mean Germany is the worst team in the world...in fact, after Ribbeck was sacked (post-Euro 2000), Germany has become much more reliable. The game against England (in Munich) was the only game that Germany was outclassed (during qualifiers)...

And no, I wasn't talking "sh*t" about S. Korea or Mexico...I was simply stating the obvious fact that their match on Sunday was definitely below the pedigree sure to be found at the World Cup. S. Korea was in much better shape (minus their 2 strikers).

Originally posted by Mauricio
Mexico has very good players and some of them play in europe youll see

It'll be a tough prospect for these european-based stars to get enough playing time with Mexico to become an effective unit. Whatever happened to Luis Hernandez and Blanco? Aging perhaps, but competent at least.

Originally posted by Enzo


aja.....y como crees que llegan a la confederaciones y a la américa...
ganando la copa de oro como lo habían hecho hasta ahora!!
(cuando si la consideraban importante)
tu ejemplo es absurdo... (el de francia) campéon del mundo con zona muy debil (caribe). mexico es concacaf. y la copa es concacaf. punto.

to the confederations Cup they get via the Gold Cup, to the Copa America they're invited...
and the France example is good, because even when you say CONCACAF is CONCACAF well that's not completelly true, Cayman Islands isn't the same as USA right?
so, why should we take our best players to compete against teams like El Salvador, or Guatemala?

Originally posted by Enzo
mauricio te contradices con tu compadre mexicano.

and who cares about confederation?
THE WHOLE FIFA ORGANIZATION!!!!!

as we can see, only mexico dont care. mexico is so great they just care of the world cup. **** dude this kind o atittude only make unhappy people with mex. why always so defffensive.

confederations cup is an important cup....ask the world champions if the gice a **** about it or not!

DHU!

no no no... I dunno why Mauricio said that, but Mexico cares about the Confederations Cup...
Mexico is not the greatest team, but we're sure one of the better, and yes it makes people unhappy but that;s the way the people with the $$$$$$ manage soccer

voltaire: aha ok.

hiryuu: agree. mex is one of the best teams around, and have a great history. and as far as i know you do care of the gold cup, thats why u won it two or 3 times.

copa américa: you alse acces it by winning the gold cup (canada was going to play this colombian edition, we all know their team was in a bad moment (well actually they have never been pretty good), not even reaching the final "hexagonal") but their where invited because they won last gold cup.
the case of mexico isdeserved, they have made great presentations in all copa américas, so i think they earn the right of invitation always. dosn´t make me angry at all. In fact.... last copa américa was a huge presentation for concacaf..... 3 teams do it pretty well!

:crazyboy:

pd: maybe not against el salvador or guatemala. but against usa and costa rica?

pd2: france....compete against all weak (because hello, yes... nomatter what voltaire said, there are really weak teams in europe too) teams like andorra and who knows who in the euro qualification round. (well not this year cause they are the champions). so?

I DINDT SAY THAT CONFEDERATION CUP WASNT IMPORTANT FOR MEXICO, I JUST SAID THAT IS NOT THAT IMPORTANT I DONT THINK ANY EUROPEAN TEAM KILL TO BE IN THAT CUP. :rolleyes:

the only thing i know is that..U GUYS REALLY SUCK AT SPEAKING ENGLISH!! LOL :D :crazyboy: :monkey:

Originally posted by Enzo
hiryuu: agree. mex is one of the best teams around, and have a great history. and as far as i know you do care of the gold cup, thats why u won it two or 3 times.

copa américa: you alse acces it by winning the gold cup (canada was going to play this colombian edition, we all know their team was in a bad moment (well actually they have never been pretty good), not even reaching the final "hexagonal") but their where invited because they won last gold cup.
the case of mexico isdeserved, they have made great presentations in all copa américas, so i think they earn the right of invitation always. dosn´t make me angry at all. In fact.... last copa américa was a huge presentation for concacaf..... 3 teams do it pretty well!

:crazyboy:

Well, what I mean the gold Cup not being important is that is not that important... I mean, sure we would have love to win it this year, but if we REALLY want it we could have brought all the best players..., about the Copa america it's cool that we get invited so many times and yes, last years was good because all the three CONCACAF teams did very well on it :)

Originally posted by Enzo
pd: maybe not against el salvador or guatemala. but against usa and costa rica?

pd2: france....compete against all weak (because hello, yes... nomatter what voltaire said, there are really weak teams in europe too) teams like andorra and who knows who in the euro qualification round. (well not this year cause they are the champions). so?

yeah, against USA and Costa Rica would have been better...

as for France, look, they DON'T want to play against weak teams, I know they played against Andorra and teams like that, but that was because they HAD to play in order to qualify to the next round, same with Mexico, we had to play St. Vincent in order to get to the hexagonal...

Originally posted by hiryuu.com


yeah, against USA and Costa Rica would have been better...

as for France, look, they DON'T want to play against weak teams, I know they played against Andorra and teams like that, but that was because they HAD to play in order to qualify to the next round, same with Mexico, we had to play St. Vincent in order to get to the hexagonal...

whats the point about disscusing this we were talking about in the Gold Cup

CR.-Has good chances of winning this edition hope they can make it
Mexico.-This wasnt the team thas going to play in the WC this was crap and i dont care what Aguirre said it was humiliated losing VS Korea, we must have our real team playing together NOW
Korea.-I think they have to improve thei technique
Canada.-MMMMsux:rolleyes:
USA.-Is a very iregular team, sometimes play well sometimes it simply SUX

Canada.-MMMMsux,
USA.-Is a very iregular team, sometimes play well sometimes it simply SUX

:mad:

I think we'll show everyone that we don't "sux" as much as you all seem to think. Canadian soccer has been on the rise, true last year wasn't the greatest, but a lot of that was due to key injuries and the fact that we didn't play much, but since '98 overall we've been gettting better and better.

We didn't make it to the final four with the youngest team this year because of luck.. probably despite our "luck" (and wacky conspiracy theories aside). I hope we take out the US tomorrow.. and Costa Rica on Saturday, 'cause I can't wait to hear all the excuses of how they could've possibly lost to Canada.... :D :D I heard lots of them in 2000!

Originally posted by strobe_z


:mad:

I think we'll show everyone that we don't "sux" as much as you all seem to think. Canadian soccer has been on the rise, true last year wasn't the greatest, but a lot of that was due to key injuries and the fact that we didn't play much, but since '98 overall we've been gettting better and better.



ok, ok i belive u:rolleyes: :o

Mexico out because of South Korea! I was shocked! The most prominent National Teams Cup in North America brought to Asia!!!!! That would be hilarious, but USA is Gonna win!!!!

Originally posted by strobe_z




We didn't make it to the final four with the youngest team this year because of luck.. probably despite our "luck" (and wacky conspiracy theories aside). I hope we take out the US tomorrow.. and Costa Rica on Saturday, 'cause I can't wait to hear all the excuses of how they could've possibly lost to Canada.... :D :D I heard lots of them in 2000!

EXCUSES???? HA!!!!! SORRY cant recall losing against canada in 2000.....for the second time...it was a tie!!! you won against mexico not against costa rica....and oh well come on.....canada sux....they dont even reach the 6 final of concacaf....so how improved taht can be since last time u did it!! (and of course end it in last place).
:P

see ya in the finals!! (hope so)

Originally posted by SB9Dragon
Mexico out because of South Korea! I was shocked! The most prominent National Teams Cup in North America brought to Asia!!!!! That would be hilarious, but USA is Gonna win!!!!

I hope Costa Rica can beat Korea...I would just hate to see another USA-Korea matchup.

so anyone can hook me up on some results i wanna know whats happening btw call me stupid but how the **** is korea playing in concaf?

Originally posted by terrorcop
so anyone can hook me up on some results i wanna know whats happening btw call me stupid but how the **** is korea playing in concaf?

Semis:
USA-Canada
CR-Korea:(


yeah how the f*ck korea is playing in concacaf

just as the name says....GO USA!!!!!!!





maybe portugual's plane won't make it to the world cup and the usa will win their group.................:p

Chances are that Costa Rica will beat Korea. The CR team is superior to the Mexican team in everyway.

And not even a coin toss, drawing, or lucky penalty will save Canada from the US. :p

So the final will be USA vs. Costa Rica. Hopefully Costa Rica will win.

PURA VIDA!!!!!!!

Originally posted by still_nameless
Chances are that Costa Rica will beat Korea. The CR team is superior to the Mexican team in everyway.

And not even a coin toss, drawing, or lucky penalty will save Canada from the US. :p

So the final will be USA vs. Costa Rica. Hopefully Costa Rica will win.

PURA VIDA!!!!!!!

Viva Costa Rica

Originally posted by Mauricio


Semis:
USA-Canada
CR-Korea:(


yeah how the f*ck korea is playing in concacaf

Don't forget that Korea isn't the only outsider in the North American tournament: also is Ecuador.

In tournaments like this (even Copa America), there is a guest nation from outside the region invited...apparently, there were 2 guest nations in the Gold Cup.

Originally posted by USA ALL THE WAY
just as the name says....GO USA!!!!!!!





maybe portugual's plane won't make it to the world cup and the usa will win their group.................:p

USA and Portugal will qualify comfortably out of that group. Poland is excessively reliant on Olisadebe; and USA has a slight edge over the Koreans.

WUUUUUUJU!!!!! update:

costa rica 3
corea 1

costa rica to the finals!!!!!

current usa...... 0
canada 0
(1st half)

viva costa rica!!!! pura vida stillnameless!!!!

WOW!!!!! that canadian goalkeeper is amazing!!! he is the hero of the game!!!! we are just one minut away from penaltys.....thanks to him!!! he is amazing....

i must be honest....usa have been much better team.... but this dude (and a pretty good defence by canada as a team) is taking the game to penalties!

hat off for this guy.... an he is supoussed to be the 3rd keeper!! i remember my friend the canadian guy talking about that....you should be happy!! this guy must play in europe!!

ok penaltys is it..... us 0 canada 0
one of them will match costa rica in the final.

hope it will be canada :P

ill go watch the shoots.

well u can expect going to far playing for penaltys.
usa it is
keller stop the 1st and 4th shoot of canada.....

so next saturday...grand finale.... usa vs costa rica.....

i must said....im kinda sad.......i expect my team to win.....but ****.....it would be hard....i hate that usa play home......if that game was in costa rica i would be sure of our victory (as last time 2-0) but hell dude it is in usa......... once again..........gold cup is unfair..... usa is alwas home!!!! BHA!!!!!!!

any way...... costa rica will do their best...... and hopefully..... the cup will be ours!!!! at last!

Enzo: Don't worry they are playing at the ROSE BOWL in L.A. There are a lot of ticos in Los Angeles. The U.S. won't have much of an advantage.
Plus, Guima is going to use the best players.
Vamos a ganar la copa! PURA VIDA!!!!

Originally posted by still_nameless
Enzo: Don't worry they are playing at the ROSE BOWL in L.A. There are a lot of ticos in Los Angeles. The U.S. won't have much of an advantage.
Plus, Guima is going to use the best players.
Vamos a ganar la copa! PURA VIDA!!!!

I count on u TICOS

Should be a very good match for the final... Costa Rica is playing much better, and I can speak first hand that the US is playing well too.

Canada played well, but our plan simply didn't work. We were able to soak up much of the US pressure (with many thanks to Lars Hirschfeld..our keeper!), but they were able to keep us from counter-attacking up the flanks and looking for crosses into the box as we normally do... so there was really no way for us to win except penalties... :(

Oh well.. good job to the Americans!

Let's see what we can do against Korea!

Originally posted by Enzo
WOW!!!!! that canadian goalkeeper is amazing!!! he is the hero of the game!!!! we are just one minut away from penaltys.....thanks to him!!! he is amazing....

i must be honest....usa have been much better team.... but this dude (and a pretty good defence by canada as a team) is taking the game to penalties!

hat off for this guy.... an he is supoussed to be the 3rd keeper!! i remember my friend the canadian guy talking about that....you should be happy!! this guy must play in europe!!

ok penaltys is it..... us 0 canada 0
one of them will match costa rica in the final.

hope it will be canada :P

ill go watch the shoots.

i have to disagree with you the canadian GK is not that good , i think any good gk can do what he did against the USA , when the whole 10 players are playing in their own half of the field , when you have 11 defenders of course you r not goig to get quality shots , i have to say canada has the most boring stile of football it seen when they have a hard game to lay they always play a formation 1-10-0-0

Originally posted by parejanox


i have to disagree with you the canadian GK is not that good , i think any good gk can do what he did against the USA , when the whole 10 players are playing in their own half of the field , when you have 11 defenders of course you r not goig to get quality shots , i have to say canada has the most boring stile of football it seen when they have a hard game to lay they always play a formation 1-10-0-0

jaja yes, same as T&T

Originally posted by parejanox


i have to disagree with you the canadian GK is not that good , i think any good gk can do what he did against the USA , when the whole 10 players are playing in their own half of the field , when you have 11 defenders of course you r not goig to get quality shots , i have to say canada has the most boring stile of football it seen when they have a hard game to lay they always play a formation 1-10-0-0

i must said i agree with you on that. it is true they play ssooooooo deffensive. but i think the goalkeper was pretty good to, in fact there was a pretty exiting play where usa shoot 4 times to goal and he stop pretty good 2 of them. and i also was him stoping other difficult shoots, i will rate him 9, cause the penalties. keller was also good for his team.

once again..... i believe its true the 1 -10-0-0 formation :P jeje

Canada Goalkeeper Saves (http://www.canadian-soccer.com/videos/20020130lars.avi)

See it here!

Originally posted by strobe_z
Canada Goalkeeper Saves (http://www.canadian-soccer.com/videos/20020130lars.avi)

See it here!

So who is going to win???

1st CR
2ndUSA
3rdCanada
4thKorea

do u agree?

congratulations to usa.
they kick our asses and i am pretty disspointed about my national team. i was expecting a better game play at least..... but that was terrible.....

once again....the cup remains home.

hope i see my team won it before i die.

No offense to all the Canadian soccer fans, but I don't think their keeper did anything that was so extraordinary. As for that clip that strobe_z posted, the post saved the first shot and the rest of the flurry was pretty much directed right at him. It was less his GK skills, more our inability to shoot into the danger zones of the goal mouth. The keeper wasn't all that, neither was our finishing. But we won the whole damn thing, so who gives a crap!:D