<< And anyway, Mexico has won your cup since 1996, >>
That may be true, but I believe that you're talking about the U.S. Cup. This thread is about the Gold Cup (Copa de Oro), which is not 'our' cup... it belongs to the Football Confederation (formerly CONCACAF) to determine the Confederation's champion (although Peru and South Korea were invited into it as well this year).
<< accept it and stop crying. >>
I re-read this whole thread, and it seems like you're the ONLY one who's ever mentioned it.
<< Anyway, this IS a FIFA2000 forum, so I have all the right to talk about FIFA2000. >>
Then what's this all this talk about how the US team sucks in the Gold Cup and stuff if this is a FIFA 2000 forum???
<< Hey if it's so bad why don't you challenge me some time, that way we can settle things once and for all >>
How does that prove whether or not the game is bad? And when did I say it was bad (I said that there were a lot of complaints about it on these boards... READ what's written next time!)?
<< Even you know that the US needs to evolve. >>
So because it needs to evolve (which I've already acnowledged that it did), I'm supposed to root AGAINST my own country?!?
<< I simply dislike the attitude of the US national team, which needs to improve greatly. >>
It's true that most of the World Cup '98 US team and staff kind of had that attitude... but what most people here seem not to notice is that the entire staff (coaches, trainers, etc.) and almost the entire roster is completely different now.
What I appreciate about new coach Bruce Arena is his ability to admit that he needs to look deeper into the talent pool in the US than Steve Sampson did (who basically took almost all the same players to the World Cup that had played with him for years). And so far this current squad hasn't really displayed that much of an attitude (at least not NEARLY as much as that World Cup '98 US squad did)!
But more should definitely be done to find the talent in this country, though.
-G
[This message has been edited by Goodsport (edited 02-17-2000).]