CONCACAF (soccer)

group 2 is the hardest, if there is such a thing

How many qualify from each group? Or is it more complicated than that?

Ah, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(CONCACAF). One per group + a runner up gets a play off with South American runner up.

It's all kinds of complicated for what boils down to USA, Mexico, who-the-fuck-cares 1, who-the-fuck-cares 2(optional)

Surprised to see Jamaica ranked below Honduras and Panama. Have they got really shitty in the last few years?

I will be supporting Jamaica because of Sheffield United's Luton Shelton.

the big news here ("big") is that the US might meet Cuba at some point.

will Canada suck or not suck?

Depends on whether there's a stunning return to form for Paul Peschisolido.

You still got Craig Forrest in goal?

Lol Paul Stalteri.

So, Mexico, USA, Costa Rica then.

Mexico and the USA really should play in the South American tier, then just send all the other CONCACAF nations over to play what's left of Oceania, winner gets beaten 7-1 over two legs by, I dunno, Iran or someone afterwards to stop them qualifying.

"Barbuda"?

Hahaha, the Montserrat national team's head coach is RUEL FOX!

Mexico and the USA really should play in the South American tier, then just send all the other CONCACAF nations over to play what's left of Oceania, winner gets beaten 7-1 over two legs by, I dunno, Iran or someone afterwards to stop them qualifying.

OTM really.

Is this the sort of gerrymandering that basically gives Australia a bye into the finals then?

Dear piss-poor Honduras FA,

I'm writing to tell you that you are now required to spend lots of money flying your players half way round the world to play frankly pointless qualifiers against the Cook Islands and Papua New Guinea.

I know you can't afford this, but hey, it might stop the USA qualifying, which I'm sure you'd agree would be lolololol.

Yours,

Sepp Blatter

Honduras are ranked #46 in the world! They have recently beaten Mexico, and held Denmark to a draw.

Ie: David Suazo on his own is better than all-but-two entire CONCACAF teams.

oh it's "Antigua AND Barbuda"

Barbuda itself "has a population of about 1,500, most of whom live in the town of Codrington."

I see the US has it tough as ever

Uruguay to beat Canada or Jamaica in the play-off

Group 2 actually is a bit of a group of death.

I hear the British Virgin Islands are on fire at the moment

... quide liderally

The final line there should be "Haiti vs winner of Nicaragua v Netherlands Antilles", shouldn't it?

Yes. And the final line of Group 2 should be simply "Canada v St Vincent and the Grenadines."

Or, rather, every line should have "Winner of" in front of it just like the Canada line, since each of the three groups will consist of four teams when they get to the actual group stage.

(OK, that might be confusing without parentheses such as "Winner of Jamaica vs. (winner of Bahamas v British Virgin Islands)")

(Or have I misunderstood?)

I think it'd be cool if Canada could pull off qualification, if only for De Rosario's sake.

big game tonight

No takeout for USA fans.

I better keep a low profile when I pick up my cemita tonight.

Well, you people watching this?

i wish!

without cable i've got to figure out this live-tv-online thing

US scored a header, Mexico got the equalizer, US got another header all in the last 10 minutes ( minutes 30-40 of primer tiempo)

And now another goal from the US. But a flag!

se acabo. la pelota no juega mas

Some kind of glitch made the screen freeze on some studio shot.

I think I'm going to have to start watching this telenovela "Amas de Casas Desesperadas."

And Mexico gets the equalizer at minute two of segundo tiempo.

a draw

well played or disappointing?

The first half was great, the second had its moments. I'd say it was a fair draw in the end. USA's defense looked iffy a lot of the time. Altidore's goal (the second header) was a thing of beauty.

i'm still confused as to why dempsey's goal was disallowed. he looked completely onside to me and the univision announcers. (i couldn't handle the espn 3 screen cut outs to show the duke game)

I'm going to have to go to some bar somewhere to watch any of this. Freddy's??

ESC boys go to Stout, near Penn Station.

That could be hilarious.

Drew Moor = shit. Nice cross, but as far as I can tell his piss poor marking allowed two identical goals.

John Harkes kept talking about the youth and inexperience of the team, and for some reason gave Ramiro Corrales as an example. Hell, I watched Corrales lose his defenders eleven years ago when he started with the Metros, and he hasn't exactly gotten faster or smarter in the interim. As for his right foot: has anyone actually see that it's not, in fact, a prosthesis molded from cast iron? Once the Mexicans figured out he was exclusively left footed, they forced him to use his right foot to play the ball, and we got to see some very unusual trajectories.

Convey looked terrified most of the game. He doesn't have any idea how to figure out his passing options when counterattacking, which should be priority A for any USA midfielder.

Dempsey's non-goal was Bergkampesque. I guess he really was barely offside, but how did the ref not see the flag for fifteen seconds?

Totally undeserved 2-2 draw. Thank you Jozy and Tim Howard.

<3 Tim Howard

Kekeke was in work elevator with someone this morning who kept trying to explain to a basketball goon that he didn't really follow sports other than soccer. Goon kept asking, "So uh do you PLAY soccer? Not much going on for you this time of year, eh? Hey, are you gonna go out for the company softball team?"

Moor and the other outside back really did look terrible.

i only saw univision highlights but it looks like our boys lucked out

whatever happened to Freddy Edu? is he in the MLS?

Freddy Adu plays for Benfica. Maurice Edu plays for Toronto FC.

On October 24, 2007, Adu played his first UEFA Champions League game for Benfica against Celtic FC in a 1-0 victory in Lisbon. He became the youngest American to play in the competition when he entered in the 61st minute[

Freddy Adu plays for Benfica. Maurice Edu plays for Toronto FC.
and they both came on as subs last night.

Adu looked as scared against Mexico as he looks cocky at Estadio da Luz. The sight of Rafa Marquez hunting him down like a small, cute animal was, uh, memorable. That said, he ripped the right side of the Mexican defense a new one in the closing minute, and he hit a far nicer dead ball than Donovan, who seemed to take nearly every free kick or corner kick.

Edu: something about his obvious anxiety reminded me of the kind of basketball player known for alwaysmissing the front end of one-and-ones late in close games. Maybe that's what playing for Maurice Johnston will do to you.

what about Demarcus Beasley, was he playing last night or is he completely clapped out? one incredible season there for PSV it was a shame he had such a crappy World Cup.

btw a side note out of interest, who would you folks rate as the greatest american soccer player?

cobi jones

Beasley is injured right now, out for the season (w/ Rangers). He was missed last night.

cobi jones

seriously?

nah
http://www.sporting-heroes.net/files_footballworldcup/LALAS_Alexi_19940220_GH_R.jpg

cobi jones
roffle

It's impossible for me to hear that dude's name without singing it to the tune of "Casey Jones".

"the greatest american soccer player?"

OWEN HARGREAVES

Heheh some bookies apparently got a bit BURNT by their pricing of Nicaragua vs Netherlands Antilles -- offering in the vicinity of six to one on the Antilles ("well Nicaragua is a Proper Country innit"), not realizing that both teams are EQUALLY RUBBISH. (Yes NeAnt won 1-0, no this is not your regular aftertiming, I was not in on it at the time sadly.)

CONCACAF first round, first leg results:

Dominica 1 - 1 Barbados
Turks and Caicos 2 - 1 Saint Lucia
Bermuda 1 - 1 Cayman Islands
Aruba 0 - 3 Antigua and Barbuda
Belize 1 - 0 St Kitts and Nevis
El Salvador 12 - 0 Anguilla
Nicaragua 0 - 1 Dutch Antilles

1st legs still to be played:

Bahamas vs British Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico vs Dominican Republic
Grenada vs US Virgin Islands (one leg only - USVI does not meet CONCACAF's very low threshold for an acceptable ground - what is it, an all-guano pitch?)
Montserrat vs Surinam

i thought hargreaves was a canuck

It bears mentioning that Montserrat won ie lost the last (I believe? not sure if it's been repeated) Other Final of the World Cup.

I'm have a vague, forboding feeling about the two-leg USA vs winner of Dominica vs Barbados. If we (being the US) don't win, no group stage.

What makes me worry isn't that Barbados may recruit Harewood, Ifill, and Boyce , but that I just noticed Dominica's goal scorer yesterday, Havant & Waterlooville's Richard Pacquette.

Michael, why do you bother me with details?

Ah yes, Havant and Waterlooville, upset merchants par excellence. Do not worry Mr Pike, we won't hold your nonqualification against you, we'll just snigger discreetly when we are sure we don't hurt the feelings of any usanians within hearing range.

Also, they have the world's second-largest boiling lake!

US considering 6 sites for World Cup qualifying semifinals

Bridgeview, Ill.; Columbus, Ohio; Commerce City, Colo.; Frisco, Texas; Seattle; and Washington, D.C., U.S. Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati said Thursday.

If the U.S. advances, it would have home games Sept. 10 (most likely against Trinidad and Tobago), Oct. 11 (most likely Cuba) and Nov. 19 (most likely Guatemala).

I assume that a grass pitch would be laid down in Seattle over their "fieldturf" plastic field? Or will we have to put up with a repeat of that battle the Russian FA had to fight, just to watch an inferior game? It's a great stadium, though.

RFK Stadium: terrible for World Cup games. I went to both the Honduras (2001) and Jamaica (1997) games there, and the size of that place allowed away fans to grab about half the tickets. No surprise that those two games (a loss, the first US home qualifying loss since 1989, and a draw) were two of the worst home results we have had in the last twenty years. Now that one end of the lower bowl has been ripped out, the atmosphere will be even worse. Until DC United manages to build their own stadium, there's no way they should host anything but friendlies.

I'm much more in favor of playing those games at the smaller MLS parks in the first four places. Cuba in Columbus or Chicago, and Guatemala at "Dick's Sporting Goods Park" in Denver, sounds like six sure points to me.

The USSF loves money, though, and has no problems sacrificing the advantage of home support for more dollars.I expect at least one of those games to be at DC or Seattle, even though the big stadiums should be used only for friendlies.

TAMPA, Fla. -- The day after five members of Cuba's under-23 national soccer team left their hotel with the intention of defecting, two more players disappeared Wednesday night.

Yendry Diaz told ESPN International on the phone that he and Eder Roldan also had left the Cuban team.

Diaz and Roldan are with friends in Tampa, but intend to join their fellow defector teammates in Lake Worth, Fla., according to the Miami Herald.

The original five -- Jose Manuel Miranda, Erlys Garcia Baro, Yenier Bermudez, Yordany Alvarez and Loanni Prieto -- left Tuesday after a 1-1 draw against the United States in an Olympic qualifying tournament in Tampa.

The five already are in Lake Worth, a town north of Boca Raton, according to The Herald, which reached the players by phone Wednesday.

"'We're fine, calm, feeling hopeful about our new lives," Bermudez told The Herald. "Of course, we're nervous because we're young, have no family here, and we don't yet know the way of life here, but we hope the Cuban and American communities will help us get started."

Their first order of business when they got away from the hotel on Tuesday was to buy a cell phone, contact a lawyer -- and celebrate with a Cuban meal, according to The Herald.

"Of course, my heart will be in Cuba with my family, but I want to have the freedom to better my life, to play professional soccer, to be the best I can be, and for that we had to make this sacrifice," Bermudez said in The Herald. "The key now is to get the legal paperwork out of the way as quickly as possible so we can get on with our plans."

Luiz Muzzi, general manager of United Soccer League club Miami FC, told The Herald that he was planning on hosting a tryout for them next week, after he was contacted by a friend of the players'.

"I watched their game against the U.S. on TV, and I thought the Cuban team played very well," Muzzi said. "We were kind of scouting that game because anytime a Cuban team comes to the United States, there's a chance someone might defect."

Bermudez told The Herald that he has contacted Lester More and Osvaldo Alonso for advice; the two had defected in 2007 during the Gold Cup in Houston.

"They told us they're happy for us, and that we have to be patient, but little by little, everything will work out," Bermudez said in The Herald. "Even though we are a little nervous, we know there is a very large community of Cubans here in South Florida, and that makes us feel more at home. We hope to make them proud."

An on-the-field issue is whether the Cuban team will have enough players to compete in Thursday afternoon's game against Honduras at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.

If the seven players do not return, Cuba would be left with an 11-man squad, but only 10 would be available to play, because Roberto Linares is automatically suspended one game for receiving a red card in Tuesday's game.

Cuban sports officials were stunned Thursday by the desertions. "We feel really badly," Antonio Garces of the Cuban Soccer Association told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "It's not known if the boys can continue in the tournament."

Raul Gonzalez, coach of the Cuban national team, confirmed to ESPN Deportes that there was no security plan in place around the Cuban team to avoid defections. The team was staying at the Doubletree Hotel Tampa Westshore Airport.

Zachary Mann, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection, said it's unlikely the agency will learn the men's whereabouts until they come forward. The players likely would be granted political protection under the United States' "wet foot, dry foot" policy that allows Cubans who reach U.S. soil to obtain asylum.

Tampa police spokeswoman Andrea Davis said Wednesday the agency had not received any missing persons reports from the team, and officers were not called to the team's hotel to investigate the disappearances

Yes, several of the girls at the pub on Tues were hoping the keeper would be joining us on our native soil any day now.

Just about everyone I know who watched the game called this! Ives predicts the goalkeeper is playing for Chivas USA by 2009.

This could kind of screw team USA, since if Cuba forfeits that's 3 free points each for Panama and Honduras.

Basically they just screwed all their teammates whose families were being held hostage as guarantees against their cooperation, no?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3067/2330739643_497e478041.jpg

Cuba started with 10 men v. Honduras and lost 2-0, but what an effort!

they started with 10 men on the field?

http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/7908098/Honduras-beats-Cuba-2-0-in-Olympic-qualifying

I came across something earlier that said the rule is you can start with as few as 7!

http://www.soccerbyives.net/soccer_by_ives/images/2008/03/14/cubandefectors_ap.jpg

will these cubans end up in the usa soccer system?

I read that they already had tryouts with the Miami USL team. Dunno if they're going to try for citizenship or not, I think if they've already been capped they're ineligible.

Here are highlights of Mexico's 5-1 win over Haiti, which from all accounts was one crazy game of soccer. Still not enough to for Mexico to qualify for the knockout round, amazingly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul410gUwv3k

went to Mexico vs. China (1-0 Mexico) last night in Seattle. What a great vibe, 95% Mexico fans, 5% clueless folks and more Tibet flags than China flags.

took this:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3021/2420858799_8d6908c6a9.jpg

I watched the first half. Mexico was just toying with them, it seemed, and with an all-FMF team nonetheless.

is that where the new mls team will play? looks pretty nice.

yeah it is. they'll close off the upper bowl though so it'll seat about 25k (last night's reported attendance was 56k). the turf needs work though.

I watched USA 1-0 Guatemala (first win there since 88) in a bar with exactly 1.5 other interested people, one patron and one busy bartender. People kept asking if it was the Olympics.

Mexico 2-1 Honduras
Canada 1-1 Jamaica
T&T 3-1 Cuba
Haiti 2-2 Suriname
Costa Rica 1-0 El Salvador

Still USA, Mexico, Costa Rica I'd guess.

wow Guatemala

http://www.soccerbyives.net/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/20/policia.jpg

shit

http://www.soccerbyives.net/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/20/policia.jpg

I saw Canada and Jamaica last night in Toronto. It ended in a tie, although Canada really needed the win, and should have beat them. It was perhaps the liveliest crowd I've ever seen at a sporting event in this city. And that includes the SkyDome back when the Jays were winning World Series'. It was bedlam. I thought the stands were in danger of collapsing at some points. The Jamaican fans were out in force too.

I WANTED TO WATCH THAT but it was so late and I didn't know where to go (ie what bar). I love my supporters club but they plan their activities at the WORST bar in order to accommodate people from New Jersey. I need an obliging alternate venue that'll put games on a tv.

C-CAF Champions League (ugh, that NAME) kicks off tomorrow!

http://www.concacaf.com/competitions/champsleague/index.aspx

I'm not sure who to support in this. I suppose one of the MLS teams, but New England and DC are definitely out, Houston probably too, so that leaves Chivas USA... On the other hand, MTL is second-division, so that's cool, and the Mexican sides are probably going to be the most fun to watch.

All of this is going to make for some pretty hilarious fixture congestion down the road. The team that can deal with that aspect will have the best shot.

I saw USA v. Trinidad & Tobago last night. Pretty sad that only 11,000 or so came out for the first home game of the qualifiers, but those that were there were decently loud. 3-0 is nice but not much to be proud of against such a small country. There was a decent amount of away support for the Trinis, which was cool to see.

If Brian Ching is still starting at lone striker in 2010 I am going to shoot myself.

us vs cuba this weekend was the most surreal thing. it looked like a lost videotape from the 70s

Totally, I caught the rebroadcast and was amazed at the unlit stadium watching the players wander around in the half-darkness.

lol @ DC in Champions League. MLS teams just don't have the depth to be able to compete in tournaments like this one.

A Mexican sports daily is pinning its hopes of beating the United States in a World Cup qualifying match on voodoo — with help from a U.S-based electronics chain. An advertisement in the sports daily Record on Tuesday invited fans to clip coupons and redeem them at their local Radio Shack store for a voodoo-doll likeness of a U.S. player.

lol I almost posted that yesterday

it's OK, the pitch in Columbus is ready for them

http://blackandgoldstandard.com/Images/2009/01/p1080047_01.jpg

the story that won't die

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iN6wSlOTtezFO-u0vUFYXQH7JfOwD966FEC00

i am taking the day off and walking to 'the kangaroo and kiwi' a bar i've never been to with a charming introductory statement http://www.kangarooandkiwipub.com/ (speakers on). is cheering in a bar always going to be weird? it'll be like 4 pm and i'll be bngripped at a bar on a dingy street, an old hooker street, aurora, with kangaroos and kiwis>?

i don't wanna predict becauze i don't wanna jinx anything, but i'd be interested in hearing others' predictions

Are you asking for bar predictions or game predictions? My bar prediction is that it will be weird but fun, because that has been my usual soccer pub experience.

As for the game... I don't like how overconfident a lot of the pro-USA internet writers and supporters have been. This is the first time there seems to be a consensus that we're favored against Mexico, and that makes me nervous. Still, it's likely going to be a hell of a game. I'm going to say USA 2-1 Mexico, but it'll be down to the wire.

also tomorrow:

Costa Rica v. Honduras
El Salvador v. Trinidad & Tobago

vaguely intersting photo recap of the top 10 USA/Mexico meetings, including Brad Friedel with lol hair

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0902/us.mexico/content.1.html

http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/multimedia/photo_gallery/0902/us.mexico/images/brad-friedel.jpg

http://sportsmedia.ign.com/sports/image/article/763/763357/christian-cage-interview-20070209032424066-000-000.jpg

is this game on tv in the u.k.? what time is kick-off?

well that was good sloppy fun

how about that red card? shit got TESTY

Man the Mexico fans around us were PISSED OFF about that. I couldn't tell if they were angry at the ref, Marquez, or both.

Chant of the night: Estados Unidos jamas ser vencidos!

Sven Out

My bar prediction is that it will be weird but fun

bar prediction otm.
fun: cute kiwi bartender, she made drinks strong
weird: guy next to me after the second US goal, @mexico "yeah, now get THE FUCK out of our country"

oh wait did we win

dos a cero

there was the ever-present crypto-racism (i.e. "mow my lawn") bullshit directed at the Mexicans, but thankfully that stuff is dying and gets shouted down really fast

also Mexico fans at the airport today want Sven to die, basically

my favorite tidbit
As with previous encounters, passions ran high after the match, with U.S. defender Frankie Hejduk receiving a slap to the face from an unnamed Mexican official. Hejduk was unscarred and unfazed after the match, calling the altercation "a love tap."

Over 50,000 in Montreal tonight for Impact v. Santos Laguna in the Champions League, contrast that with just over 10,000 in the same competition for Houston v. Atlante yesterday.

(in Houston)

http://www.fifa.com/clubworldcup/news/newsid=1057278.html

THE CHAAMPIONNNNNS

kind of getting stoked for tonight

UARRRGHGH I'm super stoked but the 10.30 start time is going to make it impossible for me to go out to a bar & watch, plus it'd take me an hour to get home after the game. So far, no one I know has admitted to staying home to watch it quietly.

Laurel have you ever used espn360 to watch games? It might be an option.

Thanks, Dan, but the laptop belongs to my roommate and the wifi belongs to whichever neighboring network we're piggybacking on at that moment, and usually is only good in 40-second chunks before we have to switch networks.

Sorry to shoot down a good suggestion but I basically have no media/electronics options at home. I was fine with that until televised sports became A THING in my life.

Ah, too bad.

Anyway, I'm interested to see who gets a start tonight. I'd really like to see Maurice Edu and Jose Torres get some time because of their recent club successes, but Edu's hurt and this game might be too important to mess around with inexperienced players too much.

Also, I'm curious whether Gonzalo Segares from the Fire gets to play at all for CR.

dan are you going to the qualifier in chicago this weekend?

Per Ives, half the starting XI for CR are going to be card-shy, which combined with really shitty old Astroturf makes me think this could be a hilarious(ly tragic) comedy of errors.

I want to go to the qualifier really bad, but a good friend is having a housewarming party the same night and I'm trying to save my $. I hear it hasn't completely sold out yet, so I might still cave in and go.

(said friend is a fan, so we'll be able to have it on in the background at least)

that fucking suuuuuucked

that fucking suuuuuucked

― classic poopypants (jergins), Wednesday, June 3, 2009 11:07 PM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Really though, how much worse could it have been? At least Torres got some time.

If they don't take three points this weekend there'll be trouble.

i went to the usa-grenada game tonight. beckerman stood out, for his play or his hair i'm not sure. adu got manhandled by some mediocre but physical genadans. every time evans touched the ball he got cheers from the sounder faithful. fun night, though it probably should have been 7-0.

the second guadeloupe goal here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfGprQs0f18

and both goals but esp. 1:21-1:30:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7W7quxib7Q

go concacaf

USA B- team was really dull except for about 8 minutes in the mid-late second half. Honduras didn't play W. Palacios, or Suazo, or Guevara for some reason.

6 pm cdt FUCKS us west coasters tomorrow thanks guys

^^^the downside of the double-header.

Bummin' I couldn't make it to Soldier Field tonight, but at least I get to watch on Spanish-language TV.

Also, it took me a second to figure out that the Palacios on the field for Honduras was not Wilson.

Gonna be real surprised if the USA can pull this one off given that most of the best players have skipped off back to Europe already.

i am reading along...not really doing it...

here's a stream if that works for ya

http://www.justin.tv/punxeliminatorias/old

thanks d

it really is too bad there's not a 3rd place game on sunday. at least icould watch that

haha who the hell is Clarence Goodson?!? Nice goal.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLL

^never done that in a thread so i figured hey

lol justin.tv comments

6:59jlopezylopez:who will win this god cup??

Watching this in my hotel room in Nicaragua. The nica announcers keep calling him 'Jay Heps'. Pretty funny/endearing

Oh man, there are Fire supporters in the house. I hear El Guapo playing the Tetris theme on his trumpet.

Love that ping-pong play leading to goal.

lol god cup i should put that here justin.tv chatlog

nice work guys glad i will get to see u sunday. trying to figure who i want them to play, who i should root for tonight

I'm rooting for Costa Rica due to the fact that 1. they're not Mexico, and 2. Gonzalo Segares is my favorite Fire player.

fuck, listening to this crowd makes me wish I was there even worse :(

we've said it before and i bet we'll say it again: DOS A CERO BABY

This Mex/CR game is a lol-fest

this fucking game! penalties.

Mexico wins after Ochoa blocks the CR player that scored the tying goal in penalties.

MEXICOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I don't know how I never made the connection that Guille Franco played for El Tri before tonight.

omg this is ugly. total breakdown. worst possible ten minutes

Tonight's CCL matches between Red Bull/W Connection and Herediano/Cruz Azul have been simultaneously pretty amazingly bad and entertaining. The first was an own-goal fest and neither team wants to play defense in the latter (it's 5-2 Azul now). Still looking forward to the eventual match featuring Joe Public FC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I24w_ghc12g

ahead of the usa/mexico game they have blanco doing this in a video game ad? wtf EA

(funk soul brotha)

i don't wanna say too much but this + the quotes, they jujuin themselves, cross fingers knock on wood

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/EmmyLou/Website/GoTeamUSA.gif

Lando's been running his mouth about this game a bit, saying how they're not going to Azteca to settle for a draw, how they can defeat Mexico at any neutral stadium, blah blah blah.

k he needs to shut up too

I'm just hoping I can find a place to watch it, stupid being stranded in bumfuck west Michigan for the week (sry Laurel!)

Oh don't worry, it's not like I ever watched soccer at home.

got my beer and my shot in this bar and am ready to go

LA HORA DE LA VERDAD

o man, i assumed this was going to be on late. why is it starting at 4:00?

WHER IS A LIVE FEED?

Wow!

http://www.rojadirecta.com/justin/espn2k9

GODDAMNIT, I just got asked for the password for that stream.

try this one, laurel: http://envivo.terra.com/deportes/live/259-eu/

Thank you, dear, but that reqs plug-ins that I'm not allowed to DL.

MW, is that link still showing halftime filler by idiots, or have they switched me to a different stream?? There's some fucking stupid show on.

It kept dying so I picked up another, albeit in Spanish. Check here:

http://rojadirecta.org/

Game's back on now, btw

:D

xp laurel: click "i want to watch anyway." that worked for me on my desktop at work w/o dling anything.

Same old same old in the end.

Mexico is such a different team than the one the USA handled so easily in February.

what a bunch of bullshit

Israel Castro, wow what a loaded name

A few bad calls on fouls, but the cards were legit. The US couldn't clear it out of their zone, never tried to build through the midfield, and played on their heals for basically 60 minutes. They reaped what they sowed.

howard's point blank stop when dos santos had all the mother fucking time in the world, that was a nice moment. holden with a good cross or two. onyewu big in the middle, heading stuff out. landon and davies had their speedy creating moments. other than that, fuuuuuck. for stretches it reminded me of the spain game, only w/o the shutdown and the counterattacking purpose.

the soccer bar's commentary was in spanish, which wasn't bad considering balboa. the place was packed, 2/3 US fans the rest mexico. everybody got along, unlike all that ugly bullshit on the field, trying to pick davies up and other assorted pettiness.

For all the talk about Landon, Tim Howard seems to be the one who steps up on the bigger stages. Bocanegra ought to just give him the Captaincy since he's the one doing all the leading.

Glad to hear your crowd was friendly - in Feb when I went to Boston the crowds were really anti-Mexico and anti-Mexican fans.

A day after he played a full 90 minutes in the United States national team’s 2-1 loss to Mexico, Landon Donovan revealed he tested positive for the H1N1 flu virus, or swine flu, according to a report first published on SI.com.
http://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/donovan-tests-positive-for-h1n1-flu-virus/

what a bunch of bullshit

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beckerman shouldnt see the field in a match that matters for a loooong time

could have been 5-1, should have been 3-1. damn. for a good 20 minutes i thought "this team doesn't deserve to qualify."

ok is mexico the best team in concacaf again or not
(didn't see it, reads impressively)

I watched the El Salvador game with a n00b and when Beckerman came on she said "I hate this guy already". Then he gave the ball away every time he touched it.

Shit's getting hectic in the table w/ 3 games left:

Honduras     4-1-2 13pts +7goals
USA          4-1-2 13pts +4goals
Mexico       4-0-3 12pts +2goals
Costa Rica   4-0-3 12pts -3goals
El Salvador  1-2-4 5pts  -3goals
T&T          1-2-4 5pts  -7goals

ESPN pundits can't seem to decide if the parity at the top is an indicator of the increased strength or decreased quality of the region as a whole.

xp And yeah, I think Mexico has taken it back again, though not decisively. Aguirre has them playing close to potential once again. Missing u, Sven.

guys what happened to jamaica they used to be good

good question loujagz, perhaps that is an indicator of the increased strength of competition in the region... OR the decreased quality?!? we may never know

hahaha

I think Shaka Hislop is my favorite talking head over here, he's not afraid to say T&T is sucking up the place.

...also USA, Mexico, and El Sal. He seems to really like the Ticos and Honduras for some reason.

anyway folks i have engerland to watch peace and god bless concacaf, are there any crunch games coming up? how many teams qualify?

shaka hislop has a degree in mechanics (i think possibly rocket mechanics) and a penchant for having pulled off *ridiculous* close-range saves...nothing but love for that guy

okay i miss jamaica too

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c304/Snookybaby3000/rbz5sm2.gif

even if he is a west ham (booo) legend! xp

bring back marcus gayle

Top 3 qualify, 4th plays a home-away playoff w/ 5th from down south. Looking like that could be Argentina, Ecuador, or Colombia right now. Scary. All the remaining games are big in light of that, no-one wants to finish 4th.

lol @ YEAM MON

YEA even

of today's, honduras-mexico is the most interesting/crucial/whatever
but yea, what dan said

reffing has been crazy suspect in the past few games, not just for USA either

WANT
http://store.objectivo.com/home/se-or-sven-mexico-soccer-t-shirt.html

costa rica coach Kenton fired

damn it's a panic. love it.

Makes me wonder if Bradley could weather a storm of 3 consecutive losses at this point, probably not. I can't imagine who they'd get to replace him, though. Sigi?

lol @ comment on Iv3s' blog "I would like to nominate Denis Hamlett to replace him immediately."

http://www.24thminute.com/2009/12/top-10-concacaf-clubs-of-decade.html

1 – Pachuca
2 – Toluca
3 – Saprissa
4 – Pumas
5 – Alajuelense
6 – Club América
7 – Monterrey
8 – Houston/San Jose
9 – Santos Laguna
10 – Los Angeles Galaxy

honestly I don't have any issues with this

(former) USA captain John Harkes boned his teammate's wife too, more than 10 years before John Terry

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020203227.html

if anything this makes me like Wynalda more

somebody blew up demarcus beasley's car
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/feb/03/damarcus-beasley-rangers-car-fire

Has anybody watched the Fox Phone-in show w/Wynalda?

I've seen a couple episodes, it's decent. They kind of changed the overall emphasis of the show when they brought him on, it got a bit more US-centric.

He is kind of awesome in that when the inevitable callers get on and trash MLS/US soccer players, he usually stands up to them instead of joining in like Steve Cohen did. Cohen always seemed like he was playing the role of the loudmouth, and Wynalda is and always has been a loudmouth.

I like him on the show. He's funny, relaxed and a little irreverent.

Yeah he is. I always preferred him over Harkes on the ESPN broadcasts.

About Beasley: there is a rumor that he's coming back to Chicago, since one of the Fire's long time midfielders has apparently switched away from his old number (7) that was DMBs during his time here. Other number 7s people are speculating about: Raul, Figo. If it's any of them, I'm hoping for Beas.

CONCACAF doing its part to kill the USA/Mexico rivalry. So sad.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/grant_wahl/09/29/concacaf.kills.rivalry/1.html

oops, that's page 2 fyi

Under the new format, which has already been approved by CONCACAF, the U.S. and archrival Mexico -- the two soccer giants in this part of the world -- would almost certainly not meet during any of the qualifying games for Brazil 2014. Not even once.

f concacaf jack imo

A gregarious Santa Claus of a man, Blazer has a Trump Tower office, a squawking macaw named Max (you can often find him on Blazer's shoulder) and a blog where he posts pictures of himself with Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, Prince William, Michel Platini and former Miss Universe winners. In the year 2010, it is good to be Chuck Blazer

A+ character sketch

fuck that sack of shit too, and fuck sunil gulati while we're at it

they're all part of the reasons the sport continues to be 2nd-class in this country

match-fixing in concacaf champions league?

WE'VE HIT THE BIG TIME

http://www.concacaf.com/page/GoldCup/NewsDetail/0,,12813~2225472,00.html

I don't think it deserves its own thread yet, but the 2011 Gold Cup venues have been announced.

North American sides Canada, defending champion Mexico and the United States are qualified automatically for the Gold Cup, and will be joined by Digicel Caribbean Cup champion Jamaica as well as regional rivals Guadeloupe, Cuba and Grenada. Central America will determine its five qualifiers at the Copa Centroamericana January 14-23 in Panama.

On Sunday, CONCACAF bosses announced that they would lobby FIFA for a fourth automatic slot in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Champions League final first leg tomorrow night, Salt Lake vs. Rayados De Monterrey. Has the potential to be a great series: best team in MLS for the past couple years and the best team in the Primera for the past couple of years (and they have Humberto Suazo!)

free streams via http://www.concacaftv.premiumtv.co.uk/

Suazo already forcing fingertip saves from Salt Lake.

Gridiron lines on the field is always kind of funny in Mexico.

1-0 Monterrey

Salt Lake are definitely the underdogs but still managing some good play.

1-1 at the half, RSL holding their own

finishes 2-2, congrats rsl

Oh shit, I hadn't seen that the Rayados were in the final. Hope they win as they still are the only club whose jersey I own! When is the return leg?

next wednesday iirc

o cool i didn't see the second equalizer. way to go rsl.
yeah i couldn't believe that of these two teams, it's monterey that plays on an american football field.

The field they play on belongs to the Tecnologico de Monterrey, huge university who has the best Mexican American football uni team. I think the rayados are looking to get a different stadium.

That first sentence is very muddled. "which has the best American football university team in Mexico" is what it should say to be clearer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb6EeuwQQrY&feature=player_embedded

http://www.usdish.com/images/usdish/REAL/real-infographic.jpg

Oh I have a really silly question, but everytime I see Real Salt Lake written i can't help but wonder how people in the US pronounce it: Real (as in Real Madrid) or real (as in opposite of fake)? Or some other way maybe? Sorry if this sounds really stupid.
Also thanks for the highlights from last week. Loved seeing that stadium and team again.

Good for them but their name irks me. What is there either Spanish or Royal about SLC?

Mormons like gold? idk. Everyone I've ever heard says "Real" the Spanish way. I've seen blogs use it in the opposite of fake way, but in an ironic fashion. Everyone makes fun of it for being ridiculous and mis-placed, "Fake Salt Lake" is the standard dig.

I think they're gonna beat Monterrey tomorrow night tbh. They're pretty much impossible to beat at home. Both teams will missing key players, Beckerman for RSL and De Nigris for Monterrey, but Salt Lake is the deepest team in MLS and I don't think they'll have trouble adapting.

i don't have a problem with the name, mainly cause RSL works as an acronym, plus there are plenty of teams all over the world named for famous football teams (there's an arsenal in argentina, an everton in chile, etc). what confuses me is why they took the real name and the colors of real's biggest rivals.

turned it on just in time for the half, 1-0 Monterrey

#RIP4RSL

Couldn't manage to stay up late enough to watch this game. Way to go Rayados! I'll finally have a club to root for at the club world cup.

bumping for the start of Copa Oro

Costa Rica 5 - 0 Cuba
Mexico 5 - 0 El Salvador

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjs5euz_Atg&feature=player_embedded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H44a1zv-2KM&feature=related

Jamaica v. Grenada & Honduras v. Guatemala later today

Anyone know of a way to find these matches streaming on Roku?

if you are in the americas all the games stream for free on concacaf.tv

http://www.concacaf.com/staticFiles/4f/74/0,,12813~160847,00.pdf

if not, I don't know, sorry

i'm in the states and i'll probably watch some of them online. thanks.

oh mexico :(

ah, the tainted meat excuse
anyway they recovered enough to beat cuba 5-0. and they should still be able to beat everyone easily except the us.

More believable in this case than in Contador's, tbf.

http://www.omarsantos.info/images/chicharitobimbo.gif

Nice pregame with Eric Wynalda mentioning the Mexico doping, not knowing the name of the substance and then not actually explaining what the situation is. Then I'm pretty sure Cobi Jones referred to Panama as an "island nation."

That's why I like watching on the Spanish channels. They just said "Clarence Goodson -- el hijo bien" and they say shit like that all the time. If they get things wrong/stupid, I probably won't understand.

ok wtf

sssseeee laaaaaa perrrdio

http://www.mlssoccer.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/620x350/image_nodes/2011/06/pappa_0.jpg

love this guy, europe rumors a-swirlin'

Which league(s)?

spain & holland are the most believable

new one today: newcastle (lol)

Newcastle are picking up some likeable/decent players.

Is tonight's game really important? Debating whether to watch.

yes, it is really important

then why is wondolowski starting?

lol

shit!

us defense a joke

ugh, deuce misses a sitter. come on guys

my tomorrow morning: sitter makes a deuce

deuce shootin like he has an inner ear infection

http://www.chroniclebooks.com/images/items/0811853/0811853683/0811853683_large.jpg

Caught the second half. Dempsey, yikes. Why no Agudelo?

Big Bradley is contractually obligated to keep giving Sacha Kljestan chances, it seems.

Saturday, New Meadowlands Stadium, East Rutherford, N.J.
Costa Rica vs. Honduras, 5 p.m.
Mexico vs. Guatemala, 8 p.m.

Sunday, RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C.
Jamaica vs. United States, 3 p.m.
Panama vs. El Salvador, 6 p.m.

Jamaica is like a team full of wingers, it seems. Should be a stronger test than Panama was. Mexico going to roll dis ting of course.

Team looked lazy and completely unambitious against Guadeloupe. How many times did Dempsey manage not to score with an empty net in front of him?

A soccerball comparison doesn't come immediately to mind, but Dempsey's worst miss reminded me of Leon Lett vs. Don Beebe in SB XXVII.

really wish Guatemala had pulled it off vs Mexico

USA/Jamaica looks pretty wide open, both sides have had chances in the first half

lollin' @ german-american jermaine jones pulling the salute after scoring

not lolling at his terrible dive. what a bitch he is.

lollin' @ jermaine jones drawing a red on a dive

xp lol I mean ironic 'that's so bad" lols

http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu26/El_Chico_Che/Futbol/Jamaica-Problem-Copy.gif

lollllllll

bedoya's dive against... panama, was it? also lol

USA-Jamaica was 1st official game without a single US starter from MLS since league started in 1996 (138 games, friendlies excluded).

i.e. no Lando

wow lando on the bench again tonight

I know, right? Can't imagine any new tactics are really holding him back. Must be tired or they're going for some kind of supersub/push-Dempsey-to-fwd late strategy.

has anyone had any luck getting concacaf tv to work. on both my home machine and work computers the test video never loads. also why is it hosted in the uk?

It worked for me in the group stage, but I've mostly been watching Univision since. Dunno why it's in the UK, ol' Jack W must have gotten some bribes from over there.

adu to lando to deuce, for how long now should we have been saying that

how was freddy? i had to leave right when he came on.

very good against a tired team

mexico just scored in extra time, heard people both down the street and in my building going nuts

...and chicharito makes it 2-0 over honduras

Before the tournament and during the group stage I was feeling very shaky about our chances vs. Mexico, after seeing how they've played against Guatemala and Honduras I feel a bit better. Organized defending goes a long way.

Sad news - Costa Rica defender Dennis Marshall (scored v. Honduras last week) and his wife were both killed in a car accident.

terrible terrible, thoughts go out to their families

yeah, that's a huge downer

Why isn't El Tri better?

article doesn't answer the question

the answer to the question is http://www.emotty.com/images/emoticons/907.png

lol espn not mentioning the last two GC finals in this piece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi07Yg4thQw&feature=player_embedded

match is on Univision for those without cable

HOLY BALLS

*FEVERISHLY FLIPS TO UNIVISION*

:X

whoa

well that was inevitable

bornstein you worthless twat.

mexico's strikes are sick + our defense is the worst

mexico shitting all over the left side of USA's defense.

It should be 5-2 in Mexico's favor.

how is it that bornstein is still on the national team -- idgi

marquez injured. what a bummer for my red bulls!

mexico should have 1m goals right now

the back 4 is fucking embarrassing. bring in maurice edu to stop the bleeding for god sake's.

mexico should have 1m goals right now

― ☂ (max), Saturday, June 25, 2011 9:49 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

this estimation is approximate

and low.

ive calculated it, mexico should have exactly 2.3m goals at this point in the game

does landon donavan have the most annoying voice in all of sports

:-/

Oh man

uueh...good game at least

Bradley out? This feels somehow like the end of an era, and when does soldiering on past that point ever yield results.

The look on his face at the end of the game was of a man who knows he should be packing his things. US was patchy throughout this tournament.

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how is it that bornstein is still on the national team -- idgi

― dirty deathdrone boys (J0rdan S.), Saturday, June 25, 2011 8:45 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

This. As soon as he came in I knew we were fucked.

I do like that Bradley updated his formation a bit but the D was just not up to task from the start.

Also Pablo Barrera upped his stock big time tonight, as did M. Bradley imo.

VIVA MEXICO!

was watching the game in a bar in Cuernavaca....the Dos Santos goal was sublime

Mexico deserved it, they were better - still hoped the US could eke out a lucky win after going up goals while fending off constant Mexican attacks

http://the-alamo-san-antonio.com/diorama/tobeys-battle-of-the-alamo-big.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/astraightupclowning.gif

don't know why that's so small

http://mlkshk.com/r/3YP9

lichaj should've suarez'd it imo

stupid no hands rule

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/sports/2011/06/26/tim-howard-tirade-on-spanish-post-game-ceremony-after-mexico-storms-back-to/#ixzz1QUredulT

Howard cursed tournament officials because the post-game ceremonies were in Spanish.

sore loser?

sore racist more like

yeah he seems like a twat

blame it on the tourettes

anyway, this scanned like the total truth to me http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6707994/hard-lessons

Yeah that's a good piece, I guess Simmons has already realized that the other guy who was brought in as designated Grantland soccer writer is awful.

guys howard has tourette's, way to be insensitive

Yes. That was pointed out

shit, scanned too fast

I don't think he actually has the sweary kind anyway.

omg hipster runnoff carles is posting on that grantland blog now

About soccer? Overall the site is horrible - there's a thread on ILHoops - and their Champions League final piece was no exception, so I was surprised the USMNT story linked above was not bad.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6708423/do-love-much-love-chicharito-adu-adu

“I made some comments after the Gold Cup Final that have caused some controversy. I would like to clarify a few points about my comments," Howard said. " First, I would like to apologize for my language. I am the father of young children, and I certainly do not believe profanity is appropriate in public comments. I was caught up in the heat of the moment."

"I also want to stress that I have no problem whatsoever with the use of the Spanish language at international competitions held in the US," Howard said. "I have nothing but great respect for other cultures, and in this case for the Mexican national team and its supporters. On that night, they played a great game and deserved their win. I play in international matches all the time, and multiple languages are used at almost all of them.

"The point I made, which I stand by, is that it is inappropriate and disrespectful for the post-match ceremonies to take place primarily in the language of only one of the participating teams," Howard said. "In any important international match with post-game ceremonies, you would hope the tournament organizers would make sure that the primary language of each participating team is used so that the participants can understand what is being said. To fail to do this is, in my opinion, disrespectful to the players. When this occurs on your home soil, it is particularly insulting.
"We, as American players, were asked to participate in a post-game ceremony at a match in Los Angeles and we are standing there trying to show good sportsmanship and yet the ceremony is going on and we are just looking at one another struggling to understand a word," Howard said. "It was, to be honest, humiliating, and I firmly believe the tournament organizers should not have put us in that position.”

good morning champions league! this is nice, dallas vs toronto w/coffee http://www.torontofc.ca/node/7776

so they had to postpone from last night due to holy shit this: http://wvhooligan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/storm-toronto-580x350.jpg

They're playing this morning? Huh.

I tuned in for the second half last night and the FSC announcing team was apparently forced to keep broadcasting even though there wasn't a single fan left in the stadium.

I watched a little of it last night in spanish, apparently there were tornado warnings, the start was delayed, then the half, and then they said fuck it.

http://theoriginalwinger.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Chuck-Blazer1.jpg

out

http://www.hexagonalblog.com/2012/02/trinidad-and-tobago-federation-assets-seized.html

The long, long, long dispute between a group of players from Trinidad & Tobago's 2006 World Cup squad and their national football federation reached a new but not yet final phase today when many of the physical assets of the federation were seized by order of the Trinidadian High Court. Court-appointed personnel confiscated assets that were removable and thought to be valuable, such as furniture, match memorabilia and trophies, uniforms, computers, and appliances.

Crates containing unsold copies of Jack Warner's autobiography were left behind.

fuckin took em long enough

Can't imagine the trophies we've won are going to fetch much on the open market.

http://i.imgur.com/5dmA1.jpg

Background: bailiffs, foreground: Anthony Wolfe, striker.

Four of the players went along to help them move stuff.

CONCACAF, Conmebol planning 18-team tournament in 2016

tasty

that would be cool, but 8 teams from CONCACAF seems like a lot.

yeah beyond the big 2 plus like CR and Honduras it starts to get a little thin... tho Jamaica seems to be riding a wave of MLS youth to being a bit of a power again

poor pathetic canada

classy kits, though
http://www.footballshirtculture.com/12/13-kits/canada-1213-umbro-home-and-away-football-shirts.html

The T&T football federation has formally outlined plans to sue Jack Warner for the recovery of money he's accused of misappropriating. The allegations that he made off with hundreds of thousands of dollars meant to go to Haiti after the earthquake look the most damaging.

excited for tonight. tfc/LA CCL and then the main event...sounders/santos. it's supposed to be 37 degrees but clear. wish it would piss down rain, f w/ santos a little

until yesterday i thought i had to work tonight. and then my schedule magically changed and my ticket won't go to waste

i think la takes tfc. not so sure about the sounders tonight...

everyone's saying this is the biggest game in TFC's history, bet they take down LA since they're playing at the Rogers Center (=shitty, shitty turf)

finally, games that matter

tfc/la must be pretty open, 2-1 tfc already, 40 minutes in

what is this color seattle are wearing? hard to tell the 2 teams apart on tv.

http://www.soundersfc.com/News/Articles/2011/11-November/Super-Cyan.aspx

http://static2.bigstockphoto.com/thumbs/8/6/5/large2/568693.jpg

game got pretty chippy, but seattle look like a solid team

Humberto Suazo again. Great finisher.

OK that one was Messi-esque. Suazo 2-0 Santos.

leg 1 highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3xQeetdYM

<3 chupete

<3 rayados & suazo ! i think every time i went to their stadium he scored

second leg of the finals tonight, think monterrey is gonna walk this

buuuuuut chupete is ruled out so who knows? de nigris is still a hell of a player in his own right.

also concacaf's website is going to be streaming the match freely, dunno about outside north america though

rayados campeones otra vez

sucks for santos, their 4th loss in a final since 2010

am kinda curious, as reading stuff this morning about rayados' victory i saw that this competition hsa been won 13/17 times by mexican clubs. i don't really watch the mls but i would have thought the level of its club would be somewhat similar to those of mexican ones. am i completely wrong and mexican clubs are far better? or do the mls teams not really care about this competition?

also btw thanks for posting as this reminds me to go check on the rayados

Over the past several years the starting 11 for the MLS clubs in the CCL can hang with the Mexican clubs for the most part, but the Mexican clubs are a lot deeper when it comes to quality of players and also have a ton more money to throw around. I mean Monterrey has Suazo and De Nigris who are damn good but also has Luis Perez w/ 80-some caps for Mexico, Walter Ayovi who played for Barca and many times for Ecuador, plus a bunch of other lesser-capped players in support. I think the way the seasons for each league are laid out has a lot to do with it, too. The way it works currently the knock-out rounds start just as MLS is coming into pre-season but the Mexican clubs are in the midst of their tournament.

On the whole though, really, they're just better. :)

In the group stages of this latest tournament an MLS club beat a Mexican side in Mexico for the first time ~ever~, too.

ok thx for the explanations.

SoccerPlus ‏@SoccerPlusEN

BREAKING: Copa America 2016 to be played in USA with several #CONCACAF teams according to several South America sources. Details to come.

Hearing 10 South American teams + USA, Mexico, and 4 more CONCACAF nations.

love this confederation

http://vine.co/v/bHwJjFVpVAD

Gold Cup Final tickets are slightly expensive.

are you looking? I've got a household of angry Mexicans who would like to sell...

jajajajaja yeah I figure there will be a flood of cheapos on stubhub now, que lastima

I'd still like to go! But convincing them to go see their most hated team vs. the team that just knocked them out (and played like little bitches the whole time, too) is gonna be a hard sell, even if we already got the tickets - it's still about a 3 hour drive each way. And I admit that part of me is relieved that I won't have to go to a US/Mexico game.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/kenbensinger/the-rise-and-fall-of-chuck-blazer-the-man-who-built-and-bilk

Fantastic article

Montreal up 1-0 at Aztecs in the champions league final. Long way to go.

Azteca

Just when I was thinking the referee was being uncharacteristically good for a concacaf final, an arguable last man red card on America is only given as yellow.

Guess if it's arguable it isn't a red but

#ilx4montreal
u23s crushed mex tonight. jordan morris is the deal

What a week for USA/Mexico... Blue lives matter flag in AO smh.

think how much fun the commentators can have when the US make a wall

I am watching over the air en Español bc fuck Trump.

Congratulations to Curacao on their first Caribbean Cup title. They beat the holders, Jamaica, this morning.

They have strikers called Jimbertson Vapor, Jafar Arias, Rangelo Janga, Felitciano Zschusschen and Elson Hooi, which is a wonderful collection of names.

Florent Malouda currently playing in a Gold Cup match despite being ruled ineligible, so French Guiana will forfeit.

The most Concacaf thing ever?

It's goalless at half, but with the ineligible Malouda on the field for #GUF, we know how this movie ends... #GoldCup2017 pic.twitter.com/hRQpCrWAPw

— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) July 12, 2017

Chuck Blazer dead

Does anyone know the best way to get hold of Mexico vs Trinidad tickets for the Azteca? I'd imagine the away allocation is unlikely to sell out but i'm not sure if you can just roll up on the day.

I'm resisting making a Jack Warner joke…

Truth is I don't know. Friends of mine have gotten away tix for US games at Aztecs but they knew people who work for the federation. That's my only guess, actually, to get in touch with the Trinidad FA. (And resist making Jack Warner jokes.)

Thanks! Would have been easier when Jack was my aunt's MP but still might be something I can do.

Is anyone watching this particular tournament this year?

canada look good!

I only saw the first USA match because my wife and I were gifted tickets, but I just saw that Haiti won all their games and their group, including beating Costa Rica, which is absolutely noteworthy imho.

I was surprised at how many of the Martinique players are home based. They gave Mexico a decent scare.

Excited to see if we can score our first goal since September 2018 tonight.

champions league semifinal tonight between LAFC and Club America was bonkers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgU3o6AZ45o

Just gonna keep posting this nonsense

CONCACAF a Soccer Odyssey.#LAFC #MLSpic.twitter.com/B6qP3OqStr

— Maximiliano Bretos (@MaxBretosSports) December 20, 2020

JFF President Michael Ricketts confirmed all of these players (except Max Aarons) listed + Michail Antonio have or are in the process of acquiring passports for Jamaica MNT

via @SportsMax_Carib 🇯🇲 #jff pic.twitter.com/MzIaZDPzO0

— chris bowerbank (@chrisbowerbank) March 3, 2021

Wild, what's the situation that led to this?

Brexit?

this is the great lengths some players will go to - to avoid Jamie + Rebecca Vardy

Puro CONCACAF

So…the Vice President of Suriname, who is 60 years old, is PLAYING in Concacaf League against Olimpia tonight, captaining the team he owns. pic.twitter.com/Ktij4FiOoZ

— Jon Arnold (@ArnoldcommaJon) September 21, 2021

Can the story get more CONCACAF? Yes, yes it can.

https://wired868.com/2021/09/23/concacaf-investigates-brunswijk-the-61-year-old-inter-owner-player-and-convicted-drug-dealer-for-potential-integrity-issues/

oh yes

i've been following canadian soccer since i was a kid. so, incredibly proud of canada. this is the best team we've ever had. and now leading the pack!

Top of the table! FULL TIME IN EDMONTON#Iceteca#CANMNT #WCQ #ForCanada pic.twitter.com/wPObqc2riK

— Canada Soccer (@CanadaSoccerEN) November 17, 2021

Canada dos, USA cero

Canada reminds me of the US teams of the 00s

https://www.twitter.com/CanadaSoccerEN/status/1487925951182815233

I know this is a much improved Canada team, but there's something hilariously US about starting to regularly beat Mexico again after years of futility against them only to now not be able to beat Canada anymore

they need to call Dike up again, nuff said

Crazy how Herdman took the women's team to this level and now he's doing it again. Such a positive guy.

this CONCACAF Champions league match between CF Montreal and Santos is embarrassing

Santos played Orlando last year and I was equally unimpressed by them then. yet Kamal Miller is such a shit defender that they managed a goal after all

Montreal meanwhile have a counter attack akin to playing FIFA on Playstation, where they just blast through balls long and hope their dude catches up to it, and he never does, or he's miles offside

This tournament is always disappointing for MLS teams in this phase.

The field for the El Salvador v US match just got a shout-out from the broadcasters as being one of those concacaf things you have to explain to folks who don't follow qualifiers etc here closely

it's a muddy mess btw

These Hot Nations League Nights

A Cinderella story. The Dominican Republic has qualified for the U-20 World Cup after defeating Jamaica 1-0. It is the first FIFA tournament at any level that the Dominican Republic has qualified for. Congratulations to them. The players are overjoyed in their celebration

— Brian Sciaretta (@BrianSciaretta) June 30, 2022

That Concacaf lyfe

Referee Fernando Hernandez gets a 12 game ban for kneeing a Club Leon player in the junk during a Liga MX game. I’m surprised this hasn’t happened sooner with the amount of ref swarming you get. Not saying what he did was right, but he was driven to this pic.twitter.com/wiJDCKHBvo

— Brian Sciaretta (@BrianSciaretta) April 6, 2023

refs very much in character