CONCACAF (soccer)

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

― jergins, Wednesday, August 12, 2009 5:15 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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.