CONCACAF (soccer)

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

― 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.