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 +7goalsUSA 4-1-2 13pts +4goalsMexico 4-0-3 12pts +2goalsCosta Rica 4-0-3 12pts -3goalsEl Salvador 1-2-4 5pts -3goalsT&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.
― dan m, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― dan m, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
guys what happened to jamaica they used to be good
― kevision questler (country matters), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― dan m, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha
― kevision questler (country matters), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I think Shaka Hislop is my favorite talking head over here, he's not afraid to say T&T is sucking up the place.
― dan m, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
...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
― kevision questler (country matters), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
okay i miss jamaica too
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c304/Snookybaby3000/rbz5sm2.gif
― jergins, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
even if he is a west ham (booo) legend! xp
bring back marcus gayle
― kevision questler (country matters), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― dan m, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ YEAM MON
― dan m, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
YEA even
of today's, honduras-mexico is the most interesting/crucial/whateverbut yea, what dan said
― jergins, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
reffing has been crazy suspect in the past few games, not just for USA either
― dan m, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
WANThttp://store.objectivo.com/home/se-or-sven-mexico-soccer-t-shirt.html
― jergins, Monday, 14 September 2009 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
costa rica coach Kenton fired
damn it's a panic. love it.
― jergins, Monday, 14 September 2009 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― dan m, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 01:41 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ comment on Iv3s' blog "I would like to nominate Denis Hamlett to replace him immediately."
― dan m, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.24thminute.com/2009/12/top-10-concacaf-clubs-of-decade.html
1 – Pachuca2 – Toluca3 – Saprissa4 – Pumas5 – Alajuelense6 – Club América7 – Monterrey8 – Houston/San Jose9 – Santos Laguna10 – Los Angeles Galaxy
honestly I don't have any issues with this
― everyone stop (dan m), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
(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
― i am under no illusions that my opinions are even that interesting to me (dan m), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
somebody blew up demarcus beasley's carhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/feb/03/damarcus-beasley-rangers-car-fire
― mizzell, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Has anybody watched the Fox Phone-in show w/Wynalda?
― L'obamalâtrie obligatoire (Michael White), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― i am under no illusions that my opinions are even that interesting to me (dan m), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
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 am under no illusions that my opinions are even that interesting to me (dan m), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I like him on the show. He's funny, relaxed and a little irreverent.
― L'obamalâtrie obligatoire (Michael White), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― i am under no illusions that my opinions are even that interesting to me (dan m), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― dan m, Thursday, 30 September 2010 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― dan m, Thursday, 30 September 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
f concacaf jack imo
― dan m, Thursday, 30 September 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 30 September 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― dan m, Thursday, 30 September 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
match-fixing in concacaf champions league?
WE'VE HIT THE BIG TIME
― dan m, Friday, 1 October 2010 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― dan m, Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― dan m, Thursday, 16 December 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
On Sunday, CONCACAF bosses announced that they would lobby FIFA for a fourth automatic slot in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
― dan m, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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/
― Frightening, but full of facts that are difficult to argue with. (dan m), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Suazo already forcing fingertip saves from Salt Lake.
Gridiron lines on the field is always kind of funny in Mexico.
― Frightening, but full of facts that are difficult to argue with. (dan m), Thursday, 21 April 2011 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
1-0 Monterrey
― Frightening, but full of facts that are difficult to argue with. (dan m), Thursday, 21 April 2011 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Salt Lake are definitely the underdogs but still managing some good play.
― Frightening, but full of facts that are difficult to argue with. (dan m), Thursday, 21 April 2011 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
1-1 at the half, RSL holding their own
― Frightening, but full of facts that are difficult to argue with. (dan m), Thursday, 21 April 2011 03:00 (thirteen years ago) link
finishes 2-2, congrats rsl
― avinha, Thursday, 21 April 2011 07:19 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― Jibe, Thursday, 21 April 2011 08:27 (thirteen years ago) link
next wednesday iirc
― Frightening, but full of facts that are difficult to argue with. (dan m), Thursday, 21 April 2011 11:36 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― mizzell, Thursday, 21 April 2011 12:09 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Jibe, Thursday, 21 April 2011 12:14 (thirteen years ago) link
That first sentence is very muddled. "which has the best American football university team in Mexico" is what it should say to be clearer.
― Jibe, Thursday, 21 April 2011 12:16 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb6EeuwQQrY&feature=player_embedded
― Frightening, but full of facts that are difficult to argue with. (dan m), Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.usdish.com/images/usdish/REAL/real-infographic.jpg
― Frightening, but full of facts that are difficult to argue with. (dan m), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link