re: USA 2-0 Mexico GAME

I'm just nervous playing a keeper who hasn't seen minutes

but I guess it's overreacting seeing as he does train at a good club and will play against...El Salvador? yeah I may be overreacting...

They hate it. They hate that Landon Donovan pissed on their field and that we own them.

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Landon Donovan pissed on their field

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Please tell me this is not a metaphor. I will become a religious fan of this sport if he really dropped trou and let loose.

He got one knee and pissed during warm ups. From some Mexican paper

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AltaVista Translation:
Guadalajara, Mexico (10 February 2004). - Nobody puts in doubt the soccer quality of the American forward Landon Donovan, nevertheless, Monday to noon demonstrated that its quality as person leaves much to be desired. For number 10 of the equipment of the United States, it was easier to put itself to tinkle within the field of the Jalisco Stage that to lower to the vestidor, which was to a few meters of where the ram made its grace. The fact happened during the recognition of the field of the Jalisco on the part of the American picture. In a while in that Donovan pretended to fasten the stiffnesses of its shoes to a side of the shrubs that are in one of the bands of the game land, simply lowered the front part of its pantaloncillos and began to tinkle in the field, being left to see the little education on which the captain of the set of the United States counts. The forward, after demonstrating that the fact to come from a country of first world is not synonymous of civic culture or education, simple and simply I rise to continue with the route which they did on grama of the twice mundialista one, Jalisco Stage. This without a doubt dims to the American delegation, which in appearance habia had an impeccable behavior during which estadia in Guadalajara goes of his.

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I think its worse in ecuador

FIFA threatened to put an altitude limit on stadiums

don't remember if they followed through, don't think so

started few years back when ecuador went on a ridiculous home streak and beat like argentina and Brazil

they did, June 07, no higher than 2700 meters

Yeah, it sucks for Ecuador because they dominate at home.

it'll be hard to find a player that hates mexico more that donovan, cobi jones maybe, but I doubt it

alexis lala got kicked in the nuts by a mexico player, he hates them

but donovan rules them all in hatred

MLS is trying to hold on to all their players, their know that they are just a stepping stone and will be until they have a youth system and get world veterans here...ones that stay...

and even then I don't see them anymore than that

My thoughts.

First, frick Marquez. I hate that fricker.

Could someone point to an instance where Ching did anything other than tap the ball to someone. On one run down the wing by Donovan, Ching ran into the defense as if he was marking the center back or something. I know he sucks, but it wouldn't hurt him to make a run into space. That usually what strikers do. The way Harkes (was that who it was in the booth?) talks about him, his only job is to hold the ball with his back toward goal. And that is enough to start? Jesus.

Our possession was great for most of the game, but we need to time our runs better. Jozy's first and only run around the 85th minute, he had absolutely no help and basically had to ching it until the ball was taken away from him.

Hedjuk played awesome. If we don't develop an RB in time, he wouldn't be so bad to have on the back line.

The rest everyone else has said. I imagine Bradley will go old and experienced for El Salvador since its an away game, but since the T&T game is only a couple days later, I am hoping a lot of young players like Torres, Adu and Cooper get called into camp and play against T&T.

GREAT GAME!!!!

Pretty cool atmosphere. More Mexicans there than I thought would be.

One thing I thought was kind of cool/interesting/weird was how after the game, the Mexican fans were still chanting, playing their drums, etc. If you took out the US fans, and just saw/heard the Mexican fans, you would have thought they won, or at the very least, stole a point.