re: Gold Cup Final: United States of America vs. Mexico, 7:30 FSC, Univision

and they could easily have 13. What's your point?

this sucks. i hate getting amped up for US soccer just it just turns into a massive fail

My point is that if Cherundolo was playing, we'd be fine. Stop trying to be an elitist.

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that is bullshite

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Really? Because if you notice where the champions in the cup come from, they are almost always from EUFA or CONMEBOL. Why is that? You know why? They play in real competition against legit powers, and not just exhibitions that they don't care about.

Overall, when the US plays a big team from another confederation they aren't playing their best players and half the time are only working on chemistry and avoiding injury. It's true.

i meant more from the Mexican perspective.. i expect them to do well in Brazil..

frick you

not being an elitist, I'm just pointing shite out. Stop being a one sided dick and call it like you see it.

Obv Cherundolo going out killed us, but so what? They lost 5 players in the tourney, and subbed out two more in 1st half. What the hell do you want?

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Really? Because if you notice where the champions in the cup come from, they are almost always from EUFA or CONMEBOL. Why is that? You know why? They play in real competition against legit powers, and not just exhibitions that they don't care about.

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they do in the Cups.. but its not like the UEFA qualifying groups are that tough..

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Really? Because if you notice where the champions in the cup come from, they are almost always from EUFA or CONMEBOL

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that's b/c they have the talent/money to have superior talent, and develop that talent

it's not about competition, it's about who is on the squad

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Why is that? You know why? They play in real competition against legit powers, and not just exhibitions that they don't care about.

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they are better b/c tehy have better talent, and develop it better than the US does

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I agree with the quality of opponents (non-friendlies).

We're never fully tested in games that we're supposed to take seriously. If we had more teams that could clean our clocks, player and coach evaluations could happen much faster.

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Exactly. Bradley makes his living off of decent showings in the big tourneys and then beating up on CONCACAF outside of Mexico. Seriously, if people took off their homer hats and realize that the US never losing a Gold Cup group match until this year is not some huge accomplishment. It directly correlates to the quality of opponents we face in this tournament.

Your whole deal on the board is too seem more informed than everyone else. Of course we're going to be emotional and biased, we don't need your all mighty wisdom imparted on us. My point is that we attacked fine and got unlucky around goal and Bornstein is why we lost.