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Color me completely stunned right now.  I can’t believe how this game finished up.  I can’t decide if we played well or played bad.  Maybe we played worse than we should have against a team like Costa Rica, but part of me thinks we played better than the scoreline.  One thing is for sure, there is [...]

The below excerpt from this Yahoo article is why I loathe Mexican soccer.

The man with the tri-colored mohawk took a swig of beer, stuck his fingers down his throat and vomited the mixture back into his cup. In the next seat another man, who was wearing a T-shirt with a cartoon drawing of the decapitated heads [...]

Expected but still disappointing result.
We didn’t look like the same team that played in the last couple of games of the Confed Cup.  We weren’t terrible, but we definitely weren’t at our best.  Just a couple of quick thoughts on the game.
We lost this game in the midfield.  Our lack of ability to possess the [...]

Much better result, marginally better performance.
Getting a win in this game gets us a fair amount closer to qualifying for the Cup. The problem comes in that I, along with a few others that watch the soccer world, am starting to have doubts about how well we’re going to do if we do qualify.
We still [...]

We didn’t lose, we got embarrased.  If we keep playing like that, we’re not qualifying for the Cup.
So many things went wrong with this game its hard to know where to start, so I’ll just jump right in.
Our defense was terrible on the night.  Their attacking players had way too much time to do whatever [...]

So this post is way way overdue, but I still have the thoughts bouncing around in my head and wanted to share them anyway.  Removed from the immediate reaction to the game, it will likely be more abreviated than it originally was going to be.
Generally speaking, a better game against a worse opponent.  Yes, we [...]

Disjointed and disappointing; my view of the US’s performance in a nutshell.
At the most basic level, the result of this game didn’t really matter because the US had already qualified for the next round of qualifying.  Despite this fact, you always hope to play your best, get a good result, and you want to come [...]