Comments on: USA 2 – 0 Mexico; Americans Continue Decade of Dominance

By: Connor

Connor — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:06:34 +0000

Sebastain:

I have to point out that your comment is the only one on this blog that suggests and encourages violence against another player.

Furthermore, you claim that Mexico is currently dominating the US and will continue their domination.

Let me remind you that your team has yet to score a goal in our country in this decade, let alone win a game.

And for Oswaldo Sanchez, he should receive a suspension.

By: Sebastain Grimaldi

Sebastain Grimaldi — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:55:21 +0000

The United States wants to dominate the world and Mexico as well. Hopefully a brave Hugo Sanchez will have no fear of the US and in the future Mexico will dominate the US once again. Sadly, the US dominates Mexico in every way but not in football, what the US calls ’soccer’. In this decade Mexico for some reason had fear in confronting the US. Every time Mexico played vs the US they had fear. Now with Hugo Sanchez, it looks like in the future Mexico will once again dominate the US. About the game, Saint Oswaldo Sanchez should had hit the US player. GO Mexico!!!

By: CASS

CASS — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:37:35 +0000

Sorry to say but, USA is one good team but not good enough to be in the big stage, we need a better leage for starters, and a much better talent scouting, soccer like we call it, is not like basket ball or football its more like hockey in that way, there are a lot of good prospects in the barrios or hoods, and very few get to college where we are getting them so lets open our eyes, just think about it, who of these guys went to college:
Ronaldinho,
Beckham,
Zidane,
Rooney,
Cristiano Ronaldo,
Gatuso,
Deco,
Kaka,
Samuel Eto’o
Didier Drogba
Lampard,
Saviola
Maxi Rodriguez
Carles Pujol
And I can go on and on, the answer None. Most of these players have been playing profesinal Soccer since they where under 18 years of age, hired by big teams like Real madrid, Barcelona, Boca Jrs., River Plate, Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, and others in ther B team when they where just kids, I am not saying we need ignorant players, but they went to school and did soccer at the same time, but not one of our players can compare to the ones I just mentioned because they are profesional players who haver double or more profesional games in their carreir than any american player has, not to mention the competitive level of their leags. Because lets not fool our selvs MLS is one of the lest competitive leages in the world, to say the very least our leage is a 5 from a 1 to ten level. so to finish my coment if we want to be big:
1st. Need a Better leage,
2nd. Better scouting
3rd. Coaches neen training
4th. Better competition
5th. Start exporting players

By: USCG

USCG — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:16:26 +0000

It was a very entertaining game. Mexico did look more in tact but the US capitalized. I think the Mexico team was classless. When Wynalda made the comment about Oswaldo Sanchez in the World Cup I actually gained respect for him. But, after Donavan scored and Sanchez tried to cheap shot EJ I lost all respect. I just hope our team never stoops to their level. I don’t think we ever will. I read in La Opinion (a spanish news site) that said that Borgeties header on goal was milimeters from the post. To me it looked like it was two or three feet off. It reminded me of the last time we played and they said, when talking about the U.S. first goal, that the Mexican defender covering Onweyu headed the ball on goal rather than Gooch. It was clearly obvious that Gooch hit the ball because it changed direction dramatically towards goal. They never want to give credit to the U.S. I don’t think that will ever change with the Mexican media.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:54:51 +0000

Connor,

For what it’s worth, I don’t think it is tacky to leave comments in items that you post.

By: Rikardo

Rikardo — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:14:49 +0000

My favorite players of the match:

USA: Bornstein and Conrad
Mexico: Medina and Guardado

By: Connor

Connor — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:14:17 +0000

I don’t know if it is tacky to comment my own post, but I wanted to respond to some of the previous comments. Haha.

Laurie. I agree completely. Mexico was more technically skilled and the US appeared much less experienced. The fact that Mexico had a more “veteran” roster clearly showed. The Americans were definitely younger.

Joe I agree with everything you said however I want to point out that even though the majority of the games have been played in US stadiums, the fan base is still over 80% pro-Mexican. So US has in essence played more away games.

Sam I will try to post highlights in a few, when I can get my hands on them.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:57:43 +0000

I thought Mexico played a much more technically skilled match. (I can’t count the number of times when the US had the ball and I ended up thinking, “Okay, you were passing that to WHO, exactly?”) But the US scored two goals. Guess which matters more?

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:56:24 +0000

In response to why Europe takes Mexico seriously:

Despite the USA-Mexico record over the last decade (8 of 11 in which Americans had home advantage, mind you), Mexico is seen as fielding a far more consistent football team. They have reached the Round of 16 every World Cup since 1990 (IIRC) and they have actually had success (nationally and at the club level) at taking on CONMEBOL.

This is all as opposed to the United States, which has usually been hit or (mostly) miss with international competitions.

Still, kudos to the U.S. national team, which still manages to dominate its local rival.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:00:17 +0000

Didn’t see it, but I’ll take your word for it– good job USA! When are people going to take them seriously? Post highlights when you can. Thanks.