Posted on 06/24/2007 2:01:56 PM PDT by dfwgator
Anyone who thinks soccer is boring, missed a great match today. It's always great to beat Mexico at their game.
Watching Univision right now....lmao...they have an in studio crowd of all Spanish chanting USA on one side holding the U.S. flag and the other wearing Mexico shirts and holding a Mexican flags...all the while being broadcast from Miami.
I wonder if Bush will grant a million or two visa’s as a gesture of goodwill and not to be insulting to Mexico? LOL
I thought it odd that all the soccer fields were desolate and barren this morning.
Now I know why.
Betcha dollars to donuts the Spanish speaking USA flag wavers in the Univision Miami studio are all Cuban or Venezuelan ex-pats, not Mexicans.
Was Andres Cantor, the Argentine announcer guy there to yell, GOOOOOOOOOOOAL?
That guy cracks me up. He’s one of my favorite sports announcers even though I don’t speak Spanish. He really gets into the game.
The Mexican crowds were pretty well behaved for once, probably because there were plenty of American fans there ready to kick some a$$ if they did anything funny.
I would rather watch Helen Thomas than the World Cup.
No bet needed! I grew up there in Miami...you forgot to add in the Ricans and Dominicans as well!
So why bother posting on this thread and be the skunk at the garden party?
What I don't understand is why people who claim baseball and soccer are boring can't get into hockey, because there's no standing around and great gaps between action -- the action is almost constant. Even in (American) football, the action only occurs about fifteen seconds at a time. One MLS player whose name escapes me said in ESPN The Magazine that he doesn't understand why Americans call what we call football "football" because only one player on the team kicks the ball. Says he, "They ought to call it 'throwball!'" and I have to concede he has a point.
WSJ blogger James Taranto refers to soccer as "metric football" because it's popular everywhere they use the metric system.
Yeah and the advertising signs around the field were in Spanish. What's up with that?
If the announcers hadn't said they were in Chicago, you'd think they were in Mexico.
It's perfectly understandable, this was a pretty intense tournament, and with the World Cup qualifying still yet to start, we need to start building our depth if we are ever to make the leap into the elites. This looks like a good opportunity to do that.
Mexico is a country that thinks they’re really great in soccer until reality hits them during major international competitions. They’re certainly not the same level as England, France, Italy, Portugal, Brazil and Argentina when it comes to national team competitions.
It’s always great when Mexico loses. Great day in Chicago. You had the cubs-sox and this soccer game. I saw the first part of it on the mexican channel.
Hockey is a great game. But Versus & NBC do a p-poor job covering the games. Announcing & camera angles wise.
During the World Cup, soldiers/guards were posted near the American embassy in Mexico City after the Americans beat the Mexicans, and the Gold Cup seems to be the North American version of the World Cup.
And in case some freepers are wondering, guessing that the blow off wasn't due to the reporter using Spanish, just that Donovan was being rude.
An American at a US-Mexico game needs to bring in a "Remember the Alamo" sign. At least that's what I would do. :)
But he's OUR jerk.
I am sure all 27 American fans over the age of 10 were excited...
You are KIDDING!!!
sighhhhh
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