Road game Crowd again roots for U.S. opponent

cnnsi.com ^ | Monday June 17, 2002 7:57 AM

[demlosers]

JEONJU, South Korea (AP) -- The Mexicans came in singing. The Americans went out laughing.

For the first time, the United States won a knockout game in the World Cup. It was naturally all the sweeter coming against its southern neighbor and traditional soccer rival, Mexico.

[demlosers]

Mexico has the Monday Blues.

[Semper Paratus]

I would have preferred to lose to any other team.

I prefer to spend my tourista dollars in any other country.

[demlosers]

It appears many Mexicans have an inferiority complex link to their nationality in comparison to the U.S.

[katana]

200 years of being inferior will have that effect.

[litany_of_lies]

I saw the game from about the 30-minute mark.

I was disgusted by the Mexicans' deliberate attempts at injury and classless taunting. What a bunch of arrogant, quintessential jerks. Oh, and losers now to boot (excuse the pun).

[LenS]

"Every time we play the United States it's like this. We have let them play us too often in friendlies, and now they know how to handle us."

That's a definite lack of self-confidence. Instead of thinking that Mexico knows how to handle the US thanks to all the friendlies, he doesn't believe in his team's ability to win except by surprise.

[Wright is right!]

"I was disgusted by the Mexicans' deliberate attempts at injury and classless taunting."

They learned this technique from their many Arab opponents. When you cannot afford "Bunker BUSTERS," you employ "BUNKER BLUSTER."

Michael

[monkeywrench]

"I was disgusted by the Mexicans' deliberate attempts at injury and classless taunting."

Picture them, now, at home, weeping and gnashing their teeth. As is everyone, who wanted to see the US lose so badly they could taste it.

[deport]

The near 35,000 spectators, mostly Koreans, cheered wildly with every move the Mexican side made and booed as hard as they could whenever the United States got near goal.

hmmmmmmm......

[Prodigal Son]

"There was too much pressure in this game. Mexico dominated, but it couldn't concentrate enough to get a goal. I would have preferred to lose to any other team."

This is how the entire world will feel for four years if we could manage to win the World Cup. I say root our side on every time they take to the pitch. This is unchartered territorry for us now- anything could happen. Look at that Spain v Ireland game. Ireland scored the equalizer in the 90th minute and might have won were it not for a bit of bad luck in the penalty shoot out.

Our next opponent is Germany. Europe will be stunned just like the Mexicans if we defeat them to go on to the semifinals. I pray for them to win for this reason alone. I can think of no better single way to beat down the psyche of the American hating Euros than to eliminate them in the World Cup- you'd have to go to war with them (literally) to do anything worse to 'em. Go USA!

[Tacis]

"...outsung by some 10,000 green-clad Mexicans..."

Where did 10,000 Mexicans get the money for the trip/stay in Korea? OK, ther's the drug money people. Yeah, OK, the politicians taking a cut of every bribe in the country. Well, you're right, theres the coyotes who smuggle illeagal aliens over the border for a fee. Yes, of course, the terrorists who pay very well to get their people and material north. OK then, how did the other 8 Mexicans afford to go to Korea?

[EBurkefan]

I can think of no better single way to beat down the psyche of the American hating Euros than to eliminate them in the World Cup

I think the big reason will be that the majority of the US doesn't even care about the World Cup...we have more Team USA followers abroad than at home. Even with a small fraction of the interest or support that other countries have for soccer, we can still come in and do better than the majority of them. I don't know about you, but that would really burn me up...if I wasn't a USA fan.

[Plutarch]

Yeah, I kind of like this beating these foreigners in a game we don't even care about.

[Stand Watch Listen]

The near 35,000 spectators, mostly Koreans, cheered wildly with every move the Mexican side made and booed as hard as they could whenever the United States got near goal.

hmmmmmmm......

South Korea has had a burr under their saddle ever since the South Korean short track skater was disqualified in the 2002 Olympics.

Hmmmmm...wonder if these same people would boo if the USA ended its 50+ years of their defense. The defense conducted with many sacrifices of Ameican citizens. The defense that prevented North Korea from overrunning their Southern counterparts decades ago. The defense that enabled their booing possible.

[skeeter]

Where did 10,000 Mexicans get the money for the trip/stay in Korea?

Expatriot funded soccer junkets.

Combined with all the money mexican taxpayers have been saving by transporting their welfare load north.

[skeeter]

South Korea has had a burr under their saddle ever since the South Korean short track skater was disqualified in the 2002 Olympics.

Longer than that. I've been noticing this trend in South Korean sports culture since Boom-Boom Mancini KO'd (I mean the BIG KO) Duc Ku Kim about twenty years ago.

Not that it bothers me a great deal, but I'm getting the impression they really don't like us much over there.

[RichInOC]

¡ ¡ Cómo estás señores ! !

Toda su base es pertenece a nosotros.

[deport]

Yep we are still on the 38th... I wonder what would happen if we pulled our sons and daughters out?

[VOA]

It appears many Mexicans have an inferiority complex link to their nationality
in comparison to the U.S.

All they have to do is watch the PBS special "The Mexican-American War" that ran a few years ago.

When less than 10,000 US soldiers land at Veracruz (with no opposition), burn their boats,
march up the same road that Cortez used, and manage to subdue not only the Mexican Army
on it's own turf, then hold a population of more than 500,000 in Mexico City in check
for months...
I'd have an inferiority complex too.

As far as I'm concerned, I suspect a lot of the Mexicans who come to El Norte
aren't just doing it for the dollars...they want to get in with the winning side.

(Except for the socialist-leech types that you see a lot in California and other
welfare states of the USA.)

[dmz]

and we sometimes wonder why the rest of the world dislikes us so much, perhaps it is because we demonstrate this kind of stupidity...