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Goal by Toronto FC's Ali Gerba! Whooooo!
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clubs: | Re: [Soccer] Gold Cup Canada got lucky to get the win today. The first half was pretty even, but the second half belonged to Jamaica. It was a nice goal by Gerba though, good cross and first touch into the far side. | |
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Brazbit
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clubs: | Re: [Soccer] Gold Cup I am envious. | |
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This might have been the most exciting part of the first match.... | 
USMNT Starting XI | 
Adu vs half the opposing team | 
Not pretty but it is a goal | 
It's in the net... | 
Again not pretty but a goal none the less | 
I love the look on the defender's face | 
Holden looks happy with that | 
I think Davies just about made the Grenada keeper wet himself with this goal | 
The keeper needs his reflexes checked. Rogers taps one in |
I had visions of 67K filling the stadium. Then I heard there were around 20K tickets left. Still 47K is a nice crowd. Then I got there and saw the stadium was still in it's Sounders configuration of 32K seats. A whopping 15K showed up for the two matches. I was prepared for this by the lack of enthusiasm online (Holiday, poor match-ups, heat, first game of a non-FIFA cup game, any number of excuses for not going) but it was still a let down. I felt the National Team deserved a better showing even if it was a lame opponent in the group stage of a CONCACAF cup game.
Haiti vs Honduras was the first match of the night. I figured this should be fun to watch. Without having a horse in the race, so to speak, I could just sit back and enjoy a nice match without any stress of worrying about my team. In theory that was true but the game was so poorly played that I found myself having a hard time enjoying it.
Honduras isn't all that bad of a team but they played down to Haiti's level so the whole game was pretty much kick the ball as hard as you can down the field and pray your team can get to it first. There were occasional bright spots but for the most part it was a snooze-fest. On the bright side Honduras had some energetic fans.
The US game was better but it was a total mismatch. The US Squad is far from what they had in South Africa but even so they made Grenada look like a U13 team. With such a disparity in ability the game never did get all that exciting but it was the US Mens National Team and just getting to see them play was a treat.
I have read a lot of comments about the horns... The horns unfortunately are sold in the Sounders team shop. They were put out by the team before anyone knew what the crowd would be like and unfortunately they sell well enough that the team won't pull them off the shelf.
At a Sounders game they are annoying but get drowned out for the most part by the constant cheering and energy of the crowd. It sucks to have one near you but otherwise they fade into the background noise. With the small turn out yesterday and the abnormally high ratio of kids to adults the horns were the primary noise maker at the game. It was like everyone that had them at Sounders games showed up with them yesterday without the other 18K fans to help keep that annoying noise in check.
We had two of them near us yesterday. As I suspected the kids were blowing them to see how loud or how long they could blow them, or just blowing them in siblings ears to annoy them, their activity had absolutely nothing to do with the action on the field. I truly hope the Sounders discontinue selling these next season but I am not going to hold my breath.
Despite the horns and the level of play I would gladly purchase tickets to this event again. Any opportunity to see the National Team in action is worth it. Maybe next time they are in town it will be a better opponent.
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SK
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clubs: | Re: [Soccer] Gold Cup Great pics man! Did Sam Cronin get any playing time?
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| Re: [Soccer] Gold Cup No Sam Cronin yesterday.
Starting XI:
Freddy Adu
Kyle Beckerman
Steve Cherundolo
Charlie Davies
Clarence Goodson
Stuart Holden
Chad Marshall
Logan Pause
Heath Pearce
Troy Perkins
Robbie Rogers
Subs:
Davy Arnaud
Brad Evans
Michael Parkhurst
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1 edit | July 8 - US vs Honduras - 9PM Eastern - Fox Soccer Channel
July 11 - US vs Haiti - 7PM Eastern - Fox Soccer Channel
July 18 - 8PM Eastern (Assuming US wins their group)
July 23 - 6PM Central (Assuming US wins Quarter Final)
July 26 - 3PM Eastern (Assuming US wins Semi Final)
»www.worldcupblog.org/world-footb···ngs.html
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clubs: | Re: [Soccer] Gold Cup Can't wait for tonight. Canada takes on El Salvador at 9:00.  | |
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Brazbit
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Port Orchard, WA | Re: [Soccer] Gold Cup Good luck on that. I was hoping to catch that but Galavision is a non starter for me. | |
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| Re: [Soccer] Gold Cup I don't follow El Salvador, so I'm not sure how strong they are. However a win tonight would be a big step toward qualifying for the next round.
There's some excitement surrounding this team, first time in a while. Just a shame that DeRo had to retire from international so he could help Toronto FC.  | |
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| Re: [Soccer] Gold Cup Ali Gerba seems to be the only one on Canada who can score. Had a lot of great opportunities to score another goal so the final minutes wouldn't be as nerve racking as they were. Bernier missed an almost sure goal.
We played a lot better tonight than we did against Jamaica. However still 1 more game left and nothing is for sure yet. If we lose there's a huge possibility of 3 way tie. So going to have to win our final game, and hope Jamaica can get a win themselves. | |
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| Gratz Canada.
Would have followed closer but listening to the Sounders Open Cup game:
»www.soundersfc.com/Matchday/Matc···ity.aspx
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| US 2 - 0 Honduras
This was probably the only decent test in our group, I don't see Haiti being a hurdle (but who expected the US to beat Spain?) A nice win for the team.
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clubs: | Re: [Soccer] Gold Cup Haiti should be easy, but let's hope the US team doesn't under estimate them. That never results in a good result. | |
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Brazbit
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SK
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clubs: | Re: [Soccer] Gold Cup Sweet, 2-2 tie with Costa Rica, Canada advance, probably to play Honduras.
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| Re: [Soccer] Gold Cup That was a pretty sloppy game. Both goalies weren't at their best. Should of been 1-1 as Canada's 2nd goal and Costa Rica's first goal were garbage.
I'm happy we advance top of the group, but hopefully resting players and putting on a performance like this doesn't weaken team morale.That's the risk one takes in resting players. | |
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| Congratulations to our neighbors to the North. Now we just need the USMNT to not get ahead of themselves and take care of Haiti....
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| Back in action tomorrow.
Canada vs Honduras
US vs Panama
In Philly at Lincoln Financial Field
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| Re: [Soccer] Gold Cup I'm a little angry, their first knock out game is on a Saturday, which I always end up working. So going to miss the game tomorrow.
I hope they advance and play when I'm not at work. I'm going to be checking the scores every chance I get tomorrow.
Good luck Canada and USA. | |
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| Re: [Soccer] Gold Cup I will be trying to stay on top of it but I may get too distracted by being at Qwest Field and cheering on my Sounders as they face off against Chelsea. (Game is at noon on ESPN2)
If I have converted times correctly in my head.... The Canada game looks like it kicks off about an hour into our game. Luckily the Sounders/Chelsea game should be over and we should just be making it home in time to catch the US game.
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| Re: [Soccer] Gold Cup Ah, I can't take this. Every time Canada builds momentum we run into Honduras. Every time we run into Honduras the CONCAF referees make a name for themselves. This is just getting ridiculous.
Honduras played good, and once the goal was scored they played some good counter-attacking football almost scoring on a couple of chances. I'll give merit where it's deserved. However, that was nowhere near a penalty and totally changed the game. The Honduras player went for a bicycle kick, of course he's going to fall on his back after kicking the ball. This was the first time I've seen a penalty given for a failed bicycle kick. Not to mention the Honduras player had a hold of the Canadians shirt.
I remember a couple years ago we played Honduras, might of been for World Cup qualifying, we scored 2 twice to equalize, yet both goals were called back for offside. Funny thing was, both goals weren't even close calls where you could give the officials the benefit of the doubt.
I guess we Canadians should start expecting this now, every time we play Honduras. It's just frustrating losing that way. We had chances to score, missed them. So Canada can blame themselves as well, but frustrating as hell losing to the officials.
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| US managed to progress even if it did take getting kicked in the gut for a PK at the last minute.... Sorry to hear about Canada I have heard that was a very questionable call.
The Sounders/Chelsea match was a blast. While a win would have been great I think the guys made a decent showing of themselves. Being the first game of the year for Chelsea, with a new coach no less, they were far from top form.
It was a typical Sounders performance with the ball in the final third time after time only to be crossed to nowhere or shot just wide/high of the goal when they did take the shot. If the team could just finish a little more reliably they would be unstoppable in MLS, as it is they tend to dominate possession with little to show for it.
The atmosphere at Qwest with 65K+ soccer crazed fans in the stands was amazing. Hopefully when Barca comes in a couple weeks we can replicate the feeling. I took about 16GB worth of pictures but have yet to even start going through them. Hopefully I had a few that will be worth sharing, We were in the nosebleed section so I am not holding my breath on that one though, still I had to try.
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| Re: [Soccer] Gold Cup said by SK  :That 65,000 crowd looked wild, well done! Do you foresee that happening in any of the MLS games as well? I could easily see 65K+ at MLS matches up here if the ownership would open up the upper bowl and the team had a title or two under our belts. Currently I think we could probably reach 40K easily but 65K-67K is probably unrealistic. Still, that being said, most of the fans at the game Saturday were there wearing rave green and cheering for the Sounders which was good to see. I would have hated to see 20K-30K EPL fans like most international matches get.
Currently the Owners are trying to grow interest with the continuing string of sell out games. If they opened up too many seats too quickly they might not be able to sell them all so they are growing it slowly and only when they are absolutely sure the new seats will sell out. Hence why it took half a season for them to change from the 27K configuration to the current 32K configuration.
Originally the plan was for Qwest to be set up for 24K and they only expanded that when they broke 20K in season ticket sales. Then they only gave in and expanded to 32K after every regular season game sold out completely. To hedge their bets on filling the new seats they chose the half way point in the season and sold them as half-season tickets with tickets to Chelsea, Barca, and MLS Cup thrown in. With that sweet of a deal and a high demand for tickets the new seats sold out in record time.
Unfortunately the next logical section of the stadium that would make sense to open up is the "Hawk's Nest" the raised section at the North End of the field. Microsoft paid big bucks to have their Xbox 360 logo displayed on those seats so opening them would be a tough financial decision. If they choose not to do that it leaves opening the upper bowl as the next option and that nearly doubles the capacity of the stadium which would be hard to guarantee a sell out. When I was up there Saturday I saw what a nightmare it would be to try and restrict seating as the upper section does not appear to have been built with any thought to restricting access to certain portions of it as the lower bowl was.
In 2011 when Portland and Vancouver join the league I could see those games filling nearly any size stadium they wanted to use. The rivalries between the three teams has been going on for a long time now and the expanded fanbases of those teams when they hit MLS would result in some epic crowds if given the chance.
Our friendly against Real will be at BMO Field, however the later CONCACAF Champions League matches (if we reach that stage) will be held at the Skydome. That will be f'in epic. Nice. I can imagine the Skydome full of crazy soccer fans would be quite the show.
Now that Toronto has finally manage to make it past the pair of USL-1 competitors to capture the Voyageurs Cup they have developed a taste for silverware have they?
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1 edit | US vs Mexico in the final. Should be interesting.
07/26/2009
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2 edits | Re: [Soccer] Gold Cup Yeah Mexico really is screwing the US on this one. Apparently they wanted like 4-5 times the normal asking price for the US English broadcast rights to this game so ESPN decided to flip them the bird instead. Sucks for us as fans but props to ESPN for not giving in on this crap Mexico is pulling.
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| said by rfhar :said by Brazbit :US vs Mexico in the final. Should be interesting. Agree, I am very interested in how our "B" team can do against Mexico. Trouble ahead for the next USA - Mexico match in August, only way I can find to watch it is to subscribe to DirectTV's Spanish package. Looks like I'll be able to get the game on Fox Soccer Channel. If you can't find it there I would go to SopCast...
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Brazbit
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1 edit | Re: [Soccer] Gold Cup 3 goal lead now. wtf happened? i had to leave the TV at halftime...
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| I have not got a clue but Bradley better have his A team on the field when we head down to the Azteca for the World Cup qualifier.
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| Wow what a thrashing. I disagree with the annoucers as I think that was a penalty in the box. Either way 5-0 sheesh. Don't they have RedBull or 5 hour energy over on the bench or something.
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Brazbit
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57721182
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join:2009-05-10 | Re: [Soccer] Gold Cup Well just relax and turn on AC v Inter and later CA vs Chelsea | |
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| I don't think this would have happened with Onyewu, Bocanegra, and possibly Parkhurst as backs. As much as I like Jay Heaps, he seemed to be a step slow at times. The lineup that was out there looked pretty steady for long stretches of the first half. It just seemed to fall apart...
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