Brazbit
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Re: [Soccer] Gold Cup
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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alamarco
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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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Brazbit
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Back in action tomorrow.
Canada vs Honduras
US vs Panama
In Philly at Lincoln Financial Field
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| 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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| 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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| I'm going to Boston soon for the same tournament. Inter vs Milan . Have fun at the Chelsea game, let us know how it goes. |
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| 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.
Good luck to the USA. |
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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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The Mexican referee did an bit better than average job in my opinion and was swamped by several Panamanian players after the game and gave out a red and an yellow card to two players. He had to be escorted off of the field. |
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That 65,000 crowd looked wild, well done! Do you foresee that happening in any of the MLS games as well?
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.
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| 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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US vs Mexico in the final. Should be interesting.
07/26/2009
3:00pm Eastern
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rfhar
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| 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.
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2 edits | 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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Bah Mexico with a two goal lead. |
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1 edit | 3 goal lead now. wtf happened? i had to leave the TV at halftime...
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Brazbit
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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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