OT : ALL THINGS SOCCER (-) WC and EURO CUP 😜
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I believe Weah took Musah to NYC to hangout before he committed to the US and that is what sealed the deal.
I'm starting to think USMNT has a legitimate chance to reach the final four or final in the 26 WC.
If we can get into the 3rd round of knockout stage I think that would be pretty awesome. A final 4 appearance would be crazy. Too many good teams in the top 10, but you never know.
I dont really like the 16 groups playing 3 games (with 2 advancing). I prefer groups of 4, but I guess the numbers don't work out.
Once you get to the knock out rounds anything can happen. It all depends on match-ups. Look at how lucky Croatia (18) got. They didn't have to play a top 10 team until the final.
Denmark (19)
Russia (65)
England (12)
France (7)
Denmark (19)
Russia (65)
England (12)
France (7)
They'll be dangerous in 2022, very dangerous in 2026. They'll probably have an avg age of 26 for the 2026WC and probably avg age of 29 for 2030WC if they keep with this core of players.
I thought you didn't like futbol? Nice to see you caught the fever and are a regular now
I've seen a few on here who use to make fun of fútbol catch the fever.
This Canada v Mexico game gonna be crazy. Bust out the bright green ball
I don't see México getting any points. The sleeping giant will finally awaken tonight. CONCACAF needs a strong Canadá.
I was responding to JCorona's comment that USMNT will make the final four or final of the 2026 WC. Posting from a smartphone sometimes omits the original post you're quoting from.
Nice “assist” Antonee Robinson. Terrible defense. Don’t know how that Jamaican missed the goal from inside 4 feet.
Welcome to being a concacaf cashcow. It comes with benefits like that.
Watching the replay it did look like Zimmerman was held down. He didn’t even get 3 inches off the ground and 9 times out of 10, he wins that ball.
Still, lucky call. I’ll take it after a bad showing.
Aaronson should have gone off instead of Weah. Musah should have stayed on the pitch as well. Perplexing subs once again.
Canada is going to come out hungry knowing a win puts them at top of the table..
Hell every Sunday I’m watching up to 4 NFL games at the same time.
True. The Mexico/Canada games have gotten heated recently. A lot of shoving and pushing the last few years.
They have this Kid Marcelo Flores who already plays with Arsenal Under 20 team, his father is Mexican and his mother is Canadian. If not call to the National Team soon, he might chose to play for Canada or even England, even though he stated he wants to play for Mexico and already is with the youth squad. As for the National Team recent loses there are no excuses, poor coaching from Tata Martino as well as poor playing from some players like Ochoa yesterday. But there is more to it, the main problem with Mexican Soccer resides on the Mexican Federation itself, way to many foreign players on the teams which equals less Mexicans developing and having the opportunity to play on the top league, then you have Televisa which owns America calling most of the shots in LMX, always telling the National Coach which players he should call (Memo Ochoa), then Telerisa overrates the players and when a European Team is interested in buying a Mexican Player the LMX owners want top dollar for him, and that's why Mexico doesn't export that much players. They will instead buy a player from South America at a much cheaper price. That is why countries like Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay export hundreds of players and Mexico just a few. Just look at what Santiago Muñoz had to go through to be able to sign with New Castle.
Unfortunately that's why Pepi picked USMNT. Mexico doesn't like playing young kids until they prove themselves first. Someone like Pepi wouldn't start for Mexico even though he's as good as any striker on the roster. Mexico needs to let the young kids play.
Exactly, and the reality is that FMF really doesn't care about sport development or reaching the WC quarter finals or semi finals All they care is about is the $$$ money and they know that by just qualifying to the WC will do the business for them. Just look how most of the friendly matches are played in the US instead of playing in Europe. In the US they can guaranty revenue because the stadium will be packed with Mexicans, but that doesn't benefit the quality and development of the players.
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Interesting that Canada picked a 50k stadium for Mexico but goes with one half the size for USA.
