OT : ALL THINGS SOCCER (-) WC and EURO CUP 😜
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Do you wanna claim Pepi and the rest of the dudes who played with FC Dallas in El Paso as Dallas players?
Still waiting for my list…. Not even sure what you’re talking about anymore. Will no longer respond.
The list you put out is a bunch of Dallas Texans, from the few I searched don't even play in a real league.... Ho Chi Min second division?
If you gonna add players like that
Memo Diaz
Joel Maldonado
Jimmy Villagomez
Edwin Villareal
Harrison Shaw.
I went through your entire list... I'm guessing you think "home grown" means they're from that city. You also have two 30 year olds and you were complaining about a 27 year old el paso player. You also have players that play in leagues lesser than USL. Dallas has some good soccer, but not El Paso soccer.... and we ain't even talked about Juarez yet
Some serious hooligans on this thread the passion is palpable.
You claim to know soccer, but are only focused on part of their heritage. Lee Nguyen does play in Ho Chi Min or whatever, but he’s also older than Omar Salgado by 6 years. Your golden boy Salgado is already retired. He probably couldn’t even play in Ho Chi Min if he wanted to. Nguyen was born in Dallas and grew up there. He also played for PSV and many years in MLS. He also played for the US National team. And you claim to know soccer.
Still waiting on my list.
The reason I bring up nguyen is because you dogged on a player from the list being 27 and then dogged on another player for being USL. Just showing you how stupid your statements are.
Pepi
Zendejas
Ambrose
Guillen
Munoz
Barraza
Marco Canales
Hector Holguin
Memo Diaz
Joel Maldonado
Jimmy Villagomez
Edwin Villareal
Harrison Shaw
Chapa Herrera
Your list, consisted of 12 Dallas players (one who grew up in Colombia till he was 12 and one player who is playing in Ho Chim Min and by the way, he played for PSB you may be confusing them for PSG). That's with Dallas having an MLS team for 23 years and the locos only being in their 3rd season and Bravos only being in their 6th (notice, I didn't put no Juarez player on that list). Dallas metro area is like 8 times bigger than El Paso... El Paso is a lot more of a soccer town than dallas. Not even with the advantages that Dallas has over El Paso (MLS team and a lot bigger population)
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You listed kids on the Locomotive academy lol. Where’s the ones playing in the NCAA?
Nguyen is still playing and was on the national team. Salgado is done. So your “brag” about him being the #1 pick in the MLS draft is no brag at all. Especially since he didn’t live up to his potential. If it makes you feel better please list the 34 year old El Pasoans that are still playing “high level” soccer. Though there are none, since you had to list Locomotive academy players on your list.
Again, you’re dumb as hell, as it doesn’t matter if they’re playing in Ho Chi Min when they’re older, as he played for PSV, MLS, and the National team. Not sure how you think Nguyen is invalid. I believe you’re just an idiot. Jesus Ferriera moved when he was 10 actually. So he’s lived there more than half his life. You can count players that moved to Dallas and Florida as El Paso, but not the other direction right?
Yes, Dallas is larger and should have more players than El Paso. Who is saying they don’t?
El Paso is more of a “soccer town” than Dallas, but can’t sell out 7,000 seats for a dominant, 1st place team. Okay.
You guys were acting like El Paso is a soccer hotbed with 3 good players with promise. That’s nice and El Paso should be proud, but nobody cares - at this moment. El Paso isn’t even close to having the amount of talent that Dallas and other big cities have. How many USL players have Dallas roots? Half of your list are USL players.
I’m done with this subject. I’m moving on.
I remember that time the Patriots made the finals of the U.S. Open Cup.
salgado wasn't included in the list. What ya got? I bet you can find players in USISL or some other ho chi min team...
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Mostly EP players. I belive, Claudio Reyna played some matches in El Paso, both against El Paso players... UTEP club and the patriots
I don’t think he played against UTEP club. He played for Virginia if I remember correctly. Helluva player. His son looks like he’s gonna be damn good too.
He didn't, it was calugiri that I was thinking of and he didn't play against the UTEP club either.... Collin Rock played against UTEP, he was crazy fast
I do remember Collin rock. He was towards the end of my era. He was fasttt!
That was 95, the last open cup without MLS teams. Only 1 non-MLS team has won it since. 10 years later, the Patriots made the PDL (now USL League 2) National Final. 10 years after that, they were out of business and largely forgotten.
The owner of the patriots was Enrique Cervantes. His brother played for the patriots and then his son. After his son stopped playing, the team was disbanded. The team was kept together so that his son could still play soccer at a higher level. Patriots were the first team from USA to be sponsored by Nike.
Watching Pepi in the cross and volley portion of the skills challenge. He is a helluva finisher. Funes Mori is on a another level, tho.
Pepi has been officially invited to the USMNT for the qualifiers that start next week. It was announced during the All Star game. So he apparently has been Asked to play for both teams next week.
However, Stu Holden mentioned because he's 18, under FIFA rules, even if he plays all 3 games he will not be cap tied.
However, Stu Holden mentioned because he's 18, under FIFA rules, even if he plays all 3 games he will not be cap tied.
This team is good and young. Can't wait for 2022, but imagine how good they may be in 2026?
I’m going to wait and see how these first 3 games go before I declare them “good”. 2026 does look promising though.
And??? The US could win all the Gold Cups and Nations Leagues and Who Cares Cup, the only thing that matters is qualifying for the World Cup.
Canada was missing Jonathan David and Alphonso Davies. Mexico was missing some of their better players too.
I have to remind you of what you said earlier. Which one is it?
Looks like he does have community ties and family living in the El Paso/Juarez area. Imagine that.
When did I say he wasn’t from the area? That post doesn’t say they still live there. Could they? Sure.
My whole point was that he’s not popular here and hasn’t given back to the city or embraced it like Aaron Jones and Khalid have - yet.
Says the guy that said Lee Nguyen never played for PSV - though you deleted the post. Or calls Austin a town. Also says El Paso has all these pro players, but listed boys playing for the Locomotive academy and no NCAA players.
