Gold Cup

[leviathan]

second US goal by Benny Feilhaber (Hamburg SV/GER) shook up Mexico really well...WHAT A GOAL..USA may have easily scored 2 more----saved by the post ...USA'S speed is getting faster!


COLOR OF MEXICO's Coach's SHIRT( Hugo SANCHEZ) caused them to lose.

[Sam van Dam]

haha lol its been great to see mexico losing haha. i think this gold cup did nothing good for them but that they need to get rid of blanco. and guardado wow kid is amazing, i think he is only 19 aswell

[The-Red]

USA's my 2nd favorite team I love the way they play soccer. This is the 2nd win now in one year for USA over Mexico. First they won 2-0 in Arizona and now they won 2-1 comming back form a 1-0 deficit. USA is a good team guys its' just a lot of people hate USA so they won't ever admit it. Personally I hate to admit this but I think right now the way they are playing they are better than Iran. The reason why is because USA plays better as a team while we rely on individual play. We could take a page out of USA's playbook and play as a team.

very true,,,,we often mix politics with football but in the same time we condem others when they do that to us...we claim that our national team shouldnot be judged based on IR and their action, yet we have so much hate for Israeli and US national team, while they are just soccer players like ours...if anything IR tries to use sports as a political weapon much more than any other government.

[Sherwin]

very true,,,,we often mix politics with football but in the same time we condem others when they do that to us...we claim that our national team shouldnot be judged based on IR and their action, yet we have so much hate for Israeli and US national team, while they are just soccer players like ours...if anything IR tries to use sports as a political weapon much more than any other government.

Hey I totally agree with you good observation. We always tell people don't judge TM because of IR, and yet many Iranian fans judge USA or Israel because of their govrnment. It doesn't work that way you got to be fair here and just judge the team of pure football skills.

US national team has a tremendous ammount of speedy players who can just turn on the jets and fly. Now on that 2-1 breakaway you could just see Donovan and Beasley book it to what could of easily been goal #3, but Donovan passed it to Beasley(good play very unselfish), but Beasley hit the crossbar. On the record in this decade USA is 8-0-1 against Mexico and the one defeat was in Azteca. That is showing dominence over your bitter rival man they are clearly the team to beat in Concaf.

Israel on the other hand almost made it to the World Cup and I believe it was largly because of these two very good Arab players on their team. They missed out on WC2006, but they were also playing against Europea teams which is very tough.

[persiangodfather]

wow usa didnt even deserve to be i the final but they still won eh

[KC McElroy]

On the 2nd US goal I fully agree with the Spanish commentator: golasso, golasso, golasso, golasso, golasso, golasso, golasso, golasso, golasso.....
Well done by the US. They showed throughout the tournament that they are the best team.
Hugo Sanchez's first game in charge was a loss against the US back in February. I have a feeling his last game in charge was also a loss against the US.

[BacheLot]

cuatemoc in
funky cold medina out

witty!

[BacheLot]

i was a party and missed the game..i did catch the end of the 2nd half...
is there another re broadcast of the game..!?

[KC McElroy]

I doubt it but here are the goals.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3crTXFpFuEU

And here's the full 2nd half:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jucdZivAaGY

[BacheLot]

cool...thanks kc..!

[Sherwin]

wow usa didnt even deserve to be i the final but they still won eh

Seems like sour grapes to me man. Look Canada got a raw deal but youcan't say they didnt' deserve to be here because they clearly outplayed Mexico in the finals. I know you won't admit this but USA is the new team to beat in the CONCAF region they have dethroned Mexico! In this decade starting from 2000, USA is now an impressive 8-0-1 against Mexico. The only loss came in Azteca 2-0 win by Mexico for the 2006 World Cup qualifying.

Also man as for the USA Canada game I think Canada started attacking too late man. USA scored the first two goals before Canada started to attack in the 2nd half. When you play like that you expect a call to go 50/50 either for you or agaisnt you. Canada should of attacked like that in the 1st half but it took two goals from USA to wake them up.

I must say tough Canada has established themselves as the 3rd best team in Concaf in my humble opinion. If I were to rank it right now as of this moment it would be
1-USA
2-Mexico
3-Canada.

They have seriously improved that much I give Canada props. In fact I think that Canada played better than Mexico overall in this tournament so you guys should be proud.

[KC McElroy]

Not that I disagree with your logic (especially the sour grapes comment) but your stats are a bit off. Here's a breakdown of US-Mexico games since 2000:

2000 USA 3 Mexico 0 (USCUP)
2000 USA 2 Mexico 0 (Friendly)
2001 USA 2 Mexico 0 (WCQ)
2001 USA 0 Mexico 1 (WCQ)
2002 USA 1 Mexico 0 (Friendly)
2002 USA 2 Mexico 0 (WC)
2003 USA 0 Mexico 0 (Friendly)
2004 USA 1 Mexico 0 (Friendly)
2005 USA 1 Mexico 2 (WCQ)
2005 USA 2 Mexico 0 (WCQ)
2007 USA 2 Mexico 0 (Friendly)
2007 USA 2 Mexico 1 (GC)

All together 12 games, 9 US wins, 2 Mexican wins, 1 tie, 18 goals for the US, 4 goals for Mexico.

[Amir H F]

USA still sucks

[KC McElroy]

Well we can't argue with that sour grapish logic, now can we?

[Sherwin]

Not that I disagree with your logic (especially the sour grapes comment) but your stats are a bit off. Here's a breakdown of US-Mexico games since 2000:

2000 USA 3 Mexico 0 (USCUP)
2000 USA 2 Mexico 0 (Friendly)
2001 USA 2 Mexico 0 (WCQ)
2001 USA 0 Mexico 1 (WCQ)
2002 USA 1 Mexico 0 (Friendly)
2002 USA 2 Mexico 0 (WC)
2003 USA 0 Mexico 0 (Friendly)
2004 USA 1 Mexico 0 (Friendly)
2005 USA 1 Mexico 2 (WCQ)
2005 USA 2 Mexico 0 (WCQ)
2007 USA 2 Mexico 0 (Friendly)
2007 USA 2 Mexico 1 (GC)

All together 12 games, 9 US wins, 2 Mexican wins, 1 tie, 18 goals for the US, 4 goals for Mexico.

I'm sorry about that man I was going off what the sutpid commentator said in the USA Mexico game. Still 9 wins 2 losses and 1 tie is DOMINATION MY FRIEND.

Amir tell me how does USA suck? I'll bet if USA plays agaisnt Iran or anybody else in Asia the Americans will win. Try not to be biased here and just judge USA on their football skilss not because you dislike Bush. In their recent friendly games before the Gold cup they beat Denmark 3-1, Mexico 2-0, and China 4-1. Now just recently they beat Mexico TWICE yes the same Mexico that we lost to 3-1 and 4-0. Dont give me that A team argument either because I was there live in Nuremburg when we had our full squad, and it didn't make much of a difference.