Archive for August, 2008

FIFA has to ban Gustavo Cabrera

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

If you missed the CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying match between the USA and Guatemala tonight, you missed an all out war. Think I’m exaggerating? Watch the highlights on YouTube and then think again.
The Guatemalans used all sorts of dirty tactics tonight; the first I think was only turning on half the lights in Estadio [...]

Olympic Soccer - Knocked-out by Nigeria

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

I have to say that I’m absolutely gutted as I write this blog post. I had such high hopes for this Olympic team and now the fact that they’re out of the tournament is really disappointing.
The end result is bad enough but the manner in which it happened only makes it worse. We [...]

Olympic Soccer: Heartbreak against Holland

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Would’ve, could’ve, should’ve.  That’s all we have left after our game against the Netherlands this morning.  But honestly, if you could’ve told me the final score before the game, I would’ve been ecstatic.
The Dutch always have a lot of quality players on their side and after the way they played at Euro 2008 and the [...]

Olympic Soccer: Japan vs USA

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

The Olympic soccer tournament started today in the wee-hours of the morning (5 a.m. my time). Thank goodness for DVRs! The USA are in group B with Japan, the Netherlands and Nigeria which means that we’ll have to fight all the way if we expect to advance. I don’t know a whole [...]

NY Red Bull vs FC Barcelona

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

The Red Bull vs Barcelona friendly was (not surprisingly) all Barça. That team has made some major changes this summer but look hella-good and have a lot of potential to make a major mark in Europe this year. You could hardly tell, at least from this match, that they just replaced their [...]