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elprincipe on 24 June 2009
zexen_lowe said:
Well, matches like this are what make football the best sport in the world. NO ONE thought the US could beat a 35-match-unbeaten, 11-consecutive-wins Spain.

And yet, it happened. Another match added to the list of "once in a lifetime" matches, that has games like the Maracanazo

Especially a US team which has played in a very mediocre fashion in World Cup qualifying, getting thrashed by Costa Rica and having to come from behind against Honduras (at home!) to win.  And especially a US team that squeezed into the semifinals due to the failure of the Italians to score a single goal against Brazil or Egypt - a team that was thoroughly dominated by Italy and Brazil in the first two matches.  And especially against the reigning European champions with more or less their strongest lineup (minus Iniesta).  What an historic achivement! 

Imagine what a breakthrough it would be if we could go on and win the whole tournament.  The US has beaten Brazil before, in the Gold Cup, but it was 10 years ago and it was a Brazil "A-/B+" team.  Brazil dominated the match quite thoroughly nonetheless, and it took Kasey Keller's finest match as a professional to stop them from scoring...and a single Preki goal to secure victory.  I'm dreaming of another, bigger moment against Brazil, if we can roll that tenth straight 7.



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fazz on 25 June 2009
elprincipe said:
zexen_lowe said:
Well, matches like this are what make football the best sport in the world. NO ONE thought the US could beat a 35-match-unbeaten, 11-consecutive-wins Spain.

And yet, it happened. Another match added to the list of "once in a lifetime" matches, that has games like the Maracanazo

Especially a US team which has played in a very mediocre fashion in World Cup qualifying, getting thrashed by Costa Rica and having to come from behind against Honduras (at home!) to win.  And especially a US team that squeezed into the semifinals due to the failure of the Italians to score a single goal against Brazil or Egypt - a team that was thoroughly dominated by Italy and Brazil in the first two matches.  And especially against the reigning European champions with more or less their strongest lineup (minus Iniesta).  What an historic achivement! 

Imagine what a breakthrough it would be if we could go on and win the whole tournament.  The US has beaten Brazil before, in the Gold Cup, but it was 10 years ago and it was a Brazil "A-/B+" team.  Brazil dominated the match quite thoroughly nonetheless, and it took Kasey Keller's finest match as a professional to stop them from scoring...and a single Preki goal to secure victory.  I'm dreaming of another, bigger moment against Brazil, if we can roll that tenth straight 7.

Hey, if Mexico can beat Brazil from time to time, I'm sure USA can too.



pastro243 on 25 June 2009
Retrasado said:
pastro243 said:
Ok, that was lame, I was watching and saying: "why cant they score?, the US teamis really bad", they shouldve forced US players to commit more fauls and gain terrain there because the US team is very phisical.

In the final Brazilians are gonna show them how south america does that. Skill is what Spain had and the US didnt, and they didnt use it, they got confident and the very phisical US team used their two chances to score goals and then they defended with 11.

Congrats to the US for their most important win, spain showed again their curse of being the eternal candidate and not winning, I still dont think the US deserves the ranking they have since much better teams are after them.

Oh, and tomorrow Brazil wins and its gonna beat the US too.

don't be so sure. If you told me yesterday that the US would beat Spain today, I would not have believed it. If you told me they would beat them 2-0, I would have walked you to the nearest mental institution.

Yeah, they probably will lose to the Brazilians, but who knows?.... they did just convincingly decimate the #1 ranked team on the planet....

 

USA! USA! USA! :P

 

edit: http://real-football.blogspot.com/2006/11/memorable-moments-us-beats-brazil-1-0.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia_at_the_1994_FIFA_World_Cup

is that how the great south americans play soccer?

You know, I could do a lot of things now:

1) Point out how many times Brazil has won against USA(14)

2) Point out how many WC SA has.(8)

3) Name great SA players.

4) Put some cool videos too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOK0nUpAdMI&feature=fvst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWFLiifF54M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pBxGoxoJP8

Or maybe point out that the worst country in SA(Bolivia)  has won 2 of the matches it has played against USA. This is a disscussion you might want to avoid.



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zexen_lowe on 25 June 2009
pastro243 said:

You know, I could do a lot of things now:

1) Point out how many times Brazil has won against USA(14)

2) Point out how many WC SA has.(8)

3) Name great SA players.

4) Put some cool videos too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOK0nUpAdMI&feature=fvst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWFLiifF54M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pBxGoxoJP8

Or maybe point out that the worst country in SA(Bolivia)  has won 2 of the matches it has played against USA. This is a disscussion you might want to avoid.

No, man, you're doing it wrong

 

There




pastro243 on 25 June 2009
zexen_lowe said:
pastro243 said:

You know, I could do a lot of things now:

1) Point out how many times Brazil has won against USA(14)

2) Point out how many WC SA has.(8)

3) Name great SA players.

4) Put some cool videos too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOK0nUpAdMI&feature=fvst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWFLiifF54M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pBxGoxoJP8

Or maybe point out that the worst country in SA(Bolivia)  has won 2 of the matches it has played against USA. This is a disscussion you might want to avoid.

No, man, you're doing it wrong

 

There

I tried finding when we beat them for the bronze in sydney 2000 but I couldnt find any videos from those matches except when we beat spain.



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pastro243 on 25 June 2009

I also remember spaniords in forums laughthing at argentina because they had lost to Ecuador xD



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Garamond on 25 June 2009

It is because nobody wants to play real football with them.



marciosmg on 25 June 2009

Doesnt matter. Brazil will beat them in the finals!!!!



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leo-j on 25 June 2009

I wasnt expecting many spanish/latins here on a video game forum but hey what the heck



 

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Barozi on 25 June 2009

Because they sucked that day. Spain also sucked at the European Championship final 2008, but Germany just sucked even harder.