As The Helmet Ball Players Report It's Still Any Given Saturday In Footcer
While it's still upsetting that the Los Angeles Galaxy/West Bromwich Albion friendly that was scheduled for later this week was cancelled (though the televised match against Real Madrid by the same MLS side makes the hurt go away), the footcer fans of the United States still got to see what happens when a lower level Premiership team plays a North American team pre-season.
The results were quite surprising as the Vancouver Whitecaps beat Sunderland 3-0. The Canadian team, currently in fourth in the USL (and not in the US Open Cup since, well, they're not an American team), showed that it could be a very long Premiership season for the Black Cats.
Imagine if they had faced an MLS side!
Next is the Seattle Sounders on Wednesday. If they lose that, they might as well start printing Colaship ticket aps for 2006/7. ;)
Or not, since it's only pre-season. Still, for cripes sakes, it's a USL team. It at least doesn't bode well for the FA Cup when they face someone from League Two.
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Looks like it will not be a USA/Mexico final at the Gold Cup as a lot of people were predicting. In front of an almost home crowd in Houston's Reliant Stadium (the Mexican MNT is probably the best team in any sport that will play there this year), Colombia pulled the second biggest upset of the weekend winning 2-1.
If anyone's seen the goal that beat the Mexicans, it's a contender for Goal Of The Year (hades, Goal Of The Decade). The thing looked like a simple pass but had the right weight on it to float over the keeper (who wasn't even on his line yet as the bar was so far out) and just under the crossbar.
It could very well be classified a miracle. :)
Had a defender blown on it while it was still ten yards out, it would have floated over the goal.
The semis on Thursday are the United States v. Honduras (who upset Costa Rica) and Colombia v. Panama II (Panama upset Colombia 1-0 when they met in game #1 of the entire tourney). Panama beat South Africa on penalty kicks in the late game yesterday.
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So with all of the crazy upsets going on, I won't count the Los Angeles Galaxy out tonight. But I still think any confidence is a little unfounded (especially without Landon Donovan).
After all, it's not the weekend anymore. Any given Monday only applies to the pointy ball.
The results were quite surprising as the Vancouver Whitecaps beat Sunderland 3-0. The Canadian team, currently in fourth in the USL (and not in the US Open Cup since, well, they're not an American team), showed that it could be a very long Premiership season for the Black Cats.
Imagine if they had faced an MLS side!
Next is the Seattle Sounders on Wednesday. If they lose that, they might as well start printing Colaship ticket aps for 2006/7. ;)
Or not, since it's only pre-season. Still, for cripes sakes, it's a USL team. It at least doesn't bode well for the FA Cup when they face someone from League Two.
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Looks like it will not be a USA/Mexico final at the Gold Cup as a lot of people were predicting. In front of an almost home crowd in Houston's Reliant Stadium (the Mexican MNT is probably the best team in any sport that will play there this year), Colombia pulled the second biggest upset of the weekend winning 2-1.
If anyone's seen the goal that beat the Mexicans, it's a contender for Goal Of The Year (hades, Goal Of The Decade). The thing looked like a simple pass but had the right weight on it to float over the keeper (who wasn't even on his line yet as the bar was so far out) and just under the crossbar.
It could very well be classified a miracle. :)
Had a defender blown on it while it was still ten yards out, it would have floated over the goal.
The semis on Thursday are the United States v. Honduras (who upset Costa Rica) and Colombia v. Panama II (Panama upset Colombia 1-0 when they met in game #1 of the entire tourney). Panama beat South Africa on penalty kicks in the late game yesterday.
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So with all of the crazy upsets going on, I won't count the Los Angeles Galaxy out tonight. But I still think any confidence is a little unfounded (especially without Landon Donovan).
After all, it's not the weekend anymore. Any given Monday only applies to the pointy ball.
posted by incendiarymind at 7:00 AM
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