Thursday, February 8, 2007

III. US Soccer recap

Kindly note the original was written last night....

Mexico 0, USA 2- Two second half goals by the American side; the first was a solid header by Jimmy Conrad (american captain) off a nice corner kick from Landon Donovan (arguably the most famous player on the US team; do a google image search for his wife Monica and you'll see why...). The second score came in the 90th minute, a nice speedy breakaway by Landon D- he toasted 2 mexican defenders before putting the old "shake n bake" on the mexican goalie, then finishing with a strong left.

That being said, the US team did not look so hot; they were having problems with the 1st touch on almost every possession, and the spacing of their position players was way too tight.
Now for the big news......

...after the match the Mexicans walked off the pitch without shaking any of the US player's hands.........this has become a tradition for the Mexican side: in their last 8 matches on US soil they are 0-7-1, and have begun a tradition of not shaking the winning team's hands, a tradition that is ENCOURAGED by the manager of the mexican national club. I've seen some bad sportsmanship in my day (like that guy at the Civic Pub who was trying to tell me that boxing out the dance floor wasn't cool).....but this takes the cake.


With this in mind I strongly suggest that you all send a simple message to your local lawn-mower, garden-trimmer, or cement-layer: this will not be tolerated!...If you insist on not shaking hands, well then i'm afraid I'll have to F'ing insist on building a very large, very high fence. Good luck you bastards; hope the dogs get you.

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