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Originally posted by EvilTree  I was going to catch the replay at 11 |
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| Originally posted by extacy_bomb you're in for a treat. A very competetive and exciting match. |
just got home from the game and the after party. Wow! Questionable penalty and 1st goal..but the 2nd one was a thing of beauty. The referee was a pedaso de mierda hijo de la gran recontraputamadre!!! and because of his yellow cards we now have a few players in trouble of fouling out in the next game, also it gave Portugal the opportunity to score a goal (which they did). A beautiful free kick mind you, a bullet in the last minutes of the game.
Great fan support for both teams. Although there were definitely more Portuguese fans than Mexican ones.
Don't quite know what Portugal was thinking when they kept trying to score from 100 meters out????
Thought I was going to get killed there a few times.
Veeeeeeery happy it didn't end up 'raining' on our parade.
"Donde estan, los de Portugal que nos ivan a ganar?"
"M�xico, M�xico vamos a ganar
este campeonanto lo vamos a llevar
M�xico, M�xico vamos a gozar
este nuevo ritmo, es el ritmo del mundial
chiquitibum a bimbomba
chiquitibum a bimbomba
a la bio a la bao a la bimbomba
M�xico, M�xico ra ra ra" 
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| Originally posted by Stilez just got home from the game and the after party. Wow! Questionable penalty and 1st goal..but the 2nd one was a thing of beauty. The referee was a pedaso de mierda hijo de la gran recontraputamadre!!! and because of his yellow cards we now have a few players in trouble of fouling out in the next game, also it gave Portugal the opportunity to score a goal (which they did). A beautiful free kick mind you, a bullet in the last minutes of the game. Great fan support for both teams. Although there were definitely more Portuguese fans than Mexican ones. Don't quite know what Portugal was thinking when they kept trying to score from 100 meters out???? Thought I was going to get killed there a few times. Veeeeeeery happy it didn't end up 'raining' on our parade. "Donde estan, los de Portugal que nos ivan a ganar?" "M�xico, M�xico vamos a ganar este campeonanto lo vamos a llevar M�xico, M�xico vamos a gozar este nuevo ritmo, es el ritmo del mundial chiquitibum a bimbomba chiquitibum a bimbomba a la bio a la bao a la bimbomba M�xico, M�xico ra ra ra" |
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| Originally posted by dEsidEL whatta game.. guy i wanna see u dress up as a f*ckin Aztec King if Mex reaches the semis lol |
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| Originally posted by EvilTree now, only if he doesn't pull a portuguese and dive... |
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| Originally posted by dEsidEL he got carded for diving tonight actually man the atmosphere in that place was awesome .. i'm still feelin' it! gotta get tix for the semis and finals |
America's beating Brazil, and Poland just scored against Korea at the end of the first half!!!
POLSKA POLSKA!!!!!!
It looks like we (us polaks) are just about through to the next round 
Now if only Canada could make movements on Sunday, I could be dually excited.
Bollocks!!!
Both Brazil and Korea tied it up.
Curva macz!!!!
Polands in !!!!!!!!!
and I'm surprised at how well America has looked in the last two games. REALLY!
Now the games begin
i have 1 ticket for match 50 (semi final) in toronto.. let me know if anyone wants it pm me 
Canada out as host country with 0 wins and 0 goals.. what a disgrace
this will go nicely with our existing record of the only country in history to host not just one, but TWO Olympic games (summer 1976 & winter 1988) and not win a single gold medal.
Dale Mitchell ? 
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| Originally posted by dEsidEL Canada out as host country with 0 wins and 0 goals.. what a disgrace this will go nicely with our existing record of the only country in history to host not just one, but TWO Olympic games (summer 1976 & winter 1988) and not win a single gold medal. Dale Mitchell ? |
who the hell is canada
i swear i had better players at my highschool in woodbridge, some of them went to play in the states with a scholarship
these canadian guys though are fucking garbage
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| Originally posted by geroin i swear i had better players at my highschool in woodbridge, some of them went to play in the states with a scholarship |
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| Originally posted by geroin who the hell is canada i swear i had better players at my highschool in woodbridge, some of them went to play in the states with a scholarship these canadian guys though are fucking garbage |
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"no regrets"
- Dale Mitchell, Canada's Mens National Soccer Team Coach
ok does anyone feel like keeping Stephen Hart around instead?
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Mitchell's U-20 work underwhelming
July 10, 2007
Cathal Kelly
As embarrassing exits go, it was one hell of an introduction.
Dale Mitchell spent his first moments as the de facto head coach of the Canadian senior men's soccer team trying to explain away the disaster he had just masterminded with his former charges, the national under-20 team.
Under his tutelage, Canada's best young players were listless and ineffective during their dismal ouster from a world championship on home soil. No goals. No points. No chance.
But in the looking-glass world of Canadian soccer, he gets a promotion for his failures.
"Today is not a day for analysis of soccer in Canada," Mitchell said after Sunday's 2-0 loss to Congo. Like too much Mitchell's said or done in recent weeks, wrong again.
The irony is compounded by the recent performance of the other man once in the running for the national team job, Stephen Hart. As the interim coach of the senior side, Hart guided an unfancied team to the semifinals of June's Gold Cup where only a botched offside ended their run.
Going into the summer, it was assumed that Canada would struggle in the Gold Cup and be exuberant in the U-20 championship.
After all, we were hosts. And hosts prosper in soccer.
Only on Sunday did Mitchell inform us that there actually is no such thing as home-field advantage. Maybe that explains the turnaround. More likely, coaching had something to do with it.
Hart deployed his side creatively, showed resilience after a tough early loss and was able to bring the best out of stars Julian de Guzman and Dwayne De Rosario.
Mitchell used negative, ineffective tactics, never recovered from a shock opening defeat to Chile and didn't seem capable of drawing enthusiasm from a team mascot.
His best players � David Edgar and Jaime Peters � were left twisting in a set-up that wouldn't go forward and couldn't back up.
Watching Mitchell's go-for-broke strategy in the desperation outing against Congo (Two target men up front? What audacity!) only left us wondering why he'd left it so late to entertain the idea of attacking.
In the aftermath, the decision to name the new coach only days before the summer tournaments looks like a hand grenade tucked by the Canadian Soccer Association into Mitchell's congratulatory gift basket.
The contrast between the two managers was bound to be stark.
A one-off tournament is a tough, but necessary, basis on which to judge a coach.
But directly after Sunday's game, Mitchell didn't help himself any.
He was left spinning absurdities to try and cushion his upcoming crash landing into the senior team.
In defiance of all sporting wisdom, Mitchell questioned the concept of home-field advantage, claiming it had made his team a bigger target. He talked down his own players.
He said his side had been adequately prepared before lamenting missed training opportunities with his European-based players.
He fell back on the usual mumbo-jumbo about momentum and missed opportunities.
Strangely, he claimed he had "no regrets."
That will warm the hearts of all those who were hoping for something better from the senior team in the World Cup qualifying run to come.
There's no question about the CSA reversing their decision.
Turning on Mitchell now would only scare off any quality coach who might replace him.
We're left to hope that Mitchell has been chastened by recent experience. His lease on professional life has grown shorter, but perhaps that will engender the sense of urgency his recent team so badly lacked.
The men of Canada's senior side will know that they are playing for the coach's future in their next matches. How they respond will be the final referendum on the wisdom of hiring Dale Mitchell.
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Analysis of defeat waits for Canadians
`We've fallen short as a team,' says Mitchell as U-20 team is ousted
July 10, 2007
MORGAN CAMPBELL
SPORTS REPORTER
Near the end of Sunday's post-game news conference Canada's under-20 head coach Dale Mitchell had grown sick of the "sorry state of Canadian soccer questions."
And he'd only heard one.
"It's not the time for an analysis of soccer in Canada," an annoyed Mitchell said to a reporter Sunday night. "I'm not willing to talk today about what the problem is in Canadian soccer, in your mind, if you think that's the case."
The bitterness bubbled to the surface after three straight losses � the first two disappointing and the last one heartbreaking � in the FIFA Under-20 World Cup. After looking listless in consecutive defeats against Chile and Austria, an aggressive Canada squad attacked the goal against Congo but still lost 2-0.
The loss left the host team dead last in the 24-team tournament, the only team the first round with no wins and no goals. Canada also became the first host team in the tournament's 30-year history not to score a goal.
This should go nicely with our record of being the only country in history to host not just one, but two Olympics games (summer Montreal 1976) and (winter Calgary 1988) and not win a single Gold medal.
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Midfielder Jaime Peters entered the World Cup as Canada's most important offensive player, fast-paced playmaker who could both score goals and set them up. This spring Mitchell predicted Canada's offence would only perform as well as the 20-year-old from Pickering did, but until Sunday night's game against Congo Peters found little room to operate. And, true to Mitchell's prediction. The offence sputtered.
Peters, who plays professionally for Ipswich Town, left the World Cup with his pride intact after Canada's effort against Congo, but with a few regrets too.
"You always want to a spark when the team's down and today I was trying to go forward more," he said. "I wish I could have played like that all three games."
A month before the tournament Canada had plenty of reasons for optimism. The previous year had included wins over Brazil, the Czech Republic and the U.S., and an exciting 2-1 loss to Argentina at BMO Field in May.
But Mitchell's team quickly learned the difference between friendlies and games that count.
"Teams know this is a team that's hosting and needs to be taken seriously," he said. "And I think teams have really done their homework on us.''
so did you do your homework on yourself?
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Despite their winless, scoreless run through the tournament, Mitchell says his team achieved an important goal:
They found out how good they really are.
"We asked the boys at the beginning of the tournament to go and test themselves out against the best under-20 players in the world," he said. "We've fallen short as a team. (Against Congo) there were some very good individual performances. A number of our players still have a ways to go to play at this level, but this is a very high level."
The tournament was Mitchell's third U-20 World Cup as Canada's head coach, and he now moves on to coach Canada's men's national team as they try to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
A few members of this squad will probably graduate with him. Peters played sporadically for the men's team since he was 17, and defender David Edgar has played for Mitchell four years already.
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http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/234157#
I'm waiting for the sack.
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| Originally posted by geroin who the hell is canada i swear i had better players at my highschool in woodbridge, some of them went to play in the states with a scholarship these canadian guys though are fucking garbage |
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Canada U-20 team 'not good enough': Coach July 10, 2007 Canadian Press Canadian coach Dale Mitchell has offered a blunt assessment of his team at the FIFA U-20 World Cup, saying it didn't match up to the 16 countries still alive at the tournament and that most of his players were out of their depth at this level. The host side exited Sunday after going 0-3-0 and failing to score a goal at the 24-team soccer tournament. The Canadians were outscored 6-0 in their three games. "If people are honest, you can see there's a clear difference between the 16 teams that are playing right now and the Canadian team," Mitchell told The Canadian Press on Tuesday. "And not only the 16 teams that are playing right now, but some of them that have gone home, like South Korea who are clearly much better than Canada. "So we shouldn't put our heads in the sand. We're disappointed that we didn't get out of the group, we had good preparation, we put everything we could into it. But at the end of the day we are not good enough for this level. And I think that that is why people want to analyse things and if something good comes because of it, then I think that's a positive." The Canadian Soccer Association says it plans a comprehensive review of Canada's early exit. And that includes Mitchell. "We're taking a very very close review of our performance through this tournament," incoming CEO Fred Nykamp said Tuesday. ``We're going to review everything." Asked to assess his coaching performance at the tournament, Mitchell offered only: "That's for others to judge." But he said he intends to carry on as planned, taking over the reins of the senior national team. In a candid interview, Mitchell also said: � Fans, the CSA and even the players got caught up with overly high expectations for the home side. And some forgot the difficulties Canada has had in the past at the under-20 championship (4-15-5 going into this competition with just 16 goals scored). � The Canadian team found itself surrounded by a "negative vibe" after a lopsided 3-0 opening loss to Chile � Canada was talent-thin and opposing teams had scouted the home side so extensively they were able to stifle the Canadian stars. Mitchell still believes advancing out of the first round was an attainable goal, but one that required some "really good" performances." He says Canada was "clearly outclassed" against Chile but "the other teams on another day, I think we have enough to get maybe three or four points against them. "But can we say that we're a better team than Austria or Congo, then no, we can't say that. For me we were close to those teams." Instead, Canada's run at the tournament was all downhill as high expectations, coupled with a bad showing in the opening 3-0 loss to Chile, took its toll. "It was probably to the point where the expectation was maybe a little bit too high," Mitchell said. "I think that after the first game, when it didn't go the way we expected, there was a huge negative surrounding the team that wherever we went � all of sudden there was a negative vibe around us and it was hard to overcome that within the group. "We never dealt with that aspect of it particularly well and I certainly felt like the belief within the group, as much as we were all trying to do and say the right things, I think it took a bit of a hit." Mitchell has plenty of experience at this level. He took Canada to eighth at the 2003 tournament, when his side was one goal from reaching the semifinals. Mitchell's 2005 team went 0-2-1, was outscored 7-2 and finished 21st after failing to survive the first round. In 2001, under Paul James, Canada went 0-3-0, was outscored 9-0 and finished last in 24th spot. Mitchell said he knew a bumpy ride could be around the corner this time out. "I always had it in my mind that it was possible and the reason I had it in my mind is because I've been to this tournament twice before," he explained. "I know what the feeling is like. When it's two years between, sometimes those feelings fade. But it quickly comes back, when you're watching a game and you can see that your team is stretched in every department and you're looking at a game clock and it's only 10 minutes in. "That is the reality of playing the best teams from the rest of the world." While Canada had enjoyed success in friendlies, when little was on the line, Canada's players were found wanting on the real world stage. "When we're talking about this level, I'm not sure about how many we've got really that are capable," Mitchell said. "I think this team at the end of the day ends up being like most of the other teams in our history that have been here. "We have two or three players maybe in the group that looked comfortable, (who) may not have performed as well as we expected, but looked like they could handle the level � and possibly a few were good enough to maybe play on one of the other teams if they were surrounded by other good players. "But I think individually we had a lot of players that were out of their depth for this level." Stars like winger Jaime Peters and attacking midfielder Will Johnson were taken out of their game by the opposition, Mitchell said. As host side, Canada did not have to qualify. Instead it played a string of friendlies, offering others plenty of opportunity to check out the home side. "Because we were the host team . . . people knew us inside out. And you could clearly see that whenever Jaime was in possession, there were two, three guys around him very quickly. I think certain teams went out of their way to put Will off his game, and get round him and frustrate him, he's a fairly volatile player as well." The other players were unable to step up or help break down the other team and create opportunities. "The only real simple answer, I think, is the core fact and that is the team wasn't good enough, for this level," Mitchell said. "Perhaps Game 2 and 3 on a different day might have been a little bit different. But can we say that we were as goods as the 16 teams that are still in the tournament? The answer is no." Asked if the performance of the U-20 team could affect the future of Mitchell as national coach, Nykamp said: "We'll have to see what the entire review indicates. I really want to become familiar with what was all done over the past 24 months. It really is too early to say anything like that." So does the association have full confidence in Mitchell? "As I said, we're going to review the entire U-20 performance," said Nykamp, who officially assumes his new job Aug. 1. "And upon review, we'll probably make some statements on that. I haven't had a chance to consult with everyone in the decision-making capacity around the CSA as yet. "(CSA president) Colin (Linford) and I have been speaking and we've decided that a full review is certainly in order. And what the outcomes of that will be, we'll certainly announce as soon as they're done." Told that does not sound like a vote of confidence in the coach, Nykamp said: "The review is through the entire team, it's not just the coach. It's how the training is planned, how the investment was planned, how the schedules were approved, from the CSA's point of views. What all other factors were involved through the last 20 months. "I want to familiarize myself with all of that and I really haven't had the opportunity to do that and that's really what it means, it really doesn't speak to the confidence level of the coach at all." |
What a cop out.
The team didn't play well because the coach played the wrong system and tactics.
Way to go. Blame the players for your suckiness.
While overall performance sucked, but a lot of individual players did have talent. There were teams with crappier players that did better than Canada. (North Korea for example)
Spain vs Brazil 11pm on CBC.
Should be interesting as both teams are shaky on defence, but excellent on attack
Finally the game is on. stupid cbc
extra time!
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