I’m not sure if that’s how you spell Mexicans, but that is definitely how they said it. My friends and I were present at Giants Stadium in Rutherford, New Jersey for the afternoon Gold Cup Finale. A solid first half by both teams became irrelevant as the El Tri humiliated the Americans on their home turf. This is their first win on US soil in 10 years, and while they did deserve the victory, it must be mentioned that the team that did play for the USA was NOT our real team. Whatever you hear about the game that the US took a whooping and now they’re a disgrace is lies. Let’s just take a look who started in this game:

Troy Perkins who is, at best, our 3rd string keeper behind Tim Howard and Brad Guzan.

Our defense consisted of Jay Heaps, Chad Marshall, Clarence Goodson, and Heath Pearce… Do you know who starts over them?  Hejduk, Cherundolo, Spector, Bocanegra, Onyewu, Demerit, Califf and Bornstein.  Yes by that count 8 players rank higher.

Onto the midfield: Stuart Holden, Robbie Rogers, Logan Pause, and Kyle Beckerman are all young American prospects that hope to be on the actual US team someday. Bradley, Donovan, Dempsey, Beasley, Feilhaber, Klejstan, Adu, Clark, Edu and Torres,  all are preferred by coach Bradley to play instead of them.

Strikers have been led by Jozy Altidore, Charlie Davies and  Eddie Johnson, but we started with Brian Ching and Davy Arnaud.

As you can blatantly tell, our coach decided our team’s priorities and gave up on this tournament to focus on more important goals like the Confederations Cup, and the World Cup.  What is truly exciting is that the US will visit Mexico City on August 12th for a World Cup qualifying match, which will truly decide who is better.  Not only that but our A-Team will want revenge and show Mexico their true place in world rankings.

I will take some positives from the match.  Almost 80,000 people showed up at the stadium for the match, and despite the majority of them rooting for Mexico, the atmosphere was something else.  Some of our young players did hold their own, but their was only so much they could do.

Oh, and FIFA referees judge US games unfairly.

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