Seeing Guisseppe Rossi on the Euro telecast mad me more furious that he chose to (not) play for Italy. Argh.
Seeing Guisseppe Rossi on the Euro telecast mad me more furious that he chose to (not) play for Italy. Argh.
Variatio delectat - Cicero
More like Germany, Italy, the Faroe Islands, Andorra, and Luxembourg. CONCACAF is a confederation dominated by Caribbean microstates with populations smaller than your average US suburb. The fact that North and Central American countries, where all the strong teams are located, are shut out of CONCACAF leadership positions is appalling. I think many of the newly elected board members were guys accused of taking bribes from Qatar to support their bid for the World Cup over the US. FIFA president Blatter and disgraced former CONCACAF president Jack Warner were notorious for pumping millions of dollars into Caribbean federations, some of which don't even field national teams. That's how the crooks keep getting reelected and how Qatar gets a World Cup despite being a terrible place for a summer international soccer tournament.
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Maybe US, Mexico, Canada, Honduras, El Salvador....can leave CONCAF and go to SA.....and play the WCQ they have. Those are brutal but they would revert back to Groups....just like Europe, when 20? new countries all of a sudden came into being and they had to turn into 2 teams and the Washington Generals like Groups for Europe Qualification.
Australia left the Oceanic Soccer Federation......as they were not being challenged by Fiji and such.
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"The players make the manager, it's never the other way." - Sparky Anderson
He gets some 25-30 guaranteed votes when he runs for reelection. The Caribbean Football Union has 30 members, including 3 South American countries. Many of its members are overseas territories of other countries, like France, the Netherlands, the UK and the US, and since the inhabitants have citizenship for the parent country, the best players end up on the French or Dutch national teams. Really they only exist as votes for
CONCACAF and FIFA power brokers. I just read that the CFU put together a West Indies XI in the early '90s, but then President Jack Warner put an end to it, feeling the Caribbean was stronger as separate members than as one unit. So basically, it's more important for them to have political power within FIFA than to work together to field a competitive team.
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It's quite sad that the best performance the USMNT have had the past 2 weeks was a 4-1 loss to Brazil.
I wish Jurgen would play a 4-4-1-1- or 4-2-3-1 with Dempsey playing behind a central striker, whether it be Boyd or Altidore.
thefirstrow.eu should have a live stream to tonight's match
Very underwhelming again.
0-0, 35th minute
Gooooal Dempsey!
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