Gold Cup 2019:

[Panteras]

Cuba's problems are really unfortunate with the whole political situation.
Their FA has requested for calling of players playing abroad but the government sports minister has shut it down. Which by the way is against FIFA rules.
Then whenever they have a squad here for GC seems like some defect. Really just brutal for Cuba to get anything going as far as a substantial consisten national team when they have players defecting left and right and the ones playing overseas not allowed to play.
Soccer has grown massively on par with baseball due to the broadcasting of La Liga, I'm sure if their FA was able to call up players from abroad and local players were allowed to sign and function like any other NT they could in time be on par with the likes of Canada/T&T/Honduras.

 

[koyvoo]

Poor Cuban keeper. That’s 7-0 Mexico.

 

[Pouchkine]

Davies and David looked good for Canada earlier today.

Mexico scores vs Cuba in under 2 minutes here.

Rose Bowl the venue and maybe 5-6K attended the earlier while the stadium looks pretty close to the 60K capacity now for the Mexico game.

You mean 500-600 for the first game! The capacity is around 94 000.

 

[robertmac43]

Just watched the Canada game now. Pretty classic Canada really; looked good going forward and shaky on the back end.

 

[JianYang]

Good lord. Have to change the channel as the Jamaicans are going bezerk with their horns.

 

[Disclose]

Pizarro and Moreno are out vs Canada.
too many injuries for mexico.

 

[OhCaptainMyCaptain]

Good lord. Have to change the channel as the Jamaicans are going bezerk with their horns.

I was watching the game last night and my fiancée made me turn it off because of that lol

 

[Pouchkine]

How about 24 teams next time Concacaf?

 

[robertmac43]

Canada v Mexico score predictions for tonight? Should be a good one!

 

[Tuggy]

Canada v Mexico score predictions for tonight? Should be a good one!

Hoping for a 3-2 Canada win...

 

[Basement Cat]

Canada v Mexico score predictions for tonight? Should be a good one!

Mexico is severely shorthanded, but IMO they eak out a 2-1 win tonight. Think it will be the best game of the tournament thus far.

 

[Pouchkine]

Mexico is severely shorthanded, but IMO they eak out a 2-1 win tonight. Think it will be the best game of the tournament thus far.

Lots of goals.

 

[robertmac43]

Also going with a 3-2 Canada scoreline.

I'm nervous about how the back line holds up tonight

 

[YNWA14]

Yeah this should be an exciting game. Really interested to see AD & JD against a legitimately good team. I have high hopes (something that I don't think I've ever had in relation to the men's NT).

 

[PanniniClaus]

Curious to see if they go with Hutch in the center of defense again.

 

[robertmac43]

Mexican soccer’s homophobic chant is back, and so are the insufficient attempts to stop it

 

[Live in the Now]

It's a bad chant that is not going to be stopped ever. They going to stop the game and throw out 40,000 people? Seems unmanageable to me.

 

[Pouchkine]

It's a bad chant that is not going to be stopped ever. They going to stop the game and throw out 40,000 people? Seems unmanageable to me.

Yes they should or simply ban the National Team.

 

[hatterson]

It's a bad chant that is not going to be stopped ever. They going to stop the game and throw out 40,000 people? Seems unmanageable to me.

Yea, the only ways to stop it are too extreme for the people organizing the match to consider so it'll keep going until there's a pretty significant cultural change, but that's likely a few decades away.

 

[Live in the Now]

Yes they should or simply ban the National Team.

Yeah, no. That would be idiotic.

 

[PanniniClaus]

Yes they should or simply ban the National Team.

I think a potential National Team ban would clean things up nicely. Especially once the fans tested it and the team was banned from their next competition. That would do it faster than a cultural change that would kick in when I am long dead.

 

[Pouchkine]

They would stop almost instantly. If not who cares ban those clowns for a long time.

 

[hatterson]

FIFA isn’t banning Mexico over a fan chant, no matter how terrible it is.

The absolute most that would be considered is them playing a few games in front of an empty stadium and even that’s stupid unlikely.

 

[PanniniClaus]

FIFA isn’t banning Mexico over a fan chant, no matter how terrible it is.

The absolute most that would be considered is them playing a few games in front of an empty stadium and even that’s stupid unlikely.

You may be right, but again, something needs to be done. It's a bigger issue than goalkeepers going a few inches off of their line.

 

[Live in the Now]

I'd pump sound in during the goal kicks so nobody can hear it. Don't care about fair or whatever, both teams get that sound and that's that.