All Entries Tagged With: "El Salvador"
Gold Cup 2011: Recapping Group A– Where Only Mexico Matters
By Sean McElroy Fox Soccer Channel might not have aired the matches, but my friends at Telemundo and Galavision provided excellent (and high definition) coverage of the affairs of Group A. In my preview, I considered Group A to be the CONCACAF version of a group of death. I had originally planned to write a [...]
Gold Cup 2011: If there were ever a CONCACAF “Group of Death”, It’s Group A
By Sean McElroy If there is such a thing as a CONCACAF group of death, I think Group A is it, with three strong teams vying for…oh yeah, probably three spots. But, alas, Group A shall (hopefully) yield some excellent soccer. Off we go! Mexico Nickname: El Tricolor Manager: José Manuel de la Torre Current [...]
US v El Salvador: Player Ratings
On the same night Mexico’s non-European based players drilled Bolivia 5-0 in San Francisco, the US bubble boys struggled to put away a depleted El Salvador side. The dreary match conditions eventually took their toll on Los Cuscatlecos; after taking the lead in the 59th minute the ever-flagging visitors conceded two, the latter coming in [...]
Previewing The US/El Salvador Match
Tonight’s match in Tampa will be Bob Bradley’s last chance to assess several of his team’s fringe players prior to selecting the squad that will fly to South Africa. El Salvador is no joke, but at this point they should be a better measuring stick for the Yanks B/C team than the starting unit. Yeah [...]
Musings On U.S. / El Salvador
Settle down Yanks fans. The next chapter of the U.S.-Mexico rivalry quickly dissolved when a battle over television rights reared its ugly head. Univision and Telemundo, both broadcasting solely in Spanish, refused to back down and the match never materialized. As expected, I was eagerly anticipating the game, even if I did have to suffer [...]
