Spain v United States

June 3rd, 2008 | By: Ryan | 11 Comments »

Tomorrow is the game we’ve all been waiting for. All adopted Spaniards (like myself) now have to choose what side to pick as La Furia take on the Stars and Stripes at La Sardinera in San Sebastian.

Headlines for this game:

AS The conquest of Europe begins with America
MARCA Definitive test before Euro 2008

The rest don’t seem to have a definitive game preview laid out.

Starting Lineup

Here is the Spain lineup for the game. (4-1-4-1)

Casillas;
Sergio Ramos, Albiol, Marchena, Capdevila;
Senna;
Cazorla, Xavi, Cesc, Silva;
Güiza.

According to Marca, Spain will play a 4-1-4-1 instead of their normal 4-1-2-3. I’m not sure if they are just making this up, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you see a 4-4-2 and they can move Silva up front, or play a 4-5-1 as well if they decide to place Silva in the midfield.

Albiol gets the start in place of Puyol, as Aragonés makes the statement ‘You won’t lose your place in the squad for one mistake’ referring to the gift from Marchena against Peru. So the Catalan finds a place on the bench for the last tune-up.

The new entries into the squad are the Yellow Submarine duo of Senna and Cazorla. Cazorla was the surprise entry into the squad after Bojan opted out of the Euro Cup. He only has one cap for Spain (I’m guessing against Peru, but my computer is too slow to look right now). Senna has been capped 8 times and will be starting in the center.

Torres and Villa are both out against the United States with injuries. Villa injured himself in practice on Monday and won’t play as a precatution. Torres trained by himself on his injured right ankle and looks to be on track for the opening game of the Euros.

Goal.com had an interview today with Real Madrid sporting Director Jorge Valdano in which he expressed his..um..disappointment with the lack of Madridistas on the Spain team.

“I think there are too few Real Madrid men on the Spanish squad. The world champions called up Antonio Cassano, who was playing at a level three steps below that of Guti’s at Real Madrid, but the latter won’t play for Spain, a team who always have a hard time trying to make it past the quarterfinals in any competition.

“There is no logic to it. Guti had a great season and deserves to play for Spain. He is one of those players who can offer a valuable ingredient even if he isn’t a starter. Players like him have the temperament to unlock games like these,” he stated.

OOOO. There’s a cheapshot against Cassano. I remember playing soccer in Spain and a friend of mine, being a big bigger and out of shape and all the local kids calling him ‘Cassano’. Makes me laugh.

This really is just an open discussion about the game. I’m on Vacation now, so I don’t have more time to write. I’ll hopefully be watching the game about 34,000 feet off the air as long as my flight has all of the fancy TV’s on the back of everyone’s seat like it did on the way here.

So yeah. Discuss.

Cool Video Grabbed from the Liverpool Offside. Apparently the English are cheering on the Spaniards.



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Username By anonymous | June 4th, 2008 at 7:40 am
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so I’m not the only one?! there are other adopted Spaniards out there?!

Hi, I’m Anonymous, and I haven’t cheered for the US vs Spain for fourteen years. (being, forever.)

:)

viva la furia rrrrrrrrrroja….

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Username By evaldo | June 4th, 2008 at 8:51 am
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what time is this friendly @?

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Username By anonymous | June 4th, 2008 at 9:03 am
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5pm USA Eastern Time (GMT-5) playing on ESPN2…

…do you think they’ll ever get to play on ESPN? ;)

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Username By evaldo | June 4th, 2008 at 9:25 am
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espn.com says 4 o’clock on their score thing and then 3:30 on espn 360 on the internet and 4:30 on espn 2. absolutely bewildering…

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Username By anonymous | June 4th, 2008 at 9:52 am
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bewildering darn right. this website is what I usually go to:

http://www.livesoccertv.com/fixtures.php

it’s really helpful.

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Username By evaldo | June 4th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
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is anyone watching this game? its 5:10 and fucking tennis is on espn2. i want to kill someone

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Username By respiration | June 4th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
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well, definitely not the lineup that ryan predicted.

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Username By Ryan | June 4th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
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The lineup wasn’t a prediction, it was given by Marca. I don’t predict lineups, I am horribly bad at that.

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Username By elisa | June 5th, 2008 at 1:21 am
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Yea Aragones is trying to hold his cards close to his chest. He needs to go.

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Username By anonymous | June 5th, 2008 at 10:19 am
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poor guy…those bigsoccer people hate you! i dont know about those people but to me futbol’s not in your blood it’s in your soul so you feel free to support spain. personally i dont really love the US all that much regardless of how they play futbol but when they do it makes me want to puke. but that doesnt mean i wouldnt support the US against someone i dont have an allegiance to, like…i dont know..Russia. lol. but if they are playing against my futbol nation Espana? forget about it!

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Username By Daniel | June 9th, 2008 at 8:52 am
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“La Sardinera in San Sebastian”

what the hell are you talking about?!?! Firstly its EL Sardinero – although English speakers could be forgiven for that but SAN SEBASTIAN?!? El Sardinero is the stadium of Racing Santander, in the city of Santander – they’re not even in the same province!

JODER!! – Eres una idiota o que?!

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