Comments on: South Africa 0-2 Spain; “Setting Records and Advancing”

By: Jessie

Jessie — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:08:10 +0000

After reading this article, I think Anthony realizes that he is not a smart person….rather dumb actually

By: Uncle Sam

Uncle Sam — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:59:07 +0000

Dropping Bombs Over Madrid!!! LOL!!!!!

By: Anfrony

Anfrony — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:54:58 +0000

Where is Anthony? When he is done crying I would like to see his reaction.

By: gerry

gerry — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:00:24 +0000

this was a mickey mouse tournament!!!have you seen italy players,they looked like thy were in holiday already..the real thing its next year,relax…this was no more than a friendly..

By: john

john — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:55:49 +0000

The States did pretty much park the bus after taking the lead, but to their credit left two strikers on the pitch almost to the end. But I see no shame in that. Spain ARE the far superior side, and had USA attempted open play throughout the full 90 they very probably would have been punished. Congrats to the US, they earned their win – I don’t think anyone’s arguing that they didn’t.

And for all those insinuating that this somehow means Spain aren’t all that good (I really shouldn’t even bother, but…) go ahead and take another hit off that magic stuff that makes reality so colorful. A fully fit Manchester United lost 2-0 to Fulham last season, then went undefeated in the EPL for the remainder of the season, and finished first. Upsets happen. Much more often, in fact, than 35 consecutive games undefeated on an international level. Shame we won’t get to see the Brasil-Spain match up, though.

By: Timothy Lakefront

Timothy Lakefront — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:19:02 +0000

@Jan, I agree to a certain extent about the otherwise lack of zeal for the beautiful game here in the US. But there is a sizable minority, like myself, so I don’t really agree with your tone. Even if nobody cared, the players do, and they deserved it.

By: Tomek

Tomek — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:56:35 +0000

Wait, wait, wait. You guys are taking it way overboard. Spain just had a bad game, that’s all. Still a massive result for the USA of course, but it doesn’t mean that Spain suddenly reverted back to their usual bottling. Their still the no.1 team in the world. And they had many injured players.

It happens. We’ll see how Spain’ll do at the World Cup, then we can talk.

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:15:26 +0000

Ummmm it’s a small deal for a team like Spain, reigning European Champion should BATTER the USA even with their reserve team. A draw with them would be shameful but a loss is humiliating.

The USA doesn’t care about football (or soccer, as they like to call it)
I bet very few people over there even know about what happened yesterday.
They have a few amount of decent players I suppose but overall it’s not a good team. Like I said before Spain should destroy them, no matter the squad. But they lost to a country who doesn’t even give a damn about the sport their playing.

By: aaron

aaron — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:14:15 +0000

on “parking the bus”:

anyone who is up 1-0 against the number one team in the world is going to do more defending than attacking. call it “parking the bus” if you want to. the most intense defending came after the US was up 2 goals. again, call it “parking the bus” if you want. the phrase has a bad ring to it for me because i associate it mostly with chelsea’s scared-shitless tactics against barcelona in phase 1 of the CL semifinal in which they played a 4-5-1 and hoped to escape with 0-0. the US did not do that during any moment of the match that was 0-0. i think that could be the source of some people’s overzealous rejection of the invocation of “parking the bus” to describe what was only a natural course for the US to take when beating the best team in the world. not just the best team, but arguably the most explosive scoring team in the world (though without iniesta and silva yesterday).

spain is my second favorite side, so good luck to them unless they are playing the USMNT. they’ll be back and will be a front-runner for the 2010 cup.

By: Armando

Armando — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:58:34 +0000

And i’m sorry, but missing Silva, Iniesta, and Senna is not small. It’s a huge deal, and it’s not an excuse to make that clear. Think of it like this, if you were Manchester United and playing, say, Aston Villa for example. Not quite up to Man United’s level, but still good enough to pull an upset. If you were missing Cristiano Ronaldo, Ryan Giggs, and Darryn Fletcher, and ending up losing the game, you wouldnt be happy either. Well that’s exactly what happenned here. Spain was missing David Silva and Andres Iniesta, their 2 best wingers, plus Senna, one of their best central midfielders. Again, it’s not an excuse, it’s just the way it is.