U17s at Mondial Minimes Tournament in Montaigu, France

Not really- most every team is traveling a long way to play- makes sense to give them all the same number of games. "Winning" the tournament is fairly irrelevant.

 

Little known fact. In Catalan, the word Xavi means "drool," Busquets means "mucus," and Puyol, Iniesta and Messi are all ways of describing diapers.

 

The Messi diapers connection is well known.

 

Where's the smiley face emoticon?

 

I'm currently in correspondence with Sunil Gulatti on our new genetic modifying program where we create the perfect footballer from a combination of sheep and lion stem cells.

We beat Mexico in a recent stem cell friendly, 2-0 of course.

 

USA 0 - Japan 0 at the half.

Score is now USA 1 - Japan 1 73rd min


EL Tri 3 - China 0 65th

Update: 4-0 77th

 

Looks Like Portugal and Russia will be playing for the championship.

 

PK's!

 

Who won?

 

usa!

 

US won in PKs, setting up a match with Mexico on Monday for fifth place.

 

Good.

 

Both semifinals went to PKs. Portugal vs Russia for the title; France vs England for third place. http://www.mondial-football-montaigu.fr/

 

Oh yeah!

 

Good to see the US win on pks at any level.

 

there the club version to nations version going on simultaneously. Santa Cruz breakers is loan US team and got blown out. embarrassing

 

when does usa and mexico play??

 

Do you know who scored the goal in regulation time?

 

I think they play on Monday.

 

Monday at 10:30 am local time.

 

Do you know if there will be any streams? I don't know French so it is hard to search for any.

 

USA 1-0 Mexico. Fifth place finish, and a win against our closest rivals!

 

I thought the game was at 10 am here.

Good win!

 

Sadly it wasn't 2-0.

Honestly, I don't care about results here at all. They got a lot of good games in andeven practiced PKs.

Here's a minute writeup for the 1-1 Japan result: http://www.ussoccer.com/News/U-17-MNT/2012/04/US-U17-MNT-Ties-Japan-Advances-on-Penalties.aspx

Bradford Jamieson IV (2nd best name) scored the lone regulation goal.

 

Bradford Jamieson sounds like some sort of high end whiskey.

Yup.........results right now aren't important. Williams is probably giving all of his players some opportunities, experimenting with some guys, etc.

And without seeing the game, it's hard to make any intelligent comments.

It's always nice to get a win over Mexico, though