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Previewing this weekend's action
Tags carlos vela, el salvador, mexico
Believe it or not, but USA-Costa Rica is the only qualifier going on in the entire world on Wednesday. The rest of the action picks up on Saturday.
Let's start closest to home in Concacaf and then move furthest away to Asia:
El Salvador-Mexico (Telemundo, 9 p.m.) How disparate is Javier Aguirre to get Mexico turned around? So desperate that be brought Blanco back. I guess there's worse, he could've brought Borgetti back. But still, you can't help thinking that it's going to take far more than an old-guy-or-two to right the ship. John posted some very interesting quotes from Carlos Vela. These really caught my eye, and John's as well.
Well, fine. But now that the players appear to be dismissing SGE's terrible tenure as being purely down to his being foreign, the players would seem to me to be heaping pressure on themselves simply because this group of players has now run two different (and very different) coaches out of town. Failure under Aguirre would represent a complete and total repudiation of this generation of Mexican talent. They've had a legendary Mexican firebrand try and lead them. They've had a calm European "thinker" (and I use that term very loosely here) try and lead them. They both failed. I suspect many of the stars on this Mexican team are understand this very well and are not about to let their new coach stumble at the first hurdle. Prediction: 3-1 Mexico.
Trinidad and Tobago v. Costa Rica. The more I've seen and read about CR, the more I am impressed with them. I feel exactly the opposite about Trinidad. Prediction: 2-0 Ticos.
Let's move on to the rest of the live televised matches over the weekend.
DPR Korea v. Iran (FSC, 4 a.m. Sat) Things are starting to round down in Asia where:
I'll have more on the European qualifiers later on.
Let's start closest to home in Concacaf and then move furthest away to Asia:
El Salvador-Mexico (Telemundo, 9 p.m.) How disparate is Javier Aguirre to get Mexico turned around? So desperate that be brought Blanco back. I guess there's worse, he could've brought Borgetti back. But still, you can't help thinking that it's going to take far more than an old-guy-or-two to right the ship. John posted some very interesting quotes from Carlos Vela. These really caught my eye, and John's as well.
Quote:
Carlos Vela made some pretty telling remarks yesterday as the Tri prepares for 2 crucial qualifiers. In his comparison of Javier Aguirre and SGE, he said “Aguirre has the advantage of being Mexican, and he knows that we have to be constantly pushed in order to do our work.” On SGE “Ericksson was used to working with a European player where he says something once, and the player does it.” He added, “here players have to be hounded to get the best out of him. Javier knows how to do that.” Imagine that. Ericksson expecting his players to do what he asked. How was he supposed to know that the Mexican player needs to be coddled, pushed and prodded into doing what was asked by the coach? Doomed from the start? Evidently.
Vela, one of 3 players on the Tri who has never played professionally in Mexico (Gio and Nery are the others) wasn’t finished. “I think we have picked up some very bad habits, and I think its wrong that players have to be pestered to do their work. Over there (Europe), you have to change, or you’re gone. That’s what those of us who play over there are trying to bring.”
Vela, one of 3 players on the Tri who has never played professionally in Mexico (Gio and Nery are the others) wasn’t finished. “I think we have picked up some very bad habits, and I think its wrong that players have to be pestered to do their work. Over there (Europe), you have to change, or you’re gone. That’s what those of us who play over there are trying to bring.”
Trinidad and Tobago v. Costa Rica. The more I've seen and read about CR, the more I am impressed with them. I feel exactly the opposite about Trinidad. Prediction: 2-0 Ticos.
Let's move on to the rest of the live televised matches over the weekend.
DPR Korea v. Iran (FSC, 4 a.m. Sat) Things are starting to round down in Asia where:
- North Korea will ensure (at worst) qualification to the AFC play-off if they beat Iran
- South Korea will ensure (at worst) qualification to the AFC play-off if they beat the United Arab Emirates
- Iran will be able to advance only to the AFC play-off if:
- they lose to North Korea; AND
- United Arab Emirates fail to beat South Korea.
I'll have more on the European qualifiers later on.
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