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Trinidad & Tobago, the new home of world soccer
Posted 06 Aug 2009 at 03:35 PM by writered21
At least, that should be the prevailing sentiment, shouldn't it?
Every time a USL team somewhere upends an MLS team, as Puerto Rico did to Toronto FC in the CONCACAF Champions League first round, we hear about how the USL is awesome and MLS is a fledgling Sunday kegger league that's on par with the Midland Football Alliance.
And yes, Toronto's failure was bad. They not only were eliminated, but they lost their home leg, 1-0, then were held to a 0-0 draw at Puerto Rico.
New York were the latest to fall to Trinidad opposition, bowing out last night to something known as W Connection, 4-3 on aggregate, after a 2-1 HOME loss. New York had actually gotten a respectable 2-2 result away, and with the away goals you'd figure even their sorry team couldn't screw it up.
They did. In typical Red Bull fashion no less, giving up two goals just before the half to gag on a 1-0 lead before acquaintances and immediate family at Giants Stadium. Clearly, this must have been because the Tirinidad league, which has only been professional since 1999. Remember, Joe Public demolished the New England Revolution in this round last year, 6-1 on aggregate.
Without doubt, their league, their brand of football, and their way of life must be better than ours.
Or ... the Red Bulls are what we thought they were, and W Connection didn't let them off the hook. While it is officially true that W Connection knocked a member club of Major League Soccer out of the Champions League, what we've known for a long time now is that the Red Bulls are nothing that resembles an MLS team. They decided to put their whole worthless season on these two matches against W Connection, and they couldn't even get that right.
The league as a whole is fine. So what if Seattle got blown out by Barcelona. The latter is a pretty good team, they're going to do that to clubs, even the mighty, mighty Sounders. The Toronto loss is a little more puzzling, but Puerto Rico had a nice run last year so perhaps the experience helped them along. And Toronto has dropped points in six of its 11 league home matches this season.
If W Connection had beaten Chicago, or Columbus, or Seattle, perhaps I'd feel a bit differently. But the truth is, they beat an MLS team in name only. It's no time to panic.
Every time a USL team somewhere upends an MLS team, as Puerto Rico did to Toronto FC in the CONCACAF Champions League first round, we hear about how the USL is awesome and MLS is a fledgling Sunday kegger league that's on par with the Midland Football Alliance.
And yes, Toronto's failure was bad. They not only were eliminated, but they lost their home leg, 1-0, then were held to a 0-0 draw at Puerto Rico.
New York were the latest to fall to Trinidad opposition, bowing out last night to something known as W Connection, 4-3 on aggregate, after a 2-1 HOME loss. New York had actually gotten a respectable 2-2 result away, and with the away goals you'd figure even their sorry team couldn't screw it up.
They did. In typical Red Bull fashion no less, giving up two goals just before the half to gag on a 1-0 lead before acquaintances and immediate family at Giants Stadium. Clearly, this must have been because the Tirinidad league, which has only been professional since 1999. Remember, Joe Public demolished the New England Revolution in this round last year, 6-1 on aggregate.
Without doubt, their league, their brand of football, and their way of life must be better than ours.
Or ... the Red Bulls are what we thought they were, and W Connection didn't let them off the hook. While it is officially true that W Connection knocked a member club of Major League Soccer out of the Champions League, what we've known for a long time now is that the Red Bulls are nothing that resembles an MLS team. They decided to put their whole worthless season on these two matches against W Connection, and they couldn't even get that right.
The league as a whole is fine. So what if Seattle got blown out by Barcelona. The latter is a pretty good team, they're going to do that to clubs, even the mighty, mighty Sounders. The Toronto loss is a little more puzzling, but Puerto Rico had a nice run last year so perhaps the experience helped them along. And Toronto has dropped points in six of its 11 league home matches this season.
If W Connection had beaten Chicago, or Columbus, or Seattle, perhaps I'd feel a bit differently. But the truth is, they beat an MLS team in name only. It's no time to panic.
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That was such a miserable game to watch...no action, just turfball (not to be confused with a soccer match) There must have been, what, 2,000 there?Posted 06 Aug 2009 at 08:35 PM by Mike Gray 
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I think they held a ticket raffle and everyone who won the raffle got a free ticket.
Everyone who lost the raffle got four.Posted 07 Aug 2009 at 09:31 AM by writered21
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Typical dribble. Always making excuses for MLS teams like "they are what we thought they were...". The fact is, MLS teams apart from lacking any depth on their squads, are essentially teams of a few good players surrounded by a bunch of journeymen. One has to wonder why in these kinds of competitions, which by the way, are the ONLY measuring stick of how good MLS is, MLS teams fail to even look like they are in any way meritorious of the rhetoric that MLS brass likes to spew forth about how good the league is. They'd rather use the results of games against top teams in preseason, who are still sweating pilsner, as some indication of where the league is at. Nonsense.Posted 07 Aug 2009 at 05:22 PM by nebulachapin
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Yeah the Red Bulls may be a USL-2 team at best but, West Connection was 6th in the Trinidad League. I don't care if New York is by far the worst MLS team they still lost to a mediocre Trinidadian team. They should have won that game
Posted 10 Aug 2009 at 11:52 PM by winster
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The PR Islanders only scored 1 goal on TFC, and if you watched or heard about how either game went, PR Islanders *completely* bunkered both games, like 9 behind the ball stuffPosted 11 Aug 2009 at 11:42 AM by IKickAndIm50
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