First win against Bolivia sounds just so odd here in 2016. We've beaten Ze Germans in the 90's for example but could not overcome the Hilltoppers of Bolivia until now! I've read this before. That the Indian FA really did object to not being allowed to go bootless back in 1950. It was in print articles from FIFA and in soccer mags decades back. Perhaps it is just a funny urban myth but it has been in place for some time now. I will say this. There was an Indian newcomer to my high school back in the early 90's and this in Houston Texas. It was damn near 90 degrees and this kid had a coat on. Not a windbreaker mind you, a f'n thick coat! We asked him what gives? He states that where he is from that it is regularly 130+ out in the Sun so coming to Texas and it being 85 to 90 is actually a 40 to 45 degree temperature swing, drop in temp! Talk about changing your viewpoint on heat and humidity! So with the no shoes at soccer thing back then, perhaps these Indian footballers learned to love to the sport of soccer by playing out in that brutal sunshine and heat and thus really did play barefoot at all levels of the sport back. Just sayin'.
USA 4-0 Costa Rica might be the first rout that is particularly useful for goal differential. Even a one-goal Paraguay upset of Colombia would leave the USA in the position of advancing with a draw against Paraguay. Edit: Er, no. A Paraguay win against Colombia would put Paraguay on 4 points.
Hell yes. First rout we've ever earned in a non-GC tourney. First tournament rout against any team other than Concacaf minnows. I honestly did not see this rout coming. First rout against los Twinkos.
So, after reflection, it's Colombia or Costa Rica or both who might tie the USA on points and fall behind the USA in the group on the goal-differential tiebreaker.
9.2.16 St. Vincent & the Grenadines 0:6 USA 9.6.16 USA 4:0 Trinidad & Tobago Man, we do well against teams with ampersands in their name. Except Antigua & Barbuda tho. They really had our number. On the serious, I'm like 98.4% sure that this is the first time the US has scored three routs in a row in WCQ: vs Guat, at SVG, vs T&T. Say what you will about the state of the USMNT, since the foulness of that hideous bed-shitting in Mazatenango or wherever, we rebounded with 14 goals in three games, none for the opponents. I'da rather we got modest wins in the past four games instead of the Guat fiasco and three routs, but hey we're in the hex so whatever. And I really like seeing the US score goals, so that was pretty sweet.
It is the first time the USA has scored three routs in a row in WCQs. The USA has played 144 WCQs, and the previous biggest combined margin in three consecutive WCQs was 11 goals: 2:0 hosting Panama on October 12, 2005 8:0 hosting Barbados on June 15, 2008 1:0 at Barbados on June 22, 2008
US 6:0 Honduras Dayum. Biggest win in WCQ hex ever. First rout in WCQ final round since the 80s. Only rout in the hex ever.
I shall do the honors. Into the pantheon of routs I hereby induct last night's USA 4:0 Panama There have been bigger routs but has there ever been one so consequential for the fate of the USMNT? Maybe the Barbados game in 2000.
I last posted in this thread on the eve of the conclusion of the 2017 hex. Looking back at that final post, it's like those eerie pictures of people heading off on a voyage that is going to be disastrous but they have no clue and are in good spirits. That said, I hereby add US 4:0 Guyana (Gold Cup 2019) to the list of MNT routs. May it be a good portent of things to come, and not like the Panama game. And if there are any other post-Couva routs (I really don't think so but sort of tuned out the MNT for a year or so there) by all means notate them.
Correct. In the shade. Out in the direct Sun it will be hotter. Like out in a cricket field over there.
Right, my point is that he's exaggerating a bit. I've been to India a few times. It's still pretty damn hot there, no doubt, and often humid, depending on the region.
US 6:0 T&T A nice way to continue moving past Couva. Also the largest prelim GC scoreline we've achieved, period. (We had 6-1 vs Belize in 2013). In fact, the first two games of this GC are the first time we've started the tournament with back to back routs.
These two may have looked like routs on the final scoreboard, but the final scoreboard can be deceptive. In Barbados in 2000, 60 minutes into the game the score was still 0-0 and Barbados had just hit the crossbar. This was a game in which a tie could have eliminated the United States from the World Cup, depending on the results of another game being played simultaneously (and the U.S. run to the quarterfinals of the 2002 World Cup would never have happened). Against Jamaica in 1988. 60 minutes into the game the score was 1-1, and if the game had ended that way, Jamaica would have advanced on away goals and we would have been eliminated (and the landmark win over Trinidad the following year on Paul Caligiuri's goal would never have happened.)
This is not a rout, but nine years ago today there was this (yeah, and fcuk the English language call):
It was nice to hear Darke lose his neutrality just a bit, but there is nothing like listening to the excitement generated from the Spanish language announcers.