Mexico Awarded World Cup Seed

cool, now to see what happens friday.

 

This is great,ahora solo queda ratificar el por que de esta desicion de fifa y tratar de quedar en lo mas alto posible en este mundial,felicidades Mexico.

 

Spazzos are already **********ting their panties in US forums. Now they'll become even more obsessed with Mexico.

 

Now let's hope that it doesn't go up their heads or we'll have another Aguilazo .

If the team uses this to their advantage, they could very well reach semis without much trouble... but as said, they gotta use the opportunity they were given.

 

Not true. If you read the forums, we expected this.

We do not need FIFA to tell us who the best team is in CONCACAF, we prove it on the field.

 

Well that would be true for some people in regards to expecting this decision, but other like B. Arena think otherwise, spazzos, and yes the US already knows that Mexico is still better than them, but oh well. Envy some?

 

Don't take my word for it; go read their comments...even the title of the thread "US got screwed" implies that they once again think they deserve Mexico's place.

 

Trolls get over it,you've done nothing at international level,you had a good 02 and that's about it..theres lots of milage to go through to be at Mexico's international level.

 

Congrats on the seed. Well deserved. Represent concacaf well like you've been doing in the last 3 world cups.

 

Read a little more on what Arena says about seeding; it's not necessarily a blessing. He also "made a case" for the US being seeded ahead of Mexico, given the head-to-head results over the last 6 years and the fact that the US won the qualifying round. But his general attitude is "whatever".

Regarding posters having a heart attack that MexicoMexicoMEXICO got a seed over the US, dude, welcome to BS. The general sentiment is that this is no surprise, but of course, the ones who post and post and post and post and post... are the ones who are "shocked". And that makes everybody else just say screw it and hand the asylum to the idiots.

Now... Mexico:

I totally agree. If handled properly, this could be a good thing in that it makes the road conceivably a little easier. But it could easily backfire and give a sense of overconfidence, which would be detrimental to the team. It also makes them even more of a target, especially if they get paired w/ a team that feels like they got slighted (Holland).

Where I think it could really "backfire" is post '06. Say Mexico does really well (definitely a possibility as the team has an abundance of mid-20 year old players and quality veterans, the ideal combo for WC) and loses to the eventual champ in the quarterfinals or semifinals, oh my GAWD I fear the press in any subsequent WC qualifying campaign. They're already too friggin' obsessed as it is. The overconfidence from the press is what would sabotage the national team... again.

Cheers!

 

First- congratulations on Mexico getting a seed. (I would have started a thread here if one hadn't been started already.) You deserve it from your fine work the past several years.

Second- Mexico didn't get a seed because they are better than the US. And the US didn't deserve a seed because they won the Hex. (I think Mexico came in second.) It seems to me that the "spazzos" as you put it on both sides are so concerned about each other that they lose sight of the big picture. I guess that's to be expected in any rivalry.

Finally, here are my ideas of a best case and worst case scenario of possible groups Mexico could get:

Best case
Mexico
Angola/Ecuador
Switzerland
Iran/Japan

Worst case
Mexico
Paraguay/Ghana/Ivory Coast
Holland
Serbia

(BTW I did a mock draw and it came out that Mexico would probably meet the US in round 2 again.)

Good luck! Win your group and advance- I want Europe to know that there's at least one CONCACAF team that can kick their butts on their home soil whenever they feel like it.

 

Better how? Not in head to head. During the past 5 years the US record against Mexico is something like 14 wins 3 draws and 2 losses. Mexico can't beat the US outside Mexico. Better world cup performance? No, that doesn't work either. Mexico has never advanced past the 2nd round outside Mexico.

 

http://eur.i1.yimg.com/eu.download.yahoo.com/fifa/fu/finaldrawpot1.pdf

 

Oh look everybody: a spazzo!!!!! and he's green all over!!!!

 

I, as pretty die hard USMNT supporter, do not think that the US deserves Mexico's seed. Mexico played beautiful soccer at the Confed. Cup and justified their high FIFA ranking by playing against quality competition away from home. They have also performed admirably at the last two world cups, so according to the FIFA system the seed for El Tri was deserved.

Now, do I think that the US is the best team in CONCACAF? Absolutely. That being based on, well, the last 10 years of CONCACAF competition and a healthy dose of bias.

That being said, I hope that Mexico does well for the sake of the region, and I hope that we meet again in the knockout stage.

 

Well, this is sensible. In regard to Arena, I read it and for the sake of someone else I read it again, yet same thing. It is nonchanlant and what not, but he is not like "whatever." Yet oh, well.

 

read this serbia-montenegro might be place with Mexico or argentina?? read...
http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news;_y...F?slug=ap-wcupdraw-seedings&prov=ap&type=lgns

 

well not only could it be Mexico or Argentina but Brazil as well.
And um, everybody kinda knows that. That's not news.