International Friendly: Mexico v Portugal | Foxborough, MA June 6th.

any pix of Ana Caty Hernandez from yesterday?

 

I had to leave early in the 2nd half because I had to take care of something personal. I'll try to post it later today.

 

Don't f with Surge.

 

Bonus Gio tunel.

 

Herrera has done nothing but show us his incredible skill every game he's been with the national team. The best player in this 23 man squad, his technique is worthy of admiration. Giovani was a beast in the 2nd half as well

 

http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/sto...h-a-defeat-060614?cmpid=tsmfb:fscom:FOXSoccer

 

What ever happened to those Varela to Santos rumors??

 

Oribe needs to learn how to shake close markers off of him. He looked frustrated and covered up all game. Cheech came in and started making runs into space to get open.

I have been watching a lot of old vids of Mex in the WC and it's astounding how slow we are playing. Look how much quicker our runs are and how much more crisp our passing is.

 

I would be hating but like IMD said, after the Olympics you can never count Oribe out........

 

Instead of nationality, meant patriotism.

 

True. He's been having that problem for the last two years. After exploding in 2012 with 19 goals in all comps, teams have been marking him the way you'd expect teams to mark true superstars. It's affected his individual stats (only 8 goals scored in the league last season); however, the team was a well-oiled machine offensively thanks in large part to him drawing so much attention away from our dangerous wingers. Santos scored 33 goals in league play. The next closest was Cruz Azul with 28.

With the National team, due to the formation, drawing so much attention doesn't work quite as well. In a way, the situation is comparable to how the beloved Welbeck plays for Man U: Oribe is good linking up, and often times goes back to help recover the ball. Defending and ball recovery is a big part of his game (led Santos in tackles won), but it takes him away from the part of the field where he is needed. In this case, I think Chicharito is better suited as far as being in position to score.

Though good movement off the ball would be useless regardless of whoever plays up top because we will simply not score much when we have to rely on crosses from our mediocre fullbacks. Layun was badly exposed last night after we finally played a team that could handle his predictable nature. We will need our midfield to basically win us games. I think that is the only way we will see any success. Chepo ball won't cut it.

Man, I'm having a difficult time hyping myself up for the tournament. It's nearly impossible when you know we have two major issues that won't be regualted in time: The formation does not mesh with our personel, and of course, the starting defensive unit is extremely flawed. I was much more amped for the 2010 WC.

 

Never materialized. I think it's because Porto wanted Quintero in return, and Santos would be stupid to exchange their best player for an older version of himself. They're way too similar; right down to having the same frustrating weaknesses.

 

I think 2010 team has had the worst showing since i started watching the WC(1994) 2006 being a close second. But that 2006 team had the excuse that they had a horrible attack.

 

At 1:40, if Cuauh wasn't a hunchback, he would have scored that with ease.

 

It was disappointing and infuriating for sure. The questionable player selections ultimately did us in, but the France game was beautiful and made for an amazing remembrance. It's probably my personal favorite WC moment.

 

Fvck you Maza
Fvck you Guishe

 

Oh, you think the Wila Effect is your ally, but you merely adapted to the Wila Effect. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was only a man. By that time it was nothing to me, but blinding....”

 

Do you know what happens when you let a team of Mexico's caliber "play" the ball.. You will eventually get a b'tch slap of reality. Mexico might be ranked below 20 in the FIFA rankings but in the past five World Cup's they have ranked 11th to 16th CONSISTENTLY. Only a handful of teams can boost that claim the majority being World Cup champions (more on this later). And one of the main reasons for this is because Mexico is one of the best teams in the world when it comes to playing the ball.

Gentlemen, remember with me if you will (or go to the Youtube cave) the Summer of 02 Italy decides to let Mexico play with the ball, twenty passes later and the Borg is making the highlight reels for one of the best goals of the tourney, goddamn remembering that goal makes my nipples hard. Now, as far as pressing goes no team can press for a full forty five let alone both halves. It's usually full throttle for the first fifteen minutes and then they have to slow down to avoid fatigue.

Another good example of Mexico's excellent passing game is at the 2013 Confederations Cup. We can all agree that the squad at that time was not at it's best. And despite losing to Brazil 2-0 they managed to take the ball away and dominate possession for long periods of time, not even Spain or Italy managed to do that. Against Japan everyone and their mothers was expecting a Tokyo style Bukake beat down instead the Japanese players went into an inner Super Campeones monologue only to wake up to Cheech scoring his second goal of the game.

So, if Mexico is good with the silky passing why can't they do better than a second-round showing. Back in 02 after Aguirre left for Spain and FMF was looking for a new boss the good people at Nike sent us Big Phil. When the Brazilian was questioned about what Mexico needed to be contenders he said Size. At the top level Mexico is still lacking in the physical department. While we have improved from fielding midget keepers and an average height of 5'7 the team is still behind. We have all seen the difference in Mexico's last two games against Bosnia-Herzegovina and Portugal, our players were easily getting pushed off the ball.

Anyone take a good look at "Eder," Mexico has had strikers of 6'2 or even taller but that guy was built like a Tank. If this friendly was a street pick up game he would of whipped out his cock and batted the ball in from outside the box and it wouldn't matter how many steps Memo took that ball was going in. My good friend Ronybert was telling me a while back (in regards to size matters) that the Argentines also have a midget team. Well, the Albicelestes have yet to win anything at the senior level. Mexico needs to ditch the clunbeterol and get with the HGH. Once Mexico improves on their physical level we should be a stronger team. The last obstacle would be cultural and that is a topic for another post.

 

Bish, pls.

That tronco is an awful football player.

He made Maza look good in this game.

 

That's the key though. We have to be fluid, one of the reasons we are stagnating is our opponent's back lines are rigid and well organized, the markers are staying and covering Gio/Peralta. That has stayed while the wing play has been overused, but if you get Oribe to change some things up run up in the mid/run into space (Cheech does this well), run out to the wings, just keep your makers moving and force defenders to come out for you and we will create some space. Essentially we need to stretch their lines more.

 

I never said he was a good player, I referenced his size and virility.. Here is the ref spraying Guardados Shoes, lol..

http://fat.gfycat.com/MadeupRegalHound.mp4

http://gfycat.com/MadeupRegalHound

 

This is garbage.

 

It's tough to have this conversation without mentioning the cultural component, because the truth is, even though Mexico commits tons of money to futbol, and there's a lot of money being made in the industry, the nation itself remains primarily mired in poverty, with factors such as malnutrition and poor physical health being quite prevalent. What you speak of cannot be cured with just HGH, but rather would require generation after generation of cultural changes. Changing the size of Mexico's male population would require much more than good nutrition but also controversial genetic practices. Let's forget about improving size, because realistically that's not going to happen anytime soon. Of course, it may be easier to improve the physiological challenges before fixing the problem that is the FMF.