This was funny. But all jokes aside, I can't imagine why anyone would be upset that the game was finished. While the field was still fine through most of the first half the US dominated. The correct team won, and it didn't take multiple match days to get it done. I don't see the problem.
Because we can. Don't take credit for not doing the same, because you couldn't if you wanted to. Well, you can't anywhere but in a soccer competition which explains your smallness and anger.
They don't have an army and are kind of unique in that respect. So they do go the extra mile as far as not pissing off other nations. In soccer, though, they suck. Worst fans, worst stadium, gamesmanship, and so on. As far as I'm concerned no team deserved the inevitable World Cup Qualifier in the snow more than perhaps Mexico. It really was only a matter of time before a home qualifier in November, February or March ended up in the snow. Glad it was the Ticos.
Their feet look like a bunch of Easter eggs sitting in the snow. Man, I can't wait until the trend cycles back to black cleats again...
Booooooo! No one wanted them to lose. People are rightly concerned about the coaching. And even most JK doubters assumed that he is good enough to get the win against CR at home. We all hope that JK figures this out, the team comes together and we start dominating CONCACAF again. If JK is the coach to do that then great, if not, well then we will see soon enough. Guess what, I don't expect to get a win even if we had a different coach for our next game, so we won't find anything new against them about JK. Until Jamaica JK can only increase his stock. If he gets points in Azteca then he will have my attention.
You harass our players, fling batteries, coins, and bags of piss at them, force them to play on a parking lot. You gave up any claim to sportsmanship ages ago. That wasn't snow, that was crystalized karma.
Playing the game in extreme cold is also an advantage to the US. That was likely in Denver in March and it happened. This type of snow also had a chance to happen and it did. I don't live in Denver, but I assume the cold and altitude are both a lot more likely than this much snow.
Is playing on snow that much harder than that horrible turf we played on in Saprissa in qualifying for '98 and '02 or whenver it was. I think they got slightly better turf more recently. I might have my years wrong, but the point remains that the turf there was atrocious.
Considering we had to spend the better part of a decade playing on a tennis court with some felt glued on in your country, I don't have a hell of a lot of sympathy. Both teams were affected by the snow; it's not like the US had some sort of special snow-field force-field on their feet that allowed them to effortlessly play in the 2nd half.
Dear Costa Rica: Part of me hopes FIFA makes us play that game again. Because, and trust me on this, all of your whining will motivate our guys to give your guys a comprehensive pasting. And with this close hex, goal differential is going to be key - wouldn't that be hilarious if you miss out on goal differential because you got your ass kicked after begging for a do-over? Cheers: Me P.S. I made it snow.
Remember when Tico fans threw coins and hit Alexi Lalas in the head with a battery in 1996? It's another chapter in the US-Costa Rica rivalry.
Costa Rican Fans, Players and officials are just a bunch of cry babies. If that one offside goal would have counted they would not be protesting a thing. Best way to shut those punks up is to get a positive result in Costa Rica.
http://www.socceramerica.com/article/16701/lost-in-paradise-us-gets-beaten-and-pelted.html Yep, playing in the snow was the part that cripples trust and breaks bonds. What a joke.
I don't trust the Costa Ricans in the first place and I couldn't care less if any bond with them is broken. The selective and rather sudden highmindedness of their apologists is hysterical.
Well, I'm glad the U.S. won, and I don't think the match should have been called off- but bringing up egregious fan behavior from 17 years ago is hardly relevent. I doubt any of the Costa Rican posters were even at that match, or perhaps even remember it