Homenaje a Luis Hernandez

Just cos i dont agree that Mexicos 98 WC was all that great doesnt mean i dont give Lapuente credit. He did bring in Carmona and Arellano and i will say his best tactical game was against Germany but imho having Villa/Lara on the field was our handicap..

I must have been confused by your constant criticism and your saying of how Aguirre did so much better and how Bora would have kicked ass, etc etc.. RDL probably have more evidence of your antilapuente


Im not talking about Japorea in general just comparing Mexicos performance. And i didnt like Japorea because many matches were weak sauce.

Players in the Mexican National team play more games than any Euro playing in the CL.. Mexican league players will play Liga, Liguilla some Repesca, Pre Libertadores (Interliga), Copa Libertadores and Copa America, Copa de Oro, and all the friendly matches that el Tri loves to play and they will have traveled far more.. Sudaca players also participating in the CL game also travel more than the Euro nancys that are giving excuses of being tired, imagine if they had to fly all the way to Sudamerica for their WCQ matches.. Now Brazil did win the World Cup and most of their players are in the top clubs, so why werent they tired ?

Too bad I don´t have the magazine but I remember articles pointing out how Brazil benefitted a lot by the fact that injuries to Rivaldo and Ronaldo and the fact that Ronaldinho played in PSG and didn´t have euro competition (or got injured). I remember how Roberto Carlos got so much praise for being the only one to pull out a great performance at both levels and his play has decreased since.

As for the Mexican team, It was the team that had the most time to prepare for the WC since the clubs all let their players go to the NT in the middle of the season. Plus the Gold Cup was full of players that endend up being cut of the team. If anything that is one of the big criticism to Lavolpe and other who criticize the team, when the MFL is the only one who allows them to go work with the NT team during the weeks even a week before the game is, as opposed to euro and others.

In many ways Yes.. France was too dependant on Zizou and with his injury neither Pires or Henry were able to step it up, sh't they are still having a difficul time. Portugal got overconfident, they also underestimated the Yanks and royaly f'ucked up against the Koreans, a simple draw would of saw them through to the second round, instead they manage to get two plyers sent off.. Espana was robbed and their coach was an idiot wtf was he doing subbing out his top strikers, almost lost against Ireland because of that.. Italy didnt play good in the first round but that is Italy, only reason they lost in the second round was becaus eof bad officiationg another game stolen.. Argentina was in the group of death and damn they were just unlucky.. .

France was in a group it should have handled even without Zidane. Argentina , Portugal, Italy and France all suffered from getting tired. I do think it was mostly arrogance because of the style of play. You heard a lot about how the Champions league was tougher and I think they thought they could pull it off, being competitive in the league, CL and the world cup and they didn´t. I don´t care about Europe or the style. That doesn´t take away the fact that this hurt their playing level at the World cup and the world cup. The reason a lot of games sucked was the crap level they played. Teams like Senegal and Turkey were playing at their level and got pass teams that just were out of it. The Senegal- Turkey game was a clear example. They both played at their level and when they faced each other it was what one expected of a Turkey-Senegal game. But it was a QF WC game.

Italy lost because of their crap play and the fact they went behind. The ref screwed up but it doesn´t take away the fact that Italy got tied after they stopped attacking and let SK get the game and they tied. They sucked the whole cup.

I remeber Necaxa eliminating Chivas with a 1-0 win goal from Aspe, could of been another match who knows.. Aspe, Ambriz, and Marcelino Bernal all quality D mids and i still weep at the thought of having Villa/Lara taking over these guys, *sobs* Torrado represents a new hope, aguante Torrado may you be liberated from Sevillas evil clutches in the winter break and find a better club..

The Aspe thing must have been in a liguilla and not a final since Aspe never played a final against Chivas. Lavolpe doesn´t even like Torrado since he hasn´t called him even when he isn´t playing. He prefers guys like Israel Lopez who got injured against St Vincent and then had Rafa Marquez totally outclass him in every sense of the way after he took his role.