Ferdan said on July 7, 2004 03:37:

As long as Bielsa is our manager I have no faith in our team as a team.

Roxrider_USA said on July 7, 2004 14:04:

@Santi: You are right. It goes in a sequence (June, July and August).

@Vixzter: Have fun watching South American soccer.

@Ferdan: Why is Bielsa called Él Loco”? Is It because he keeps walking back and forth along a small section of the coaching area?

Peru 2 x Bolivia 2 was the final result for that match. It was a very thrilling match up by the way.

Carlos E., New York.

Vixzter said on July 8, 2004 19:58:

Mexico 2 - 2 Uruguay

Have to say....the grass looked very long on that pitch.

Roxlander said on July 8, 2004 22:17:

My country, Costa Rica, takes part of this Copa América, because they were invited after USA gave up. Today is our first game, against Paraguay. Last Copa América we went like the “Cinderella” of the competition, and we finally reached #5, a big surprise for the world and a total success for us. This year a lot of things have happened and we don’t know how lucky we’re gonna be, but I wish all luck to our footballers.

Ticos! Ticos! Ticos!

Roxrider_USA said on July 9, 2004 13:58:

Scores for yesterday’s matches were:

Paraguay 1 x 0 Costa Rica

The paraguayan goal was scored around the 43 minute of the second half.

Brasil 1 x 0 Chile

The chilean defensive tactic was mad hard to break through. Unbelievably crazy. I’m glad Brazil was able to score a late match goal. Luís Fabiano scored.

Later!
Carlos E., New York.

Roxrider_USA said on July 9, 2004 19:32:

The goal that Chile deserved was missed when they went Beckham style and kicked the ball over the bar after taking the penalty kick.

Brazil’s golie Julio Ceser is one of the best in Brazil. Yesterday, he showed why.

The game was too closed. Chile did a excellent job stoping Brazil’s passing. That’s why i said above that Chile went to play the game with a mad hard , to break through, defensive tactic.

Today the following match ups will occur:

Colombia x Bolívia and Venezuela x Peru.

Take care!
Carlos E., New York.

Roxlander said on July 9, 2004 20:05:

@Roxrider, you’re right, that was the game to win. But well, luck wasn’t on our side. Brasil and Chile are much better teams than Paraguay, so we’ve got it hard. But we’ll try.

In every big competition where Costa Rica takes part we have to play against Brazil, that’s our terrible fate. But in Korea-Japan we played a great game, even when we lost 5-2, that was one of the best games of the World Cup.

Roxrider_USA said on July 11, 2004 18:42:

@Roxlander: You are right. Lately, in major soccer competitons, Costa Rica ends up playing against Brazil. The world cup match up in Korea/Japan was a great game. Costa Rica played well. However, the ithing is that if you give the brazilian attacking players space they will just keep on scoring. That’s why, even though Costa Rica scored twice, Brazil still socred 5 goals. If you want to have any chance of beating Brazil, you gotta play just like Chile played and don’t miss penalty kicks.

@PureBrazilianRJ: I also believe Brazil will finish in first place with 9 points. The others to go through will Chile and Costa Rica.

Take care.
Carlos E., New York.

Roxlander said on July 12, 2004 22:05:

Guys you were totally right. And once again when Costa Rica was playing better a little mistake and Brazil scored... and that was the end. It’s a shame, but I’m happy because our team is getting better, an example of that was the first game. Now we’re almost hopeless, we must win to Chile to try to be the second best third place.

Roxrider_USA said on July 13, 2004 17:26:

Costa Rica must win to go through as one os the best third place teams. Otherwise, Bolivia will go through with 2 points.

I’m not cosidering Ecuador because for them it’s virtually imposible. Let’s say that all they have to do is pray for Uruguay to beat Argentina preferably by more than 2 goals and beat Mexico also by more than 2 goals. That’s a very complicated job to get done. If they pull that off, then they will qualify in third place and disqualify Argentina. Wouldn’t it be amazing ?

Yesterday results were:

Venezuela 1 x 1 Bolívia
Colombia 2 x 2 Peru , both a qualified to the next round.

Colombia x Peru was a very good match.

Matches for today:

México x Ecuador at 6:15 pm US EST
Argentina x Uruguay at 8:30 pm US EST

Later!
Carlos E., New York.

Roxlander said on July 15, 2004 13:50:

Partidazo!!

Costa Rica did it! In a very exciting game that’s the team we like. Finally Costa Rica is returning to the level we had about two years ago.

Did you see the game? The last minutes were come and go. Chile did a great game too, but we had to win, it was fair.

Last ten seconds... goal! And now Costa Rica-Colombia.

Roxlander said on July 15, 2004 22:14:

Thank you Ferdan ;-)

Let’s hope this weeken we can enjoy good games. Finally I’ll watch them all, because of work I’ve only watched some.

Roxlander said on July 19, 2004 22:27:

Yep Santi, nothing new. For a little moment a thought Costa Rica could be a nice surprise, but the dream is over. We tried, and with a new manager two weeks before the tournament we did our best. Maybe next time.

Now I expect Brasil or Argentina to win. That would be a good final match.

Santi said on July 21, 2004 05:06:

Come on Uruguay! :P Brazil is not that good this time, we can beat them as well :D:p

PureBrazilianRJ said on July 22, 2004 03:15:

@Santi

Brazil wonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn hahahahahahaha Where’s Uruguai now? back home? oh no wait not yet, they can still be 3rd place ;)

Roxrider_USA said on July 22, 2004 18:06:

That’s a nice point to make!

We are in the final against Argentina with team B, cause the main team with all the super stars are on vacation.

Sometimes not even i know how Brazil does that.

On sunday, the greatest single match up in soccer will keep millions of soccer lovers seated in front of the tv starting at 3 pm US ES.

Carlos E. New York.

Ferdan said on July 22, 2004 19:56:

Argentina is not completely the team A, there are many young players and debutants and some of the oldies weren´t allowed to play.

Ferdan said on July 22, 2004 23:48:

well, aimar.. verón... crespo there are a few more (tho I don´t like neither veron or crespo).

But there´s something peculiar with the team, we have many “more or less debutants” in la selección mayor (and/or players that bielsa never liked, (Tevez for example, btw his free kick goals rate is 100% in his whole career... because he made 2 out of 2 hahaha) and they all are playing REALLY well, there´s almost 2 great players for each position.

Anyway, that´s why it isn´t the A team in terms of bielsa’s typical choices, and he made it thinking of the olimpics as well.

so it´s a strange mix that everyone is liking ;)

Roxrider_USA said on July 24, 2004 13:11:

The game has all the necessary parts to be a great one.

Just waiting for the referee to blow his whisle.

Carlos E., New York.

Roxrider_USA said on July 26, 2004 00:50:

@Ferdan: lol. Congrats friend. It was a very nice game! What do you think?

You gotta love Adriano. First half Argentina ruled. However, the second half was much tighter. Diego crossed the ball to Adriano inside the box who was sorrounded by like 3 to 4 defenders and somehow he did his magic. Loved it! It was already like 47 minutes of the second half.

In the penalty kicks, the heros, for brazilians, were the brazilian goal kepeer and the 2nd Argentinian who missed just like Baggio did in the final of the WC USA 94.

All in all, the game was awesome. A true BRA X ARG’; ARG X BRA match.

This should help Brazil make France eat dust in the FIFA World Rank. Now this will definetaly make France or any other national team take a while to reach Brazil.

Congrats to the brazilian team B. Never gave up!

Take care!
Carlos E., New York.

PureBrazilianRJ said on July 26, 2004 04:26:

Puta que pariu nao exite time nesse mundo melhor do que o Brasil.!! Isso eh pra voces aprenderem a respeitar e abaixar a cabeça com essa potencia que eh o Brasil!! Valeu Julio Cesar por ser o melhor goleiro do planeta!!! Valeu jogadores do Brasil por nunca desisterem!! Valeu Argentina por nos menosprezar mais uma vez!! Agradecemos a ajudarnos a ganhar de vcs mesmos. Vai pra pqp seus fdps!!!! Poeraaaa, poeraaaa, poera levantou poera!!! Brasil e Flamengo ateh morrer!!!