This just had a lot of bad things going wrong from the start...
Steve Cherundolo's injury led to some juggling for USMNT head coach Bob Bradley. A crowd of 93,000-plus at the Rose Bowl was mostly Mexican in their fandom and would greet the US National Team introductions with the word "Burro..."
Or "ass..."
Classy...
But the US pressed early and got a 2-0 lead after 24 minutes from Bradley and Donovan. It was all downhill from there as the visitors scored 4 unanswered to win 4-2 to take the Gold Cup and advance to the Confederations Cup the year before the 2014 World Cup.
Here's the highlights and the lowlights...
((HT: Univision/CONCACAF/youtube))
Alexei Lalas and Janusz Michallik analyze with Dari Knowkha...
((HT: ESPN))
But the larger issue was the post-game ceremony...
It was done in Spanish for a majority of the presentation... and the US goalie, Tim Howard, was understandably pissed...
"CONCACAF should be ashamed of themselves," Howard said. "I think it was a [expletive] disgrace that the entire postmatch ceremony was in Spanish. You can bet your ass that if we were in Mexico City, it wouldn't be all in English.
"It never ceases to amaze me all that stuff."
Ben Spencer, a spokesman for CONCACAF, declined to comment..
Of course, he did...
The HQ knows Howard is right and the USMNT should be pissed at CONCACAF for that stunt. It goes to show how they really don't want to step on anyone's toes...
We're simply being too nice these days...
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