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Originally Posted by Thunderball
Don't look too surprised. Canada is not a good team... at all.
They surprised a sleeping and lousy looking Costa Rica, and when faced by even a marginal challenge, looked poor.
Its too bad... there are a few players on the team (like De Guzman) who are pretty good players with a lot of potential that can never be realized internationally when they wear the red and white.
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Pretty much, yeah. Its brutal, there is a lot of work to do and no one willing to do anything about it. What Canada should consider is ponying up the dough to pick up a really accomplished, well established coach who has the ability to influence the system from the bottom up.
Look what a move like that did for South Korea when they picked up Guus Hiddink. Overnight they turned into competitors who took down some big teams.
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Originally Posted by troutman
I'm not sure Guadeloupe is even a country. My atlas says it is a French Overseas Department. Only 2,880 square miles. Along with Martinique, the combined population is only 823,000.
No wonder CAN is so low in the FIFA rankings. To be fair, CAN had most of the ball in the second half, and should have scored a couple of times. GPE was accused of disgusting embellishment and time wasting by Forrest. GPE had about 4 serious "injuries" in the 2nd half, and the ref could have added 10+ minutes of injury time, instead of the 6 he gave. This is the part of soccer that drives me crazy, and I wish FIFA and CONCACAF could clean it up.
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CONCACAF has exactly zero authority to do anything of the sort. FIFA can do it, but it would require a monumental amount of support considering many coaches use it as part of their strategy and would thusly be vehemently opposed to such action.
This is the real problem, its gotten too much about winning. The end result is all that counts and not how you got there.
I coach a kids team, and we played a team whose coach employed tactics like that. It was a; "if you lose the ball make the ref think that the guy who won it basically raped you."
Man, I'm glad my team isnt like that, but it starts with the coach and trickles down. And the governing body at some point does have to answer to the coaches and the rest of the people they 'govern.'
Locke.