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2004-02-11 17:33:53 UTC
And these loathsome spics want amnesty, cash, and more benefits than Americans are entitled to.... all at our
expense? These neanderthals ought to be nuked! Wait until the next earthquake down there.... Americans should
rush the border and shit on the smoldering rubble :-D
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/11/sports/soccer/11SOCC.html
February 11, 2004
MEXICO 4, U.S. 0
The U.S. Is Vanquished by Taunts and Mexico
By JERE LONGMAN
GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Feb. 10 - Few of the young Americans had experienced
such grown-up soccer antagonism, with blowing horns creating the sound of a
throbbing hive at Jalisco Stadium and 60,000 people jeering with the sting
of hostility.
The shouted vulgarities began as the United States under-23 team appeared
for warm-ups on Tuesday night. The name of each starter was heckled with
collective booing. The national anthem was derided with shrieking whistles.
The Mexican team, meanwhile, was greeted with fluttering confetti, waving
flags and the urgent rhythm of drumbeats.
In the 26th minute, the throng began chanting "Osama! Osama!" at the
Americans, but they appeared inured to such taunting and eager for a game of
beautiful desperation in an attempt to reach the Olympics. And then, out of
nowhere, it all fell apart. Defense had become a vulnerability for the
United States in this qualifying tournament, and its opponent deftly pounced
on this weakness.
In the 27th minute, Mexico strung together five passes and Rafael Marquez
Rugo slammed a point-blank header into the net. A minute later, an unmarked
Diego Martínez, who had assisted on the first goal, fired another cross from
the right flank that floated into the upper-left corner. Marquez Rugo scored
again on a rebound in the 55th minute. Ismael Iniguez completed the scoring
in added time for a 4-0 Mexican rout and a trip to the Summer Olympics in
Athens.
Joining Mexico as the other Olympic representative from the North American,
Central American and Caribbean region will be Costa Rica, which defeated
Honduras, 2-0, earlier Tuesday.
The victory carried a whiff of retribution and restored immense national
pride to Mexico beyond a berth in the Olympics. After once not losing for
four decades to the United States senior national team, Mexico had recently
surrendered its soccer dominance in the region, gaining only a victory and a
tie in the past seven matches against the United States. A 2-0 victory by
the United States at the 2002 World Cup in South Korea was particularly
humiliating for this country, where passion for soccer amounts to a secular
religion.
Meanwhile, Tuesday's embarrassing defeat for the Americans interrupted their
steady maturation in the sport and removed yet another medal possibility for
the United States at the Athens Olympics. The under-23 team finished fourth
at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and had qualified for every Summer Games since
1980, when a boycott scuttled participation. The United States baseball team
had failed to qualify for Athens, and a couple of high-profile track stars
could face bans after testing positive for the steroid THG.
Here in Mexico's second-largest city, Tuesday's match was greeted with
anticipation, confidence and dread. "I think we are afraid to play the
Americans," said Luis Antonio Carmona, who works at the reception desk at
the hotel where the United States team stayed. "They have beaten us four
times in a row."
Yet, a taxi driver ferrying a visitor was certain that Mexico would secure a
crushing victory, 3-0. At the hotel, several visitors who came to eat and
shop at lunchtime proudly wore the green jerseys of the Mexican national
team. Five hours before the match, a vendor stood on a corner near the
hotel, hawking a handful of tricolored Mexican flags. A festive atmosphere
existed outside Jalisco Stadium, where music blared and vendors sold
jerseys, flags, tacos, candies and beer.
"Soccer is our national sport," Carlos Placencia, 21, a publicist, said. "We
cannot let the Americans beat us at our game."
Diego Gonzáles, 23, a graphic designer, said it would be important for the
collective Mexican self-assurance to defeat the bigger, richer country to
the north.
"This game is a way to show them that we can win," Gonzáles said. "It
doesn't matter if it is the United States or another country. We need to
show what Mexicans are made of."
Both Placencia and Gonzáles said that anti-American chants of "Osama!
Osama!" were meant in large part as a joke, even if a tasteless one.
"We make fun of everything," Gonzáles said. More seriously, he added: "We
think the United States exaggerated its reaction about terrorism and
security measures. We criticize the reasons why America goes to war."
In case emotions spilled into violence on Tuesday, Mexican authorities
stationed 140 police officers inside Jalisco Stadium, some with riot helmets
and shields, while another 20 officers patroled outside. Matches are always
tense between these teams, for reasons real or manufactured.
Reports on local radio and on the Internet accused Landon Donovan, the star
United States forward, of urinating on the field during training on Monday.
The United States strongly denied the accusation.
"That's just got to be to rile up the fans," Bryan Chenault, a spokesman for
the United States team, said. "It's completely false. No way Landon would be
that disrespectful."
Donovan had instructed his teammates to disconnect their phones at night,
lest reporters call or fans try to bother them with midnight gamesmanship.
Locals were still hurt by a 3-1 exhibition defeat last May 14 to the United
States under-23 team, which closed the match by scoring on a freakish
85-yard kick by David Testo. The United States players had to shield
themselves as they left the field while spectators spit on them and hurled
beer bottles and racial epithets.
"That was pretty ugly," Chenault said. "We ended up writing a formal letter
to the Mexican federation to complain about behavior that was beyond what
you would expect for a friendly."
Tuesday night, though, the match was not yet a third complete when residual
enmity had largely faded into a thronging celebration of redemption. Sing
and do not cry, the home crowd sang, because our hearts are joyful.
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expense? These neanderthals ought to be nuked! Wait until the next earthquake down there.... Americans should
rush the border and shit on the smoldering rubble :-D
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/11/sports/soccer/11SOCC.html
February 11, 2004
MEXICO 4, U.S. 0
The U.S. Is Vanquished by Taunts and Mexico
By JERE LONGMAN
GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Feb. 10 - Few of the young Americans had experienced
such grown-up soccer antagonism, with blowing horns creating the sound of a
throbbing hive at Jalisco Stadium and 60,000 people jeering with the sting
of hostility.
The shouted vulgarities began as the United States under-23 team appeared
for warm-ups on Tuesday night. The name of each starter was heckled with
collective booing. The national anthem was derided with shrieking whistles.
The Mexican team, meanwhile, was greeted with fluttering confetti, waving
flags and the urgent rhythm of drumbeats.
In the 26th minute, the throng began chanting "Osama! Osama!" at the
Americans, but they appeared inured to such taunting and eager for a game of
beautiful desperation in an attempt to reach the Olympics. And then, out of
nowhere, it all fell apart. Defense had become a vulnerability for the
United States in this qualifying tournament, and its opponent deftly pounced
on this weakness.
In the 27th minute, Mexico strung together five passes and Rafael Marquez
Rugo slammed a point-blank header into the net. A minute later, an unmarked
Diego Martínez, who had assisted on the first goal, fired another cross from
the right flank that floated into the upper-left corner. Marquez Rugo scored
again on a rebound in the 55th minute. Ismael Iniguez completed the scoring
in added time for a 4-0 Mexican rout and a trip to the Summer Olympics in
Athens.
Joining Mexico as the other Olympic representative from the North American,
Central American and Caribbean region will be Costa Rica, which defeated
Honduras, 2-0, earlier Tuesday.
The victory carried a whiff of retribution and restored immense national
pride to Mexico beyond a berth in the Olympics. After once not losing for
four decades to the United States senior national team, Mexico had recently
surrendered its soccer dominance in the region, gaining only a victory and a
tie in the past seven matches against the United States. A 2-0 victory by
the United States at the 2002 World Cup in South Korea was particularly
humiliating for this country, where passion for soccer amounts to a secular
religion.
Meanwhile, Tuesday's embarrassing defeat for the Americans interrupted their
steady maturation in the sport and removed yet another medal possibility for
the United States at the Athens Olympics. The under-23 team finished fourth
at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and had qualified for every Summer Games since
1980, when a boycott scuttled participation. The United States baseball team
had failed to qualify for Athens, and a couple of high-profile track stars
could face bans after testing positive for the steroid THG.
Here in Mexico's second-largest city, Tuesday's match was greeted with
anticipation, confidence and dread. "I think we are afraid to play the
Americans," said Luis Antonio Carmona, who works at the reception desk at
the hotel where the United States team stayed. "They have beaten us four
times in a row."
Yet, a taxi driver ferrying a visitor was certain that Mexico would secure a
crushing victory, 3-0. At the hotel, several visitors who came to eat and
shop at lunchtime proudly wore the green jerseys of the Mexican national
team. Five hours before the match, a vendor stood on a corner near the
hotel, hawking a handful of tricolored Mexican flags. A festive atmosphere
existed outside Jalisco Stadium, where music blared and vendors sold
jerseys, flags, tacos, candies and beer.
"Soccer is our national sport," Carlos Placencia, 21, a publicist, said. "We
cannot let the Americans beat us at our game."
Diego Gonzáles, 23, a graphic designer, said it would be important for the
collective Mexican self-assurance to defeat the bigger, richer country to
the north.
"This game is a way to show them that we can win," Gonzáles said. "It
doesn't matter if it is the United States or another country. We need to
show what Mexicans are made of."
Both Placencia and Gonzáles said that anti-American chants of "Osama!
Osama!" were meant in large part as a joke, even if a tasteless one.
"We make fun of everything," Gonzáles said. More seriously, he added: "We
think the United States exaggerated its reaction about terrorism and
security measures. We criticize the reasons why America goes to war."
In case emotions spilled into violence on Tuesday, Mexican authorities
stationed 140 police officers inside Jalisco Stadium, some with riot helmets
and shields, while another 20 officers patroled outside. Matches are always
tense between these teams, for reasons real or manufactured.
Reports on local radio and on the Internet accused Landon Donovan, the star
United States forward, of urinating on the field during training on Monday.
The United States strongly denied the accusation.
"That's just got to be to rile up the fans," Bryan Chenault, a spokesman for
the United States team, said. "It's completely false. No way Landon would be
that disrespectful."
Donovan had instructed his teammates to disconnect their phones at night,
lest reporters call or fans try to bother them with midnight gamesmanship.
Locals were still hurt by a 3-1 exhibition defeat last May 14 to the United
States under-23 team, which closed the match by scoring on a freakish
85-yard kick by David Testo. The United States players had to shield
themselves as they left the field while spectators spit on them and hurled
beer bottles and racial epithets.
"That was pretty ugly," Chenault said. "We ended up writing a formal letter
to the Mexican federation to complain about behavior that was beyond what
you would expect for a friendly."
Tuesday night, though, the match was not yet a third complete when residual
enmity had largely faded into a thronging celebration of redemption. Sing
and do not cry, the home crowd sang, because our hearts are joyful.
-----------------------
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
ROUND UP AND DEPORT ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS NOW!
http://www.deportaliens.com
-----------------------
California Proposition 187 - You Loved It - Most Voted For It
No Public Services for the Invading Hordes
It's Baaaaaack!!!!!!!!!!
PETITIONS NOW READY FOR DOWNLOADING
See: http://www.save187.com
-----------------------
NOW! ARIZONA'S VERY OWN PROPOSITION 187
Sign the Petition Today
http://www.pan2004.com
////////////////////////