Copa America: Argentina vs USA Pregame

Halftime 1-1 Our boys are holding up against Argentina.. A whole half to go where Argentina still can crush us.. But I like what I am seeing so far..

dam….

Posted from  United States

Argentina finished off with a strong second half, impressive that they scored 4 goals with only 7 shots.. I hope we can play strong against Paraguay and Colombia.. I would have liked our team having full strength to see how we can fare against their full strength team.

good result in the end, but no good game.I am disappointed. they were walking. where was the hunger? remember, this was a real bad american team, without any of the stars.

Posted from  Norway

Well, well, well. Argentina won. Argentina has great players in the game, and on the bench. I was born here in the U.S.A, but I gotta say, Argentina has much better players, and they love what they do. United States had a real good defense, but Argentina was the winner begining to end. VAMOS ARGENTINA!

oh and when you say Messi has seen a ghost, speak for yourself! I wanted to see Palacio..

hey denovan did u see what the argentinan did to ur AAAA+++ team. 4-1 victory against u dear.I konw u have a very good local sport and thats american football not soccer. U try for that. HAHAHHA

Posted from  Maldives

Good game from Argentina, espically the second half.
I do not think the penalty was right though, it seemed like a dive to me.
It seemed that the ball did not want to go in the first half for Argentina.
Good performance for USA, they lsot by three goals only (with help from the ref). Argetina could have made it 5 or 6 in the last few minutes.

Posted from  United States

Guess what, all the Americans are going to say this was our B-team, it would have been different if files our A-team.
Probably not? I guess it would have been the same.
Americans still aproach football wrongly, they insist on playing always very weak teams at home so that they can feel good about themselves.
And I watched the last Gold Cup for the first time, I watched a few games in 2005 and stopped becuase it was so bad.
The Gols Cup 1007 was the worst Inetrnational Chamipionship I have ever watched ( I have been watching almost every major inetrnation championship since 1986) in terms of organization , refereeing and teams.
The tournment seemed to be staged (and fixed) for USA and Mexico to reach the the final and for USA to win.
Nobody outside a few people in North America watches the shitty Gold Cup. But so many people outside South America watch Copa America.
Viva Argentina
I doubt USA can win a game in this tournement, after seeing how Parguay performed today. I think USA is going to face a tough opponenet and probably lose.

Posted from  United States

Donovan… man… u feel bad ??? don’t be.. hehehe.. it’s not american football.. it’s soccer.. Dont feel bad alrite.. cox USA played with “The Kings”. n you have to live to see when argentina lift the trophy this time.. OK..!! cheers mate.

Posted from  Malaysia

hey donovan the us team sucks i think they should stick to football and leave futbol to the argentines we will kill you anytime 4-1 hahaha that pk was bull hahahahaha

Nice game, as I’m a big fan of Argen. Watched the game by TVUPlayer, but throught CCTV5, a Chinese channel. Weird as I don’t understand what they said and they way they called the names was funny, but it was alright.

Looking forward to the next game.

Posted from  Australia

I wonder if USA paid the ref to give that penality like they did in the Gold Cup.
I also admit that I have seen the US players doing something new in the Gold Cup and in the game against Argentia
DIVING.
Johnson dived today as teh other two divers Ching and Beasily were not there.

Posted from  United States

So…. mmm.. where is Donovan?

Posted from  Argentina

To anyone who bad mouthed Argentina and believed they couldnt do it – HA! They really showed you.

Posted from  Ireland

NEXT.. Paraguay Vs USA…!!! Donovan ..where the hell r u man!!!

Posted from  Malaysia

Great game over all, but argentina definately needed to make the changes it made earlier on in the game….and having veron, cambiasso and riquelme on the field at the same time is just too much talent in one area….once he took cambiasso off for aimar, he pulled crespo back and moved him the left which is JUST wut messi needed (had seen a ghost, my butt!)…just give messi a few more chances and he’ll perform miracles…TEVEZ is an amazing key player…….CONGRATULATIONS ALBICELESTE FANS!!!!….HEY…wheres donavan???hey loser,where’d u go??i think u guys r doing good in volleyball too….hahahahah ….get the hell outta south america…u guys were guests, tried to trash talk and deserve nothing less than a big kick in the ass back to DC buddy

Come on donavan be a man!!! It’s okay to be dumb and proud….just come back and face ur shame like a man rather than just reading wut we hae to say while we bag on u behind closed dooors (BTW im an american just like u….but i dun have a sponge for a brain….did u reallly think the US wud do sumthing against Argentina???) IVe been an argentina fan since 1990 and theres nooo reason to cheer the US on, they suck at soccer man…till now they have nooo place in the soccer world when compared to the likes of Argentina and BRAZIL…peace out loser

hey donovan come back man its ok if you dont know anything about soccer we all love you cant you see that

The really important reason I had to submit my comment is to ask Donovan to show up again.

I admire the effort and the discipline of the US team. I cannot say I admire the ignorance and stupidity of Donovan.

Good game for the US after all. However, not enough for Donovan to face the truth. Argentina and Brazil have been rivals at the same level for a century. Nike fooled you. Brazil was absent from major wins for 24 years after Pele. In those years Brazil had excellent teams. It has been similar for Argentina in the last 14 years. One big lesson learned for you Donovan, is that you should watch old games, and try to understand what this is about. With no disrespect to a hard working US team, there still a long way to go. Next time you may be able to show how much you’ve grown. Hope you don’t wait to the 2010 world cup to re-appear. As others said, we are already missing you!

Posted from  United States

argentina has always been a better team then brazil pele was a great player but garbage compared to maradona talk to anyone who actually knows some soccer pele is the king of soccer and maradona is the god of soccer check it out

Donovan…Donovan..Donovan… Shit.. i heard that he got fever after seeing Argentina Kicked the USA’s ASS…hehehhe !!

Posted from  Malaysia

Where are you Donovan now, USA got crushed again 3-1 to Paraguay.
I was gonna give teh gold meddale for sucking to Colombia after teh first half against Argentina, But they redemmed themselves a little bit in the second half.
The Gold meddale for SUCKING goes to USA for a an even worst performance against Paraguay.
The defender gave the ball to the opposing striker to score and the striker could not score in an empty net.
It was a very entertaing game USA against Paraguay, I could not have laughed more watching Americans play.
Sorry you could not buy the refs here to give you penlities and cancel correct goals for other teams like the Gold cup.
The excuse of sending the B-team is even funnier, it is like USA has some realy quality players to make an A and B team.
That excuse of a B-team is for Americans and their stupied fedration for the bad performace that they expected before going.
The world knows that their is neither top quality american players neither qaulity football coming from USA.
That will not chnage soon , unless culture changes and USA becomes a football nation.
You build Botom up not top to bottom.

Posted from  United States

hey, definitely agree about the disappointment i felt about the U.S. not bringing their A team to the copa america. I don’t know why the Gold Cup is played so close to the Copa. But in the defense of the U.S. which is still not a great football power, beating their neighbors to the south (i.e. Mexico) is 10 times more important than a victory over Argentina, and they did that in the final game of the Gold Cup. But for now the U.S. is out of the discussion and let’s focus on the great semifinal games! DALE ARGENTINA!…
Changing topics a bit…does anyone know why Messi changed his number 19 with Cambiasso (number 18)? Is this permanent or just for the Copa?

Posted from  United States

It’s amusing how people from Ireland, Malasia and Maldives talk trash about the American team, when was the last time you were in the WC?? You’re pathetic.

Posted from  United States