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You Write the Caption: The ‘El Tri’ edition

Chances are that in the midst of your celebrating the U.S. team's rousing 3-0 victory against Trinidad & Tobago you might have missed Mexico's meltdown in Honduras.

Our neighbors to the south had a terrible time in San Pedro Sula, falling 3-1 to a Honduran team that has leapfrogged them in the CONCACAF qualifying standings. The defeat has Sven Goran Eriksson in danger of losing his job (again) and has Mexican fans nervous heading into a difficult summer.

We here at SBI never miss a chance to focus on the Mexican national team's struggles (we are, after all, an American soccer website) so we thought it was a good time to bring back You Write the Caption. We have a photo of Sven and everybody's favorite Uruguayan Mexican striker, Nery Castillo, for you to consider. The best caption submitted for the contest will win one of our new SBI Mafia t-shirts by Objectivo.

Enjoy.

SvenNery (AP) 

"Nery, this is two jobs I lose with you on the team. You don't think I noticed the pattern?"

or

"Don't even think about asking me to bring you to Portsmouth."

Now it's your turn. Share your best caption entry for the above photos and we will select the ten best entries before allowing readers to choose the best from those ten.

The winning caption will win an SBI Mafia t-shirt. If you haven't ordered yours yet, what are you waiting for?

Now, send in your captions.

Comments

  1. Nery you’re not winning the pool! Why? Because I have North Carolina, UConn, and Michigan State in the Final Four, that’s why…you have no one left…your Final Four was Arizona, Texas A&M, Texas, and Stephen F. Austin…

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  2. “Three! That’s how many games I’ll get as coach of Mexico in teh hexagonal before I’m sent packing, just three! I hope you’re happy Nery! You’re not going to qualify with any other coach, either!”

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  3. Nery: They made me mad! They all laugh at me!

    Sven: Well ugh . . . an eye brow is to be . . . no more than 3 inches! Comprende?

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  4. I have 3 dates tonight after the game, one with an Uruguayan, one with a Brazilian, and one with an Argentinian. My plan is to see if they have any brothers who play futbol. This way I will eventually not have to start any true mexican players. Nery can you say revolution, HA, HA, HA HAH.

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  5. “Yes, Nery, that’s right. The 3 a.m. flight. I need to get out of this country ahead of the mob. You know what happened to Trotsky here.”

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  6. Look I only have 3 fingers, they cut off two of my fingers for losing to the US! What will they do to me this time?

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  7. “Nery, we need three goals,talk to the referee and see what he can do,tell him to make two more dodgy penalty calls or Im packing my chips and salsa.”

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  8. “Bork Bork Bork, firsta ya take-a da Meataball and ya put it in da uder goal. Don’t a-let da meatball in-a your goal! Bork Bork Bork.”

    Posted by: lprevolution | April 02, 2009 at 10:51 AM

    THANK YOU!!!

    I was waiting for a Swedish Chef reference. You get my vote already.

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  9. Ha-Ha, Nery, you can’t stop me! Now that I’m done destroying this countries national team I’m taking your unibrow as a souvenir! Snip Snip.

    Be Champions.

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  10. Hey, when I took this job you never explained to me that El Tri literally translated to “only 3 points”. If only I would have known.

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  11. Sven shouting

    “I hope all of you lose your damn passports”.

    Or

    These are the three fingers the Drug cartles are going to cut off.

    Or

    This is how they got us by our short hairs.

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  12. “Three goals, Nery. UNACCEPTABLE!”

    “Sven, you know the difference? I’m in Europe and you’re in Mexico. And you’re always gonna be, uh, always… never mind.”

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  13. Sven emphatically tells Nery Castillo exactly how many chickens he will have to sacrifice to remain Mexican national team coach after their loss to Honduras, while Castillo looks on pondering whether or not to reveal himself as the illegitimate son of Claudio Reyna.

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