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If you are itching for Saturday to get here sooner, ESPN Classic has a great way for you to pass the time.
The channel's marathon of past United States and England World Cup matches kicks off at 2:30 p.m. with the 2002 U.S.A.-Mexico Round-of-16 match, which the Yanks won, 2-0, to spurn endless chants of "Dos-a-cero!" throughout the land.
After that you can see the United States beat favored Portugal in 2002, England fall to Argentina in 1998, the United States shock Colombia in 1994 and England fall to Argentina again in 1986.
If you will be watching any or all of the games being shown, please feel free to post any thoughts, feelings and memories in the comments section below.
comments:
1) Looking at the skill of the Colombia team (Valderrama and in particular Freddie Rincon)- I am absolutely amazed that we won that game…the Colombian keeper’s incompetence and Colombia’s inability to make tactical adjustments are the reasons they lost.
2) You don’t hear announcers on an American telecast have to explain basics like “this is the ball” anymore-we’ve come a long way…
3) Did anyone notice in those games that the USA won all the games and England lost each and every one! 🙂
After watching the US-Colombia game in ’94 again, John Harkes should really humble himself. He was not that good. He lost the ball a lot and yelled at everyone. Scores a lucky goal and is a hero – yuck.
Tab Ramos was world class.
I think he is overly critical and not patriotic enough about your national team. I agree that Martin Tyler is the wrong choice for the US match.
I want an unabashed American fan calling the game.
We just have never had that right.
I think the current group has more individual talent on the ball and, when they click, better passing ability. The strength of the 02 group was cohesive team defense and good organization on the counter-attack.
But U.S. could still use a McBride:)