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Jamaica vs USA: A stronger football rivalry than you think
Michael A GRANT
Thursday, August 13, 2015
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A despondent US fan....HL after the loss to Jamaica
JAMAICA had just knocked off the USA 2-1 to reach the Gold Cup finals for the first time, and the US soccer world wasted no time in calling it their worst-ever defeat. How could the US Men's National Team (USMNT), they demanded -- who had won half of the roughly two dozen matches they've played against Jamaica -- lose to the Reggae Boyz, their minnow neighbours to the south? Did the US take a backward step? Should the team boss, Jurgen Klinsmann, be fired like Bob Bradley was the last time the team lost the Gold Cup?
"This simply shouldn't happen," (LOL!) went one tirade on the influential online outlet, SBNation, "... completely unacceptable." Worse yet, of the four-man expert panel at Fox Sports, only Eric Wynalda interrupted his colleagues' hand-wringing to affirm his respect for the Boyz and their well-deserved win. Another writer suggested that the two Jamaican goals were lucky, one a blind header that had to hit two posts to go in
and the other, a free kick that resulted from the US goalie handling, something he thought was a marginal call seldom made by referees
Michael A GRANT
Thursday, August 13, 2015
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A despondent US fan....HL after the loss to Jamaica
JAMAICA had just knocked off the USA 2-1 to reach the Gold Cup finals for the first time, and the US soccer world wasted no time in calling it their worst-ever defeat. How could the US Men's National Team (USMNT), they demanded -- who had won half of the roughly two dozen matches they've played against Jamaica -- lose to the Reggae Boyz, their minnow neighbours to the south? Did the US take a backward step? Should the team boss, Jurgen Klinsmann, be fired like Bob Bradley was the last time the team lost the Gold Cup?
"This simply shouldn't happen," (LOL!) went one tirade on the influential online outlet, SBNation, "... completely unacceptable." Worse yet, of the four-man expert panel at Fox Sports, only Eric Wynalda interrupted his colleagues' hand-wringing to affirm his respect for the Boyz and their well-deserved win. Another writer suggested that the two Jamaican goals were lucky, one a blind header that had to hit two posts to go in
and the other, a free kick that resulted from the US goalie handling, something he thought was a marginal call seldom made by referees
