Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - Life and Death for South America, Pre-Season for Europe: The Club World Cup
If you can't beat these teams, you don't make it to the World Cup. You are supposed to use every advantage you have, whether it is cold, heat, altitude, whatever.
And why would you schedule a world cup qualifier in Miami? That's one idiotic suggestion
Especially after playing in Canada a few days before? Put everyone on a long flight for no reason? Then the Euro based players have a longer flight back to the clubs? 
If you can't beat these teams, you don't make it to the World Cup. You are supposed to use every advantage you have, whether it is cold, heat, altitude, whatever.
And why would you schedule a world cup qualifier in Miami? That's one idiotic suggestion
Miami was an example of a warm-weather place folks could play in. I just think the whole play in -10F kind of weather ain't it. The players will play their best games in the best conditions.
Even so, all World Cups aren't always played in ideal conditions.
Pretty sure there will be matches needing cooling breaks in Qatar and there definitely will be in 2026 if they pick Southern US cities that summer and optimize kickoff times for the European audience like they did in 1994.Scheduling in the States is different from almost everywhere due to immigration and low overall popularity in the country. They're never playing a WCQ match in Miami unless it's against Canada or some small island nation with a population under 100k.
Matter of fact, as much noise as was made on the failure to qualify for the last WC for failing to get a point against T&T, more noise should have been made about losing at home to Costa Rica in New Jersey.
USMNT venue selection deserves some scrutiny
what jamaica needs to do is continue to grab english dudes with jamaican ties and then get a good coach
last time jamaica made the world cup they had a brazillian head coach, go back to that well
Givethanks
Superstar
Canada man
9/9
9/9
thatrapsfan
Superstar
Ugly game but 9 points in 3 is all that matters and with no Alphonso
We are going to clinch either by a point of our own in the next window or through dropped points by other teams. It’s a formality now though we are 99.9% qualified.
Ugly game but 9 points in 3 is all that matters and with no Alphonso
We are going to clinch either by a point of our own in the next window or through dropped points by other teams. It’s a formality now though we are 99.9% qualified.
Theyre in second gear in these games against Honduras/El Salvador they know they dont have to bring it to win....these games arent even a good test.
Were at that stage where were beating these teams and barely trying....
Do you think it would be stronger if the English-speaking Caribbean nations got together and formed a united West Indies team like they do in cricket? Individually, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Guyana, and Leeward and Windward Islands would have a tough time qualifying for the cricket World Cup. But as West Indies they qualify every time and won two World Cups as recently as 2012 and 2016
Kunty McPhuck
Scust Szn has Returned
Wouldn't work too much politics and phuckery from the administrative side of things. Every couple of years the WICB fall out with the players for one reason or another.
African_brehda
Superstar
Wasn’t it just this season Pogba had like 500 assists in his first 3 games and nikkas were gassing him? 
Kunty McPhuck
Scust Szn has Returned
Thoughts on this top 10
The Bayern one is BS.
All they wanted to do was get Barca on top and see how they had to add the class players part to put Barca as #1. But Real cannot make top 10. Nor PSG
Chelsea over Sporting
look at this nonsense. Chelsea only been doing it for 5 minutes.Sporting Ajax Benfica Lyon D-Zagreb River all better. Why because they give players careers not just at the highest levels but at lower ones as well. Like that's why United academy is well regarded they might not of had the high quality like the class of 92 in recent times but you look at the lower leagues many teams are filled with ex United academy players. That's the true test of an academy. Players year in year out not every 10 years or so.
Want to know the difference between Barca and Real academies. Barca make footballers only for their style Real make footballers for all terrains.
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TobiOT
Veteran