El Kapitan
09-08-2005, 12:13 AM
Well, for what I've read in other threads I guess most of us agree that Mexico deserved that defeat in Columbus last Saturday, but few or even nothing has been written about the dark side of that match, and the even darker side in the recent history in games between the US and Mexico.
Do you remember the previous event in the game before the US shot that free kick that finished in the first american goal?
Let me refresh your memory, the american player tried to surprise the mexican defense with a classic "madruguete", instead of that he ended up smashing the ball in Ramoncito Morales, the referee, in a stupid call asked to repeat the free kick and booked Ramoncito, why he asked to repeat the free kick?, after all, he didn't made the signal to wait for the barrier, the american player was the one that kicked the ball and if the play didn't turned how americans wanted it was not a reason to repeat the free kick, if you choose to try to surprise the defense and it doesn't goes the way you want, well too bad, that's the risk you are taking.
http://i.esmas.com/image/0/000/003/660/CarlosBatresMx_N.jpg
In the second free kick you know what happened, but, have you noticed that when Onyewu headed the ball there was a guy in offside?, yes, the name of that guy, Ralston, and yes, he's the one that scored the first goal, taking advantage from an offside position.
But that's not all from Mr. Batres and his group of assistants, in the first half there were three very hard fouls by Frankie Hedjuk, and he wasn't booked even though those fouls were made in a period of 15 minutes. But Batres did book Marquez for only two fouls made in a similar period of time, since the referee let him do what he wanted Hejduk got the nerve to kick Sinha in the left legh with out the ball in play in a foul that was clearly a red card, but Batres didn't even book him.
Is this the case of a bad referee?, maybe, but how curious that all of his mistakes were against Mexico.
Maybe this is just a one game thing, a bad night for the referee?, But if that's the case how come a similar story was written in the 02 WC, or don't remember that clear hand in the area that the referee of the match didn't called, therefore denying Mexico a PK that represented the possible tie at 1.
I don't deny the advance of the US national team, but you can hide that there's something weird going on when Mexicans and Americans face each other in a match that can help the Americans to enrich their football history and therefore help to build a larger fanbase in the US that translate into more $$$$ for the US soccer federation, Concacaf and FIFA.
Do you remember the previous event in the game before the US shot that free kick that finished in the first american goal?
Let me refresh your memory, the american player tried to surprise the mexican defense with a classic "madruguete", instead of that he ended up smashing the ball in Ramoncito Morales, the referee, in a stupid call asked to repeat the free kick and booked Ramoncito, why he asked to repeat the free kick?, after all, he didn't made the signal to wait for the barrier, the american player was the one that kicked the ball and if the play didn't turned how americans wanted it was not a reason to repeat the free kick, if you choose to try to surprise the defense and it doesn't goes the way you want, well too bad, that's the risk you are taking.
http://i.esmas.com/image/0/000/003/660/CarlosBatresMx_N.jpg
In the second free kick you know what happened, but, have you noticed that when Onyewu headed the ball there was a guy in offside?, yes, the name of that guy, Ralston, and yes, he's the one that scored the first goal, taking advantage from an offside position.
But that's not all from Mr. Batres and his group of assistants, in the first half there were three very hard fouls by Frankie Hedjuk, and he wasn't booked even though those fouls were made in a period of 15 minutes. But Batres did book Marquez for only two fouls made in a similar period of time, since the referee let him do what he wanted Hejduk got the nerve to kick Sinha in the left legh with out the ball in play in a foul that was clearly a red card, but Batres didn't even book him.
Is this the case of a bad referee?, maybe, but how curious that all of his mistakes were against Mexico.
Maybe this is just a one game thing, a bad night for the referee?, But if that's the case how come a similar story was written in the 02 WC, or don't remember that clear hand in the area that the referee of the match didn't called, therefore denying Mexico a PK that represented the possible tie at 1.
I don't deny the advance of the US national team, but you can hide that there's something weird going on when Mexicans and Americans face each other in a match that can help the Americans to enrich their football history and therefore help to build a larger fanbase in the US that translate into more $$$$ for the US soccer federation, Concacaf and FIFA.