A shame that he also shows all the usual tendencies of a Portuguese player: cheap/late fouls, hacking, flopping.

That would be typically American. Especially when you consider Chile would do the exact same thing to the US.

Come on. You really think that when Argentina thrashes the US there aren’t going to be throngs of USMNT fans making up bullshit excuses about how “we could have won at full strength” or “had we not been missing (insert completely irrelevant player here)“?

Testimonial match is a game usually held for a player after 10 years of playing for the squad. It means nothing. Just a “tip of the cap” to the player.

Guys who play at that level shouldn’t need coaching in the sense that some of those players do. That left back was caught out of position so many times I could hardly contain myself from screaming at the tv. Embarassing. But, I do have to give him credit for not playing Beckerman. I’ve never seen that guy play a…

Please. He was a regular starter who saw the writing on the wall and left for more job security. He couldn’t cut it and that’s why he left. He’s an average player who is constantly out of position and makes up for it by working too hard to get back in position - USMNT fans see that as “hustle” while the rest of us see…