Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Canadian Men's Soccer

Canada needs to finish.
Yesterday had they kept the ball down on a couple chances they might have won 2 - nil. I think it's time that we stop looking for the little victories with Canada. We've been getting the chances and we've been able to (in competitive games, not friendlies) hold the opposition to 1 goal over the past 8 games. Admittedly, none of those games have been against Mexico, USA or, Jamaica (again, not talking friendlies) but Canada can hang with some of the best of them in CONCACAF.
Between that and the fact that people are finally showing up to the games (16 thousand or so last night, predominantly Canadian fans) I think it's time that we should expect more from Canada and stop having an empathetic "let's take our victories when we get them" attitude and start expecting more from this team.
This team is good enough and players who were born here need to start taking some fucking pride in their country and start playing for Canada (Jonathan DeGuzman and Junior Hoilette: I'm looking at you. You can come to watch but you can't play?)  and if they won't, fuck 'em, we'll still win without them.
I'll stop my rant there.