World Cup misinformation...

Guilherme C Roschke groschke at luminousvoid.net
Tue Jun 18 15:00:18 PDT 2002



> In the interest in restoring LBO-talk's credibilty
> amongst football fans, I'd like to offer three
> corrections to the World Cup discussion.
>
> 1.) The US has played Mexico 47 times, not 4. The US'
> overall record is 10 wins, 28 losses, and 9 draws, but
> most of Mexico's damage was done long ago. Since
> 1990, the US is 8-6-6, and has won five of the last
> six matches. That said, Mexico was indeed favored
> over the US, as Mexico had been playing brilliantly
> and the Americans receive absolutely no respect
> worldwide.

i stand corrected. that's what i get for getting my stats from ESPN.

-gr



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