El Salvador vs Canada - Earlier, the players from El Salvador released a statement that they would not show up for the game, upset at their football federation on payment, etc. About 1/2 hour later, a new statement was released that the players will show up for the match.
Usual FIFA garbage, so many of these national associations exist to funnel event money into their own pockets, and actually do fuck all for the game at any level - with particular contempt for the players who are actually competing.
Burley slating US Soccer for staging their qualifier with Honduras in St. Paul, where it was -16 C.
Fuck’em. For 30 years, Honduras has been terrible to play in, the very worst of the awful Central American venues, where stewards and police laugh as missiles like bags of urine come flying out of the stands at the visitors’ bench. Turn about is fair play, and they are only whining about the weather, which they didn’t have much of a problem with when it was staging 2pm matches in 35 C and 90% humidity.