Report: Costa Rica to file protest on game played in snowstorm

 rampantbombedrat I'd make them play ALL international games in temperate climates, so as not to unfairly advantage teams from the tropics. :)

 UleNotknow I think most of the Latin players must be related to Danny Ainge. Lots of whining trick fall artists.

 joethemayor Yeah I'm with you.  Maybe I just got spoiled by watching American Football, but I think that if you can't handle the weather, go home and cry about it.  Any sport played outdoors, where they have to stop it because of some rain or snow is a whimpy game.  I would only make an exception for racing, because driving at high speeds on those sort of conditions is a good way to get someone killed.

But Soccer, baseball, golf...  Man up or go home.

 Chris8  joethemayor Did they not finish the game?

 joethemayor Hello!  They played the game!  In the snow!  Or did you miss that?  It isn't the players complaining, it is the fans.  The players will play in whatever the conditions are at that time.  They might not like it, but they will play.  Ask any American style football player whether they would like to play in a blinding snow storm and I venture to guess that they would say no.  But they would play.  Just like the American soccer players did.

 wootdude  Well tell those fans to wear a coat . When I was in that beautful country of costa rica And it was unbelievable hot at 95 degrees on the coast  I jumped in the water. I don't get paid to do that but if I played a sport any condition are considered just do it. 

 mustwin77

 go move to costa rica

 mustwin77

 and if it were stopped, Costa Rica would be complaining that the refs were showing the US an unfair advantage and that they wanted to play on.  They're just mad because they didn't get the result they wanted and they can pin the blame on someone and something other than themselves.  If they had a goal slip by Guzan in the second half and the game ended in a tie, we wouldn't be hearing about any of this.

By hook or by crook. A win is a win.

 ToddPeterson Why is it a cheap win? What advantage did one team have over the other?  If you want to talk about advantages, why not ask Mexico why all their home games are at Azteca stadium. That is a decided advantage for one team. ( And why this game was slated at altitude, btw)  What about playing in Central American nations where the fire alarm is pulled at the US team hotel ( documented 4 times in the past several years).

Sure, the snow was unique. But every single week, in the past century, a meaningful soccer game ha been played somewhere in the world where the rain makes conditions far worse than they were last night. That rain, btw, is far more dangerous for players whose ankles are far more likely to be insured severely in a deep puddle than in some deep slush.

I think you mean the Jermain Jones missed RED CARD. That was an intentional elbow to the face of an opponent, and should have been a red card.

As for the game conditions. What I saw during the stoppage was both teams arguing with the referee to continue the game.

I would love to see the referees report on this game, which should indicate what was actually said during the 55th minute stoppage.

If Costa Rica's players were in fact joining with the USA in saying the game should be continued, then the leadership of Costa Rican soccer has no argument. If they wanted the game stopped, then maybe there is an argument.

The simple fact is, both teams played in very much less than ideal conditions. The teams both played in the same conditions, so the conditions were equal for both teams.

 ToddPeterson you are no soccer fan and should be banned for your stupidity.

 M20 Ironic and really sort of true.

 knuckleballer Meanwhile, baseball is even more boring to watch than soccer.  If it weren't for copious amounts of beer, people would have quit bothering to watch baseball 40 years ago.

Btw, generalizations are for idiots, the lowest-common-denominator, and the uneducated.  You, in other words.

Baseball just takes someone with an attention span greater than a 1st grader to appreciate. But you're right, a sport has to be fast pace to be enjoyable. 

 leehwgoc  knuckleballer yet here you are making your own generalization about baseball fans needed beer to enjoy the game.  I enjoy it plenty without.  It's a beautiful game that most people don't understand.  They need hard tackles, slam dunks, and other such overhyped sports spectacles to be able to enjoy a game.  Baseball is about precision, timing,  and patience.  

Aren't you generalizing about those who make generalizations?  I think that we can do without the insults.   Actually, generalizations can be quite useful. 

 leehwgoc  knuckleballer My problem with soccer is this endless nonsense about the "Beautiful Game". Yeah, if it's Brazilians who are playing it; occasionally, the Italians and the Portuguese get it right. Most all the rest, though, more closely resemble fat kids dancing the ballet.

 knuckleballer Laughably idiotic post but that's to be expected from a baseball fan.  It's the only sport that doesn't require athletes.  LOL

Pot........Kettle.........black......

 RomarioDelLago  knuckleballer One, he didn't say a damn thing about baseball.  Two, get into a batting cage and try swinging at 80mph to 90mph pitches and see just how sore you can get just doing that.  Or try throwing just 30 to 40 such pitches.  

 knuckleballer

coming from a guy whose only athletic ability is cranking one out while chugging a beer

 knuckleballer your name should be knuckleHEAD! too many baseballs on your empty noggin. Go away if you don't know ANYTHING about any other sport

 TitanPBD  The game was scheduled at Denver to help acclimate the US team to altitude. Can you guess where their next game is?  And the US tends to schedule it's first home game in a cold weather site, usually Columbus and it has always worked out fine. There was nothing weird about going to Denver in March. 

 Scooterific  TitanPBD Except it is notoriously snowy in Colorado in March.  On the other hand, it could have also been 70 degrees and clear.

 sld1776 You're 100% right, "soccer" was a colloquial way of referring to the sport which originated at Oxford. Even if we had made it up ourselves who really cares.. we say hockey and field hockey while most Europeans say ice hockey and hockey. It doesn't matter what we call it as long as we can all understand each other.

 Staz  sld1776 You know, if you think about it objectively, people getting upset with the name for a given thing being different across other cultures is as (pseudo) logical as getting upset that not everyone speaks the same language.

If Europeans and the like get upset that Americans call the sport 'soccer', then why stop there? Shouldn't they also be upset that we speak different languages in the first place?  It's the same principle.

 knuckleballer because its played with your hands goofball