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the leagues cup started out as a cash grab tournament that MLS created to count as an "international" tournament because Mexico dominates the actual international tournament Concachampions. It needs lots of work as both leagues have had teams complain about stopping the leagues for a tournament that feels forced. Liga MX for example are only 5 games into their season so they've stated a lot that they'll use it as pre season strengthening for when Liga mx starts back up but they're still not happy about being in the tournament.

Did you save Kenny!?

His death broke my heart 😭😭😭

Such a great set of games

Yeah Luke is actually one of the most forgotten characters

Allllllviiiiiin!

I think it’s both Miami are incredibly messi dependent and they don’t have any ideas when he’s not there and also Cincinnati really really good. They were the points leader in MLS last season and they have been very difficult to beat this season as well. Last year, Cincinnati were the regular season champions of MLS, The MLS cup final is the fourth round of the playoffs, excluding the wildcard game, and Cincinnati were eliminated in the third round by eventual league champions Columbus. Cincinnati also made it to our FA cup semifinal last year. Were they lost to Miami, but only an overtime. They’ve only gotten better with their moves in the off-season for this season.

Miami didn’t really lose that many players. Jordi Alba was serving a suspension and Lionel Messi was at the Copa America, but otherwise they didn’t lose that many key pieces.

You wouldn’t see a comeback like that Chicago come back in the Premier league. It’s part of what makes MLS so fun. Teams don’t give up. They don’t play for a draw. It’s chaotic and it’s never really over.

He said that Chicago’s number seven was offside. I didn’t see it, but clearly the referee did.

I love watching Daniel Gazdag’s penalties. He’s just such a prolific goalscorer in MLS. It really is a shame He didn’t get more minutes with the Hungary national team at the euros. They called him to the squad, but he barely played.

Now that I’m all caught up, I feel justified/not uncomfortable pointing out that there are two Portland games that you missed/are behind on reactions for versus Dallas and versus Nashville and during that stretch I would also strongly recommend checking out Chicago versus Philadelphia for an unbelievable finish and Cincinnati versus Miami because it’s the top two teams in the supporter shield race.

My word Portland are looking fantastic. I don’t want to spoil the results of the most recent two games that you haven’t watched yet versus Dallas and versus Nashville, but I watched their game against Nashville on Sunday night and holy moly they are on a roll.

There were two Portland games from this past week that you missed, and I would also strongly recommend checking out Chicago versus Philadelphia and Cincinnati versus Miami from the past five days as well.

Lol, you didn’t go far enough. Everything for you is five hours ahead so if you had skipped over to Monday, you would’ve saw Portland’s game. It was at 7:30 PM in Portland, 10:30 PM on the East Coast, but 3:30 AM on Monday in the UK. So Portland did play this past weekend. Edit: I spoke too soon. You switched it to Monday.

Go easy on the Minnesota keeper. He is their second string keeper and I’ve never heard of them before. I’m pretty sure they called him up from the reserve team in the MLS reserve league. He’s probably not taking very many of these. Lol.

For the injury right before the Timbers were awarded a penalty kick… How did that even happen?

I think Claudio bravo plays in MLS. I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure he’s still playing. I know he was playing last season.

Is there a way to get the crowd noise/background noise from the game into the video? It just feels weird watching a soccer game, even if it is a video game, without the crowd noise lol.

Yes, Sebastian Berhalter is Greg Berhalter‘s son.

You hate summer because you hate the heat? I hate tell you but what the UK gets for heat is not summer weather at all. That’s actually what about half of the US states get in the fall and spring. In Alabama the state where I’m from our average high temperature in the summertime is around 32°C before you factoring 90% plus humidity… And we aren’t even the most southern state. we don’t get UK temperatures for whether of like 22° or 23°C until like October/November and March/April. It only gets slightly cooler than that in the winter around 10°C is really where it bottoms out during the day.

What a special result for a special occasion! Dairon asprilla puts in the assists for the win on his last ever game as a timber after 10 years at the club.

I’m so glad you mentioned that we got grouped at home. Since the COPA America introduced the group stage in 1993 there has been 16 additions of the Copa America, including this year… And the United States are the first ever Coppa America host nation to get knocked out in the group stages. Even Bolivia made it out of the group stages when they hosted. Bolivia is without a shadow of a doubt the worst team in CONMEBOL.

Greg Berhalter is definitely not quitting. He’s only been in charge of this program for six years and our biggest wins under him, our only wins against top 25 opposition, or three wins over the worst Mexico team since the 1970s. I’ll give you a microcosm of his coaching career with this national team. Since November 1 of last year, USA is three wins, two draws, and five losses. in order, we have a win at home against Trinidad and Tobago, a loss away to Trinidad and Tobago, a loss at home to Slovenia, a regulation draw with Jamaica in the Nations league semi finals, which we did win in overtime, win over Mexico, lost to Columbia, a draw against possibly the worst Brazil team ever, a win over Bolivia, lost to Panama, and the lost to Uruguay. He is absolutely oblivious to the fact that he is doing a terrible job. In the post game press conference last night he even said that he thinks that the program is headed in the right direction and that people just need to trust the process. I doubt he will get fired. I hope I’m wrong but considering that Greg Berhalter‘s brother is on the hiring committee it’s highly unlikely that he will get fired. he was already fired once because of the Gerena World Cup scandal… And we had a couple of different fill-in coaches for six months. Our Federation hired a research firm to help them find a new coach… After six months they rehired Greg Berhalter… This is after they interviewed people like Jesse marsh, Patrick Vara, Pellegrino Matarazzo, Apparently they also tried to interview Jose Marino… And out of all of those people Gregg Berhalter was still the best option because his brother was on the hiring committee so he was rehired.

I have no idea why Timothy even bothered responding to what the Panama player did. He’s played his entire international career in this continent. In CONCACAF it is a very physical and very greedy continent. No matter who you play from this continent, except for USA and Canada, apparently, They are going to push you around and shove you and bump into you and do petty stuff to you nonstop until you lose your head and get sent off. That is the game plan. They will literally try to take out your knees on purpose. That’s not just a Panama thing that is a CONCACAF thing. There has been many games in this region that have ended. We’re both teams have had fewer than 10 players on the field. Although our national teams, USA and Canada, our among two of the highest quality and talent in a way it kind of hurts us because teams do it even more, and since our players are in Europe, Europe is a much softer continent, even at the club level. The pettiest little thing is going to get called in the English Premier league. You’re gonna have to earn a call on this side of the pond. The longer our players are in Europe the harder time they have dealing with that and that is part of the problem. I mean, unless you’re actually injured, somebody actually threw a punch, or you’re bleeding it’s probably not going to be a red card. That’s the standard over here.

The referee in the USA-Panama game is generally a disaster. He has done 191 international games at the club and country level. Basically he’s reft in CONCACAF World Cup, qualifying, nations league, champions league, and this was his Copa America debut. In 191 games of international repping he has 1400 yellow cards issued, 89 red cards issued, 72 penalties, and 106 players sent off for reds and/or second yellows. Somehow he has one referee of the year three times in El Salvador.

Mexico has a lot of problems. The USA’s problems are pretty much because of our coach. Mexico problems are everything but their coach and they’re blaming it on their coach. The Mexican Academy are absolute rubbish and they’re losing dual nationals to every single country that even attempts to recruit a dual national. Their entire national team except for Santiago Jimenez is essentially playing in Mexico domestically. They still think that Liga MX, the top division of Mexican soccer, is like it was in the 1980s as one of the top five best leagues in the world. Newsflash… It’s not. It’s about the same level as MLS now. Not even trying to get their players from Europe in fact they’re trying to bring them back from Europe to play in Mexico because they think that’s better. Their federation, FMF, is just as corrupt as turkey/Nigeria/USA. It’s an absolute joke. You get hired if you know somebody. They doing everything that they can to destroy their domestic leagues. Both USA and Mexico Federation are only chasing the dollar and not even chasing wins anymore.

This is Canada‘s first ever appearance in the Copa America and they made the quarterfinal. They didn’t even have to win on the final match today. When they played Chile, all they had to do was not lose cause as long as they didn’t lose no matter what happened around them, they were automatically through.

I love how in the comments section of your very first Copa America video I correctly predicted the exact standings of Group A, group B, and group C. End of Columbia win by three in Costa Rica win by three I will have correctly predicted group D as well. You can go back and check the receipts if you want.

I heard it put like this "If i'm going to stare at an ass for 50 hours I prefer it to be a womans"

I don't know the reason, i just do. Who gives af? .Lol. Like you said there's a lot of different 'reasons' probably ranging from completely benign to downright weird...depends on the individual.

Because I am a heterosexual

so I don’t play football manager… I want to, but I do not have any equipment to actually play. I don’t play video games so I don’t have a gaming console and I also don’t own a laptop or a PC… It turns out you cannot play on mobile unless you have Netflix which I do not have. I love watching football manager videos. It’s like the one video game I enjoy watching other people play. That leaves me too my question… And hopefully with that context in mind, the question won’t sound so goofy. In football manager, can you actually make up and design entire national team and club team Continental/international competitions? like if you wanted to could you add a fourth European continental competition below the conference league, pick the teams that participate, and then run simulation of the tournament?

Sergino Dest and a couple of the others who didn’t get call ups who normally do we’re actually injured. Sergino just had an injury that will keep him out for at least a few more months, I believe it could even be most of next season.

Tim Ream is like a fine wine. He’s only gotten better as he’s gotten older. He has not had a single bad game for a national team in years.

Most people don’t realize because they don’t typically qualify for a World Cup, but Surinam is really good. USA Mexico and Canada are obviously already qualified, but for the next three spots from our region, I’m picking Panama, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, and Suriname. three of those teams are getting it. The one that doesn’t go through automatically goes to the intercontinental playoff.

Whoever made group D is a genius. I don’t know why it didn’t stick to the original 16 teams in the Copa America, but putting Costa Rica and Honduras together is absolutely brilliant. They hate each other.

Both Portland and San Jose should’ve had more goals. Portland still should’ve won the game, but it should’ve been by a score line of like 4-3. Regardless… Congratulations. San Jose fired their coach after you beat them.

Was beautiful. I’m surprised I didn’t see that one in the goal of the match day voting. Should’ve been. I was wondering how San Jose found their way back into the game for an equalizer when I looked at the stats because Portland dominated everything.

Well, in relation to that first goal, San Jose doesn’t have the worst defensive record in the entire league for no reason. Stopping a goal like that Seems like something that you would practice on the training ground.

This team is doing very well now. I think they are unbeaten in 6 games. And yes, Sebastian Berhalter is the son of the USMNT coach, Gregg Berhalter

The goalkeeper for Bolivia was about the only Bolivian player that did have a good game. But it’s become normal for Bolivia. They only win at home nowadays. Their home stadium is actually the highest elevation professional soccer stadium in the world. They play all of their home games at over 13,000 feet of elevation, or 4100 m. For perspective, that’s almost halfway up Mount Everest. They win almost every game at home. They typically don’t even tie on the road. Most of their players played domestically in Bolivia so they are used to the elevation as pretty much everywhere in Bolivia is over 2500 m of elevation so that’s why they do that… But it doesn’t help them when they’re national team has to go play away from home. Since making it to the 1997 Copa America final in Bolivia, so on home soil, in all of the Copa America since then they played 30 games and they only have one win.

Lol I have no idea who that announcer is but thankfully it was not the one that we had on TV or the radio. Pretty sure that’s got to be an AI voice overlay for the commentary. It could be the Canadian broadcaster for the game as Canada and United States each send their own broadcasters to cover the exact same game instead of one country just simulcasting the other countries feed.

I know I recommended it in the last Copa America video you did, but I will recommend it again… Even if you don’t react to highlights of these games on the video outside of the USA games, I would still recommend searching for a highlight package on CZcams to watch before you talk about the game. It just gives you a little bit of a better idea of what happened. Gives you more to talk about. The highlight packages aren’t that long, most around eight minutes that I can find.

Uruguay are in a little bit of a transition phase. After getting bumped out of the last World Cup so early, they hired a new manager and they have said that it is a generational change. Eight players who were on the World Cup roster were left out. They had eight players under the age of 25 on the roster to replace the veterans. They’re trying to clean house with the older generation and bring in the next generation.

We we saw two completely different versions of Panama in that game. In the first half Panama was completely out played and look like they might lose by 10 if not more. They got so lucky that uruguay did not take any chances. In the second half, for the first half of the second half Panama outplayed Uruguay and was the first to every ball. They just couldn’t keep up with the experience and the athleticism of Uruguay and pushing for the equalizer they started conceding goals at the end.

That red card for Ecuador was absolutely nasty. Valencia came up and absolutely clocked Venezuela player right in the jaw with his cleats. Wasn’t even trying to make a play on the ball. I don’t even think the Venezuela player was anywhere near the ball.

Venezuela has never been to a World Cup. Ecuador was in the last World Cup. Currently in South American World Cup qualifying Venezuela are ahead of Brazil.

Jamaica really had a fascinating squad. They had in their starting 11 they had players from the Premier league and then they also had players from the American second division, the league below MLS. The normal goalkeeper, Andre Blake, plays for the Philadelphia union in MLS, but he injured himself and their last game before the COPA America as part of the World Cup qualifying games, that has already started over here, And so he had to have knee surgery. Their number two goalkeeper plays for American second division club El Paso locomotive. I thought he played incredibly well. Jamaica also actually took the lead in the first five minutes of the second half but it was ruled out very controversial. Most people I don’t think thought it was offside. But the referee found something. I feel like it was Qatar versus India Asian World Cup qualifying kind of spilling over into here. Qatar makes more money for the Asian Federation than India does so if it’s a 50-50 call and you can’t really tell, just kind of lean it towards Qatar… Mexico makes a lot more money for our Federation over here than Jamaica does so I feel like Mexico got the benefit of the doubt when it wasn’t really clear if it was offside or not.

I have only been watching soccer for a couple of years… I have seen a fair number of games have ended in scoreless draws. Chile versus Peru was legitimately the most boring soccer game I’ve ever watched in my life. The most exciting thing to happen in that game is there was 43 fouls. Neither goalkeeper made a save and I don’t think either team even attempted a shot.