As far as the US/Barbados World Cup qualifier yesterday, I’m not usually one to say “I told you so” but in this case I will anyway.  Giving the Barbadians a thorough display of our soccer superiority when it was obviously uncalled for not only gave us the completely wrong mindset going into yesterday’s game, it also gave them fuel for the fire.  I also called the fact that even an out of position, under funded (skill wise) side of American second-stringers could have taken out Barbados in the first leg.  I think most of the American soccer community will just kind of brush this series under the rug and pretend like it didn’t happen…

PS – I know it’s a complete travesty that we haven’t had anything up about the Euro…unforgivable.  The person who was supposed to keep up with the Euro hasn’t been able to get an account created through WordPress due to a glitch, but we’re working on it.  I will add that yesterday’s Spain/Italy quarterfinal was probably one of the best 0-0 draws I’ve ever seen, and Spain deserved that game the whole way.  I called Spain to win the tourney before it began (really!), and I’m proudly sticking to that prediction now.  Congrats to the Spanish youngsters for shaking off the weight of history that wasn’t even theirs and taking down an Italian side obviously intent on dragging the game out in hopes of stealing it in the end.

PS – Luca Toni proved to me again that he is one of the most overrated and useless forwards in the international game.  The only thing he seems to be good for is being tall and standing there while other Italian players try to bounce the ball off him into the net.