Each competition day during the Gold Cup I will be providing a round-up of all that is noteworthy and interesting in our wacky little confederation championship.
Below the jump, day 5
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The Results:
El Salvador 1-1 Costa Rica
Mexico 5-0 Cuba
I’ll have much more to say about Cuba later this morning.
The El Salvador Cuba game was everything that is good and bad about Central American football – Lots of flare and joy in the play and lots of flopping and time wasting. The latter in extra time causing El Salvador to cough up two points with an injury time equalizer.
The point for El Salvador does make things interesting in the fight for the best third place finishers. With Cuba next up for El Salvador you would imagine they will finish with four points. They still are a -5 though so they will need to hope that one third place team gets less than one result.
Performance of the day
Rodolfo Antonio (El Salvador)—His first half free kick is the goal of the tournament so far.
Thanks for the condescending attention! (Mainstream media article of the day)
Mexico’s bad chicken dominated the news today
But, I do like this Tampa article that, once again, explains what the Gold Cup is. Maybe it’s time to re-name the damn thing. How about the North American Championships (and, yes, I know the Caribbean and Central America are in this, but, well, my geography classes told me that the Caribbean and Central America re part of North America).
What about the Canucks? (Canadian news of the day)
Although he didn’t have the best game against the USA, it’s still good to remember how good of a story Terry Dunfield is.
What’s on tap for today?
Jamaica v Guatemala (7 p.m.)
Honduras v Grenada (9 p.m.)
Jamaica can grab a hold of the group by the throat with a win over surprising Guatemala. Honduras will get its three against hapless Grenada, so if the Reggae Boyz get the win they will only needs a draw in the final game against Honduras to take the group.