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In Gold Cup final, it's red, white and boo again
LA Times ^ | 25 Jun 2011 | Bill Plaschke

Posted on 06/26/2011 4:28:59 PM PDT by mandaladon

It was imperfectly odd. It was strangely unsettling. It was uniquely American.

On a balmy early Saturday summer evening, the U.S soccer team played for a prestigious championship in a U.S. stadium … and was smothered in boos. Its fans were vastly outnumbered. Its goalkeeper was bathed in a chanted obscenity. Even its national anthem was filled with the blowing of air horns and bouncing of beach balls.

Most of these hostile visitors didn't live in another country. Most, in fact, were not visitors at all, many of them being U.S. residents whose lives are here but whose sporting souls remain elsewhere.

Welcome to another unveiling of that social portrait known as a U.S.-Mexico soccer match, streaked as always in deep colors of red, white, blue, green … and gray.

"I love this country, it has given me everything that I have, and I'm proud to be part of it," said Victor Sanchez, a 37-year-old Monrovia resident wearing a Mexico jersey. "But yet, I didn't have a choice to come here, I was born in Mexico, and that is where my heart will always be."

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: California
KEYWORDS: barfstew; futbol; immigration; mexico; soccer
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To: GeronL

what we need to do is give California to Mexico
declare war and take it back

or just give it to Mexico
that way those votes are taken out of the equation


21 posted on 06/26/2011 7:16:38 PM PDT by AeWingnut (Soccer: a symptom of a greater ill)
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To: 1rudeboy
Soccer is gay.

No wonder I never liked it...

22 posted on 06/26/2011 7:42:08 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

Repressed feelings, perhaps? Just come out of the closet, already.


23 posted on 06/26/2011 7:48:13 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: mandaladon

If non-hispanic whites were doing to another country what mexicans are doing to the United States, it would be considered genocide.


24 posted on 06/26/2011 8:26:08 PM PDT by PghBaldy (War Powers Res: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/warpower.asp)
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To: PghBaldy

I of course was talking about much more than a soccer game. spanish is EVERYWHERE in this country now. Everywhere. I go to drive thrus in suburban Pittsburgh, and there are prominent spanish signs outside, in the same size as the English ones. Same thing with food and directions to just about anything. It is disgusting how the spanish-speaking scum have invaded this beautiful country, and coerced their ways upon us.


25 posted on 06/26/2011 8:42:22 PM PDT by PghBaldy (War Powers Res: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/warpower.asp)
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To: AeWingnut
what we need to do is give California to Mexico

Not so fast. We're not "giving" anything away. We're trading it for Baja California which will become Lower Arizona.

26 posted on 06/26/2011 8:47:19 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.' - Homer Simpson)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Who won the game? Geez, who won?


27 posted on 06/27/2011 12:47:14 AM PDT by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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To: All; mandaladon
"I love this country, it has given me everything that I have, and I'm proud to be part of it," said Victor Sanchez, a 37-year-old Monrovia resident wearing a Mexico jersey. "But yet, I didn't have a choice to come here, I was born in Mexico, and that is where my heart will always be."

Uh... didn't have a choice to come here? He's a resident of Monrovia which means he lives here! Was he kidnapped?

If his "heart will always be" in Mexico maybe he should repatriate.

28 posted on 06/27/2011 4:29:48 AM PDT by newzjunkey (That tv station's "Los Angeles, Mexico" billboard wasn't far off.)
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