"They are jealous of us, because we have a life and they have nothing."

Landon Donovan lays the smackdown on El Tri (in Spanish). Whether this is true or not is anybody's guess, but if it is, bravo Landon! Here are some gems (translated courtesy of Nutmeg on Bigsoccer):

(About pissing on the Jalisco field): "I have no regrets, and I am not sorry. You gotta do what you gotta do, and in that moment that's what I did."

"I don't like how they treat us, how they conduct themselves with us. They intend to humiliate us, and want to do so at whatever cost. But the people who will be doing the humiliating is us, and in the most painful way of being humiliated, inside the field, winning the game and beating them."

"They want to make us feel miserable, and we'll make them miserable by beating them in this game."

"We want to qualify for the World Cup, which is the most important thing, but if you were to ask me right now what I would value most, what do we most want, what we would enjoy more: beating Mexico or winning the right to go to the World Cup, I'll tell you. Beating Mexico."

"Outside of Mexico, in any other stadium, in any other city, in any other country, we are always going to beat Mexico, because we're the better team."

"They are jealous of us, the Mexican players, because we've got a life and they have nothing. Because of that they despise us. Because of that they want to show us no respect."

Wow. Just wow. Only one day away.

Here's an article (registration required) criticizing the U.S. for playing in Columbus to avoid a partisan Mexican crowd. Here's a quote:

"Critics in the Hispanic community, however, say U.S. Soccer's strategy of playing World Cup qualifiers primarily in minor-league markets in hopes of avoiding Hispanic fans passionately supporting U.S. opponents is short-sighted and exclusionary.

'To exclude a group because of a fear you're not going to win is ridiculous,' said Jose Alamillo, a professor of comparative ethic studies at Washington State University."

Uh...whatever. And here's a nice counterpoint article to the one above.

Finally, if you're a US Men's National Team fan and want to read something highly amusing, check out this thread on Bigsoccer. Page 2 is probably my favorite, but that's comedy gold right there.