Rolling Jamaica, reeling Mexico meet in Gold Cup final

For a coach in his position, the trick is to win enough in the short term to stick around to possibly see through those long-term results.

Mexico and Jamaica face off tomorrow in the big final.

In fact, Mexico is the fifth best team in the world, he insisted, preferring to focus on El Tri’s strong performance at last year’s World Cup.

On Nurse’s goal, he faked out John Brooks, the young center back who had a rough tournament, to set up an open shot.

They fell at the semi-final hurdle on Wednesday as they were dumped out 2-1 by Jamaica at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.

He noted Brooks and Alvarado had made for a winning pairing in their brief tenure together before the semifinal defeat, including breakthrough victories in June exhibitions against world champion Germany and the Netherlands, another European power.

“Enormous, enormous talent” is how he described the two. “And maybe we weren’t clinical enough to put it in there”, Klinsmann said. “Two, three years down the road – what does this team look like?…” You have to keep developing a team that you have in mind toward 2018 thats hopefully better than you did in Brazil.”.

Panama was missing several key players because of injury or suspension, including its top goalkeeper.

The Panama players were incensed by a last-minute penalty awarded to Mexico, which led to a late equaliser, before Mexico won 2-1 in extra time thanks to another penalty.

Hawit became president of North and Central America and the Caribbean’s governing body in May after Jeffrey Webb’s indictment. Penedo pushed an assistant referee after the match ended.

Tejada drew a one match ban for the red card he received in the semi-final and an additional match for failing to leave the field in a timely manner.

Panama’s federation also was fined an undisclosed amount. We at CONCACAF regret these circumstances but accept that such human errors are part of the game.

Coach Hernan Gomez said Chaluja’s reaction was “human nature” but wouldn’t add to the criticism, saying “rules are rules”.

The Mexicans had also defeated Costa Rica in disputed fashion in the quarter-finals when Guardado scored a contentious 124th minute penalty to secure a 1-0 triumph. According to Fox Soccer’s Kyle McCarthy, Panama played kickball at practice on Friday instead of training.

Though the Dynamo defender isn’t fully fit, Klinsmann hopes to give the veteran of four World Cups and 121 caps a sendoff Saturday by playing him in the second half.

Klinsmann wants to get some younger players into the mix, a group that includes 20-year-old Jordan Morris and 19-year-old Rubio Rubin and Emerson Hyndman.

He made a diving stop to his right against U.S. captain Michael Bradley, then blocked DaMarcus Beasley’s final attempt to end the match. “They definitely deserved to win”.

Buenos Aires, July 24 (IANS) Argentina football legend Diego Maradona has voiced his support for Panama demanding replay of the Gold Cup semi-final where they were ousted by Mexico in controversial circumstances. However, Herrera’s team is just a win away from claiming the nation’s 10th Gold Cup title – and it is the favorite to do so.