00:00Is the U.S. going in the right course?
00:02I mean, they're friendly matches.
00:04Yeah, people, you know, they want to see Ws, they want to see wins all the time.
00:08But there's something going on besides the results.
00:11I think for the first time ever in the U.S. history,
00:14you see ex-players putting pressure on the actual players right now.
00:18That's something that has never happened before.
00:20And I think it's going against what they're trying to build.
00:24And hopefully they can do better.
00:26Again, they're just friendly matches.
00:28They're friendly matches, but this is the time where they need to get their act together.
00:33If they want to be a strong contender in the next World Cup, which they are hosting,
00:38they need to get their act together from now to be able to show that this is like they're not hosting just for any reason.
00:44They're hosting because they have that level of football.
00:47This is the second time that the U.S. is going to experience and host a World Cup.
00:50And the expectations are different.
00:52The first time around in 94, it was all about getting the game to be known in the country.
00:57Now it's about positioning the United States as a main player, as a global player in the football world.
01:03Now, that's the reality.
01:05When you host a World Cup, the pressure is high.
01:07The expectations are even higher.
01:09Now the other host, Mexico, also not really convincing on these two games,
01:14but with very, very important glimpses of what could be Chiva.
01:19What are your takeaways? Is the Mexican team in the right direction?
01:23What is it for Mexico? Yeah.
01:25Javier Aguirre is Javier Aguirre.
01:27He knows what he's doing.
01:28I didn't like Mexico-Japan.
01:29I think Japan put a lot of pressure on top of Mexico.
01:31They didn't know what to do.
01:32Defensively, they did pretty well.
01:34But against Korea, I love the fact of the intensity of the match, especially in the second half.
01:39It was like we were watching a World Cup match, 2-2, amazing goals, all of them.
01:44And, you know, it's exciting to see this new Mexican national team with new faces.
01:49Asà es, Chiva.
01:50Mexico had a great game against Korea.
01:52It was a World Cup level of game.
01:55You see the excitement like you mentioned.
01:56Let's break it down a little bit.
01:58I love that long-range pass from Huesca, really showing that the time that he has spent in Europe really paid off.
02:05What a touch.
02:06A header, talk to me.
02:08Does that goal remind you of any other World Cup goal?
02:11Ni mas ni menos que el segundo volador histórico del tricolor, Jaret Borghetti.
02:16That spectacular goal against Italia where Buffon was like, what happened here?
02:21Anyway, Mexico played a really good game.
02:23I think tactically, they did pretty well defensively.
02:25They struggled a little bit at the beginning of the second half.
02:28But once Santi Jimenez got hit the ball and the rest of the players that came in and started playing better, Gallardo on the left.
02:36Then we put Jorge Sanchez on the right.
02:38You know, changing those two youngsters for two players that have been playing with the national team for a long time,
02:43made a difference at the end of the game and made them close to stronger to look for that tie.
02:48You know, Dos Dos was an amazing goal.
02:51And one thing I want to mention is the fact that for the first time ever,
02:55I've seen Mexico being not the local team in the stands.
02:59There was a lot of Koreans that were making more noise than the Mexicans.
03:02Then the Mexicans, you will never see that ever again in the U.S.
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