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Robert's avatar

I have seen some real hack jobs in the past but El Salvador played like men from that terrible prison on work release.

The level of violent play inhibited Canada's players, who did not play a very good game.

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Jay “Yankiboy” Long's avatar

When Puerto Rico went to Cuscatlan for WCQ group play, ES played the same way.

They were melting down as PR was hanging with them and got out with a historic draw.

A nasty “challenge” on veteran Juani O’Niell injured him so badly that he didn’t appear in a national team match for about nine months.

It should have been a straight red. No remorse from the player that chopped him down. He appeared to smirk about it.

Shortly after, on a popular culture youtube show and podcast hosted by a relative, Beto Ydrach stated that the Salvadorans clearly came out looking to wreck the Ricans and used the word “psychos”.

Some of their press and supporters got into their feelings about the characterization.

Dude was just speaking his truth. That’s exactly what it looked like to me from my couch.

ES has a far superior coach now and has rotated a lot of players but the stuff that happened in the Canada match was absolutely no surprise to me. Zero.

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SoocerKing's avatar

What did Jesse Marsch do to deserve the two game suspension? And do you think it was justly deserved --or unprecedented?

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Daniel Feuerstein's avatar

During the 3rd place game of the CONCACAF Nations League, Jesse was angry and upset that some calls were not going his way, like what happened against Mexico. So he threw a major fit at the referee and called her names. He got the Red Card, then CONCACAF suspended him for another game.

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Jay “Yankiboy” Long's avatar

Jesse continues to drill down on part of his coaching duties as involving earning more respect for Canada when it comes to CONCACAF.

Which I get.

But sometimes, he’s going too far with his mouth.

It’s completely calculated and what is currently considered a “feature” with a lot of the Canada supporters may devolve into a “flaw” if he doesn’t get the balance right.

It also helps distract from the Alfonzo Davies debacle where the player’s agent and his club lay the blame for the injury squarely in Jesse’s lap.

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Daniel Feuerstein's avatar

Jesse Marsch is having his WWE Heel moment.

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