Due to spending vacation time with the family and out in the great outdoors, I didn't get to see most of the Copa America action and so I won't attempt to extensively blog commentary about something about which I can't actually provide original insight. Nonetheless, I've absorbed the various reports and highlights and real-time blogs and I think
Jack Bell's piece (found via du Nord) sums up perfectly my view on the Copa America experience. This isn't profoundly different from what I've said in previous posts, but offers great player assessment and the basic gist of my view on this event:
"Of course it would have been wonderful, great, a feather in the cap of U.S. soccer if the American team had made it to the knockout round, or gone a bit farther. But it really does not matter where the U.S. team finished. Or how.
Did we insult our hosts? Maybe. Does it matter? Not to me. It is time to move on."
Well said, and thanks to the exploits of the U-20 Nats, it is easier to move on.
