Usa needs to play in alaska. Everyone else abuses their climates, we should too.

This only works if all of your players are used to playing in those conditions. Everyone from Peru/Ecuador/Bolivia knows very well what it's like to play at 3000m altitude; everyone from the small Caribbean nations knows very well what it's like to play in a flooded field on a warm and humid afternoon... are the players from the USNT used to playing in Alaska?

Probably more than the other countries :p

There are fields the USMNT use that they have great records at due to climate, those being the northeast fields. Columbus, Foxborough, Philadelphia, New York City, etc. They really need to stop playing games in parts of the US that are hispanic heavy. I believe there was a game this WCQ where there were more supporters for the central american team than the US had supporting them. That cant happen in a "home" match.

was similar here in germany back when turkey was still somewhat good at football and we drew them a couple of times in qualifiers: our home matches were basically away matches - not that it helped them. but honestly, that (or climate) should really not even be a factor trying to place amongst the top 4 in such a weak group of just six teams...

other than Pulisic they certainly performed like it

This post was edited by excellence on Oct 13 2017 08:45am

That really sucks, and it's sad to hear. I think the same thing happened in France, with some friendly games against african teams, but worse, as many people (immigrants and sons of immigrants) were not only rooting for the away team, but also booing the french team and its anthem.

I can understand immigrants siding with their country and wanting them to win (I would too)... but actively rooting against the country that has welcomed you with disrespectful chants and boos, is something I think is intolerable. And when the kids of these immigrants prefer to root for the away country over the country on your their passport, it's a good indicator that there's some messed up problem in the integration process.

ya that's pretty shitty. but it gets even worse: many of the turks that were rooting for turkey back then, booed our team and anthem, called özil a traitor and so on were later celebrating when germany was successful - all of a sudden they were germany fans...

i bet those are the same kind of people who support erdogan, act like turkey is the greatest country in the world, and use their right to speak their mind and demonstrate here in order to put people in power that are taking away these very rights in the country they claim to love so much...

it was pretty obvious that we play greece so ive put 50€ on that and won 165