Copa America 2007 Semifinal Preview

All the good teams in the Copa America are playing good. Mexico took a big ole dump on Paraguay 6-0, Argentina shitted on Peru 4-0, and Brazil bukaked Chile 6-1. Uruguay beat host Venezuela 4-1, but Venezuela sucks ass. Uruguay is a bit of a sleeper team, but if you look at their roster (try Wikipedia, search for Copa America 2007, and you can click on each team to see their roster and what pro club they come from), they are pretty solid. That they barely got out of their weakass group worries me a bit, but they’ll give Brazil a fair challenge. Alright, enough bullshit, let’s get to the real preview:

Uruguay vs. Brazil

Both these teams ate shit their first game resulting in the respective national team fans to call for Armeggeddon. Uruguay lost to surprise for a little moment Peru and Brazil lost to Mexico. Uruguay got lucky and played a shitty ass Venezuela (a team that consisted mainly of Venezuela’s best club, Caracas FC), while Robinho decided to carry the team on his back and earn respect. Look for Robinho to do what he does: ballhog, lose balls, dive, cry, and score and assist all of Brazil’s goals.

Mexico vs. Argentina

The Copa America was originally created to celebrate Argentina’s centenary anniversary of their independence. Consequently, Argentina tends to bring their big ass guns and this year they did. Riquelme, Messi, and Tevez. That’s some bullshit. But Mexico brought some guns too. Castillo, Marquez, and Blanco coming off the bench. The truth is that Argentina is to the USA Basketball Dream Team is to Mexico is to Spain’s National Basketball team. Argentina has offensive creativity, but Mexico plays sound counter-attack soccer with Nery “Opportunity” Castillo kickin’ it in the front waiting for the counter. And with Chelsea looking into Castillo and new best friend Blanco helping with his confidence, Mexico may upset Argentina like Spain Basketball did to USA.