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Didn't watch any games today due to late night soccer; Centavo lost to Umbros 5-3. One goal bounced off the wall, off my back, and in. Another came when a defender tried to clear and kicked the ball into my shoulder and in. Our team's finishing was rather ugly and reminded me of the finishing of too many teams in the World Cup. The curious may wish to come to our games and cheer us on.

Argentina 6 - Serbia & Montenegro 0: the rout of the Cup so far. By all accounts, the Argies played very well, although the red card a Serbian player received helped them dominate even more and score their last three goals (their current boy wonder Messi was involved in at least two of them).

Netherlands 2 - Ivory Coast 1: another hard loss for the Africans. That's why they call it the Group of Death, folks (although the US's group ain't no party, either).

Mexico 0 - Angola 0: Angola hung on with 10 men to steal a point. Mexico has to face Portugal now and get at least a point; otherwise, they'll have to hope that Angola-Iran works to their advantage. I caught the second half of this game on XM as i drove home, and the last few minutes on TV. The Mexican players say they're not worried at all; i don't believe them.

Also, because it bears noting, Peter Crouch's late goal against T&T was scored with a dirty foul. T&T got jobbed. That's soccer.