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Suarez Mad at Media - Whatever

June 22nd, 2006 | By: Trent | 9 Comments »

Ecuador coach Luis Suarez is allegedly miffed at the media following his team’s 0-3 to Germany. He thinks that loss erased the memory banks of journalists, who he says have forgotten the two opening wins.

Look, there were a million reasons for Ecuador to use the lineup it did against Germany. And I understand that getting to the second round unscathed is understandably important to Coach Suarez. But Luis, baby, you can’t engineer a spectacular loss and then wonder why the press is being critical.

Even if Ecuador had drawn the match and won the group, they wouldn’t be favored in the next round. That’s just the territory for smaller countries at the World Cup. You have to win to earn respect, and then you have to keep winning and winning until they can’t justifiably ignore you anymore.

I hope he and the team regroup and play with real confidence on Sunday. If they play their best, they can do it. And please, stop worrying about the press.

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By Rodas | June 22nd, 2006 at 10:51 am

LFS: you shouldn’t be worry of Ecua press. I am in Quito now and everyone agrees that our main objective is the 8th final match and therefore justify that you protect the best players for the GREAT MATCH WE’LL MAKE against England. YES, WE CAN DO IT!! WE ARE GONNA DO IT!!! Hugs from Ecuador.

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By dar | June 22nd, 2006 at 11:09 am

Coach Suarez needs to log off the Internet and coach his team. He’s too busy worrying what everyone’s saying. If he didn’t want the bad press why did he bench FIVE of his starters?!

The press is always going to be fickle. The way they see it, every team is only as good as their last match. No biggie; it sucks when everyone jumps off the bandwagon but they’ll be climbing back on after we beat England. The Brits are as bruised up as we are, plus they’re underestimating us. As long as we keep Beck-Man (as my Pops and every other Ecua calls him) from uncorking his free kicks, we can make it through to the next round. I smell an upset!

BTW, I saw Carlitos Tenorio break out English last night on Fox Sports. They asked him about the Owen injury and he said his heart went out to Owen for a speedy recovery. The guy’s by far the most enlightening and personable player on the team. If he can learn more English he might have cross-over appeal in the States as well, something most Ecuas haven’t been keen on doing.

GO ECUADOR!

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By Veronica | June 22nd, 2006 at 5:49 pm

i personally think the whole german game was a bunch of b.s.Ecuador should have gotten a bunch of penalty shots and the germans should have gotten more yellow cards and a red card for kicking kaviedes in the face during the 19th min. it was obviously impossible for ecuador to win that one,with the beastly dirty playing germans and the completely unfair russian ref, all of them wat a coincidence huh? suarez should just be prepared for sunday, i think we have wat it takes to beat england

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By leo | June 22nd, 2006 at 9:43 pm

I just hope that LFS doesn’t think that advancing to the 2nd round is good enough!!! This team is capable of going much further, they showed it in the first two games.

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By kn | June 22nd, 2006 at 10:10 pm

Get to the third round and I’ll be all right.

Of course they’ll have to face either Portugal or Netherlands there…

By Ricardo | June 23rd, 2006 at 1:01 am

hey, you should know that sometimes one player makes the difference, this time there were like 5 players who didn’t play for any reason…
i just hope we can win and prove everybody wrong..
cheers

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By Trent | June 23rd, 2006 at 3:38 am

dar - I saw the same interview with Super Teno on FSC. I didn’t know he spoke English at all, and I too was impressed with the interview and his sentiments for Owen.

By Dar | June 23rd, 2006 at 4:27 am

Trent,

coolcool. He’s from Esmeraldas and he still rocks the African accent. Carlitos is articulate and always speaks from inside. The stuff about “not costing anything to dream” and “losing every friendly and winning the world cup” is inspirational stuff. If E. Tenorio’s the heart of the team, then C.T.’s the soul of the team.

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By Fernando Delgado | June 23rd, 2006 at 7:44 am

Beat England.
Beat England.
Beat England.

(Extracted from the minds of the Ecuadorian players and people).

It’s our only thought.

Go Ecuador!!!!

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