A few hours until the decisive meeting between Honduras Vs. United States of America for the ticket to the Olympic Games in Tokyo, the former American football player Herculez Gomez ignited the controversy by making sure the Bicolor qualified for the semifinals Pre-Olympic accidentally”.
“Honduras has a team full of players who are active in the Honduran league, while Canada has only players in MLS and the strange one who is in the basic forces of the old continent, but nothing important,” Gómez began, explaining in ESPN Sports.
He added: “What is happening is that Honduras, in the first game, had the advantage of facing a Haiti that had a covid outbreak, they arrived with 10 players and a footballer who is not a goalkeeper had to ask for gloves to play. They had that accident that I suddenly saw at CONCACAF and they scored another goal than Canada. That’s why I go (in the semifinals) because of the goal difference, but if you ask me depending on the team, line by line, talent, you see more elements to do “damage” in Canada than in Honduras. ”
For the former footballer, the most important match for the United States in the first round was “against Costa Rica”, in which he called the “ugly group”.
In addition, he assured that the North Americans have a large number of footballers in Europe who could not participate in the tournament and that the players have just started the pre-season with the clubs.
“We see the players from Honduras and, with all due respect, they all play in the local league, if we say that the Honduran league or MLS is stronger, that the national team from Honduras or the United States is stronger in their age limit history. “We have to go to the United States.”
At the end of the discussion, journalist Andrés Agulla said that Bicolor can compete with the United States for the hierarchy of players and the Fabián Coito trial.
“It’s a well-worked team that doesn’t have the talent on display like the United States. Coito has developed an idea and around it I think it can compete with the United States,” Argulla concluded.