AP Photo/Andy Clayton-King
Honduras goalkeeper Buba Lopez needed to be gotten rid of from Wednesday’s 3-0 loss versus the United States at halftime due to hypothermia.
Nico Cantor @Nicocantor1
Buba López – Honduras GK – was treated with an IV at halftime due to hypothermia https://t.co/oeTOhwbD9b
The temperature level at kickoff for the World Cup qualifier was simply 3 degrees Fahrenheit at Allianz Field in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
ESPN Stats & Info @ESPNStatsInfo
USMNT handles Honduras in freezing temperature levels.
With a kickoff temperature level of 3 degrees reported, its the coldest for a USMNT video game in the last 20 years.
The last NFL video game with a kickoff temperature level as cooling was Titans at Chiefs on Dec. 18, 2016 (1 degree) pic.twitter.com/TPeDtjq712
Soccer author Grant Wahl reported that Honduras forward Romell Quioto likewise left the video game due to hypothermia.
Even prior to the video game was played, the United State Soccer Federation’s choice to play the contest in Saint Paul in the dead of winter season, when freezing conditions are the standard, drew criticism:
Nancy Armour @nrarmour
Don’t get me incorrect. I enjoy enjoying snow video games. I was completely entertained by Stadium Iceteca. United States Soccer’s mindset behind scheduling in this window is really amateur. USMNT need to be beyond point of requiring tricks to win. If USSF does not believe so, that’s bigger issue. https://t.co/XFhpvxMNye
Stephen Meyer @StephenMeyerRDC
Cancel the match. Move it to among the 50 warm choices the United States has. The USSF has actually done definitely whatever it can to damage the #USMNT’s World Cup hopes coming off a dreadful last cycle. Unfathomably inefficient. https://t.co/cAI56 wOo3a
Rob Harris @RobHarris
It’s a farce for United States Soccer to have actually picked to play the World Cup qualifier tonight versus Honduras in temperates around -15 C in Minnesota – putting gamers health at danger when the United States isn’t doing not have warmer locations to play. Required FIFA intervention on well-being https://t.co/jrwrvrb370
Pressing your geographical benefits in World Cup certifying is absolutely nothing brand-new in the CONCACAF area. Games are played in the blistering heat in specific areas, or at high elevations in others. USMNT gamers are accustomed to hostile crowds on the roadway.
But there is a distinction in between acquiring a benefit based upon where you play and actively putting gamers at threat. Considered that 2 Honduras gamers needed to be dealt with for hypothermia, Wednesday’s video game plainly drifted into the latter.
Even gamers like the USMNT’s Timothy Weah and Matt Turner didn’t appear delighted with the choice to play the video game in Saint Paul, regardless of the 3 points:
USMNT @USMNTTAKES
Timothy Weah on IG pic.twitter.com/BWxxsA8DrX
Matt Turner @headdturnerr
Mood pic.twitter.com/NKZHlgxT0k
And Honduras supervisor Hernan Dario Gomez didn’t mince words, either prior to the video game or after.
” It’s not typical,” he informed press reporters prior to the video game. “It’s unthinkable that a power in every sense would bring you here to play a video game and get an outcome. … The video game hasn’t begun, however I can’t wait on it to end. Due to the fact that it’s not for taking pleasure in, it’s for suffering.”
” Football is not possible in those conditions,” he included after the contest.
AP Photo/Andy Clayton-King
Honduras goalkeeper Buba Lopez needed to be gotten rid of from Wednesday’s 3-0 loss versus the United States at halftime due to hypothermia.
Nico Cantor @Nicocantor1
Buba López – Honduras GK – was treated with an IV at halftime due to hypothermia https://t.co/oeTOhwbD9b
The temperature level at kickoff for the World Cup qualifier was simply 3 degrees Fahrenheit at Allianz Field in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
ESPN Stats & Info @ESPNStatsInfo
USMNT handles Honduras in freezing temperature levels.
With a kickoff temperature level of 3 degrees reported, its the coldest for a USMNT video game in the last 20 years.
The last NFL video game with a kickoff temperature level as cooling was Titans at Chiefs on Dec. 18, 2016 (1 degree) pic.twitter.com/TPeDtjq712
Soccer author Grant Wahl reported that Honduras forward Romell Quioto likewise left the video game due to hypothermia.
Even prior to the video game was played, the United State Soccer Federation’s choice to play the contest in Saint Paul in the dead of winter season, when freezing conditions are the standard, drew criticism:
Nancy Armour @nrarmour
Don’t get me incorrect. I enjoy enjoying snow video games. I was completely entertained by Stadium Iceteca. United States Soccer’s mindset behind scheduling in this window is really amateur. USMNT need to be beyond point of requiring tricks to win. If USSF does not believe so, that’s bigger issue. https://t.co/XFhpvxMNye
Stephen Meyer @StephenMeyerRDC
Cancel the match. Move it to among the 50 warm choices the United States has. The USSF has actually done definitely whatever it can to damage the #USMNT’s World Cup hopes coming off a dreadful last cycle. Unfathomably inefficient. https://t.co/cAI56 wOo3a
Rob Harris @RobHarris
It’s a farce for United States Soccer to have actually picked to play the World Cup qualifier tonight versus Honduras in temperates around -15 C in Minnesota – putting gamers health at danger when the United States isn’t doing not have warmer locations to play. Required FIFA intervention on well-being https://t.co/jrwrvrb370
Pressing your geographical benefits in World Cup certifying is absolutely nothing brand-new in the CONCACAF area. Games are played in the blistering heat in specific areas, or at high elevations in others. USMNT gamers are accustomed to hostile crowds on the roadway.
But there is a distinction in between acquiring a benefit based upon where you play and actively putting gamers at threat. Considered that 2 Honduras gamers needed to be dealt with for hypothermia, Wednesday’s video game plainly drifted into the latter.
Even gamers like the USMNT’s Timothy Weah and Matt Turner didn’t appear delighted with the choice to play the video game in Saint Paul, regardless of the 3 points:
USMNT @USMNTTAKES
Timothy Weah on IG pic.twitter.com/BWxxsA8DrX
Matt Turner @headdturnerr
Mood pic.twitter.com/NKZHlgxT0k
And Honduras supervisor Hernan Dario Gomez didn’t mince words, either prior to the video game or after.
” It’s not typical,” he informed press reporters prior to the video game. “It’s unthinkable that a power in every sense would bring you here to play a video game and get an outcome. … The video game hasn’t begun, however I can’t wait on it to end. Due to the fact that it’s not for taking pleasure in, it’s for suffering.”
” Football is not possible in those conditions,” he included after the contest.
