USA has won two straight victories and already ensure a ticket into the quarterfinal. For the last match against Cuba, I'm going to resting some major players, some young talents would have chance to show their debut on this stage. Hopefully you guys won't mind.

Congratz on the nice show thus far and good luck on this tournament.
I think the only team that could compete with US is Costa Rica and hopefully we don't have to play them too early.

On to the semifinals. The United States only needs 2 more wins for the title. It looks promising if the United States can pull Hondorus or Cuba. The United States is still full of Nguyen.

The United States is the last team standing on which I have a player representing the Cataclysm.

We are in the final. Not surprisingly, Costa Rica has also made it into the final. We are fighting at home, that gives us some advantages. But if we look closely at their squad, we might still be the underdog.

Nice work on making the finals, Valentine. Keep up the good work!

Is there necessarily a home advantage?

Not for sure if home advantage works for everyone. But consider this: the final is held at The Faultline, at least Paul Bishop can have home advantage.

It'd defeat the purpose of having a host country if there is no home advantage but I do hear complains about that not being clear..
Anyways, good luck to valentine and the USA team. It's such a pity that we are underdog to Costa Rica...
I think you can re-use the lineup vs. Jamaica which yields much success. You should probably talk to ATM regarding where best to put Roberto too, I don't think he quite performed at his highest level compared to when he played his club...

We are the Champion of North America now! The final is easier than I thought. It seems Costa Rica manager didn't change his strategy too much, while I thought he's saving his best lineup for the final.

Congrat valentine. Nice match.

Congratulations Valentine...great job managing the team to the Championship...

Thank you Tak. Please understand I didn't bring your Kelvin Lilleyman and Shou-feng Khoo to this tournament. It's a hard decision. They're surely talented and important to United States in the future, but at least for now, or in my opinion, they're not ready for this stage.

@Joe, I also want to thank you for healing Mark Ford before quarterfinal.

@Tintin. Thanks for your tips, I reuse the lineup vs. Jamaica and changed a little bit. For Roberto Nguyen, I believe he's playing his favorite position expect semi-final, and thank god, he finally proved himself against Costa Rica.

It's alright, valentine. I can understand that there're many talents around. Since I must train 3 players at a time to improve my team, I can't get the best out of them. Anyway I only created players for my own country too. Please dont feel so hard about that :D