DISQUS

Kartik, thanks for the post. I appreciate your support for our young team. Gret, you are right on. Jose, you do have a point, but your closing remarks can come off as divisive. I was also at the game and in case someone didn't notice this is a club tounament, not an international one. The splash of politics seem to always come into play (no pun intended). Puerto Rico is a U.S. Territory, and with us Puerto Ricans being U.S. citizens, the Islanders can be correctly called a U.S. based club. However, in international sports competition Puerto Rico plays as a separate nation, in the same manner that Scotland, England, and Northern Ireland play as separate nations in international play and they are no doubt all UK teams. Attempting to negate Puerto Rico's intimate relationship with the U.S. seems like a sorry rant of denial because a few may wish it were not that way. Let's celebrate their success in Concacaf play, and hope that they and other USL/MLS clubs continue to provide us with exiting quality soccer (football). Thx.