Hercules Gomez

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1,080 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 24 Mar

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ESPN FC · Futbol Americas: Will Pochettino field his best USMNT XI vs. Belgium? · 24 Mar 2026 podcast

at the worst possible time, buckled.

This has nothing to do with money, this situation, this type of situation, and more to do with how emotionally powerless you were in that moment.

And I feel

There aren't enough competitors sometimes on these teams that have been and have played in these type of hostile environments enough to deal with it.

And the big players that they do have in these moments, for whatever reason, did not show up.

And you know who did?

Tigres' players.

You know who did?

Toluca's players.

You may not be deep.

San Diego may not be deep enough to lose their starting nine, lose their starting center back, have to rotate because you played three days ago, leave Chucky Lozano out because he's surplus and we want to pay him 20-something million to not play, and get away with it with a depleted Toluca side in altitude on that field.

At some point, you have to look at yourself and say, why is it at home we are good enough, but in Mexico, we are not?

Yeah, Ali says we've been having this discussion, it feels like forever.

I played this sport 10 years ago in the same competition, and I was on a Liga Amekis club playing against MLS opposition, and the look on the eyes of the players, because there's an away goal here,

And those rules matter.

And the emotional paralysis that it causes, back then, I saw in Cincinnati's eyes against Tigres.

When one of those goals comes in, and it's white knuckle time, it's squeaky bum time, and then you start looking at each other, and you start wanting to point the finger, but emotionally you can't talk.

It feels like physically you can't move.

You see them

coming into their shell, and that's when you see the Liga Mequis clubs growing.

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