Couva Archives - Sibling Rivalry https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/tag/couva/ How Mexico and the US Built the Most Contentious, Co-Dependent Feud in World Soccer Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:33:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 A New World Guide to Sensible World Cup Expectations https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2026/06/03/a-new-world-guide-to-sensible-world-cup-expectations/ https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/2026/06/03/a-new-world-guide-to-sensible-world-cup-expectations/#respond Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:25:46 +0000 https://siblingrivalry.halphillips.net/?p=4484 I was rereading and search-engine optimizing some older essays last week, when I came across a column from early October 2017. To be precise, the piece was written two frantic days after the USMNT failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. That remains, you may recall, a dire moment in what I [...]

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