What The Fuck Is FIFA Thinking???

Tonight the US Men's National Team lost to the Costa Rican National Team in World Cup qualifying 3-1 in San Jose. The US will now drop to second in the final round of qualifying two points behind Costa Rica. While the result shouldn't be a surprise given the location of the match it is still disappointing. The US is currently ranked 14th overall by FIFA while Costa Rica is the reverse ranked at 41st. Overall though, what bothers me the most isn't the loss, I'm sure the US can bounce back from it on Saturday when they play Honduras at Soldier Field in Chicago, but the surface that they were competing on. It is an artifial turf field, something I didn't think a World Cup game, qualifying or otherwise, could be played on; but apparently as long as FIFA blesses off on it you're good to go. This field is atrocious. It is older than any turf field that a professional sport in the US would be played on. It was compared to being monumentally worse than the turf field at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey; and come on, for those that have been through Jersey it ain't anything special. How FIFA allows a World Cup Qualifying match to be played on a surface that is worse than what 90% of high school football teams play on is beyond me. What the fuck FIFA? Pull your heads out of your asses and lets figure out what a playing surface should look like. Would you let the likes of Spain, England, Brasil, or Italy play on a surface this shoddy? No, I think not. If this is the best they can come up with in Costa Rica, then perhaps they should be denied home games until they come up with a playing field that is more suitable to the tournament in which these teams are fighting to compete.