Venezuela was never always better than us,their football started looking good around the late 70s and we never used to think of playing them.The thing is, people talk bout plenty money making the difference in their football development, but many rich countries dont do well,money is not all but it helps as in many other walks of life.CR,ES,HONDURAS,GUATEMALA and CUBA are all poor countries in comparisson to us,and can all probably beat us at the moment.Lets put it another way,with all the money we have we are not sure to beat any of them.