After USA-Mexico, USA-Costa Rica is the most storied rivalry in U.S. national team history. But never in the 34-game series has a match been as one-sided as the USA’s 4-0 win over the Ticos that keptit very much alive in the Copa Centenario. The Americans, facing elimination with another loss after the 2-0 defeat to […]
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Video Pick: Best Copa Centenario golazo so far?
It wasn’t enough for to prevent Paraguay’s 2-1 loss to Colombia, but Victor Ayala‘s 71st minute dipping blast from 27 yards might be the most impressive Copa Centenario golazo so far.
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What They're Saying: Gary Medel
“The most beautiful girl in the world made me delete the other photo. Obedient, I listened to her.” — Chile’s Gary Medel with a picture of his infant daughter after hedeleted a photo of him giving the finger to “those classless people,” referring to Argentina after the 2-1 loss in the Copa Centenario opener. (Twitter […]
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Copa Spotlight: Di Maria scores for his abuela
Even without injured Lionel Messi, Argentina lived up to its billing as one of the favorites to win the Copa Centenario with a 2-1 victory over defending champion Chile before asellout crowd of 69,491 fans at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Angel Di Maria broke the scoreless deadlock in the 51st minute, then raced […]
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The Beautiful Game appears at the Copa Centenario
By Mike Woitalla It was a Brazilian who called it such, but thank Argentina and Chile for delivering “the Beautiful Game” to the Copa America Centenario, to thedelight of 69,451 fans in Santa Clara, California, on Monday. Pele recently lamented that his own nation had become incapable of jogo bonito under CoachDunga. That certainly seemed […]
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Copa Centenario: Results & schedule
Argentina was without Lionel Messi, sidelined with a back injury, but it won its a rematch of the 2015 Copa America final against Chile with a 2-1 win thanks to goals by Angel Di Maria and EverBanega. Panama edged Bolivia by the same score in rainy Orlando on a pair of goals by Blas Perez. […]
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Copa Central: Mexico-Uruguay ends on wrong foot
The bad blood between Mexico and Uruguay did not end when the final whistle blew in their match, which featured a pair of red cards and eight yellow cards. Following Mexico’s 3-1 win in Arizona,El Tri boss Juan Carlos Osorio accused Uruguay defender Jose Maria Gimenez of insulting him. And the next day, Uruguayan federation […]
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TV Report: More than 5.4 million watch USA-Colombia
The opening match at the Copa Centenario between USA and Colombia that aired on Univision and was simulcast on UniMas and UDN averaged 3.9 million viewers, making it the most-watched opening CopaAmerica match on any U.S. network regardless of language. An additional 1,536,000 viewers watched the game on FS1, for a total of more than […]
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What They're Saying: Jurgen Klinsmann
“It would be huge for our region, to play in the Copa América in the format it is now. Speaking on behalf of Mexico and Costa Rica as well, it would be huge to compete with these topnations.” — U.S. national team coach Jurgen Kinsmann on reports of a possible merger of the Gold Cup […]
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MLS Power Rankings: RSL and Timbers move up
An abbreviated week of six league games didn’t much affect the Power Rankings, though Real Salt Lake andPortland jumped a couple of spots by posting victories. The three Canadian teams are competing for a spot in the Concacaf Champions League and next week the 17 U.S. teams start their schedules in theU.S. Open Cup. League action […]