By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) The aftermath of a fourth-place showing in the Copa America Centenario is a mixed bag for theU.S. national team and head coach Jurgen Klinsmann. Three group matches and three knockout games didn’t transform midfielder Darlington Nagbe into alock-down starter, but they certainly confirmed the credentials of defender John Brooks and […]
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MLS Countdown: Injury bug bites Irwin again, Bono in goal
Forced out of game against Orlando City last weekend, Toronto FC goalkeeper Clint Irwin will miss six weeks with a quadriceps strain. The diagnosis was announced by TFCTuesday. Irwin was injured in the 70th minute of a 3-2 loss. He was replaced by Alex Bono, who is the short-term replacement. Irwin was traded Jan. 18 […]
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What They're Saying: Landon Donovan
“I realized quickly I’m not a naturally energetic, outgoing, outspoken kind of person. I have pretty strong opinions based on my experiences and think I have good input on what’sgoing on and a pretty good grasp of what the players are going through. But I realized if don’t communicate it in a somewhat entertaining way, […]
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Soccer America's Copa Centenario Best XI
By Mike Woitalla@MikeWoitalla They went undefeated except against each other, so it’s natural thatplayers from champion Chile and runner-up Argentina dominate our Copa Centenario Best XI. Argentina outscored its foes, 18-2, and Chile bettered its opponents 16-5 until they stalemated in the finalto force a penalty-kick shootout. The choices for Copa Centenario Best XI, as […]
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Copa Centenario: How U.S. players rated
The USA’s performance at the 2016 Copa Centenario was a mixed bag, as reflected by how Soccer America rated the U.S. players. Of the 22 games the USA has played at competitive tournaments in theJurgen Klinsmann era, the No. 2 and No. 21 and No. 22 rated performances took place at the Centenario. U.S. Team […]
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TV Report: Centenario final draws 9.9 million viewers
The Copa Centenario final between Argentina and Chile was watched by 6,900,000 million viewers on Univision and 2,979,000 on FS1 for a total audience of 9,879,000 viewers. That’s thelargest audience for a men’s match on U.S. television — and the second largest for a soccer game — since the 2014 World Cup final between Germany […]
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What They're Saying: Gerardo Martino
“The players have no reason to not continue trying. They do it with honesty and effort. And they do it well.” — Argentina coach Gerardo Martino after the shootout loss to Chile inthe Copa Centenario final was followed by reports that Lionel Messi and numerous other players were retiring from international soccer. (Omnisport)
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By the Numbers: USA at the Copa Centenario
Despite the 1-0 loss to Colombia in the third-place game at the Copa Centenario, the USA finished with a 3-3-0 (W-L-T) record — its best record in four trips to the Copa America. USA at Copa America: YEAR W-L-T 1993: 0-2-1 1995: 2-3-1 2007: 0-3-0 2016:3-3-0 By beating Ecuador and Costa Rica, the USA recorded […]
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Messi says he's quitting Argentina
The lasting image of the Copa Centenario won’t be of Lionel Messi‘s free kick against the United States or his other four goals or four assists but of Messi sitting alone on the Argentina benchin tears. For the fourth time — and third year in a row — Messi played in afinal and Argentina lost […]
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Crowd Count: Copa Centenario averages more than 46,000
The Argentina-Chile final at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, drew 82,026 fans, pushing the average attendance for the 32 games at the Copa Centenario to 46,411 fans a game. That’shigher than the average attendance for any confederation championship played in 2015 or 2016, though there are seven games left at Euro 2016, which […]