By Paul Gardner Trying to extract meaning from this past weekend’s clash between the USA and Spain seems to me an endeavor both hopeless and fruitless. Forthis was an unreal occasion, a game that came straight from the pages of “Alice in Wonderland.” A sort of caucus race like the one set up by the […]
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Four years later, Canada gets another crack at USA
[USA-CANADA PREVIEW] As the tale is told north of the border, the narrowest escape for the USA at the 2007 Gold Cup came not in the final with Mexico, butrather in a semifinal squeaker against Canada. At Soldier Field in Chicago, the same venue at which they would edge past Mexico three days later, the […]
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Group B: Honduras and Jamaica favored
[GOLD CUP PREVIEW] Colorado Rapids star Omar Cummings won’t be playing for Jamaica. Shalrie Joseph has decided not to play for Grenada. And Andy Najar, the 2010 MLS Rookie of the Year, wasn’t picked to play for Honduras. But thereare many U.S. connections to the four teams in the Gold Cup’s Group B, the most […]
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Dempsey's role is a vital decision for USA
[USA SPOTLIGHT] He remembers a brasher, impatient, sometimes impetuous Dempsey, a brazen kid so packed with talent he and his fellow coaches knew he’d goplaces, sooner or later. “He spoke to Stevie Nicol and me all the time,” recalls former Revs assistant coach Paul Mariner of the three years(2004-06) he mentored Dempsey at New England. […]
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2011 Gold Cup this week …
[DATEBOOK] The 2011 Gold Cup continues Monday with two games at the Home Depot Center: a Caribbean showdown between Jamaica and Grenada and a Central Americanbattle between Honduras and Guatemala. For the Gold Cup game summaries, standings and schedule … Results: Group A June 5 in Arlington, Texas Costa Rica 5Cuba 0. Goals: Urena 6, […]
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Mexico erupts in second half
[GOLD CUP] Javier Hernandez scored three goals in the last half hour to give Mexico a 5-0 win over El Salvador before asell-out crowd of 80,108 at Cowboys Stadium on Sunday. Efrain Juarez opened the scoring in the 55th minute and Aldo De Nigris made it 2-0 three minutes later before “Chicharito” put the game […]
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Group A: Tri is class of field
[GOLD CUP PREVIEW] Mexico, the defending Gold Cup champion, should have no trouble winning Group A. Perhaps the most intriguing match will be the Tri’s thirdgame against Costa Rica, coached by its old boss, Argentine Ricardo La Volpe. El Salvador has an American accent to its team with the inclusion of two U.S.born- and bred […]
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2011 Gold Cup this weekend …
[DATEBOOK] The 2011 Gold Cup opens with two games Sunday at the 80,000-seat Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Both games — Costa Rica-Cuba and Mexico-ElSalvador — will be broadcast live on Univision. For the complete Gold Cup schedule … Schedule GroupA June 5 in Arlington, Texas Costa Rica vs. Cuba, 6 pm ET (Univision) June5 […]
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Canada salvages draw against Ecuador
[GOLD CUP COUNTDOWN] Canada, which will open against the USA at the Gold Cup on Tuesday in Detroit, got a stoppage-time goal from Tosaint Ricketts, his first international goal, to earn a 2-2 tie with Ecuador at BMO Field on Wednesday night. Ecuador was caught off guard when Ricketts scored off a quickJulian de Guzman […]
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Fox Soccer to air U.S. Gold Cup games
[TELEVISION GUIDE] Fox Soccer will air all three U.S. games during the group stage of the Concacaf Gold Cup, beginning with Tuesday’s game against Canada inDetroit at 7:30 p.m. ET. It will also broadcast USA-Panama June 11 at 7:30 p.m. ET and USA-Guadeloupe June 14 at 8:30 p.m. ET. The Gold Cup quarterfinals and semifinals […]