“Concacaf qualifying is crazy. What happened these last two games is a microcosm of what U.S. Soccer and World Cup qualification has looked like since 1990. There’s ups, there’s downs. Wecome off a road trip, we got our butts handed to us, the media is on us … we win our home game and everything […]
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USA-Guatemala Takeaways: Doom and gloom premature
Dire warnings after the USA’s 2-0 loss to Guatemala were premature as it made easier work of Los Chapines, 4-0, Tuesday night in Columbus, Ohio. The victory eases the pressure on JurgenKlinsmann heading into June’s Copa Centenario and puts the USA in good shape to advance to the Hexagonal.
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TV Report: U.S. matches draw combined 585,000 viewers
Friday’s Guatemala-USA World Cup qualifier and Colombia-USA Olympic qualifier averaged a combined 585,000 viewers over four networks airing the games. That was less than a third of the 2,013,000viewers for the Canada-Mexico game on UniMas, simulcast on UDN. Friday’s 2018 World Cup/2016 Olympic Qualifiers AVG. MATCH(NETWORK) 2,013,000 Mexico-Canada (*UniMas) 433,000 Brazil-Uruguay (BeIN Sports en Espanol) […]
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What They're Saying: Rodrigo Saravia
“It’s unique. I’m not sure the fans will be cheering me that night, but it should be a great game.” — Columbus Crew rookie Rodrigo Saravia, drafted out ofFlorida Gulf Coast University, has yet to play for the Crew, but with just one cap under his belt, he won a starting job for Guatemala, which […]
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USA-Guatemala: Win needed to avert crisis
It would be a wrong to call the USA’s match against Guatemala a must-win game. The USA could still advance in World Cup 2018 qualifying without a win. But after Friday’s debacle in Guatemala City,anything but a win will trigger alarm bells that will be hard to turn off. “There’s a sense of urgency tomorrow […]
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Klinsmann failed test in Guatemala City
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) The song remains the same. Perhaps it was inevitable that the U.S. unbeaten streak against Guatemala inqualifying play had to end, but the timing sure was lousy. The USA is riding a bleak streak of ineptitude against Concacaf opponents, both in friendlies and games that count. Since stumblingagainst Jamaica and Panama […]
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What They're Saying: Jurgen Klinsmann
“Absolutely you question that, and you kind of think how can we fix this, this and this. At the end of the day, these two mistakes, these two goals — you just have to swallow it, becausethose are individual mistakes that you cannot do at this level. That’s what happened tonight so we’ll take the […]
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USA-Guatemala Takeaways: Not time to panic — yet
After an embarrassing 2-0 loss to Guatemala in Guatemala City — the USA’s worst result in the semifinal round of World Cup qualifying since Concacaf implemented the current format two decades ago –the pressure will be on the USA to win Tuesday’s rematch in Columbus. If it doesn’t, all bets will be off on the […]
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WCQ: Klinsmann calls up Pulisic and Zusi
U.S. national team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann has added 17-year-old Christian Pulisic from Germany’s Borussia Dortmund and Graham Zusi from Sporting Kansas City for Tuesday’sWorld Cup 2018 qualifier against Guatemala in Columbus, Ohio. This is the first call-up for Pulisic, who missed the game against Guatemala in Guatemala City because of an earinfection. Zusi, who […]
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WCQ: T&T and Guatemala move ahead of USA
Wins by Trinidad & Tobago and Guatemala dropped the USA into third place in their Concacaf World Cup 2018 qualifying group. Mexico beat Canada, 3-0, before 54,798 fans at BC Place inVancouver and will become the first Concacaf team to clinch a berth in the Hexagonal with another win over Canada on Tuesday. El Tri […]