By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) After retiring as a player in 1998, Jurgen Klinsmann moved toSouthern California — an area he had visited many times while on vacation — to live and start a family with his American wife, Debbie. He played for a PDL club team, OrangeCounty Blue Star, in 2003 under a pseudonym […]
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Hex Files: The Panama threat
It isn’t be too early to start peeking at the other games going on in the Hexagonal, in particular the Panama-Mexico game, which kicks off simultaneously to the Costa Rica-USA game on Tuesday night.Now that Mexico beat the USA — on U.S. soil — U.S. fans will want Mexico to beat up on the other […]
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Hexagonal: Road teams sweep all three games
Panama pulled a stunning upset in the opening game of the Hexagonal, beating Honduras, 1-0, at San Pedro Sula’s Estadio Olimpico, one of Concacaf’s most dreaded venues. In the other Hexagonal game,Costa Rica won at Trinidad & Tobago, 2-0, to give the road teams a clean sweep of all three games on Day 1. Fidel […]
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Ranking the Hexagonal's six teams
The Hexagonal — the final round of World Cup 2018 qualifying — begins Friday with three games: USA-Mexico, Honduras-Panama and Costa Rica-Trinidad & Tobago. The top three teams advance to thefinals and the fourth-place team faces Asia’s fifth-place team. Here’s how we rank the six teams based on their performances the last two years in […]
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Hex Files: Battles of Colombians, T&T trouble
USA-Mexico will be only one of three games on the opening day of the Hexagonal. Honduras-Panama and Trinidad & Tobago-Costa Rica also are on tap. The former game is a battle of Colombian coachinggiants. In the latter, T&T is at home but facing all sorts of issues. Who’s the more Colombian? HONDURAS-PANAMA.Honduras and Panama are […]
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Tale of the Tape: MLS vs. Liga MX
Friday’s USA-Mexico game in Columbus, Ohio, will be not only a matchup of Concacaf’s two biggest rivals in the opening game of the Hexagonal, but it will a battle of the two leagues they represent.Liga MX has a lead on MLS in terms of players called up for the Dos a Cero rematch — 14 […]
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Hexagonal: Honduras calls up three MLS players
Maynor Figueroa (FC Dallas), Roger Espinoza (Sporting KC) and Oscar Boniek Garcia (Houston Dynamo) were among the 26 players called up by Honduras coach Jorge Luis Pintofor the start of the Hexagonal against Panama and Trinidad & Tobago.
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Hex Files: Mexico's Osorio looks ahead to Columbus
Mexico coach Juan Carlos Osorio is already looking ahead to the Hexagonal opener against the USA in Columbus. Even though many of his starters are missing, he plans to use El Tri’s friendlyagainst Panama on Tuesday as a test run for the match against the USA. Mexico, Costa Rica and Honduras have all won friendlies […]
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WCQ: How the Hexagonal shapes up
The USA will open the Hexagonal in Columbus, Ohio, on Nov. 11 — three days after Election Day — when it hosts Mexico. Hex Files: USA vs. Hex field
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WCQ: Salvadorans offered incentive to beat Canada
Tuesday’s play in the semifinal round of World Cup 2018 qualifying in Concacaf ends when Canada hosts El Salvador and Honduras plays at Mexico. Canada must beat and Honduras lose to Mexico by acombined margin of five or more goals for Canada to overtake the Catrachos for second place behind Mexico. To incentivize the Salvadorans, […]