[ENGLAND] A day before its first warmup against the Czech Republic in Connecticut, Bob Bradley and his U.S. coachingstaff will keeping an eye on what’s happening Monday at Wembley Stadium, where England, its first opponent at the World Cup, faces Mexico (TV: Fox Soccer Channel, Telemundo, noon ET). What should welook for from England? What […]
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Bocanegra recently had sports hernia surgery
[USA 30] All 30 players in the U.S. World Cup training camp were in full training for the first time on Saturday, but the status of a half dozen injured playersremained the topic of conversation. It was revealed that captain Carlos Bocanegra had undergone sports hernia surgery six days before the announcement of the30-player provisional […]
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Gomez joins Torres at Pachuca
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Pachuca has snapped up American forward Herculez Gomez, whose 10 goals for Puebla tied him for thescoring lead in Mexico’s Torneo Bicentenario. The 28-year-old Gomez will join midfielder Jose Francisco Torres at Pachuca, winner of the 2010Concacaf Champions League. Barring a move by Torres to another club, that means two Americans will be […]
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Gooch, no bigger injury concern ever
[USA 30] For allthe talk of the USA’s walking wounded in training camp at Princeton University this week, pre-World Cup injuries are nothing new to the U.S. squad. Others have certainly made comebacks, but the USAhas never counted upon a player bigger than Oguchi Onyewu to recover in time for the finals. The 6-foot-4 Onyewu, […]
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And the first cuts will be …
[USA 30]For the first time, all 30 U.S. candidates for the World Cup were at training camp Wednesday in Princeton, N.J. How long they’ll all stay together remains to be seen. Forward Eddie Johnson and defender Chad Marshall — two players considered to be on the bubble — again worked on their own because ofhamstring […]
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Colonel John McHugh, former Army goalie, remembered
Jeff Bradley, a sportswriter for ESPN The Magazine and younger brother of U.S. national team coach Bob Bradley,remembers Colonel John McHugh, who captained the 1985 Army men’s soccer team and was recently killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. Jeff Bradley and McHughwere teammates on the same American Legion baseball team in New Jersey. McHugh […]
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The USA's father-son combo
Kelly Whiteside checked in with the USA’s father-son combo: Coach Bob Bradley and midfielder Michael Bradley, who says, “He’sthe coach, he’s my dad. I’m a player, I’m his son. There’s not much else to it. … It’s not something I think about a whole lot, not something he thinks about a whole lot. It is […]
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Donovan: 'Last year was priceless'
[USA 30] At the second day of the U.S. national team training camp for the World Cup, most of the players had arrived and gotten their physicals out of the way.One of them was star Landon Donovan, who is preparing for his third World Cup. Donovan said that like most of the teams at the […]
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U.S. sparring partners set rosters
[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] The Czech Republic and Turkey both named their rosters for their trip the United States, where they will face each other Saturday at RedBull Arena and then meet the USA in its two World Cup warmups on home soil before departing to South Africa. The USA will meet the Czech Republic Tuesday […]
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Foreign club appearances (USA 30)
[MAKING A LIST] Of the 22 players on the provisional U.S. World Cup team roster who played abroad in 2009-10, Jose FranciscoTorres (Pachuca) led with 48 appearances in league and continental action. Tim Howard (Everton) and Clint Dempsey(Fulham) were the only other ones to play more than 40 games. GP PLAYER (TEAM, COUNTRY) 48 (38+10) […]