[PANAMA U-17 TOURNAMENT] U.S. under-17 men’s national team head coach Richie Williams named a 20-player roster forthe four-team Panama U-17 International Tournament Oct. 1-5 at Estadio Maracana in Panama City. The USA will face Costa Rica on Wednesday, Oct. 1, followed by Canada on Oct. 3 and hostPanama on Oct. 5, with all games played […]
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Mystery surrounds Hugo Perez's USSF status
By Paul Gardner A strange business, this Hugo Perez affair. He is no longer the coach of the U.S. U-15 boys national team. The USSF has — well, what has it done? Fired him? No, not that.Perez is still a full-time Technical Advisor to the USSF. What then? We are told — that is, Tab […]
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Top scorer Gallardo joins residency program
[USA UNDER-17 MEN] There are plenty of changes in the U.S. under-17 residency program as nine players entered the Bradenton, Fla., program for the fallsemester and nine have left. The newcomers include Joe Gallardo, the leading U-17 goal scorer with nine goals in 11 games who left Mexican club Monterrey.Stars Christian Pulisic and Haji Wright have […]
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USA settles for fourth place after loss to Brazil
[COPA MEXICO DE NACIONES] The U.S. under-17 men’s national team had to settle for fourth place at the Copa Mexico de Naciones in Mexico City when it fell toBrazil, 2-0, in the third-place game at Azteca Stadium. Evander of Vasco da Gama scored both goals to win the tournament’s award as the leading scorer. The […]
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U.S. U-17s fall to Ecuador in semifinals
[COPA MEXICO DE NACIONES] The U.S. under-17 national team’s string of international titles ended when it fell to Ecuador, 2-1, in the semifinals of the Copa Mexicode Naciones on Friday in Mexico City. The Americans had come into the tournament with titles in three straight competitions at which they played their first team. Ecuador went […]
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U.S. U-17s move into semifinals against Ecuador
[COPA MEXICO DE NACIONES] The USA moved into the semifinals of the Copa Mexico de Naciones for under-17 national teams with a 3-0 shootout win over Colombia aftertheir game Wednesday in Mexico City ended 1-1. Borussia Dortmund-bound Christian Pulisic scored in his fourth straight game for the USA. Pulisic,who is only 15, scored in the […]
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Pulisic and Wright score again in third U.S. win
[COPA MEXICO DE NACIONES] Christian Pulisic and Haji Wright scored to give the USAa 2-1 win over Paraguay for its third win in three games at the Copa Mexico de Naciones in Mexico City. Pulisic has scored in every game, and between them Pulisic and Wright have scored nine of the 10U.S. goals. Wright scored […]
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U.S. U-17s win second game in Mexico City
[COPA MEXICO DE NACIONES] The U.S. under-17 national team, aiming to win its fourth straight international tournament, won its second game in two days at the CopaMexico de Naciones in Mexico City with a 2-0 victory over Mexico 2 to clinch a berth in Wednesday’s quarterfinals. Mexico 2, a third-division all-star team, was a late […]
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Pulisic and Wright open with hat tricks in Mexico City
[USA UNDER-17 MEN] The U.S. under-17 national team was active on two fronts on Saturday, opening play at the Copa Mexico de Naciones in Mexico City with a 6-0 winover China and wrapping up the Open Nordic Tournament in Denmark with a 4-3 loss to Finland in the fifth-place game. Christian Pulisic and Haji Wright […]
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U.S. U-17s earn first win in Denmark
[OPEN NORDIC TOURNAMENT] After losing its first two games to host Denmark and Norway, the U.S. under-17 national team picked up its first win at the Open NordicTournament in Kolding with a 4-1 win over the Faroe Islands. The USA led 3-0 after 21 minutes on goals by Kai Koreniuk, Orrin McKinze Gaines and an […]