[USA REPORT CARD] Soccer America’s Ridge Mahoney rates the U.S. players after their 2-1 win over El Salvador on Wednesday in Tampa.U.S. Player RatingsStartersRating Player (Club) GP/G
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Americans rally for late win
[USA-EL SALVADOR] What can you say about a game in which a goalkeeper makes several outstanding saves, but gifts the other team both of its goals? And how to evaluate the guy who’s playing out of position, again, commits a howler to hand the opposition a goal, yet does just about everything else well if […]
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Norway-based Goodson eyes World Cup spot
[USA-EL SALVADOR] Two years ago, defender Clarence Goodson left the USA after discussions about a new MLS contract broke down and a foreignoffer came through unexpectedly. His departure not only came shortly after he earned first cap in a 2-0 defeat of Sweden at Home Depot Center, but opened up a whole new world: that […]
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Mexico players back embattled Aguirre
Mexican national team players came to defense of their coach, Javier Aguirre, after he was widely criticized for remarks he made about the state of affairsin Mexico to a Spanish radio station. Aguirre, who returned from Spain to take over the Tri last year and lead it to the World Cup 2010 finals, said Mexico […]
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Bafana Bafana's 'embarrassing' change in plans
[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] How chaotic are things in South Africa less than four months before the start of the World Cup? The training facility the host team, SouthAfrica’s Bafana Bafana, hoped to use to prepare for the tournament is so badly run down they can’t use it. And the headmaster of the school chosen as […]
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Alvarez brothers to face Yanks
[USA-EL SALVADOR] Following the departure of national team coach Carlos de los Cobos, now at the Chicago Fire, ElSalvador will make its debut under interim coach Luis Rugamas when it faces the USA on Wednesday in Tampa. The Salvadoran squad includes seven starters from theteam that lost to the USA, 2-1, in World Cup 2010 […]
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South Africa's top cop: World Cup will be safe
South Africa’s top ranking police official, National Commissioner Bheki Cele, says that World Cup fans will be safe, and the country will be safer because of the work his force hasdone to prepare for the tournament which begins in June. Cele said the World Cup’s legacy for police has meant new equipment for his force […]
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Beckerman copes with life on the bubble
[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] The numbers game, the pecking order, guys on the bubble, how many defenders, how many midfielders …. it all makes for greatdiscussion and rampant speculation about which 23 young men U.S. coach Bob Bradley will chose for the 2010 World Cup. Those young men, however, know that getting swept upin the vortex […]
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Rating the Tampa 20's chances
[USA-SALVADOR] Wednesday’s match against El Salvador in Tampa (TV: ESPN Classic, Galavision, 7 pm ET) will likely be the last time many of the U.S. players willtake to the field in a U.S. national team uniform before Coach Bob Bradley names his 23-player squad for the World Cup. As few as two or three MLS […]
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Ramon Nunez dropped for Honduras friendly
[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] Dallas product Ramon Nunez (White High School, Texans, SMU and FC Dallas) wasn’t called up for theHonduran national team’s match against Turkey March 3. He was one of three regulars during World Cup Coach Reinaldo Rueda did not call up. Nunezmoved to Mexico last year to play for Puebla. After a strong […]