[USA] The U.S. men’s national team coach Bob Bradley has named a 20-player roster to face the Netherlands at AmsterdamArenA Wednesday (TV: 2:30 p.m. ET, ESPN2 and Galavision). The squad includes several surprises … Recalled for the first time since the Confederations Cup is DaMarcus Beasley. Also back is Rangers teammate Maurice Edu after a […]
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'Chicharito' sets pace in Mexico rout
[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez, the new star of Mexican soccer, lived up to hisbilling, scoring twice in the Tri’s 5-0 win over Bolivia Wednesday at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park, the first of a marathon series of World Cup warmups. “Chicharito” (“Little Pea”)has eight goals already for Guadalajara, which has set a Mexican league […]
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U.S. Player Ratings: Ching heads class
[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 […]