US beat Denmark today 3-1 in a friendly at the Home Depot Center. Landon, Jonathan Bornstein and Kenny Cooper scored for the US. The US did pretty well with pretty a roster made of up pretty much all-MLS players.

Feb. 7th the US will be taking on Mexico in Glendale, AZ. Over 50,000 people are expected with most probably cheering for Mexico.

Anyways, it was nice seeing the US back in action again after their dismal WC showing. Coach Bradley put together a decent roster for today's friendly.

Video of Justin Mapp breaking down the D and crossing to Bornstein.

I missed that game

but I'm looking forward to this Wednesday's game against Mexico
should be a fun one
Twellman and C-Demp are playing!

U.S. ROSTER:
Goalkeepers Joe Cannon (Los Angeles Galaxy), Tim Howard (Everton/England).
Defenders Chris Albright (Los Angeles Galaxy), Carlos Bocanegra (Fulham/England), Jonathan Bornstein (Chivas USA), Bobby Boswell (D.C. United), Jimmy Conrad (Kansas City Wizards), Bryan Namoff (D.C. United), Eddie Robinson (Houston Dynamo).
Midfielders Brian Carroll (D.C. United), Ricardo Clark (Houston Dynamo), Bobby Convey (Reading/England), Clint Dempsey (Fulham/England), Joshua Gros (D.C. United), Justin Mapp (Chicago Fire), Pablo Mastroeni (Colorado Rapids).
Forwards Landon Donovan (Los Angeles Galaxy), Eddie Johnson (Kansas City Wizards), Chris Rolfe (Chicago Fire), Taylor Twellman
(New England Revolution).



Game is on at 9pm ET on ESPN 2 Wed. night

too bad Gooch didn't make the trip over...he is solid. but i understand bradley didn't want to jepordize his time at newcastle with a friendly...even if it is mexico....


games on espn2 right now.

nice goal by jimmy..with a beaut of a corner by landon. 1-0....USA 55th

nice goal by Landon in extra time to seal the game. Nice assist by the ref. haha


USA wins 2-0.

I like how Donovan seemed to be looking for support even when he had a clear breakaway. Hilarious.

Albright was horrendous and we were dominated most of the game. I must say though, it's pretty pathetic when then American B/C Squad can beat the Mexico A Squad that had 14 World Cup players on their roster. Mexico did have better chances though, mainly because Rolfe was terrible, Convey and Dempsey weren't fit, Clark is inexperienced and that was the worst line of backs i'd seen since 1994. Bornstein is growing on me though.

Timmay had his brain fart like 10 minutes into the game but luckily nobody took advantage. When the hell is he going to get over that? He could be such an elite keeper if he could just stop with the excessively soft goals.

Good job at not getting Cooper on the roster too. Why get the young forward with huge potential some experience against elite competition?

Anyway, I so want to see the full squad play just once. I'm shocked that we actually won.

On a side note, way to show some class Oswaldo, trying to slide tackle Johnson after Donovan juked you out of your jock. Classy Mexico as always.

dos a cero.


guess Mexico's getting used to that line...

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/report?id=213283&cc=5739

Epitome of class, as always.

missed yet another game

but I heard Mexico were total sore losers, which is just sad

did Twellman get a chance to play?
I'm guessing he still isn't quite match fit after that hernia(?)

Twellman didn't play. Rolfe got enough time to prove that he still needs a lot of work.

Sore losers is an understatement.

The US will be facing Argentina this summer on June 28th. nice. will be fun to watch.

US plays Ecuador Sunday at 12pm Eastern on ESPN 2.

U.S. Roster
Goalkeepers (3): Brad Guzan (Chivas USA), Tim Howard (Everton FC), Kasey Keller (Borussia Moenchengladbach)
Defenders (9): Wade Barrett (Houston Dynamo), Carlos Bocanegra (Fulham FC), Steve Cherundolo (Hannover 96), Jimmy Conrad (Kansas City Wizards), Jay Demerit (Watford FC), Oguchi Onyewu (Newcastle United), Heath Pearce (FC Nordsjælland), Frank Simek (Sheffield Wednesday), Jonathan Spector (West Ham United)
Midfielders (8): DaMarcus Beasley (Manchester City), Kyle Beckerman (Colorado Rapids), Michael Bradley (SC Heerenveen), Brian Carroll (D.C. United), Clint Dempsey (Fulham FC), Benny Feilhaber (Hamburger SV), Justin Mapp (Chicago Fire), Brian Mullan (Houston Dynamo)
Forwards (5): Brian Ching (Houston Dynamo), Kenny Cooper (FC Dallas), Landon Donovan (Los Angeles Galaxy), Eddie Johnson (Kansas
Cit y Wizards), Taylor Twellman (New England Revolution)
Head Coach: Bob Bradley

29th minute and it's 1-1
goals by Donovan and Caicedo...

at halftime...1-1. USA's defensive line is looking a bit shaky. Ching took it hard across the nose.

yea, that knee to the face was owchhh
but he looked HOT with his shirt off

both USA and Ecuador are bit weak in the back, but luckily Conrad made some good plays to keep Ecuador from scoring
...missed the first 10 minutes, which incidently, is where all the scoring happened
USA needs to pass better...and take advantage of the weaknesses in Ecuador's d

and Wynalda's Yellow Card Red Card
o snap, he yellow carded Alexi
I can see why, and I agree....lets see some drama now
haha, jk...no drama please

hattrick by Landon. goal in the first minute..and then 2 goals in a minute span.

US taking on Guatemala tonite on ESPN2. in the 40th minute...tied at 0.

started getting uggggly towards the end of the first half
wtf was with that call on demerit?????

Gold Cup Roster:

GOALKEEPERS (3) – Brad Guzan (Chivas USA), Tim Howard (Everton FC), Kasey Keller (Borussia Moenchengladbach)
DEFENDERS (8) –Carlos Bocanegra (Fulham FC), Jonathan Bornstein (Chivas USA), Jay DeMerit (Watford FC), Frankie Hejduk (Columbus Crew), Oguchi Onyewu (Standard de Liege), Michael Parkhurst (New England Revolution), Frank Simek (Sheffield Wednesday), Jonathan Spector (West Ham United)
MIDFIELDERS (8) – DaMarcus Beasley (PSV Eindhoven), Michael Bradley (SC Heerenveen), Ricardo Clark (Houston Dynamo), Clint Dempsey (Fulham FC), Benny Feilhaber (Hamburger SV), Justin Mapp (Chicago Fire), Pablo Mastroeni (Colorado Rapids), Steve Ralston (New England Revolution)
FORWARDS (4) – Brian Ching (Houston Dynamo), Landon Donovan (Los Angeles Galaxy), Eddie Johnson (Kansas City Wizards), Taylor Twellman (New England Revolution)
Head Coach: Bob Bradley


June 2 USA vs. China Spartan Stadium (San Jose, Calif.) 8 p.m. ET / ESPN2 & Galavision
June 7 USA vs. Guatemala Home Depot Center (Carson, Calif.) 9 p.m. ET / FSC & Telefutura
June 9 USA vs. Trinidad & Tobago Home Depot Center (Carson, Calif.) 5 p.m. ET / FSC & Telefutura
June 12 USA vs. El Salvador Gillette Stadium (Foxborough, Mass.) 7 p.m. ET / FSC & Telefutura
June 16/17 Gold Cup Quarterfinals Foxborough, Mass. or Houston TBD / TBD
June 21 Gold Cup Semifinals Soldier Field (Chicago) TBD / Telefutura

the copa america is going to be great

vamos argentina!

yeah..i can't wait for COPA either.


the USA roster for the Gold Cup is pretty decent....except i think kenny cooper will go to South America.

i was watching ny vs. chicago game earlier... the game just seems so slow and the grass look like it hasn't been freshly cut so it looked even extra slower.

anyways i guess i'm a fan, i just dont know it yet.

the sod for the game was put down only days before for the ireland game.

anyways...that's MLS (we have an MLS thread here)


the copa and gold cup will be better.

thursday night @ 9pm on Fox Soccer Channel...the gold cup.

will be nice to see the US in a tourney again...

favorite moment from the US-China game


benny...sacha....dearrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr goodness

what was the result?

hope it was a win, china lost to watford or some such club for crying out loud...

USA won 4-1

China is...not very good, sad to say
they have great sportsmanship and fair play, I will say in their favor
but they play very badly and awkwardly

US vs. Guatemala tonight at 9pm on FSC and MLS game of the Week at 9:15 on ESPN2. great day of soccer.

US played a nice hard fought game against Guatemala tonite. clint's goal was nice...gooch's 2nd yellow was a stupid move on his part...but overall, the US should coast thru group play.

the US takes on Trinidad and Tobago today at 5pm on FSC and Telefutura. TnT is playing with only 1 member from its WC team last year. the rest are on strike and suing their association for backpay. TnT lost to lowly El Salvador earlier in the week.

US going up against El Salvador tonight. a win or tie clinches their group...

US up 2-0 at half with goals by Beasley and Donovan. Could be about 4 or 5-0 if Beasley could shoot straight.

beas ends up with 2 goals, twellman got one, and landy on the PK.

US advances to play in the quarterfinals at 4pm on Saturday

shouldn't beasley save up his legs for the copa america rather than some half-bit tournament?

The US is putting more stock into the Gold Cup than the Copa America. They want to go to the Confed. Cup in 2009. Landon may not even go to the Copa....who knows.

that's a shame, the confed cup helps the ranking but really can't compare in terms of experience.

rough game today versu Panama. USA wins 2-1.

man this game was really really crazy because the ref was calling fouls every other second. i mean come on let them play unless its a hard foul but usa messed up on the goal they gave up. come on 3 defenders one person. =(. but beastly and another play had like 3 goals that they could of made but overrall good job usa.

USA vs Canada tonight....FSC at 7pm.



Lineups

Canada
--------------Onstad--------------
Stalteri--Hainault--Hastings---Jazic
--------------Nash--------------
Bernier---DeGuzman----Hutch-----DeRossario
--------------Gerba-------------

USA

Keller
Hejduk
Bocanegra
Gooch
Bornstein
Landon
Bradley
Pablo
Demarcus
Dempsey
Johnson

hedjuk with a strike and goal in the 40th.

Donova with a PK.

USA up 2-0 at halftime

Ahh, just discovered this thread~~ I'm Ames by the way~

Ending with 2 - 1.

After watching lots of soccer games & such, I still don't understand why Canada didn't get the 2nd goal? Man, after taking 4 years of Spanish, I know NOTHING. Just except when the commenter was saying "GOALL!" & it's crazy on the field. XDD~!

[sigh] Canada was great at attacking at the end of the game though.

edit: confirmed by my friend who was watching it online, the referee said it was off-side. .__. [sigh]. Too freaking complicated.

canada got screwed at the end of the game. the ball came off of Gooch's head...play should have continued and goal allowed.

great game so far againts Mexico.

2-1 in the 80th....

nice comeback win against mexico.

but the real test begins....a young squad going down to venezuela to take on Argentina on thursday.

here's the Copa Squad.

Goalkeepers (2) – Brad Guzan (Chivas USA), Kasey Keller (Borussia Moenchengladbach)
Defenders (8) – Jonathan Bornstein (Chivas USA), Bobby Boswell (D.C. United), Dan Califf (Aalborg BK), Jimmy Conrad (Kansas City Wizards), Jay DeMerit (Watford FC), Drew Moor (FC Dallas), Heath Pearce (FC Nordsjælland), Marvell Wynne (Toronto FC)
Midfielders (8) – Kyle Beckerman (Colorado Rapids), Ricardo Clark (Houston Dynamo), Benny Feilhaber (Hamburger SV), Eddie Gaven (Columbus Crew), Sacha Kljestan (Chivas USA), Justin Mapp (Chicago Fire), Lee Nguyen (PSV Eindhoven), Ben Olsen (D.C.United)
Forwards (4) – Charlie Davies (Hammarby IF), Herculez Gomez (Colorado Rapids), Eddie Johnson (Kansas City Wizards), Taylor Twellman (New England Revolution)

The Copa has started.

Ecuardor is currently beating Chile.

Brazil vs. Mexico tonite!

didnt mexico own brazil?

yup.

brazil beat chile today and mexico is now playing ecuador.

US taking on Paraguay right now.

can watch it streaming here


tied at 1 at the half.

argentina and paraguay off to the quarterfinals.. there are going to be some excellent games coming up

well, actually no. paraguay isn't exciting at all but mexico, brazil, and the hosts will promise some good entertainment.