usmnt

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good luck to the guys. pretty impressive record italy has against us. we are 0-7-3 with an aggregate score of 32-4.
think we'll see terrence boyd make his debut?

I would guess so, given that they yanked him out of u23 camp for this. He's already getting massively hyped a la Altidore and Agudelo.

1-Howard

2-Cherundolo 4-Goodson 5-Bocanegra (capt.) 3-Johnson

6-Bradley 8-Edu

7-Williams 10-Dempsey 11-Shea

9-Altidore

a half-empty stadium, the endearing italian whistles, ian darke's bloviations and dumb-as-shit sounding taylor twellman make this match a can't-miss!

surprisingly (occasionally) incisive at the front, shaky in the extreme at the back

pirlo is "not on facebook" thanks for that insight darke!

shea-johnson working the LH side have had their moments

Back at work - so I can't watch teh second half but flipping back and forth between Italy - USA and Eng - Ned, I thought at least the US game looked more entertaining.

DEUCE

johnson cross to jozy in the box, holds of his man and then lays off to dempsey for the goal, nice play

Nice!

from what I've seen so far johnson is gonna end up being the new lb

boyd is in with 10 or so min left

holy shit we win

end of the second half reminded me of the game against spain from the confeds cup, just manic defending

Did they just park the bus in front of goal or did they try to counter at all?

a couple attempts at countering, including one 2-on-2 with boyd and dempsey where it was pretty obvious only boyd had any gas in the tank, but mostly a lot of blocking shots and clogging up the front

brian mcbride and mike piazza chillin in the stands

for the obsessed among us, us u-23 vs mexico u-23 (friendly) here

and on Telefutura, I've just discovered

33' agudelo steams in and heads a corner 1-0
35' adu shoots from outside the 18, 2-0

we have a name for this, dos a cero

love gyau running with the ball

is he #11?

yeah, that's gyau

saw the end of this in a bar, shouted "dos a cero" and startled some people

didn't see the goals but thought gyau, agudelo, and adu all looked good. diskerud too.
really liked the senior team's new kits. though the us still needs a new badge.

watching some highlights this morning I started feeling some real hope for some of these dudes, can't wait to see a few more of them integrated with the senior team

hadn't realized that az is in first place in the netherlands (and jozy is their leading scorer). has there been an american on a league winning side in europe before?

Edu and Beasley won the SPL with Rangers iirc. Gooch with Standard Liege in Belgium, maybe?

good call. beasley also won twice with PSV.

Demerit's Watford won promotion but I don't think they actually finished top of the Championship.

Did Man Utd not win the league when Timmy was there then?

no, he was there for three seasons, arsenal chelsea chelsea winners.
he won a fa cup and a league cup.

http://blogs.thescore.com/footyblog/2012/03/06/bandini-how-michael-bradley-became-chievos-captain-america/

his game has visibly risen since moving to italy

el equipo de todos

god damn pathetic

this fucking team

Am I wrong or is this mostly the same group that failed to qualify for the U20 world cup? Unreal.

http://theoriginalwinger.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Legends-Game-Flyer2.jpg

has anyone deserved to go bald as much as clint mathis? kinda love that idiot.

The United States, which, will be coached by Curt Onalfo, will feature Ian Feuer, Cobi Jones, Paul Caligiuri, Thomas Dooley, Eric Wynalda, Roy Lassiter, Chris Klein, Cle Kooiman, Ted Eck, Clint Mathis, Alexi Lalas, Jovan Kirovski, John O'Brien and Brian McBride.

Mexico, meanwhile, will be coached by Carlos Reinoso and will trot out Jorge Campos, Claudio Suarez, Ramón Ramírez, Martin Zúñiga, Mariano Trujillo, Zague, German Villa, Alberto García Aspe, Ramon Morales, David Oteo, Luis Hernández, Joel Sánchez, Eduardo Missael Espinoza, Chima, Jesús Olalde, Jared Borgetti and Francisco Palencia.

no Blanco :( guess it's not a big enough payday

Not sure if Fabian Johnson has been involved in the US team this year, but he scored a super goal for Hoffenheim midweek.

About 6.00 mins in

http://youtu.be/-Ns5lXNIvAY

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lots of people seem to hate it, I don't

I like it!

always thought that would be an obvious scheme, and it has been done before right? it looks nice, but i was liking the sash ok too.

The sash always kind of irked me - it reminds me too much of South American tinpot dicator wear somehow. I like the hoops more than I expected.