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U20s go up against Spain in their world cup opener today

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gold cup roster

U.S. ROSTER BY POSITION
GOALKEEPERS (3): Bill Hamid (D.C. United), Sean Johnson (Chicago Fire), Nick Rimando (Real Salt Lake)

DEFENDERS (8): Corey Ashe (Houston Dynamo), DaMarcus Beasley (Puebla), Tony Beltran (Real Salt Lake), Edgar Castillo (Club Tijuana), Clarence Goodson (Brondby), Oguchi Onyewu (Malaga), Michael Orozco Fiscal (Puebla), Michael Parkhurst (FC Augsburg)

MIDFIELDERS (7): Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake), Alejandro Bedoya (Helsinborg), Joe Corona (Club Tijuana), Mix Diskerud (Rosenborg), Joshua Gatt (Molde FK), Stuart Holden (Bolton), Jose Torres (Tigres)

FORWARDS (5): Will Bruin (Houston Dynamo), Landon Donovan (LA Galaxy), Herculez Gomez (Club Tijuana), Jack McInerney (Philadelphia Union), Chris Wondolowski (San Jose Earthquakes)

ok, i am getting in: gold cup portland ticket purchased, flight to cbus booked

booked my place near the stadium, getting hotel carter vibes from the reviews:

Rooms ok. Stained linen. Tiny pillows.. broken floor tiles in bathroom. Only one ice machine for entire hotel.. and it caught on fire. So no ice.

I knew there was not too much to expect for this price. However, besides stained sheets and moldy smells, bad cable and poor wifi, I did not expect bloodstains on the floor in front of the night reception

This is a very shity place u have to walk to the office to get your towels they brought us pilows n told us to bring them back when we check out beds where too small toliets broken tub dirty

The next morning I was very itchy and had little bumps on me.

Hahaha know exactly what place this is.

seis a uno ok?

habe not ever been at a game sodrunk

belize peacecorps to the left of me/ aussies to the right(" which color is usa? what # is donovan?") stuck in the middle w/ mix

JWFis a wonderful stadium btw. also funto root for donovan & wondo, basically only chance for years

cascadia uncle sam was so wonderful. tear------>eye

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stuck in the middle with STU duh only took me an hour

lol

(went to bed at halftime)

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so it's the semis

usa / honduras
mexico / panama

do I buy a finals ticket y/n

Lol Klinsi

cheap chi tix now i bet, wow@mexico

lol all round srsly, what a night

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suck it iceland
usa usa usa usa usa usa usa

lol he's from Alabama

shit i see why his nickname is bacon now!

young jozy

love this man

Holy shit, just seen this scoreline! Is anywhere doing highlights tonight?

the four US goals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u06ndKdRzPU

If you can get ESPN3 they always have the games in their archive for a while.

What the hell? I checked midway through and Bosnia were 2-0 up and cruising.

we're good now

Jeez! Northern Ireland beat Russia, Paraguay scored three in Germany, Switzerland beat Brazil.

xp actually no that's not true, I wasn't watching closely but it seemed that Bosnia subbed out most of their good players and then we came back

xp not US-related but I don't know what else to do with it

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Him and Giaccherini up front, yum yum

from the bits I saw US played pretty well, not like they just muscled and scrapped it, can anyone who saw the whole game weigh in?

to put jozy on my fantasy football team this year or not, that is the question

4 acts: cr momentum, transition to poise w/fk, domination but nothing, dagger. epilogue: lol concacaf

and this backline as bad as they were aren't intact for tuesday. bye cameron bye besler hello young german. what a god damn game to throw that kid into.

this lines up for a good story right? hello two losers one more fraught than another lol mexico
trying to think about this philosophically w/a tuesday game ticket in my drawer.

let me channel the vibe of this board and say orozco you're shit, jozy why do you have to be so stupid, why w/o bradley are you all so fucking ~bereft~ in back, tim howard are you an unequivocal #1? i'm not saying guzan vs mex but you do need to look at yourself including that beard in the mirror tonight

That second cr goal hurt a lot to watch.

i said this on the WCQ thread, but we looked pretty poor last night (i didn't see the first half), barely able to string passes together or keep possession for a significant amount of time. Michael Bradley is the most important player on this team, imo. good points were landon who showed a lot of fight and was able to deliver quality set pieces and Goodson who got his head on a lot of balls in the area and looked really solid. Beasley kept finding himself with lots of room, making long runs and then pissing away the ball in a most deflating manner. i love Zusi's beard.

anky: now you're getting it

I was happy for them but I kept feeling it was more that Mexico looked absolutely dire more than we looked good. Not terribly dangerous in attack and we got particularly lucky in the back. Any team in good form would have easily equalized against us given the amount of space we gave Mexico at times. We definitely miss Bradley...

success in international football, or my perception of it, has really declined to now just being not as dire as the opposition

otm

Mexico were superior the majority of the first half but seemed to have completely given up in the second. No enthusiasm for getting forward. Bradley's absence was huge, but Mexico had some absences too (I don't think Ochoa would have played the ball as badly as Corona did on EJ's goal, for starters). A friend said, "Beating Mexico is sort of a national pride big deal, beating ~this Mexico~ isn't really that big of a sporting deal." And I stick to that.

Still, lol Mexico.

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Should be interesting to see what Klinsi does with the remaining qualifiers as far as rosters/lineups. Not ever seeing Orozco again would be a good start.

What the hell has gone wrong with the Mexican national team? I thought big things were expected of them after the Gold Cup win in 2011 and the Olympics win last year.