USA Wins and Advance

Honduras and USA played at Soldier Feild, in Chicago. It was a great match the whole way. USA scored at the very end of the first half to him them a one nothing lead going into the locker room. It was a header goal scored by Clarence Goodson a header goal right into the back of the net. Coming out for the second half Honduras didn't want to fall back any more so they came out ready to play they didn't get a goal but did get a few good chances.

The USA sqaud ended the game for good in the 90th with another goal by Kenny Cooper to finish the game off. All in all it was a great game for the USA even if it is there B Team playing. They well now play the winner of Haiti and Mexico in the Gold Cup Finals!

US beats Panama 2-1

USA started this match short handed. They lost a few players becuase they went back to there club teams which really hurt us. Blas Perez put Panama ahead in first-half stoppage time. Later on Beckerman tied the score in the 49th min of play. Kenny Cooper converted a penalty kick in the 105th minute of play. Which gave the US a 2-1 victory over Panama and a semi-final berth against Honduras, Honduras beat Canada 1-0.


Other News:

Sunday matches:

Guadeloupe vs Costa Rica

Mexico vs Haiti

USA Finishes first round of Gold Cup Play

USA played its last match of the first round in gold cup play with a tie against Haiti. The USA came out quick in the match when Davy Arnaud gave the usa a 1-0 lead in just the 4th min of play. However just before half time Haiti responded with a goal by Vaniel Sirin in the 45th min of play.

This goal gave Haiti a big boost coming out for the second half. They showed this by how they responded with a quick goal in the 49th min by Mones Chery. The USA looked a little stunned and for the rest of half it was kind of scarey to think we could lose it. The USA sqaud got there shot in the 90th min and they took it when Stuart Holden put in a goal. This tied the score at 2-2.

The score ended 2-2 and now we just have to wait to see who we get in the second round of the cup.


Here is the final standing for each round of the gold cup. Note* Group C has more games to play so there standings are not final.

Santino Quaranta scores a goal in the 75th min to break a tie at 0-0 to put usa up 1-0. It didnt stop there. In the 79th min Brian Ching put in a goal to put the usa up 2-0 and that finished hondouras off. All in all it was a great game for the USA. They hope to win there group which they are currently leading with a 6 goals for 0 goals against 2-0 record.


League Standings

There next match is against Haiti.


A tie would clinch there ticket to the next round.

Gold Cup

USA beat Grenada 4-0 in the first match in the gold cup. Goals were scored by the Freddy Adu in the 6th min and Stuart Holden in the 31st minute. Later on Robbie Rogers who assisted on both the first 2 goals scored in the 60th minute and Charlie Davies finished the night off good in the 68th min with a nice goal for him self.


Here is a link to the gold cup standings.

As you can see USA has got a good shot to win this cup again. Even if this is there B team playing in the cup it is good to get to see new faces playing for us and they well be our future stars.

USA Looks Forward

After the tough loss to Brazil the USA team looks forward to the Gold Cup. They well likely send there B team to the tournment from what I have been told from ESPN. They open up play with Grenada on the 4th of June.

Gold Cup Fixture

Hondoras
Haiti
United States
Grenada

After the gold cup they will play in a World Cup Qualifying match against Mexico on Aug 12th.

Here are the standings so far for qualifiying.




*note top 3 move on to next round