World Cup right around the corner!

The USA opens it's first match against England on Saturday June 12th, 2010. There are a lot of questions entering the match. The biggest one is USA ready to play with one of the top teams in the world. They need to come out with confidence and most of all they need their stars Landon Donavan, and Clint Dempsey to step up. England has a good attack and if Tim Howard is not on his game this game could be over quickly. The main goal of course is to get out of group stage and that would involve us defeating Algeria, and Slovenia. With this in mind the England game is not as big as it is made out to be. A lose would hurt but they would not be done yet.

Mexico vs USA

USA traveled to Mexico where they have not been very good. Well that's an understatement. We have never won a match on Mexican soil. This was suppose to be the game we changed that.

We were looking good when we took the lead in the 9th with a Charlie Davies goal. We played decent until about the 15th min. Mexico started applying pressure and in the 19 min of play Israel Castro scored on a 27 meter shot that sailed right over Tim Howard. After that went in we looked shocked. We never did really recover from it. Landon Donavan looked tired the whole game because of the adjust you have to make with the 7,400 feet altitude in Mexico City. This was a heated game the whole way. One of the US players fell down and the Mexico's player tried to help him up but he didn't want up so a shoving match started. No one was ejected but the match was heated.

Landon Donavan took a corner kick and the Mexican fans were throwing different things at him so the cops had to watch close as he took the corner kick. The whole game was heated and in the 82nd min Mexico took advantage of the home field when Miguel Sabah scored a rather lucky bouncing goal right over Tim Howard.

That was that and the USA squad went home again in another sad defeat. We still have a great shot to make it to the World Cup as long as we win our home games coming up. Our next match is against Trinidad and Tobago on September 9th.

Everton Vs MLS All Stars

This story is posted both on Everton Fan Zone and USA FAN Zone because it is a story for both teams so it well be reported for both Fan Zones.


Everton started out quick in the game stealing a sloppy pass from one of the MLS Defenders and Louis Saha finshed the goal perfect into the bottom corner of the net. Later in the 26th min of play Brad Davis tied it up on a sloppy clear. It was a fun match it this point as it should since it is only a Allstar Game for the MLS Allstars. On the other hand Everton probly wanted to come out and get confidence going into the EPL this season with a good 5th place finish last season. Conar Casey put a great header far side of the net in the 38th min of play but out of no where Tim Howard saved it! It was a great save by a great keeper it shows why he truly is one of the best in the world. He showed this again in the 41st min when he pushed a shot by Fredrick Ljungberg wide of the net. The action packed first half ended and the teams went to the locker room for some Gatorade! Come on who doesn't like gatorade?

The second half was just as good as the first. The start of the half was made up of lots of subs. Jo, and Landon Donovan were some of the subs made in the game to start the second half. Zack Thorton injured his leg in a wierd type play and he had to get taken off and Casey Keller was sent back on after they asked the refs if it was ok. Landon Donovan had a very ugly moment in the 73rd min when he hit the easy goal off the inside of the post which would of gave there team a 2-1 lead but it stayed at a even tie. Tim Howard pushed away a quick header in stoppage time to keep the game tied as he started to get a cramp as seen when he had to stretch after making such a remarkable save. Conar Casey got a ball in the final seconds of the game and trapped it in the box but Tim Howard again came up big and and snatched the ball before any damage could be done.

At the end of 90 mins the game was tied so it went to PK's. After some great goal keeping from Conar Casey, and Tim Howard they went into extra's in the PK's as well. Tim Howard came up with another save to win it. He simply showed why he is one of the greatest goalies we have in soccer today.

Usa vs Brazil

Brazil 2 time champion of the Confederations Cup. USA never made a finals apperance. Brazil never trialed this whole tournment. USA got into the Semi-finals by pure luck. USA shouldn't of been in the game. We have never been in the finals of any Fifa tournment, we have only beat Brazil once in our history, just last week we were killed by the great brazil team 3-0.

With all that said. You would think Brazil would come into the game and take care of buisness. Beat us and win another Confederations Cup to add to there collection. From the start USA came to play. In the 10th min Clint Dempsey flicked a great cross into the back of the net. That was followed by Donovan in the 27th min with a great pass from Charlie Davies to put us up 2-0. The rest of half USA defended for the most part and Tim Howard was huge! Tim Howard made save after save after save AFTER save.

The 2nd half Brazil responded early with a goal in the 46th min by Fabiano which gave him 4 goals in the Confederations Cup and that is the most by any player in the tournment. ( Dempsey is in a tie for 2nd with a few other players at 3 goals) The USA defended for most of the start of the 2nd half. In the 57th min Brazil almost put in a corner kick. My heart stopped when i saw it happen. We got a lucky break on the play. In the 60th min Tom Howard came up HUGE !!! He made a great save when he pushed the ball into the cross bar then got up and grabbed it. Once again my heart stopped! After further review i think the ball mave have cleared the line which would have tied it 2-2. The refs didn't think so but i am not so sure yet. I watched it over and over on my TV and i don't know, that ball seemed it mave have crossed the line, but good job by Howard to get the ball out of there. Donavan had a shot pushed wide in the 64th min and later Dempsey had a shot in the 65th min which was pushed wide for a corner. The corner didn't create any thing else for us though. In the 70th min Tom Howard ran out and grabbed the ball before anything could happen but then screamed at his defenders for some help. Brazil had lots of chances so far in the half but only one of them had gone in.

Fabiano scored a header 74th min. Which gave him his 5th goal of the tournment and a tie with USA. The USA players were stunned by this and Tim Howard was mad. He saved the first shot but the header came to Fabiano and Howard couldn't do anything about it. In the 84th min Brazil put the game to bed with a with a goal by there captain Lucio. USA was deafeated 3-2 in the final. All in all it was a good tournment for the USA they got runners up and played well.

Most Important game in USA Soccer History?

There have been articles written about this game being the biggest game in the history of USA soccer. In the USA soccer has been overshadowed by other sports such as football, basketball, and baseball. Many think that a win here would make soccer big in the USA. With all that preasure riding on our team how will they overcome it? Who will step up? I don't know if the USA has a big star like a Kobe Bryant type guy that will take over the game when they need it. The closest thing to that we would have is maybe Landon Donavon or maybe the keeper Tim Howard. Last game against Spain it was Tim Howard that stepped up. Now I know he needs another big game but Iam looking for Donavan to play big as well. Game is on ESPN on Sunday June 28th at 2:30.