Archive for the ‘US National Team’ Category

ONCE AGAIN

CONCACAF Gold Cup 2013 will be hosted by Miami at SunLife Stadium

With great excitement and expectations higher than ever before CONCACAF, announced the Host Cities/Venues for the Gold Cup 12th edition. Competition which is scheduled to begin on July 7, 2013 and the final will take place on July 28, 2013. Eight new Stadiums and five new cities will join the venues that will witness our [...]

USWNT, finish with a flourish.

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And the ladies donning their Blue kits, took to the pitch one last time this year.  FAU Stadium over in Boca Raton Florida, set the stage for the final game of 3 versus the People’s Republic of China.  The U.S. has dominated the first 2 games in the series, having outscored China 6-0 over that [...]

USWNT, Victorious!!

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And the Ladies’ Tour de Force rolls forth, this time the place was in Houston, Texas.  After last Saturday’s victory (2-0) over this same Chinese team, up in Detroit.  The Red-White-and-Blue Girls rocked the house once more with a 4-Nil Win at the newly built BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston, making this the 2nd victory [...]

Red White and Hoops drop a Nickle on Ireland

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And so the ladies with the Red Hoop jerseys put on a dazzling show last night in Portland.  The 10, 000 Bars and Stripes faithful that showed up at JELD-WEN Field witnessed the Red White and Blue ladies put 5 Goals on the board, including a 1st Half Hat-Trick by #13 A. Morgan (24′, 34′, [...]

US sans Hoops, equilize on stopage time!

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And so The Bars and Stripes finish their 2012 campaign with a 9-2-3 record, the winning percentage (.750) ties 2005′s record.  The next time the Yanks take the pitch, will be when the Hexagonal starts in February 6 of next year (2013) versus Hoduras. As the match took off, at Kuban Stadium in the Russian [...]

US Soccer still drunk on Gold

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Another entertaining match from the U.S. Women’s soccer team. The game which was played in East Hartford, Conn. at Rentschler Field on yet another wet and soggy night (Tue. 10/23).  The U.S. Ladies took on–after 3 days of rest–the Ladies from Germany, the result was the same as Saturday’s (10/20):  A Tie. The girls made [...]

Toto, we ARE in Kansas evermore…

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The lights, the cameras, the crowd, the red hoops, PrimeTime baby!  There wasn’t a single sit open Tuesday (10/16) night in LIVESTRONG Sporting Park at Kansas, almost 17K souls showed up to watch the match.  The game for the US was a must win, along with 2 out of the 3 squads in Group A of [...]

Kansas, the Eagle has landed

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The Cricket Stadium looked like an ancient Roman Colosseum, laden with–instead of blood–rain and sweat.  Eddie Johson’s 90th minute header was the equivalent of an NFL team scoring a TD with a successful 2point conversion, then recovering the ensuing onside kick, and winning on a 50+yds FG–as time ticks off. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sodSb_v4VyE Yes, that dramatic. It [...]