USA vs Argentina

What? USA vs Argentina
When? June 8th 7:30pm
Where? Giants Stadium

Tickets: $70.00 per person
Includes: 1 ticket to the game
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U.S. to Face No. 1 Ranked Argentina at Giants Stadium on June 8 in Final Match Before World Cup Qualifying

CHICAGO (March 27, 2008) — The U.S. Men’s National Team will face Argentina at Giants Stadium on June 8 to cap off a blockbuster trio of friendlies before kicking off 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying. The match against the world’s No. 1 ranked team follows a two-game tour in Europe where the U.S. will take on England on May 28 in London and Spain on June 4 in Santander.

"Argentina is clearly one of the best teams in the world and playing against an opponent of that caliber is a great opportunity for our team," said U.S. head coach Bob Bradley. "Combined with the matches against England and Spain, we have put together a very good schedule to help us prepare for World Cup qualifying. We expect it will be a fantastic crowd at Giants Stadium, and we are looking forward to an exciting atmosphere."

The U.S. begins the quest to qualify for their sixth-consecutive World Cup finals when they take on Barbados on June 15 at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. The second leg of the home-and-away series will be played either June 21 or 22 in Barbados. Prior to the USA’s first World Cup qualifier, the U.S. will have faced six teams that have been ranked in the top 15 in the world since 2007 – Argentina, Brazil, England, Mexico, Sweden and Spain.

The U.S. has played top-ranked Argentina eight times in their history, holding a lifetime record of 2-6-0 against the South American juggernaut. Of those eight matches, only three have been played in the United States, with the other five taking place in neutral sites. The two U.S. victories include a 3-0 upset of the defending champions in the group phase of the 1995 Copa America, and a 1-0 win in 1999 at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., when a Joe-Max Moore goal was the difference.

This will be the last friendly match for the U.S. Men at Giants Stadium. The U.S. Men have played at Giants Stadium seven times in their history, holding a 4-1-2 record. One of the most memorable matches in U.S. history occurred at the East Rutherford venue on June 11, 2000, when the U.S. defeated Mexico, 3-0, to win the 2000 Nike U.S. Cup. The emphatic victory was the beginning of the team’s current 10-game undefeated streak on home soil against their archrival.

The U.S. played their last two matches at Giants Stadium during the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup, defeating Honduras, 2-1, in the semifinals and then Panama in penalty kicks to earn the title.

The teams last met during the 2007 Copa America, with the Argentines outclassing a young and inexperienced U.S. team in their 4-1 win on June 28 in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Argentina advanced to the final before falling to Brazil, 3-0, to finish in second place.

Argentina currently sits in second place of CONMEBOL qualifying for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, collecting three victories while suffering one defeat through four matches. Following the match against the United States, the Argentines will play qualifiers against Colombia at home on June 14 and away in Brazil three days later.

Travelers (0) vs Pratt Eagle (2)

August 1st, 2007 - LP Wilson, Windsor, CT

The first time we played this team we knew they had a good goalie. And he made a few saves but nothing special. Last night their goalie won this game for them. I mean how many times did he come up with a great save? 4-5-6? Tony made a few great saves of his own. Espeically when we were trying to get the equalizer and leaving the defense thin. Besides those great saves what about all the near misses? Another 5-6-7 at least. They had a few also but we had alot more.

Inconsistent...maybe we can blame their good goalie for the loss, but I have to at mention our inconsistency this year. We played some great soccer at times. And we played wicked ugly soccer at other times. We had dedicated players who showed up all the time, but they were too few to make a difference. We need consistency, if you played great one game why not play great more often? If you show up to play why do you have dumb ass excuses not to show up more often? We had a 15 game season this year, we had 23 guys on the roster. I know there's vacation, injuries, work, and other things that get in the way. But look at the numbers. We avargaed 16 players per game where's the other 7? The bottom 7 (in attendance) were Gordon OK he was hurt, Kevin he joined after we had already had 5 games. I won't mention who the other 5 are because I don't want to be hated, but I'm sure most of you know who they may be.

Top 7 attendance, In no particular order, (Basile, Holl, Marrs, Cedar, Zehnder, Krechko, & Cage) 3 of these guys were NOT at the game for the playoffs! PLAYOFFS more important than the regular season games. They were on vacation....By the way I'll be in Block Island next week. If we had a game I was gonna drive back to CT for the game. Those who don't believe me F-OFF because I have done it 2 other times in the past for this team.

Part of soccer is having pride, passion and heart. Part of anything you do in life is that. We played most of this season with no heart, no pride, no passion for the sport or for the fun of it, or just for the greater feeling of being together away from all the problems in this f'd up world. My body is old, I feel the bumps and bruises every day, but for some reason when I'm out there playing soccer I don't feel the pain. There's people who want to play and can't because their country is at war and they might get blown up. There's people who can't play because they don't have grass to play on and yet they use the streets. There's people who lost legs, arms, eyesight, and still do sports with a passion, we were out there as a whole emotionless. Emotion is not yelling at the ref for thier stupidity, that's more stupidity. Emotion is getting the ball taken away from you and rather than put your head down or your arms up you turn around and run like hell to get that ball back. Emotion is when we lost last night you have nightmares of the misses, the mistakes that you made during the game that could have made a difference in the outcome. I really wish I was better at this writing english thing so I can better inspire this team to play at our potential. But it's difficult when after a game we sit around and drink and BS about baseball rather than the game we just played. How is talking about baseball gonna make a soccer team better? NO PASSION is what I see it as.... And now I' m pissed so I'm not gonna even waste my time proof-reading or spell chcking this - deal with it.

My BUTT doesn't fit into the bucket.

I saw this can lying around in some alley and did what most normal people would do. I tried to put my BUTT into it. It didn't fit, is my butt too big? Is this can too small? Is the can for butts for children, midgets, or small animals? I couldn't figure it out.

What does this have to do with soccer? I'm glad you asked. If you notice the position I am in, you'll see that my thighs are parallel with the ground while my upper torso and shins are all vertical. My back is being supported by the wall, but if you try to maintain this position for an extended period of time you will feel the burn. It makes your legs stronger. Making you a better athlete is the great game of soccer.

No seriously I just was feeling giddy when I saw this can and the first thing I thought of was "Butts" and when I'm giddy I'm silly so I told my friend to take the picture so I could make someone laugh. Now if you’re laughing at the Butts can and my butt hovering over it - cool. If you’re laughing at me because I'm just silly, crazy, insane, stupid, a moron, etc, etc. then that's cool too. I just like to make people laugh.

Travelers (1) vs Attack Rabbits (5)

July 25th, 2007 - Cromwell High School, Cromwell, CT

There's a reason they call them selves Attack Rabbits, and there's a reason they are in first. They do not stop running. We knew that all the other teams know it, but yet we just didn't play well enough to make a game of it. Their 5 goals were literally from 5 of our mistakes. We had other mistakes that they didn't take advantage of as well. And when they held the ball and built up an attack we were right there with them. All season I said that little mistakes add up. Yesterday it added up too 5 for them, and 1 for us.

We had their goalie in a panic a few times and their defenders had to clear the ball from the line twice to save him. Alex had a nice shot that I thought he missed because he blasted through the net. Brian if you had blocked that shot with your hands and the ref gave you a red I would have dropped kick him - lol OK maybe not. The long 14 game, 14 week season is finally over. And we ended it on a wicked bad note.

Record:
5 - Win
6 - Lose
3 - Tie

Goals:
1 - Alex Kushnir

Goals to date:
7 - Patrick Nevins (2 pk)
4 - Marco DeMarco
3 - Derek Cedar
2 - Brian Zehnder (1 pk)
2 - Gordon Hines (1 pk)
2 - Kalee Moore
2 - Tim Carlson
2 - Alex Kushnir
1 - Mark Devito
1 - Jared Krechko

The playoffs.......season 2, we will concentrate, we will play to our potential, we will be a force to recon with, we will get into the semi-finals. Remember the good times from the 5 games we won, or the 2 games we had to battle back from a deficient to get even. Remember how it felt good to win and know that we were a better team than that of our opponent. Remember that those little bruises don't hurt as bad after a win, they actually feel good. But don't forget the mistakes, the bad choices, the losses, the squandered leads. Remember how those same little bruises hurt a little more than they should after a loss. Remember that we could have done this or done that to have played better personally and as a team. Remember those missed goals that replay in your nightmares at night. Remember all the good, all the bad, and the ugly too. Let it all build up and explode in the playoffs. No more joking around, no more taking criticism personally - it's the playoffs and these are the games that count. The 14 regular season games were practice.

Record:
0 - Win
0 - Lose
0 - Tie

Goals:
None

Goals to date:
Everyone is tied at a BIG FAT ZERO

Travelers (1) vs Pratt Eagle (0)

July 18th, 2007 - LP Wilson, Windsor, CT

After losing our last 3 games out of 4 we faced the first place team in the league. And we held our own in the 1st half. They had their chances but none to serious. The game was mostly in our half of the field. The refs sucked as usually but I think it was them that fired us up for the 2nd half.

The 4 defenders (and Rick in goal) gave a great performance for another shutout. Will, John, Brian, & Jared literally shut down any offensive attacks that they tried to create. I remember one time in the 2nd half where they took a shot. All the other times they took a shot it wasn't anything to hold your breath too. In the first half although we played most of the game in our half they won a few corner kicks and took a few long distance off target shots. That was it.

Our lone goal was when Patrick got hacked in the box after a long pass to the corner from me, he was able to out run their 2 defenders for it. He gained control of the ball and held on to it, he waited patiently for the rest of us to get up there so he can cross, pass or shoot, but their defender took him down. The PK that Patrick took went in with ease, their good goalie had no chance.

After the goal I was expecting them to go all out and attack us, but again we stopped everything that they tried and kept applying great pressure on the defenders. We played hard the whole 2nd half and the result was that the majority of the 2nd half was in their half of the field, the ball was at our feet and we made them chase us around a bit. Patrick and Kevin combined to waste about 10 mins just holding on too the ball in deep in their corner of the field. Devito almost had another goal from a well place header that the goalie had to hit out for a corner.

The first half wasn't 100% Pratt Eagle. Basile had a header that he had to fight for with John. It took a lucky bounce that we weren't able to get to which led to a counter attack. They had 3 guys vs our 1. Will was able to slow them down for me, Jared, and John to get back. What should have been a classic counter ending with a good shot on goal ended with our defenders stopping them dead in their tracks.

We still had a few mistakes, but by far the least of the whole season. If we play like that the rest of the way we'll be playing deep into August for hardware.

Record:
5 - Win
5 - Lose
3 - Tie

Goals:
1 - Patrick Nevins (1 pk)

Goals to date:
7 - Patrick Nevins (2 pk)
4 - Marco DeMarco
3 - Derek Cedar
2 - Brian Zehnder (1 pk)
2 - Gordon Hines (1 pk)
2 - Kalee Moore
2 - Tim Carlson
1 - Alex Kushnir
1 - Mark Devito
1 - Jared Krechko