With the MLS being just about done, Gregg Berhalter HC of the USMNT has called in 20 players for a pre-camp in Bradenton Florida before the first of 2 games in the Concacaf League of Nations. IMG Academy will be the host location for Mihailovic from Nov. 2-9, on the 6th those in the standard camp will be announced, that will begin on the 10th in advance of the game on the 15 in Orlando, where camp will then move on to. He was last in camp over this past summer and the Gold Cup, the year sees him with 5 caps thus far, a pair of those coming in the Gold Cup.
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November 1, 2019
by Sean McCaffery
As expected, the USMNT trounced Cuba and as not expected they dropped the away leg in Toronto in a 2-0 poorly played game. Pre- Camp opens tomorrow in Bradenton with the first game being in Orlando on the 15th with Canada, then off to the Caymans for Cuba on the 19th. European based players will begin on the 10th for the formal camp in Orlando. Nov. 6 is the reveal date for that camp's invitees.
read October 31, 2019
by Sean McCaffery
Introduced to the public some 2 days after his acutal appointment the new HC of the USWNT has his games in just 8 days and now has 2 dozen coming into camp in advance of this first game Nov. 7 v Sweden in Maprfee Stadium in Columbus, then just 3 days later in Jacksonville with Sweden. Tickets are now avail. at ussoccer.com. Coming back are 17 playerrs from the 2019 World Cup winning team, 5 are out 4 due to injury including, Crystal Dunn of Rockville Centre, Kelley O'Hara, Ali Kreiger & Tierna Davidson, out due to her recently announced pregnancy is Alex Morgan.
read October 31, 2019
by Sean McCaffery
Hardly a surprise, Vlatko Andonovski will now lead the best team in the world and have an early test in just over a week with Sweden, a historic foe Nov. 7 in Columbus. The 9th coach in team history follows a number of legends in Anson Dorrance, Tony DiCicco, Pia Sundhage of Sweden & of course Jill Ellis, not an easy task by any means. At just 43, he takes the reins following a highly successful run in all 7 years of the NWSL now he gets to scratch that 7 year itch with a team of rock stars.
read October 31, 2019
by Sean McCaffery
What a difference a game makes! Backed by a quartet of saves, some very dramatic, by 'keeper Chituru Odunze, this big tie may have given them life in the World Cup before 3,878 fans in Estadio Kleber Andrade. They now sit in 3rd as the top 4 #3 teams will advance to the Sweet 16, now, surprisingly ahead of the Netherlands, their next opponent. This single point was quite vital as a win over the last place Dutch would give them 4 points, in 21 such formatted FIFA tourneys, a team with that magic number has advanced 97% of the time.
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