So the U.S. Mint is not going to war with Mexico?
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Date |
Opponent |
Result |
Location |
Goal Scorers |
|
Jan. 27 |
vs. Panama |
3-0 W |
Glendale, Ariz. |
Mihailovic, Zimmerman, Ramirez |
|
Feb. 2 |
vs. Costa Rica |
2-0 W |
San Jose, Calif. |
Lletget, Arriola |
|
March 22 |
vs. Ecuador |
1-0 W |
Orlando, Fla. |
Zardes |
|
March 26 |
vs. Chile |
1-1 D |
Houston, Texas |
Pulisic |
|
June 5 |
vs. Jamaica |
0-1 L |
Washington, D.C. |
- |
|
June 9 |
vs. Venezuela |
0-3 L |
Cincinnati, Ohio |
- |
|
June 18 |
vs. Guyana^ |
4-0 W |
St. Paul, Minn. |
Arriola, Boyd (2), Zardes |
|
June 22 |
vs. Trinidad & Tobago^ |
6-0 W |
Cleveland, Ohio |
Long (2), Zardes (2), Pulisic, Arriola |
|
June 26 |
vs. Panama^ |
1-0 W |
Kansas City, Kan. |
Altidore |
|
June 30 |
vs. Curaçao^ |
1-0 W |
Philadelphia, Pa. |
McKennie |
|
July 3 |
vs. Jamaica^ |
3-1 W |
Nashville, Tenn. |
McKennie, Pulisic (2) |
|
July 7 |
vs. Mexico^ |
0-1 L |
Chicago, Ill. |
- |
|
Oct. 11 |
vs. Cuba# |
- |
Washington, D.C. |
- |
|
Oct. 15 |
at Canada# |
- |
Toronto, Canada |
- |
|
Nov. 15 |
vs. Canada# |
- |
TBD |
- |
|
Nov. 19 |
vs. Cuba# |
- |
Georgetown, Cayman Island |
- |
|
^ -indicates Concacaf Gold Cup; #-indicates Concacaf Nations League |
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Uhm-m-m ... which US Men’s soccer group recently stated they would not carry the US flag because it represents racism?
Soccer has a very fragile hold on a very tiny market share here in the USA. Political positions like the one mentioned above will kill any aspirations soccer may have regarding being a growth sport.
"We kind of panicked, and those are things we have to adjust to in the heat of the situation because obviously Mexico is a very pressure-oriented team," right back Reggie Cannon said. "That's something we have to learn to work around. It's not easy task to play out of the back."The breakouts were too slow, passes a yard or two off, runs mistimed, decisions slow. The mental part of the game isn't fast enough, either.
But, of course, this was a friendly. A meaningless game where the score wasn't as important as the progress. To hear Berhalter tell it, Friday night was a step in the right direction.
"Our focus was to keep trying to focus on making progress as group," Berhalter said in a postmatch news conference. "Being brave with the ball. Looking for holes. There were times when it was good. And times when it wasn't good."