USA vs. VENEZUELA (Live on ESPN2 @ 7PM ET - watch our boys humiliate Chavez)

U.S. Men's National Team ^ | 5-26-06 | U.S. Men's National Team

[soccer_maniac]

The U.S. will continue their final preparations for the 2006 FIFA World Cup on Friday, May 26, when they take on Venezuela at Cleveland Browns Stadium at 7 p.m. ET, live on ESPN2.

CHAVEZ is watching! C'mon boys!Let's go USA!!!!!!!!!!!!

[soccer_maniac]

CHAVEZ is watching! C'mon boys!Let's go USA!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[soccer_maniac]

U.S. Manager Bruce Arena has named his Starting XI for the USA's second Send-Off Series match vs. Venezuela.

[Philistone]

Let's just hope they play better than they did against Morocco...

Losing 1-0 in the last 20 seconds.

They're not going to get to the second round that way.

[Nachum]

I don't care about Chavez, or this game. Luis Aparicio and Ozzie Guillen came from Venezuela. As long as they keeps sending people like that to the White Sox, they must be doing something right.

[Barte45]

Let's hope so. Very thrilled to see so much red, white and blue at a soccer game

[soccer_maniac]

CHAVEZ is watching! C'mon boys!Let's go USA!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CheyennePress]

The US has a soccer team? Whoever knew?

[MARKUSPRIME]

You know all the people waving Old Glory just chaps Chavez communist ass. Go USA!

[domenad]

A soccer match I actually give a sweet crap about? The apocalypse truly is nigh.

[Rome2000]

I hate Soccer but will watch this and root for the US team.

Screw that little tyrant and the horse he rode in on.

[Renderofveils]

Third pic down...

I'm not sure that the team walking out onto the field holding the hands of little boys really helps cement soccer's place as a sport.

Besides, there's a Canes game tonight. ;)

[AnAmericanMother]

I recognize the Guilford (Amer Revolutionary) Flag . . . but what is the red St. Andrew's Cross with the hackles on it?

[soccer_maniac]

CHAVEZ must truly hate those Sam's Army pictures.

Sam's Army is the largest US national team supporters group
http://www.sams-army.com/

[soccer_maniac]

The Venezuelan government is backing the tournament in a big way (yes, Hugo Chavez is a soccer fan), and the push is on to present a competitive team. Venezuela has never made an impact in international soccer, but the national team has improved greatly in recent years and could spring some surprises as the host country.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=368830&root=worldcup&cc=5901

[Renderofveils]

I recognize the Guilford (Amer Revolutionary) Flag . . . but what is the red St. Andrew's Cross with the hackles on it?

Looks like the Cross of Burgundy.

"During the reign of King Charles I from 1516 to 1556, Spanish interest in the new world increased. It was under this flag that the explorer Alonso De Pineda explored the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Vera Cruz in 1519 and the conquest of Mexico by Hernando Cortes in 1519-21. "

[AnAmericanMother]

Well, I'm getting somewhere.

The hackled or rough St. Andrew's Cross ("saltire reguly") is known as the Burgundian Cross.

It was the Spanish military flag from the 1500s up until 1743, and still used by the Spanish Air Force.

What it's doing there, I don't know.

[AnAmericanMother]

Beat me by five seconds.

I stopped to read about the Duke of Burgundy and his marriage into the Spanish royal house . . . < g >

Maybe there's a Spaniard sitting in the stands with the Americans?

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[TomGuy]

One down.


He got up.


Play on.