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  • 2006 WORLD CUP -- Day 3 Thread -- USA Ready For Opener

    06/12/2006 5:28:43 AM PDT · by soccer_maniac · 341 replies · 7,162+ views
    MLSnet.com ^ | 6-12-06 | MLSnet.com
    The wait finally comes to an end Monday for 11 of the 15 MLS players at the 2006 World Cup as the U.S. national team opens Group E play against Czech Republic in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The Los Angeles Galaxy's Landon Donovan will lead the U.S. team into action starting at 11:55 a.m. ET on ESPN2. In other action, Australia meets Japan in Kaiserslautern at 8:55 a.m. (ESPN2) for a Group F match. Italy and Ghana clash in the third match of the day, a Group E affair in Hanover at 2:55 p.m. (ESPN2).
  • A WAKING GIANT - US Soccer Comes of Age

    06/11/2006 7:33:41 PM PDT · by Atlantic Bridge · 153 replies · 2,977+ views
    DER SPIEGEL ^ | June 11, 2006 | Andreas Tzortzis
    Long unknown at home and ridiculed abroad, the United States isn't being written off in the soccer world anymore. But the Americans will need to pull together as team to get past their tough World Cup group. A motorcade of police cars with flashing blue lights and a massive, unmarked FIFA bus has announced the arrival and often rapid departure of the US soccer team in Hamburg over the past week. But when the American players are on their own, it's a different story. On Friday, star midfielder DaMarcus Beasley sat, blissfully anonymous, at a sidewalk café outside the Americans'...