Columnist Nick Green has written 100 Percent Soccer
since 2005. A
native of England, he began writing about soccer in
the mid-1980s and in 2000 permanently exchanged a seat
in the stands for one in
the press box. He lives six miles from Carson's Home
Depot Center, home of the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chivas
USA and the training headquarters for U.S. Soccer.
Married to a long-suffering soccer widow, he has a cat
named Pele.U.S. Women Win and Ch-Ch-Changes for Ch-Ch-Chivas USA
Despite a fast start to the game for the U.S. against Nigeria this morning, the Americans couldn't put the Africans away in the 1-0 win. Nigeria actually had a couple of good opportunities to equalize in the last 15 minutes, almost making the U.S. pay for not being more ruthless in what were admittedly extremely difficult conditions.
Still, the U.S. tops its group and plays Saturday against England.
Here's the game story.
To give you an idea of how awful the weather for the game was, here is what Shanghai is bracing for.
Not surprisingly, that's meant some adjustments to the World Cup schedule.
Meanwhile, I took a look at what the recent hiring of former AEG exec Shawn Hunter means for Chivas USA in my regular weekly column.
Chivas USA co-owner Antonio Cue, right, welcomes new club president
and CEO Shawn Hunter with a team jersey. El Cazador means "the hunter" in
Spanish.
Finally, the UEFA Champions League resumes for another season today with ESPN2 televising the Liverpool-Porto game (kick off is 11:30 a.m.). Here's the complete television schedule.