Friday Night Football: U.S. U-20's Win & More
Briefly:
*Chivas USA's Jorge Flores (briefly) played Friday in the got the start for the U.S. Under-20 Men's National Team's 3-0 victory over Jamaica in the opening game of the CONCACAF U-20 Championship. UCLA goalkeeper Brian Perk got the shutout. Next up: Honduras on Sunday.
*Earlier today, Natasha Kai scored the U.S. winner with a sweet volley in stoppage time in a 1-0 victory over Iceland to qualify for the Algarve Cup final in Portugal. The U.S. has one irrelevant group game left against Norway Monday. Torrance's Shannon Boxx of the Sol played the full 90 minutes for the U.S. The Sol's Kendall Fletcher didn't get off the bench again.
*CONCACAF will announce the Gold Cup venues Monday (gee, do ya think the Home Depot Center will be in there?)
*Mexico has announced its squad for Wednesday's game against Bolivia in Colorado:
goalkeepers: Guillermo Ochoa (América), José de Jesús Corona (Tecos UAG)
defenders: Juan Carlos Valenzuela (América), Julio César Domínguez (Cruz Azul), Leobardo López (Pachuca), Fausto Pinto (Cruz Azul), Oscar Rojas (América), Paúl Aguilar (Pachuca), Hugo Ayala (Atlas), Edgar Castillo (América)
midfielders: Pável Pardo (América), Leandro Augusto (UNAM), Luis Pérez (Monterrey), Israel Martínez (San Luis), Antonio Naelson (Toluca), Fernando Arce (Santos), Gerardo Torrado (Cruz Azul)
forwards: José María Cárdenas (Pachuca), Vicente Matias Vuoso (Santos Laguna), César Villaluz (Cruz Azul), Omar Bravo (Tigres), Sergio Santana (Toluca)
*Best of the TV games this weekend include:
4:30 a.m. Saturday Coventry City-Chelsea on Fox Soccer Channel
3 p.m. Saturday Chivas-Jaguares on KAZA
9 a.m. Sunday Everton-Middlesborough (FA Cup) on FSC
12:30 p.m. Sunday AC Milan-Atalanta (delayed) on FSC
3 p.m. Sunday Atlante-Club America on KVEA.
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Flores didn't start against Jamaica. He came on in the 84th for Wallace at left back. The matchtracker is a difficult beast to understand.
Nick replies: Indeed. When rushing. Gracias.