Friday Football: U.S.-Costa Rica in Carson & more
*The U.S.-Costa Rica game kicks off at 8 p.m. at Home Depot Center (live ESPN2). Plenty of tickets are available. The 24,500-seat stadium may be around half full for the game.
Staff writer Phil Collin has the game preview.
Here's more on the philosophy of Jurgen Klinsmann and what we learned from his first game in charge of the U.S. against Mexico from earlier in the week.
Watch the U.S. Soccer preview:
Here's more from the USMNT blog.
I plan to blog from the game.
*Galaxy forward Robbie Keane is back in Ireland for a Euro 2012 qualifier and the Irish press sound a little disappointed he hasn't more insights into Southern California after what, all of several days. More here.
While we're talking about the Galaxy, here are highlights of the reserve game Thursday against the Timbers in Portland:
*The Galaxy have just two games left in the reserve league season - both in Carson. Price of admission to the games: Free.
The Galaxy are first in MLS - and bringing up the rear in the reserve league.
About 100 Percent Soccer
Sportswriter Nick Green has written the 100 Percent Soccer column since 2005 for the Daily News, Daily Breeze and other Los Angeles area newspapers. The blog of the same name began in 2007. 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 and is married to a long-suffering soccer widow. Join Nick on FaceBook and follow him on Twitter.
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