Haji Wright was only given 119 minutes for the USMNT across four games this June and it appears he won’t get anymore anytime soon. Wright featured in the first half of Tuesday’s mud-fest against El Salvador and after the game USMNT head coach Gregg Berhalter said he wasn’t pleased with what he saw.
When Lionel Messi hopped off the bench in the 75th minute of Argentina's 6-0 beatdown of Serbia and Montenegro to make his World Cup debut in 2006, it wasn't as if the world stopped as one to be witness to The Child ordained for greatness.
If anything, the global reaction outside of Argentina and Spain would probably be more adequately captured as "This guy? He's the future of football? He's got nothing on Ryan Babel."
The look of surprise, nay, disbelief, is what I remember most. A towering 6-4 frame had just headed in his first career international goal, and it couldn’t have come at a more important moment. On the eighth anniversary of his goal against Ghana, we have to wonder if John Brooks will ever get another chance on the world stage.
Marcelo Flores hizo su debut oficial con la selección mexicana en la victoria por 3-0 sobre Surinam en la Liga de Naciones Concacaf, el pasado 11 de junio. Flores ingresó de cambio en la recta final del juego y mostró cosas positivas. Sin embargo, su partido terminó manchado por un penal errado y que le robo la oportunidad de estrenarse como goleador mexicano.
Australia’s backup goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne made himself a legend on Monday with his bizarre antics during a penalty shootout against Peru to send his country to the World Cup. We’ve now learned that he’s not crazy after a Redmayne water bottle incident with Peru’s goalkeeper was caught on camera.
Redmayne isn’t some bearded goof; he’s a cold and calculated evil villain. Every good story needs a villain.
El desabrido empate ante Jamaica significó el fin de una era en la selección mexicana. No la del Tata Martino, como muchos quisieran, pero de una que la gente igual venía pidiendo a gritos: la del Tri jugando sin su tradicional playera verde.
Según los registros estadísticos, el Tri encadenó un total de 59 partidos vistiendo de blanco o de negro y rosa, los uniformes alternativos del ciclo 2020-22.
I do not envy the USMNT kit person on Tuesday night. Let’s hope they brought plenty of stain remover.
Jordan Morris scored a 91st minute header as the USMNT salvaged a 1-1 draw with El Salvador in the Concacaf Nations League on Tuesday night at Estadio Cuscatlán in San Salvador. A bigger story than the result was the mess of a field the match was played on, with rain turning an already poor pitch into a cow pasture by the end of the night.
México acabó su serie de partidos veraniegos con un insustancial empate 1-1 ante Jamaica por la Concacaf Nations League. La historia pudo ser diferente si no fuera por la colosal falla de Uriel Antuna y que tiene a los aficionados del Tri dándose cabezazos contra la pared.
El osote de Antuna se produjo en los primeros compases del partido. De hecho, ni siquiera se cumplían dos minutos de juego cuando un rebote dado por el portero Andrew Blake dejó al delantero del Cruz Azul completamente solo, en área chica y a arco descubierto.
WOLVERHAMPTON, England - Hungary thrashed a dreadful England 4-0 away on Tuesday to go top of their Nations League group and perpetuate the hosts' winless run in a competition they had hoped would be a morale-boosting warmup for the World Cup.
With only one goal and two points in their first three games of this Nations League campaign, England dominated early possession at the Molineux and could have gone ahead had Jarrod Bowen been sharper with a close-range header.
Today, there is no vals in the music repertoire able to process the sadness behind Perú's elimination from the 2022 World Cup. The defeat against Australia in the FIFA intercontinental playoff is still a wound too open for the country to come back to normality.