USMNT U23s v CUBA
U23s take on Cuba tonight in the first game of Olympic qualifying. Game is 8pm cst on Universal Sports Network and Mun2 (lol wut?).
I personally do not have either of those channels or a stream. If someone has a stream, please share!
FYI: U23s will also have upcoming games on the 24th v Canada and 26th v El Salvador. Highly recommend watching these guys if you can. Last game they utilized a 4-3-3 and completely controlled play against Mexico, which was very fun to watch. They play fast, agressive, and seem to be very well coached (much kudos to Caleb Porter)
What’s so lulwut worthy about a game involving Cuba being on a Spanish language channel?
Two channels I've never heard of. Spanish language has nothing to do with it. I'd like to think a game like this would land on something more prominent. Not yet.
Oh, ok. I understand then. My apologies. Yeah, rather disappointing that soccer is still relegated to niche sport level here.
Eh, it is the U23s. I'm not sure how much coverage youth team qualifiers against presumably overmatched opponents get in even soccer mad countries.
Except it's an Olympic year. Only 3 players over 23 are allowed (edit) to play on the Olympic team.
Mun2, or Mun"dos", is Telemundo 2, which I don't get.
Universal Sports, which I don't get either, is for Olympic sports, apparently. They also streamed the women's qualifying.
concacaf.com is also streaming, though free registration required.
you don't need the channel to stream
I like the 4-3-3 and it seems like Porter likes his three forwards and wingers to be interchangable.
I'm just disappointed the Josh Gatt got called back to his club because they suffered injuries and needed Josh back to play for them.
Me, too. People have asked about Gatt, but I have yet to see him play.
Gatt was pulled by Molde because of injuries on the club. He was replaced by Sheanon Williams
GOALLLLLLLLLLLLL
JOE CARONA
Beautiful ball control on the volley!!! US up 1-0 early.
GOOOAL! Joe Corona! perhaps it's the goal talking, but I like the way he plays. could be a really good 10 for us in the future
He gave a really good ball earlier to Mix over the top.
Wow. Straight red for the Cuban player.
Are we running a 4-2-3-1? That seems to be the way it's playing
The announcers claim that we started in a 4-3-3. I'm not sure if Porter changed anything in-game.
I guess you can call it whatever you want, we're doing a good job getting up the wings, I'd like to see our ball movement a bit quicker in the middle.
I really like Jared Jeffries as holding midfielder.
Shit. I really like everyone on this team right now, maybe Im a homer but the US has a bright future.
I'm a homer too, but f-it, I love this team.
ANOTHER GOAL!!!! CARONA!!!!!
Impressive even against 10 men. 4-0 and not even to halftime.
March 22nd, 2012 at 10:09 PM ^
I get the sense that the US talent pool is growing fantastically. I am excited for the future of more players than we have room for, so if just half of them reach their potential we should be a top 10 fifa team in 6-10 years.
Looks like we'll need to start oversigning.
March 22nd, 2012 at 10:12 PM ^
Aguadelo out
Bunbury In
March 22nd, 2012 at 10:13 PM ^
Bunbury in for Agudelo at half. Any ideas why that change was made??
March 22nd, 2012 at 10:18 PM ^
get playing time for Bunbury.
March 22nd, 2012 at 10:26 PM ^
thought there might be more to it or do we get more than 3 subs in these games?
March 22nd, 2012 at 10:26 PM ^
thought there might be more to it or do we get more than 3 subs in these games?
March 22nd, 2012 at 11:02 PM ^
You only get more subs if it is a friendly. Since it is an actual qualifying game we only get 3 subs.
March 22nd, 2012 at 10:27 PM ^
Joe Gyau in for Brek. I've been really excited to see what Gyau can do for us.
March 22nd, 2012 at 10:30 PM ^
holy shit GOALAZO Freddy Adu!
March 22nd, 2012 at 10:31 PM ^
oh wow. golazo Adu. Absolutely rifled that one from well outside the box. 5-0 US.
March 22nd, 2012 at 11:04 PM ^
WOO! 6-0 win, Joe Corona got a hat trick.
Good to see the US moving the ball around so well.
Over/Under on the number of Cuban defectors during the tournament is at 5. What you got?