US vs. Mexico News

When my friend informed me that he had ordered our tickets today for the Mexico game in Columbus, I felt it was only appropriate that I make a post about the game and the teams involved. First, Goal.com chips in with a couple articles about the Mexican team, one a preview of Mexico in the Hexagonal and the other an analysis of the state of Mexican Football. Just like a good journalist and newspaper should always do, they cover both sides of the story by posting some exclusive video from the US National Team. They have Sacha Kljestan talking about taking a leadership role with the Senior team (above) and Kenny Cooper talking about staying in Dallas next year (let's hope they at leat raised his salary a little bit). Last but not least as I steal all of Goal.com's content, Andrea Canales checks in from the US training camp in California.

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MLS Making Moves; US Soccer Announcements

While is MLS is out getting that TV money, US Soccer is announcing awards and youth national team news. Kudos to MLS for expanding its global brand; more exposure can only mean good things for the future, especially when you are getting over $10 mill in the process. Props also go to US Soccer for getting it right by honoring Tim Howard, Carli Lloyd, Sacha Kljestan, and Kristie Mewis as US Soccer's players of the year. Howard and Lloyd took home the overall awards, while Kljestan and Mewis took home the yout player awards.

Now for the YNT news: Newly appointed U-18 coach Mike Matkovic called in a buttload of players for his first camp, while the U-20's wrapped up their recent camp down in Florida with a couple of victories. Zac MacMath (pictured above), who just helped UMD to an NCAA Championship, is a notable inclusion in the U-18 camp. Danny Cruz, Sheanon Williams, and Sam Garza chipped in the goals that helped the U-20's top Haiti and Canada, 2-0 and 1-0 respectively.

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Sacha Wins Best Goal for Olympic Strike

Sacha takes home the award from US Soccer for "Best Goal: Men" in 2008, courtesy of his classy goal in the Olympics against Holland. Can't really argue with the selection, as the goal had me jumping off the couch cheering, even though it was early as hell and I had to go to work after. The rest of the winners can be found by clicking here and watching the videos. The winners of the Best Athlete awards will be announced later today.

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American Transfer Developments

Despite all the transfer speculation surrounding Oguchi Onyewu, it looks like he might be wearing the jersey in the above pic just a little bit longer. I guess the sporting director believes that Gooch's services for the rest of the season are worth more than 3 million euro's that he could fetch for his transfer. And he isn't the only American with transfer possibilities, as Sacha Kljestan has been receiving interest from multiple teams and apparently Neven Subotic might be on his way to Napoli (Where the hell did that come from?). Then again these are all rumors, so after the January transfer window, Gooch could be wearing a PSG jersey, Kljestan could still be wearing a Chivas USA jersey, and Subotic could still be rocking a Borussia Dortmund kit. Where do you think they will/should end up?

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