U.S. Men to Play Jamaica in Soccer
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The next steps toward the 2006 World Cup for the U.S. team will be taken Wednesday against Jamaica, a team that has never beaten the Americans.
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Seimone Augustus scored 19 points and Tina Thompson added 18 as the United States routed Jamaica, 115-47, yesterday to clinch a semifinal spot at the FIBA Americas tournament in Valdivia, Chile. The United States team scored the first 9 points and never looked back. The United States (2-0) struggled in its first game against Cuba, winning by 85-79 after trailing most of the game.
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Jamaica failed to advance in World Cup qualifying, tying the United States 1-1 Wednesday in a game the Reggae Boyz needed to win. For the Americans, the match was merely a tuneup and a chance to give several young players World Cup qualifying experience.
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US national team soccer coach Bruce Arena, who took notice of the Revolution's late-season rally and spectacular elimination from the Major League Soccer playoffs, named four New England players to a 25-man squad preparing for a World Cup qualifier against Jamaica Nov. 17 at Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.
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The US men&#39;s soccer team continues its 2006 World Cup qualifying campaign with a match Wednesday night against Panama in Panama City.
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The Revolution, which is tied for the overall lead in Major League Soccer with 17 points, had three players -- defender Michael Parkhurst, midfielder Steve Ralston, and forward Taylor Twellman -- named yesterday to the United States team roster for the Gold Cup, scheduled for June 24 in six US cities.
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Landon Donovan becomes the U.S. career points leader as the United States advances to the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup with a 2-0 victory over Trinidad and Tobago.
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Soccer's governing body for North and Central America and the Caribbean will push to host the 2018 World Cup.
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Jamaica failed to advance in World Cup qualifying, tying the United States 1-1 Wednesday in a game the Reggae Boyz needed to win.
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Brian Ching scored in the first half and Landon Donovan became the U.S. career points leader when he fed Eddie Johnson for a second-half goal Saturday as the United States advanced to the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup with a 2-0 victory over Trinidad and Tobago.
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The labor dispute between the U.S. Soccer Federation and the union representing the men's national team players will be revisited after World Cup qualifying.
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FOXBOROUGH -- San Jose Earthquakes coach Dominic Kinnear had just finished watching as two of his players, Brian Ching and Landon Donovan, scored for the United States in a 2-0 win over El Salvador in a World Cup qualifying match yesterday.
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The US men&#39;s national soccer team won&#39;t play a World Cup qualifier in El Salvador for another five weeks, but today the Americans could get a raucous preview of that October showdown at San Salvador&#39;s Estadio Cuscatlan.
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US coach Bruce Arena made two decisions with players in the last seven days that could have a lasting effect on the men&#39;s national soccer team.
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The court is clay and the crowd no doubt will be loud. The United States will nevertheless be counting on Andy Roddick for an easy point Friday when he plays Ivo Minar in the opening Davis Cup match against the Czech Republic.
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Jamaica travels to Ohio this week knowing that a first ever win against United States would wrap up a place in the third and final stage of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying.
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Sixty minutes into a World Cup qualifying match in Jamaica last month, the United States trailed and risked losing its first game ever to the Reggae Boyz.