June 15, 2011
Rhinos 2:1 Phoenix SC - Lamar Hunt US Open Cup Round 1
2011 Lama Hunt US Open Cup Bracket
It wasn't a lopsided blowout, but the Rhinos never trailed in their Lamar Hunt US Open Cup 1st Round match with Phoenix SC of the USASA. The Rhinos will now travel south to Harrisburg, PA to face the City Islanders in Round 2 of this year's tournament on Tuesday, June 21st.
Harrisburg had to come from behind last evening to defeat Reading of the PDL 2-1. Former Rhino Chase Harrison was in goal for the City Islanders and was called upon to make a handful of saves.
The Rhinos fell to the City Islanders 1-0 on May 10th in Harrisburg before defeating the City Islanders 1-0 at Sahlen's Stadium this past Saturday evening.
It will be interesting to see if failing to win the bidding to host this match comes back to haunt the Rhinos.
US 1:0 Guadeloupe - CONCACAF Gold Cup
SI.com - Grant Wahl's Post Game Thoughts
SI.com - Grant Wahl's match report
SI.com - Steve Davis' US player ratings
DailySoccerFix - Steve Davis talks about his player ratings
Inside Minnesota Soccer.com - match highlights
Inside Minnesota Soccer.com - match recap
Soccer Insider - Looking back, looking forward
The USA 10 Kit - Analysis and Player Ratings
The USA 10 Kit - Notes from KC
Soccer America - Player Ratings
No Short Corners - Post Group C Thoughts
US Soccer Daily - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
It wasn't pretty and Bob Bradley didn't take the advice of Brent at the USA 10 Kit , but the US did win last right to face Jamaica at 3pm on Sunday at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC.
Clint Dempsey might have had a hard time sleeping last night after missing on more than one grade A scoring chances including the sitter to end all sitters.
Sure, Guadeloupe had a shot just go high off a bad corner kick clearance in the first five minutes.
But, Jozy Altidore's BOMB and a clean sheet from Tim Howard and crew was enough.
Now they need to figure out how to get past a hot group of Reggae Boyz.
News & Notes:
- Congrats to McCall Zerboni of the WNY Flash for being named the WPS Player of the Month for May.
- US Soccer.com's Youtube channel is hopping with a recap of the USWNT visit to NikeTown , Jermaine Jones going over his tattoos , and Marcus Hahnemann going flying.
- The Free Beer Movement has Episode 3 and Episode 4 of Studio: Stoppage Time. Epidoe 4 is key because Fox Soccer's Kyle Martino chugs a beer and the real Michael Kammarman makes a cameo appearance.
- The Fox Soccer Channel is dropping the channel from the name.
- The latest in a long running Gold Cup tradition: a player defects from Cuba.
- The Washington Post has an article and a video on Ali Krieger making the World Cup roster.
- BMO will be the Montreal Impact's jersey sponsor when they make the jump to MLS in 2012.
- Philadelphia Union D Danny Califf reads to some kids.
- Charlie Davies talks about the US-Mexico rivalry.
- You know MLS has been around a while when you read about players replacing their heroes in an MLS match.
- Mexico's WNT has 7 gringos on it.
- Pressure Makes Us is the marketing campaign that Nike has put together for the USWNT at this year's World Cup. And here is the piece with Megan Rapinoe.
- Equalizer Soccer talks to Tiffeny Milbrett about the future of women's soccer and the west coast.
- Canada couldn't close out Panama and doesn't advance past group play in the Gold Cup.
- Mexico had their 5 players that were booted from the Gold Cup re-tested and they passed this time. It will be interesting to see if they get them back or not.
- Montreal's Sandro Grande has retired. And we still hate Montreal.
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