Arena Plays Coy With U.S. Roster Against Mexico
The U.S. national team had a light workout yesterday in Columbus, Ohio, in preparation for its World Cup qualifying match Saturday with Mexico – although team officials didn’t release a roster for the game.
Coach Bruce Arena joked that he wanted to release the list of those on the team, but it was being delayed by media officers.
Asked if this was an added degree of gamesmanship, he said: “There’s no point in releasing our roster when we have to get through games. We have players playing today. Once we get everyone through their games, then we’re in a position to release a roster. I suspect that’ll happen on Wednesday.”
Even though practice was open to the media, it was closed to the public, as are all U.S. team workouts. The match with Mexico will be played at Columbus Crew Stadium, home of MLS’s Columbus Crew.
Arena had a hand-printed roster that he checked twice while talking to reporters, making no attempt to hide it. An observer was told not to help reporters identify the players at the workout.
A mix of American veterans and fresh faces were part of yesterday’s workout: Carlos Bocanegra , Brian McBride , Frankie Hejduk , Jeff Cunningham , Steve Ralston , Taylor Twellman , Greg Vanney , Pablo Mastroeni , Chad Marshall , Kasey Keller , Justin Mapp , Chris Armas , Oguchi Onyewu , Kerry Zavagnin , Claudio Reyna , Clint Dempsey , Eddie Johnson , Eddie Lewis and Matt Reis .
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Arena wants fans to tune in when Americans meet Mexico on soccer pitch
Bruce Arena wants American soccer fans to "put up or shut up."
Preparing for Saturday's World Cup qualifier against Mexico in Columbus, Ohio, the U.S. coach said American fans should demonstrate their support for the sport by watching the game on television as well as tuning into and attending Major League Soccer games.
"I think it's critical," Arena said Wednesday. "If we want this sport to grow, if we want to truly position ourselves to one day win a World Cup, we need support from the people
Jeff Jarrett Causes Near-Riot In Mexico City On Sunday Night
NEAR-RIOT ERUPTS IN MEXICO CITY DURING APPEARANCE BY NWA WORLD CHAMPION JEFF JARRETT
Security and police called in to escort Jarrett out of arena
The El Toreo arena in Mexico City nearly erupted in a full-scale riot on Sunday night during an appearance by NWA World Heavyweight Champion Jeff Jarrett.
During the main event of the huge AAA “Verano de Escandalo†show in front of over 20,000 spectators, police and extra security had to be called in after fans rushed the ring and threw hundreds of projectiles at Jarrett.
In a total show of disrespect,
Mexico to play five exhibition games in U.S. next year before World Cup
Mexico will play five international friendlies in the United States next year before the World Cup, including a March matchup against Ghana, a first-round opponent of the U.S. team.
Mexico will play Ghana on March 1 in the Dallas area, Soccer United Marketing said Wednesday. The United States plays the Black Stars on June 22 at Nuremberg, Germany, in the final first-round game for the Americans at the World Cup,
Mexico meets Norway on Jan. 25 at San Francisco, four days before Norway plays the United States in Carson,
Lopez joins Hollywood trail to Mexico's murder town
The plight of more than 400 women murdered in a Mexican city in the last 12 years is to get the Hollywood treatment in a new movie starring Jennifer Lopez.
Lopez and co-stars Antonio Banderas and Martin Sheen are currently filming in the Mexican border town of Nogales, where a set resembling the streets of Ciudad Juarez, where the murders took place, has been erected.
In Bordertown, Lopez plays a Chicago-based reporter whose crusading investigations in Juarez, just across the border from Texas, awaken her sense of identity as a Latin woman. Banderas plays a
Sports and entertainment in Tijuana City
Tijuana boasts two bullfighting rings, a racecourse and a dog track located in the old Hipódromo de Agua Caliente, the franchise of a soccer team in first division, a Mexican baseball team that plays the league during the summer, professional and university theater, the opera, as well as diverse festivals along the year.
LEIPZIG, GERMANY - The Confederations Cup was supposed to be about the haves and have-nots of world soccer, with Brazil, Argentina and Germany expected to dominate the eight-team championship.
Clearly, no one told Mexico.
"We reckon it's time the world sat up and took notice of us," said Jared Borgetti, who scored on a header in Mexico's 1-0 victory over Brazil on Sunday. "We've proved Mexico can play good football."
The Tricolores look certain to qualify for the World Cup, but this competition has given Ricardo La Volpe's team a chance to make an impact one year earlier.
Mexico started with a 2-1 victory
World Cup berth assured for U.S.-Mexico winner
What suspense remains in the CONCACAF Region's World Cup qualifying tournament should be drastically reduced in the next week.
The winner of Saturday's United States-Mexico match will claim one of the region's three spots in next year's World Cup finals in Germany, and Mexico (5-0-1) needs only a tie to get in. The Americans (5-1-0), second in the six-team group, are poised for their biggest match of the year and will have rare home-field crowd support at Columbus Crew Stadium, with the game selling out 20 minutes after tickets went on sale.
Columbus also was the
It's obvious the United States and Mexico are going to be in the 2006 World Cup in Germany. Surely, U.S. manager Bruce Arena and Mexican manager Ricardo LaVolpe would not admit this in front of their players, but it's reality.
On Saturday, it's win and you're in when the teams meet in Columbus, Ohio.
And the sooner a team qualifies, the better its chances could potentially be at the World Cup.
So here's the plan: Win and qualify. Celebrate briefly. Refocus.
Realistically, the U.S. and Mexico have navigated the CONCACAF qualifying waters with confidence and have put themselves in position to qualify for Germany
Children learn of Mexico through coloring books
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Then, they got to illustrate the story themselves with their very own bilingual coloring book.
While learning what a birthday celebration entails in our neighbor to the south, the children also learned that 10 U.S. dollars equals 100 pesos.
Currency exchange rates aren’t the usual fodder for coloring books or topics of conversation for young children, but the group who presented it was just as interested in the economics of the
Tagliabue pumped about game in Mexico
Expansion to Mexico still is a generation away despite the success of the NFL’s first regular-season game staged outside the United States.
Commissioner Paul Tagliabue said the Arizona Cardinals’ 31-14 victory over the 49ers in Mexico’s capital lent credibility to the league south of the border. A record 103,467 fans packed cavernous Azteca Stadium on Sunday night, the largest regular-season crowd in NFL history.
But Tagliabue said the size of the crowd wasn’t the key factor.
“I think this game lets the fans here in Mexico, the athletes here in Mexico and businesses and everybody else know that
