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US U23s play forst game of Olympic Qualifying tomorrow night vs Canada.  8 PM on NBC Deportes.  Then Friday night against Cuba on Telemundo.  And then the 6th vs Panama.

 

No American broadcast unfortunately.  Looking forward to seeing the youngsters at centerback- Matt Miazga and Cameron Carter-Vickers.  Miazga is 20 and Carter-Vickers is only 17!

 

Top 2 teams in each group advance to semi finals.  Winners of semifinals go to the Olympics.  Losers playoff and the winner of that game, has to then play off with Colombia who finished 2nd in the COMNEBOL youth football championship.

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US beat Cuba 6-1 on Saturday and it wasn't even that close.

 

They have clinched a spot in the semifinals as the top seed from group A (barring a 7 goal differential tomorrow night).

 

They will play the loser of Mexico v Honduras (or Honduras if they tie) on Saturday at 3.

 

The Varsity squad play Mexico on Saturday at 930 on FoxSports1.  The 23 man roster-

 

GOALKEEPERS (3): Brad Guzan (Aston Villa), Tim Howard (Everton), Nick Rimando (Real Salt Lake)
DEFENDERS (9): Ventura Alvarado (Club America), DaMarcus Beasley (Houston Dynamo), Matt Besler (Sporting Kansas City), Geoff Cameron (Stoke City), Brad Evans (Seattle Sounders FC), Fabian Johnson (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Michael Orozco (Club Tijuana), Tim Ream (Fulham), Jonathan Spector (Birmingham City)
MIDFIELDERS (7): Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake), Alejandro Bedoya (Nantes), Michael Bradley (Toronto FC), Jermaine Jones (New England Revolution), Danny Williams (Reading), DeAndre Yedlin (Sunderland), Graham Zusi (Sporting KC)
FORWARDS (4): Jozy Altidore (Toronto FC), Clint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders FC), Chris Wondolowski (San Jose Earthquakes), Gyasi Zardes (LA Galaxy)

 

 

I expect to see a veteran lineup.  But I have no idea what it will look like.  Other than Demspey, Bradley and Altidore. 

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US U23 team plays Honduras on Saturday afternoon.  The winner qualifies for the Olympics , and a spot in the tournament championship game against the Mex/Can winner.  The loser plays the loser of the other game, and the winner of that game then plays Colombia for the Olympics.

 

Whew. 

 

So 2 US games Saturday.

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The podcasts (Men in Blazers / SI Planet Futbol) say that CONCACAF playoff and confederations cup aren't that important but I don't know. Is today's game a must win? No. Will Jurgen be fired if they lose? Probably not. But they should probably win because A) It's Mexico and B) You need to show that you can win games that hold significance somewhat, whether the CONCACAF games are important or not, this is probably a game they should win. 

 

Dos a cero.

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It's important for many reasons.

1- it's Mexico

2- confederate cup is a great warm up tournament against A sides

3- eff Mexico. Dos a cero!

But really, the earlier US v Honduras game for a spot in the Olynpics is probably more important in the long run

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