WNT Blog & CONCACAF World Cup Qualifiers

Unique Moment - Posted 10/29/2010
"It's not often a winning team would enter the opponent's locker room, especially after a World Cup qualifying match, but that's exactly what happened tonight in Cancún, Mexico after the USA's 5-0 win over Haiti.

The island nation is still recovering from the devastating earthquake of last January 12 that reduced much of the country to rubble and took an estimated 230,000 lives, injured more than 300,000 and left one million homeless.

To do their small part to help the Haitians, each U.S. player brought extra soccer gear, cleats, clothes, toiletries and other comfort items to Mexico and passed them on to the Haitians after the match. In a bit of a role reversal, the U.S. WNT followed the path set by the U.S. Under-17 WNT, which brought similar gifts for the Haitians during the U-17 CONCACAF Qualifier last March in Costa Rica."

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The US plays Guatemala in a World Cup Qualifier today at 5:30pm PST after beating Haiti 5-0. Abby scored three goals in that win! "It was probably my worst three-goal performance of all time. I hit a wall about the 70th minute so I have to hit the recovery and get my legs back under me so I can come back in two days time.” Other goal scorers were Rachel Buehler and Amy Rodriguez.

US is up 6-0 at the half. Two goals each by Megan Rapinoe, Abby Wambach, and Amy Rodriguez!

9-0 was the final.

Arod got a hat trick. The game wasn't that close.

that brings tears to my eyes...that our national team reaches out to those in need!

Highlights: http://youtu.be/QSSbAhrJtW0

You'll notice a certain someone with a nice bow-and-arrow celebration. Loved it!

I just found out that you can watch the CONCACAF games live online at http://www.concacaf.com.

Canada is leading Guyana 1-0 with ~15 min. to go in the first half.

Thanks for the headsup. I turned it on just in time to see Christine score a nice goal. It looks like Sophie might be playing central back, but I'm not sure.

fan from afar wrote:Thanks for the headsup. I turned it on just in time to see Christine score a nice goal. It looks like Sophie might be playing central back, but I'm not sure.

Sophie looked like she was holding mid again to ,e. but when a team has the lead, it's tough to tell sometimes.

FINAL USA 4, Costa Rica 0

Canada beat Mexico 3:0 tonight to advance to the Semi's against Costa Rica. The US will play Mexico.

They did it on goals from Chapman, Tancredi, and Bélanger.

Christine and Sophie played the whole game. Canada thus avoided the unenviable position of having to beat the USA to get to the World Cup.

the full game report with hightlights is here:
http://www.canadasoccer.com/tourney/game_profile.asp?gameId=1873

and the inteview with the team Captain ...

Well, we are now hoeing the hard row.

Mexico beat the USA 2-1 yesterday and the US must now must beat Costa Rica on Monday and a two game set with Italy over Thanksgiving to get to the World cup.

That's doable, but not like they played yesterday.

http://www.concacaf.com/page/WGC/VideosDetail/0,,12813~2209890,00.html

the only bright side is that Megan contributed to the lone US goal with a shot Abbie put away on the rebound.



On a brighter note, Canada punched their ticket to the WWC by beating Costa Rica 4-0. Sophie and Christine both played the whole game, Christine got a goal, and I think an assist.

http://www.concacaf.com/page/WGC/VideosDetail/0,,12813~2209889,00.html

They play Mexico for the championship on Monday. they beat Mexico 3-0 the first game of the tournament.



I was sort of hoping to root for two teams next summer. it might not happen.

Silver Lining: I'm glad that Sophie won't be playing Italy over Thanksgiving. I think we have other plans for her...

Oh Jeez.

I didn't even think of that....

The O's Geoffrey Arnold extends his excellent coverage of the sport to this event:

http://www.oregonlive.com/timbers/index.ssf/2010/11/free_kicks_us_women_shocked_by.html

He does a good job of providing the background on how big of an upset this is. The women's team missing the WC is a sobering thought.

After reading the article, I just realized that the Mexican player who scored the game winner against the USA was the Huskie's former player Veronica Perez.

Arnold mentions we beat Costa Rica 2-0 and need to beat Italy to get to the WWC.

He doesn't mention we have to beat them again tomorrow for third place to get that right.