Some Early News for Wed June 3 - Costa Rica v USA Preview

TEAM AMERICA WORLD CUP QUALIFYING

Here is a preview for tonight's big game for the USA down in San Jose Costa Rica where they have never won before. This game is a serious test.

Important TV Channel Change - game moved from ESPN to ESPN2!

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Match & Score:
-Wed Jun 3 - Matchday 4
Costa Rica v USA - from Estadio Ricardo Saprissa in San Jose CR - 9pm Central on ESPN2 & Galavision
Venue: Estadio Ricardo Saprissa - San Jose Costa Rica















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ESPN TV commentators did not travel to the game site - they are calling the game from the studio. Soooooooooo laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame.

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There will also be a 30 minute pregame show beginning at 8:30 Central.

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What are the odds of the USA winning in Costa Rica? Since 2000 CR is 18-1-2 at Saprissa. And in this World Cup qualifying cycle they have outscored their opponents 16-0! Wow. How are our boys going to pull this one off? It will be great just to get 1 point. 3 would be so fantastic! Come on guys!

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The Washington Post has a Q & A with Benny Feilhaber.

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The Washington Post also previews tonights game.

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Beau Dure of USA Today previews the match by looking at how difficult a place to play it is. He talks to 4 former USA players about CR - John Kerr, Jim Gabarra, Eddie Pope & Jeff Agoos.
-And has bonus quotes on his blog The Netminder.

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Michael Lewis of Big Apple Soccer introduces us to 2 Americans who live in CR that got to meet our team the other day.

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The Associated Press with an article about guys like Landon Donovan who must take on the role of an experienced player in games such as this. Via the Miami Herald.

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Martin Rogers of Yahoo Sports on his Soccer Experts blog previews the game.

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Adam Beasley of the Miami Herald (not related to DaMarcus Beasley, Jamar Beasley or Adam Lambert) with an article on Josmer Volmy Altidore who is from near by Boca Raton (where I spent a short part of my upbringing).

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Mark Zeigler of the San Diego Union Tribune has a story on the severity of being the opponent at Saprissa.

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One of the deans of American soccer coverage Robert Wagman of Soccer Times previews the game for us.

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Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America calls the combination of Carlos Bocanegra & Oguchi Onyewu the key to success tonight.

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Ives Galarcep of ESPN Soccernet is in Costa Rica and files this preview.

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Our main man Luis Bueno at the Press Enterprise calls Saprissa the House of Death for Team USA.

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Yanks Abroad with a preview of the match.

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Grahame Jones of the LA Times previews.

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US Soccer gives us copious amounts of pregame notes and stats just for this game.

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See a good video package previewing the game.

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