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At Dick Sporting Good’s Park, Commerce City, CO.

Tailgate: Starting at 2pm at the West VIP Lot, Nike & American Outlaws, and local Rapids supporters. There will be KEGS, Food, Fellow fans, Nike and their trucks and girls, giveaways like shirts and soccer balls, AO merch, and more good stuff.

Night Before Party and After Parties:
Location: British Bulldog Pub
Address: 2052 Stout Street, Denver, CO

Live on ESPN Classic and Galavision, 6pm MT.

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The USMNT takes on Guatemala in a WCQ next Wednesday night from Commerce City, CO.  On ESPN2 at 8pm EST.

My main man, Shogun, reviews all the USA matches on his cell phone, and he described the last US-Guatemala match in August pretty accurately.

Two members of Cuba’s national soccer team have gone missing during the team’s trip to Washington for a World Cup qualifying match, the team’s coach told reporters on Friday.

“It is always a problem for the Cuba team,” coach Reinhold Fanz told the Washington Post. “We have security, but you can’t handcuff them to their rooms.”

The Post identified the players as midfielder Pedro Faife, 24, and forward Reynier Alcantara, 26.

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Team England trains for their match against Kazakhstan (…paging Sascha Baron Cohen). Match will be live on FSC at 12pm Eastern.

Capello must run these guys hard, because no one looks happy here, save maybe Rooney.

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The Screaming Eagles and American Outlaws are hosting a couple of get togethers this weekend in DC for the Saturday night game versus Cuba.

Friday Oct 10 - USA Supporters Meet and Greet will be at Momo’s Sports Bar, 5:30 to Closing.

Saturday Oct 11 - Tailgate is at RFK Stadium Lot 8, starting at 3pm until gametime. Lots of food is planned. A key detail is that there will be 10 kegs: including Guinness, Spaten, Sam Adams, plus a couple regional brews Magic Hat from Vermont and Bell’s from Michigan.

PostGame - at Finn macCools.

Definitely go to The Screaming Eagles or The American Outlaws site for more information…this sounds like a blast.

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It was a football game that could set the ball rolling to resolve one of history’s most bitter enmities. In an unprecedented visit for two countries divided by the legacy of the 20th century’s first genocide, the presidents of Turkey and Armenia sat together in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, to watch their national teams play a World Cup qualifying match amidst some pretty heavy security (shown above)….

Turkey won 2-0, but the smiles and handshakes between the presidents showed that they believed “football diplomacy” had achieved the most important result.

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Coach Slaven Bilic talks to The Sun ahead of Wednesday’s England v Croatia clash. This guy is a character and boy is he cocky, but he’s a true master motivator.

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Lots of great stuff at the USMNT blog, including an interesting pre-game Pedro Gomez video and a couple players talking about the unique circumstances of tonight’s game.

Goff gives a good rundown of the scene in Havana.

Grant Wahl talks about the mesmerizing strangeness of the country.

Did you know the admission price for this game is 4 cents?

Will the player’s exchange jerseys after the game? Unlikely, says Maykel Galindo, “If someone wants to exchange jerseys, like in the Gold Cup, you can’t because otherwise you won’t have anything to wear for the next match.”

Finally, what are the Cuba Cinco risking by travelling to Cuba…? On a related note, Miss Cuba is hot.

Live on ESPN Classic and Galavision tonight, 09/06/2008 8:00 PM ET. BVSC is always good!

The boys have landed in Guatemala ahead of their match Wednesday night to start the World Cup Semifinal Qualification Round.

Kickoff at Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala is set for 7:30 p.m., and the match will be broadcast live on ESPN2 and Galavision.

Keep up with the boys over at MNT-USSoccer.Blogspot.com

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