The U.S. men’s national soccer team will face Argentina at Giants Stadium on June 8, the Argentine Football Federation announced on Wednesday. The national teams have yet to complete an agreement on the match, a source told SBI, but the team’s federations are in negotiations and the match looks like a safe bet to happen.
The U.S. team had been linked to a friendly with Argentina in the Northeast since U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati revealed a month ago that the Americans would face a Top five team in the Northeast and it appears that Giants Stadium has beaten out Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field for the exhibition.
The friendly would come just four days after the United States is set to face Spain in Spain on June 4, and a week before the U.S. team’s World Cup qualifier against the winner of the Barbados/Dominica World Cup qualifier.
The match will be the first played by the U.S. team against Argentina on American soil since Argentina beat the Americans, 1-0, in Miami on Feb. 8, 2003. The U.S. team lost to Argentina, 4-1, in last summer’s Copa America in Paraguay.
Argentina is 6-2 against the Americans, though the teams have split the past four meetings. The U.S. team last beat the South Americans in 1999, when Joe-Max Moore scored an 88th-minute goal to help the Americans post a 1-0 victory at RFK Stadium. Before that, the United States beat Argentina in the 1995 Copa America, 3-0.
One difference between the June match and previous installments of the series is the likelihood that both teams will be featuring full-strength squads. Argentina is set to face Ecuador in World Cup qualifying on June 14, with a showdown against Brazil on June 18. The Americans will also have a World Cup qualifying match a week later so it should also field its first-choice starting lineup.
The match is the latest for the U.S. national team against top competition. It will actually be the fifth match by the U.S. national team against a Top 10 team since 2007 (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Spain).
What do you think of the match-up? Are you excited to see the Americans put its first team against a top squad like Argentina? Are you happy to see the U.S. national team return to Giants Stadium against such a tough opponent? Share your thoughts below.
deberian temer el hecho de jugar con una seleccion superior futbolistica y mentalmente,com lo es la argentina
Argentina
Any word on the playing surface this week?
Will Giants Stadium have grass for the US/ARG match (and potentially the Primetime Thursday NYRB/CUSA match)?
I meant bruce arena lost two games in the world cup and tied…and gets fired….in my opinion bob bradley sucks as coach…look at him he acts like the U.S. players dont need to be told what to do during the games. He just sits down and tries to look serious
Damn after Bob made the stupidest decision to put low level rookies in the Copa america hopefully he will use the experience he gained in that tournament, if at all, and get a win against Argentina, which i doubt, but yeah this guy Bob is stupid how the hell does he go to Europe lose and come back and intend to beat Argentina?
This guy at least knows now that you don’t put up a stupid line up against Argentina, unless you wanna get fired..
Seriously Bob Bradley should be fired for letting his son play in the MNT and he should be fired for losing all these games in a row. The only reason Bruce arena was fired was because he lost 3 games in a row and had one respectful tie with Italy in the world Cup. SEriously Bruce Arena was a more better coach than Bob Bradley , BOB Bradley sucks, all he does is sit in the bench and think about How to look as if he is really thinking. That guy needs to be fired….whos with me on this one?
Argentina is gonna woop u.s.a.’s butt on sunday i have tickets to go see them cant wait
im super excited my family is from argentina so i cant wait to see them play where can i find tickets?
Very excited about the game in NJ. We will probably come up from TAMPA FL to see the game. Make a bit of a vacation out of it. I’m American and my wife is from Argentina. It should be fun!
Where can I buy tickets for this game?
I am moving to NJ on June 1st and my roommate is from Argentina!! We are so excited and definitely going to be there! She says she has never seen Argentina play because it is too dangerous there.
WOW! JUST WOW!!! ARGENTINA, WHO IVE SUPPORTED ALL MY LIFE ARE COMING TO THE USA?!?!?!?!!? I’m GONNA DRIVE ALL THE WAY FROM MIDWEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh god i wana go to this game so badly. My friends dad is a Red Bull Lawyer…guess i’ll be being really nice to him for the next couple’a months……
anyone know where to get tickets?
im trying ticketmaster and stuff, but nothing
I hope Argentina brings their full squad so we can get a sense for where the young American team matches up. I would like to think that the US young guys will bring their A game as they will be fired up to prove that the US squad that lost in Copa America was our 3rd string team. And that it will be much tougher for the Argentina squad against a fairly stacked US first team. The biggest question will be what the US will do on the left side of the field. Left back and left middie are quite soft these days.
I am just glad that the US team is playing some decent competition. Would love to see more of it going forward.
Hellz yeah! There will be a group of us from Tennessee who have already set plans in motion to be there. It would be nice to get some more games in the south, atl, nashville would be awesome!
will there be separate sections for Argentinian and American fans??
I like the quality of teams the US is playing. It’s the only way to go. Great job Sunil and Bob!!!
great this is the best news i’ve heard all day.
Even MLS games there are on grass before NFL season starts…it will be on grass…
can’t wait to get tix…hope they do somthin for RB season ticket holders…
This game will be played on grass, I promise you. Argentina would have refused to play there without grass.
Every big club and national team that has played at Giants stadium has made grass a requirement of any agreement they made. Argentina will do the same, and so will any big foreign clubs that might play here on tour this year.
Corksoccer…it will be played on grass.
Also, I heard they wouldn’t give these big games to Philly because they fear for the safety of the players. Both teams obviously.
when do tix go on sale?
Sorry I know this is not releated to the US and Argentina but I have to ask. Can Juan Toja from FC Dallas play for the US? I know Conde from Colombia is wanting to play for the US National team. He has never played for the Colombian Nat’l team just with the Sub and under teams. I wonder if C. TOja would welcome that know that he lives in the US and if that is what he wants.
Yeah StubHub where you pay 100x’s the regular ticket price. Someone explain why is it legal to scalp on the internet, but you try to sell a ticket on the street for face value and they haul you away.
Oops, Pete…I didn’t know Giants’ stadium history re: grass. I hope you’re right!
We should have a poll on the sod issue. I think they should roll it out, but I don’t think they will.
Ives, is it true the US is also facing England in the summer at Wembley?
Anyone who doesn’t think they’re using real grass for this obviously has never watched a big exhibition match at Giants Stadium. They ALWAYS use a grass field, whether it’s for one match or a tournament. See Red Bulls-Barca in 06 or the Ireland-Ecuador friendly last year.
It’s nice to play them at full strength in a friendly. I would rather it be a competitive match… but of course we had a chance to do that last summer and chose to run out a bunch of C-listers and U-21s. Sigh.
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I LIKE THIS MOVE. I WANT TO GO TO THE STADIUM NOW, JUST TO ROOT AGAINST THE ARGENTINIANS. THE U.S. CAN TURNS SOME HEADS WITH A GOOD RESULT IN THIS MATCH.
What’s the best way to get tix for the match?
With hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of Argentine players on the field, and with the Argentine Football Association receiving cues from the European clubs who own the players’ contracts, you bet they’ll get the sod rolled out for this friendly.