The U.S. U-20s are in action in today's Milk Cup Final, taking on Northern Ireland as the European Youth tournament comes to a close.
Thomas Rongen's side is in the final after Wednesday's win over Denmark, and look to take home the trophy against the host side. The game kicked off at 1 p.m., and a BBC live stream of the action can be viewed here.
If you will be watching the action, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action.
yep, and if davies had gotten the nod and played half a game you’d be saying the same thing about him. Gooch should not have gone, but we really didn’t have many other options did we?
Charlie Davies had some good goals back in 2005, beating his man and using his pace to get to goal, which was effective. The thing I like about this team is that they absolutely dominated play and controlled the game as a complete 11 man team. If you consider how Charlie Davies has somehow become essential to our best XI after his showing back in 2005, the future is definitely bright for our national team. I hope this U-20 generation really gets out and into European play as quickly as possible – the MLS can keep taking NCAA players like Ream, Tchani, & Ike Opara.
played against him in highschool, facebook friends with him and im in one of his facebook photos
The opposition gets a lot tougher.
Adu was a star at this level then he had to face real men. Northern Ireland are just not very good at this point.
US fans get so eager to anoint these youngsters as the next saviors; it’s bad idea.
Gale > then Subotic
He and Opara will rule our backline one day.
Ha! Kaka from Brazil — thanks for clarifying which Kaka you meant.
Does anyone else believe Salgado loooks just like Kaka from Brazil???
man alive, our young bucks can FINISH. love it.
Is this satire?
I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one.
It’s been a pretty consistent team and winning this game will be a crown for the steadfast performance. All the best to this team!!!
I want to know that as well. Not sure if he was angry at something or just fired up, but he was saying something for sure.
Chill out. He’s been speaking so highly of Davies all game and it’s just his accent that makes it sound like Davis. Have you ever heard British commentators pronounce Simon Davies of Fulham…sounds just like they’re saying Davis.
Yeah, use that milk for tea. Unnatural. 😛
Didn’t see the above comment.
has anyone else noticed that Salgado kind of looks like Kaka?
We dominated the tournament… and our best 3 or 4 players didn’t even come.
Great day for the US Youth program 🙂
That’s just his accent.
They just said that they look bigger and stronger than their age. He probably didn’t mean that they were older just that they are bigger and stronger.
IT’S DAVIES!
salgado looks like a young kaka. LOVE IT.
Haha, I can understand the accusation. Our players are absolutely huge. Salgado, Ruelas, Ibrahim are all big boys.
They were talking about the stronger, taller aspect, and one of the commentators made a quieter comment about “looks like they are all a year older or so than the Irish team”.
I’m guessing you haven’t heard of Rongen before. haha.
I like him, he lets his players play. But some of his lineup decisions are questionable. But wouldn’t want him on the nats.
But what I was getting at … there are a legion of US fans that want this guy out of the US system.
Congrats to our young boys!! Salgado looks physically like KAKA when he was young.:) If only he can play like him in the future.
Agudelo,Reulas,Agbo,Molano, these are going to be great players for us in the future. Definitely impressive.
I didn’t catch it, what did he say?
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY to soon
Loving this coverage! Nice interviews 🙂
Would have liked to see Gil, Renken and Gyau. But in fairness, Rongen wanted to call up/check out some guys who have not been in the US system before and the three I just mentioned are still only 17-18. And not sure what the health situation is right now with Renken and Gyau. Still, would have been nice.
And what about Lester Dewee of Marseille?
I know its not always wise to make decisions in the moment, but…. Rongen for Nats?
The American players were “faster, stronger and taller”
Haven’t heard that before
Also what was the NI manager ranting at Rongen?
Also another Charlie “Davis” reference
Did the commentator just accuse the US of cheating the age requirement?
I’m pretty sure that was the inference.
Nothing like the taste of Cup victory to cement the choice of dual-citizenship guys.
Agudelo ends the game by dribbling through 3 Irish defenders like it was nothing.
Love it.
Commentators again mentioned that Macmath (GK) is Everton bound.
Our players are rather large for this age.
“That’s brilliant, and it’s not taught by Rongen and co.”
yes, but let’s be sure not to give the credit to Rongen. It will serve all the haters right for BB to be replaced by Rongen – hahaha. All the negativity from US fans is rediculous.
Anyone notice that Hot for Powers. hehehe
Best player is Salgado. Surefire pro player. The Boss and Ruelas are right behind him. MacMath, Agudelo, Garza and No. 7 are all fab. Not sure I would tyake any of these guys over Sebastian or Zahadi, but this is the best crop of young players we’ve ever had.
Yeah, I think a lot of people were hard on Boss after the last U-20 world cup, but he was one of the youngest guys on the team I think and will still get another shot at the U-20.
I agree. All i’ve seen of him was his few matches in Miami.
I take everything back that I thought. It also shows why I’m an IT Tech and not a scout. Ha
Didn’t look like it to me. But it’s a red-worthy offense! I’m not one of those people that just protects his own guys.
Come on. It might have been a girl’s punch, but it was a punch!
I’m going to go ahead and believe that Gooch will recover from his injury just as many others have. He just wasn’t far enough along in his recovery/fitness. Gooch will be back.
Gotta say the Boss I thought was over-rated, but I’m impressed by how calm he is when he is turned backwards; five times in this game he made a play to control and then distribute after turning towards his own goal with the ball. That’s brilliant, and it’s not taught by Rongen and co. We’re too straight-ahead defensively, and this kid might be the final break from our kindergarten approach of kick the ball as far as you can!
Looks like Gale was a little too protective.
Hopefully FIFA bans that Irish punk for good.
Cleating a keeper as he runs by? Not surprised.
It looked like the Irish player cleated MacMath as he was running by with the ball in his hands.
He fell and Boss protected him, and was apparently choked.
Yet Boss somehow gets ejected as well, and the guy who cleated our keeper gets nothing. At least the guy who looks like he choked Boss got sent off.
it was gale I was thinking of, kids got talent
Not sure I’d call it a punch, but the red was justified.