Saturday, February 15, 2020

On this day in 1998, US fell in Gold Cup Final

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📍 Los Angeles
👔 Arena
📋 Gold Cup Final

I hate to do this.

The US’s effort to stop the Mexico Gold Cup three-peat wasn’t enough.

43’
Luis Hernandez’s powerful header finds the back of the net.

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Scorer: Luis Hernández 43′

USA: Kasey Keller, Frankie Hedjuk (Claudio Reyna 76′), Eddie Pope, Alexi Lalas (Brian McBride 82′), Jeff Agoos, Mike Burns, John Harkes, Roy Wegerle (Predrag Radosavljevic 46′), Joe-Max Moore, Eric Wynalda, Cobi Jones

MEX: Oscar Pérez, Pavel Prado, Claudio Suárez, Duilio Davino, Salvador Carmona, Roberto Medina (Raúl Lara 67′), Germán Villa, Javier Lozano (Braulio Luna 56′), Ramón Ramírez (Enrique Alfaro 86′), Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Luis Hernández

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