On this day in 2008, a big win over Poland

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🇺🇸 #USMNT 3-0 🇵🇱 Poland

📍 Krakow

👔 Bradley

📋 Friendly

Three set-piece goals lead the Yanks to a win on the road.

12’

Landon Donovan’s free-kick is nodded home by captain Carlos Bocanegra.

35’

Another set-piece, this time from a corner.

Donovan curls it in and Oguchi Onyewu is the first to meet the ball in the box.

Can’t let him get to that!

73’

Eddie Lewis sealed the win with one last dead ball.

His left-footed strike was curled past Artur Boruc.

Scorers: Carlos Bocanegra (Landon Donovan) 12′, Oguchi Onyewu (Landon Donovan) 35′, Eddie Lewis (unassisted) 73′

POL: 1-Artur Boruc; 13-Marcin Wasilewski, 6-Jacek Bak, 16-Arkadiusz Radomski (19-Michal Golinski, 63′), 3-Grzegorz Bronowicki; 21-Lukasz Piszczek (17-Wojciech Lobodzinski, 46′), 18-Mariusz Lewandowski, 5-Dariusz Dudka, 8-Jacek Krzynowek (7-Euzebiusz Smolarek, 46′); 9-Maciej Zurawski (10-Lukasz Gargula, 46′), 20-Pawel Brozek (11-Radolsaw Matusiak, 46′)

Subs not used: 2-Mariusz Jop, 4-Pawel Golanski, 12-Tomasz Kuszczak, 15-Michal Pazdan

Head Coach: Leo Beenhakker

USA: 1-Tim Howard; 6-Steve Cherundolo (17-Jonathan Spector, 72′), 22-Oguchi Onyewu (23-Jay DeMerit, 63′), 3-Carlos Bocanegra (Capt.), 5-Heath Pearce (20-Benny Feilhaber, 85′); 10-Landon Donovan (7-Eddie Lewis, 64′) 13-Ricardo Clark, 4-Michael Bradley, 8-Clint Dempsey; 11-Brian Ching (16-Josh Wolff, 63′), 9-Eddie Johnson

Subs not used: 24-Marcus Hahnemann, 12-Cory Gibbs

Head Coach: Bob Bradley

Referee: Anders Hermansen (DEN)

Cards: Marcin Wasilewski [Y 37′] — Josh Wolff [Y 89′]

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On this day in 1994, Perez's last US goals

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🇺🇸 #USMNT 2-2 🇧🇴 Bolivia

📍 Dallas

👔 Sampson

📋 Friendly

Hugo Perez’s brace helps the US to a draw. These would be the last two international goals Perez would score.

31’

The first was from the penalty spot around the half-hour mark.

47’

The second came on a counter just after the break.

Chris Henderson picks up the pass before laying the ball off to Perez for the empty net.

Mario Pinedo equalized for the visitors in the 76’.

Scorers: Hugo Pérez 31′ (PK), 48′ — Julio César Baldivieso 12′, Mario Pinedo 76′

USA: Tony Meola, Jeff Agoos (Paul Caligiuri 46′), Marcelo Balboa, Alexi Lalas, Desmond Armstrong, Mike Burns, Thomas Dooley, Hugo Pérez (Janusz Michallik 82′), Chris Henderson, Peter Vermes (Claudio Reyna 46′), Cobi Jones

BOL: Carlos Leonel Trucco, Marco Sandy, Miguel Angel Rimba, Modesto Soruco, Luis Cristaldo, Vladimir Soria, Ramiro Castillo (Mario Pinedo 72′), Julio César Baldivieso, Juan Carlos Chavez, Jaime Moreno (Richard Cueto 76′), William Ramallo (Guillermo Alvaro Pena 64′)

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On this day in 2011, a draw with Argentina

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🇺🇸 #USMNT 1-1 🇦🇷 Argentina

📍 East Rutherford

👔 Bradley

📋 Friendly

The first of two friendlies in March ends in a draw.

59’

After Esteban Cambiasso opened the scoring, Juan Agudelo pounced on this Mariano Andujar parried save.

Scorers: Juan Agudelo (Carlos Bocanegra) 59′ — Esteban Cambiasso (unassisted) 42′

USA: 1-Tim Howard; 2-Jonathan Spector (21-Timmy Chandler, 46′), 15-Jay DeMerit, 5-Oguchi Onyewu, 3-Carlos Bocanegra (Capt.), 13-Jermaine Jones (9-Juan Agudelo, 46′), 4-Michael Bradley, 7-Maurice Edu, 8-Clint Dempsey, 10-Landon Donovan; 17-Jozy Altidore

Subs not used: 6-Tim Ream, 12-Jonathan Bornstein, 14- Edson Buddle, 16-Sacha Kljestan, 23-Marcus Hahnemann

Head Coach: Bob Bradley

ARG: 1-Mariano Andujar; 8-Javier Zanetti, 4-Nicolas Burdisso, 6-Gabriel Milito; 24-Marco Rojo, 20-Ever Banega, 14-Javier Mascherano (Capt.), 5-Esteban Cambiasso (16-Lucas Biglia, 73′); 22-Ezequiel Lavezzi, 10-Lionel Messi, 7-Angel Di Maria

Subs not used: 3-Nicolas Otamendi, 9-Jose Josa, 11-Javier Pastore, 12-Adrian Gabbarini, 15-Marcos Angeleri, 17-Fernando Belluschi, 18-Nicolas Gaitan, 19-Mario Bolatti, 21-Augustin Marchesin, 23-Eduardo Salvio

Head Coach: Sergio Batista

Referee: Roberto Garcia (MEX)


Cards: Maurice Edu [Y 35′], Timmy Chandler [Y 48′], Landon Donovan [Y 79′], Carlos Bocanegra [Y 90+1]

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On this day in 2019, Pulisic's 10th goal

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🇺🇸 #USMNT 1-1 🇨🇱 Chile

📍 Houston

👔 Berhalter

📋 Friendly

The second of two friendlies against #Conmebol opponents ends in a draw.

4’

Christian Pulisic scores his 1️⃣0️⃣th international goal on his 2️⃣5️⃣th cap. Good pass from Gyasi Zardes.

Scorers: Christian Pulisic (Gyasi Zardes) 4′ — Oscar Opazo 9′

USA: 22-Ethan Horvath; 2-DeAndre Yedlin (Capt.), 19-Matt Miazga, 3-Omar Gonzalez, 13-Tim Ream; 4-Michael Bradley, 15-Cristian Roldan (18-Jonathan Lewis, 84′), 10-Christian Pulisic (17-Sebastian Lletget, 35′); 20-Corey Baird (16-Daniel Lovitz, 56′), 9-Gyasi Zardes (11-Jordan Morris, 79′), 7-Paul Arriola (6-Wil Trapp, 66′)

Subs not used: 12-Jesse Gonzalez, 5-John Brooks, 21-Christian Ramirez, 24-Nick Lima

Head coach: Gregg Berhalter

CHI: 1-Gabriel Arias; 4-Mauricio Isla, 6-Guillermo Maripán (19-Sebastián Vegas, 70), 8-Arturo Vidal, 9-Nicolas Castillo (7-Diego Rubio, 86), 10-Diego Valdés (13-Erick Pulgar, 70), 14-Esteban Pavez, 15-Oscar Opazo, 17-Gary Medel (Capt.), 18-Gonzalo Jara, 20-Charles Aránguiz (21-Jimmy Martínez, 90)

Subs not used: 12-Brayan Cortés, 23-Lawrence Vigouroux, 2-Eugenio Mena, 3-Igor Lichnovsky, 5-Paulo Díaz, 11-Felipe Mora, 16-Pedro Pablo Hernández, 22-Jean Meneses, 25-Iván Morales

Head coach: Reinaldo Rueda

Referee: Daneon Parchment (JAM)

Cards: Daniel Lovitz [Y 75′] — Esteban Pavez [Y 27′], Sebastián Vegas [Y 85′], Arturo Vidal [Y 90’+2]

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