On this day in 2004, easy win over Honduras

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‪🇺🇸 #USMNT‬ 4-0 🇭🇳 Honduras

‪📍 ‬Foxborough

‪👔 ‬Arena

‪📋 ‬Friendly

This friendly before two qualifiers should give the US all the confidence they need.

22'
Brian McBride nodded in this Steve Cherundolo cross to give the Yanks the lead.

37'
McBride doubles his tally and the lead with this run and left-footed shot to the near post after a Conor Casey flick.

77'
Eddie Lewis gets his after a Claudio Reyna corner bounced in the six-yard box and Lewis is the quickest to react.

81'
Tony Sanneh scored his third and final USMNT goal when he skied for the Reyna set-piece and found the bottom corner.

Scorers: Brian McBride (Steve Cherundolo) 22′, (Conor Casey) 37′, Eddie Lewis (unassisted) 77′, Tony Sanneh (Claudio Reyna) 81′

USA: 13-Tim Howard; 6- Steve Cherundolo, 22-Tony Sanneh, 4-Carlos Bocanegra (12-Cory Gibbs, 72′), 3-Greg Vanney (15-Bobby Convey, 46′); 10-Claudio Reyna (Capt.), 14-Chris Armas (25-Pablo Mastroeni, 46′), 21-Landon Donovan, 17-DaMarcus Beasley (7-Eddie Lewis, 46′); 20-Brian McBride, 9-Conor Casey (8-Earnie Stewart, 63′)

Subs not used: 24-Jonny Walker

HON: 25-Victor Coello (1-Hector Medina, 15′); 6-Milton Palacios (24-Victor Bernardez, 46′), 2-Nery Medina, 3-Maynor Figueroa, 23-Mauricio Sabillon (17-Roy Posas, 73′), 16-Victor Mena, 20-Amado Guevara (Capt.), 12-Maynor Suazo, 14-Wilson Palacios (5-Elmer Marin, 63′); 9-Carlos Pavon (11-Milton Nunez, 59′), 8-Jerry Palacios (13-Emil Martinez, 46′)

Subs not used: 4-Junior Izaguirre, 15-Elkin Gonzalez, 21-Wilmer Velasquez

Referee: Rodolfo Sibrian (SLV)

Cards: Amado Guevara [R 40′], Maynor Suazo [Y 65′], Maynor Figueroa [Y 74′]

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On this day in 2007, tune-up win over China

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‪🇺🇸 #USMNT‬ 4-1 🇨🇳 China

‪📍 ‬San Jose

‪👔 ‬Bradley

‪📋 ‬Friendly

A tune-up before the Gold Cup turned into a convincing win in the Yanks' last meeting with the Chinese.

10'
DaMarcus Beasley converts from the spot to open the scoring.

28'

After 🇨🇳 equalized five minutes after the penalty, Benny Feilhaber equalized after Sacha Kljestan worked hard to push the ball over the goalie and toward the goal. Feilhaber got the final touch to help it over the line.

75'
Clint Dempsey got in on the act when he headed in a Feilhaber corner.

79'
Oguchi Onyewu capped the scoring on another set-piece. This time, Beasley hooks in the free-kick from the right side and Onyewu found the bottom corner with his head.

Scorers: DaMarcus Beasley (PK) 10′, Benny Feilhaber (Sacha Kljestan) 28′, Clint Dempsey (Benny Feilhaber) 75′, Oguchi Onyewu (DaMarcus Beasley) 79′ — Zhang Yaokun (Wang Peng) 15′


USA: 1-Tim Howard (18-Kasey Keller, 46′); 17-Jonathan Spector (2-Frank Simek, 74′), 22-Oguchi Onyewu, 3-Carlos Bocanegra (Capt.), 13-Jonathan Bornstein; 16-Sacha Kljestan (11-Kamani Hill, 74′), 5-Benny Feilhaber (15-Jesse Marsch, 80′), 6-Michael Bradley; 8-Clint Dempsey, 7-DaMarcus Beasley (14-Lee Nguyen, 80′); 9-Ante Razov (19-Charlie Davies, 66′)

Subs not used: 12-Jay DeMerit

Head Coach: Bob Bradley

CHN: 42-Chen Dong; 3-Zhang Shuai, 4-Zhang Yaokun, 13-Xu Yunlong, 5-Sun Xiang; 19-Dong Fangzhuo (18-Zheng Bin, 67′), 8-Li Tie (29-Li Yan, 76′), 21-Zhao Xuri (11-Du Wenhui, 89′), 28-Wang Dong; 9-Shao Jiayi (Capt.), 26-Wang Peng (7-Qu Bo, 59′)

Subs not used: 1-Zong Lei, 12-Cao Yang, 16-Ji Mingyi, 17-Hao Junmin, 20-Zhang Baofeng, 25-Xin Feng, 27-Du Zhenyu, 45-Yang Jun

Head Coach: Zhu Guanghu

Referee: Hugo Guajardo (MEX)

Cards: Michael Bradley [Y 81′] — Chen Dong [Y 9′]

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On this day in 2013, four past Germany

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‪🇺🇸 #USMNT‬ 4-3 🇩🇪 Germany

‪📍 ‬Washington DC

‪👔 ‬Klinsmann

‪📋 ‬Friendly

The Yanks earned its first win over the Germans in almost 15 years.

13'
Graham Zusi's cross is turned home on the volley by Jozy Altidore.

16'

Things go from bad to worse for 🇩🇪 with back-pass from Benedikt Howedes sneaking past Marc-Andre ter Stegen.

60'

Jozy Altidore takes down the long ball from Jermaine Jones and after some control, clips the ball into the box with his left foot and Clint Dempsey finds the back of the net on the half volley.

64
Dempsey caps a near-perfect day with this long-distance strike. Max Kruse and Julian Draxler scored either side of the 80' to make the USMNT sweat, but they held onto the lead.

Scorers: Jozy Altidore (Graham Zusi) 13′, Clint Dempsey (Jozy Altidore) 60′, Clint Dempsey (unassisted) 64′ — Marc-Andre ter Stegen (OG) 16′, Heiko Westermann (Max Kruse) 51′, Max Kruse (Julian Draxler) 78′, Julian Draxler (unassisted) 81′

USA: 1-Tim Howard; 6-Brad Evans, 3-Omar Gonzalez, 5-Matt Besler, 7-DaMarcus Beasley (2-Edgar Castillo, 56′); 4-Michael Bradley, 13-Jermaine Jones, 19-Graham Zusi (18-Eddie Johnson, 56′), 23-Fabian Johnson (24-Brad Davis, 46′); 8-Clint Dempsey, 17-Jozy Altidore (25-Terrence Boyd, 81′)

Subs not used: 12-Brad Guzan, 11-Stuart Holden, 15-Michael Parkhurst, 16-Sacha Kljestan, 20-Geoff Cameron, 21-Clarence Goodson

Head Coach: Jurgen Klinsmann

GER: 22-Marc-Andre ter Stegen; 4-Benedikt Howedes, 7-Marcell Jansen (6-Dennis Aogo, 46′), 17-Per Mertesacker (23-Phillip Wollsched, 46′); 3-Stefan Reinartz, 8-Julian Draxler, 9-Andre Schurrle (18-Sydney Sam, 65′), 10-Lukas Podolski, 15-Lars Bender (5-Heiko Westermann, 46′), 16-Sven Bender (20-Max Kruse, 46′); 11-Miroslav Klose (13-Nicolai Muller, 79′)

Subs not used: 1-Rene Adler, 12-Ron-Rober Zieler, 14-Aaron Hunt, 21-Roman Neustadter

Head Coach: Joachim Low

Referee: Paul Delgadillo (MEX)

Cards: none

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Player Profile: Freddy Adu

Born on June 2, 1989, in Tema, 🇬🇭, Adu was drafted first overall in the 2004 MLS SuperDraft, heading to DC United. He was traded to Real Salt Lake before bouncing around clubs all over the world, with stints in 🇫🇷, 🇵🇹, 🇹🇷 and 🇫🇮, among others.

He produced at a high clip at various levels in the USYNT. He made 17 caps for the USMNT, scoring twice. Here is his first on Nov 19, 2008 in a World Cup qualifier against 🇬🇹.

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