Soccer Watch
Lightning on the road, U.S. defeat China, and more
By Nick Barbaro, Fri., June 8, 2007
ESPN Deportes Radio 1260AM is hosting the first COPA 1260 tournament, billed as featuring eight all-star teams culled from eight different local adult leagues. Should be interesting to see a variety of styles of play. Sunday, June 10, 9am-5pm. Southeast Metropolitan Park, out Highway 71 West, three miles past Bergstrom, on the left.
The U.S. men beat China, 4-1 Saturday night, while getting to use a lot of young players; they open their Gold Cup title defense this week with the full squad: Thursday, 8pm, Guatemala; Saturday, 4pm, Trinidad & Tobago; Tuesday, 6pm, El Salvador. All games are live on the Fox Soccer Channel.
No huge surprises in the Euro 2008 qualifiers Saturday and Wednesday – unless you count Copenhagen, where a drunken fan ran on the field, tried to punch the ref, and caused the home team to forfeit a game they had fought back from a 3-0 deficit to tie. I'm guessing that fellow will be lying low for a while. Elsewhere, England got another great game from (Sir?) David Beckham and a needed win in Estonia; pretty much all the other heavyweights held serve, and the European season is now really over – except in Spain, where play resumes this week with two games to play, and a three-team logjam at the top of the standings. Full Euro results online.
