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[PosterFormerlyKnownAsRFAA]

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
ESPN Getting it Done

Once again, the Worldwide Leader in Sports has come through for U.S. fans. After much effort to work the schedule, the USA-Costa Rica qualifier will be shown live on ESPN on June 3 at 10 p.m. ET.

ESPN also announced the full broadcast for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup. ESPN and ESPN2 will combine to televise all matches of the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup from June 14-28 And to go one step better, all the matches will be available in High Definition.

ESPN will televise the the match between the United States and 2006 FIFA World Cup champion Italy (June 15, 2:25 p.m. ET), while ESPN2 will carry the match against Brazil (June 18, 9:55 a.m. ET) and Egypt (June 21, 2:25 p.m. ET).

For the complete listings, log on to espn.com

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[MSUCostanza]

that the Champions League Final was in HD. ESPN sucks at a lot and annoys a lot, but they are really stepping up where soccer is concerned. Seeing EPL highlights on SportsCenter awhile back was pretty shocking.

I assume that we are playing Italy over there based on the start time?

 

[Hanmudog]

The goalies sometimes allowed the ball to pass just so they can watch the homoerotic celebrations.

 

[Uncle Leo]

The groups appear less than even.

According to the latest FIFA World Rankings, the average ranking of Group A is 61 and Group B is 15. Well done.

 

[MSUCostanza]

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[RobbieRandolph]

For years under Bruce Arena and especially Steve Sampson we have played joke friendlies leading up to the World Cup. Now the Confed Cup isn't really a friendly, but the games we'll play there are against top level competition in the same environment and location as the World Cup in 2010.

The Confed Cup will be nice litmus test to see what Bradley has done with the national team thus far on a worldwide level and I personally am looking forward to see how we stack up to Brazil and Italy.

 

[phillydawg]

nfm

 

[Coach33.sixpack]

The goalies sometimes allowed the ball to pass just so they can watch the homoerotic celebrations.