Story here. Alecko set up the tying goal, and put his penalty away in the tiebreaker. USA advance to meet Portugal in the tournament final after beating Russia 4-1 in PKs after a 1-1 draw.
Eski with the U-23s [R] Damn! Forgot to mark an [R] in the title! So below is a spoiler; BEWARE! He worked a give-and-go with Fire pick Nate Jaqua for the only US score vs Russia. US wins on PK's with Eski slotting him the first. http://www.planetfootball.com/article.asp?id=128914&cpid=218&title=USA+Under-23s+progress+to+final Reading about the give and go makes me think of Convey...
Re: Re: Eski with the U-23s [R] I am SOOOOO ashamed. I blame it all on my dad. He lives in northern Virginia.
Also want to give some love to our new backup 'keep, Doug Warren, who is on this tour and is the leading candidate to back-up DJ Countess on the Olympic team. Also, besides the 4 on this trip, Bobby Convey and Santino Quaranta are part of this pool. (Amazingly, even though the other 4 are rookies, Bobby and Tino are younger). If Mooch Myernick calls up a bunch of them for the Pan-Am Games this summer, we could be in a world of hurt, depth wise.