According to the Bolivian Federation president, Walter Castedo, the Bolivian NT will play a friendly against the US on May 26 in the US. I suppose it will be in Washington D.C. but he did not say. The Bolivian team will get $50,000 for this match and will be coached by Carlos Trucco, former NT goalkeeper. Source: All the newschannels in Bolivia.
A quick check of the calendar indicates May 26, 2003 is a Monday (Memorial Day), and DC United has no match scheduled that weekend.
I would love to go for that one. Think that Bolivia would call in Marco and Vaca for this match? It would be a nice farewell for Marco, and a great time to see if Vaca is ready to play at the next level.
ESPN2 has blocked off 10PM-12AM for a Men's National team match on this date. The orginial spectulation was that the game would be in San Jose. The Earthquakes are home on 5/17 and 5/31, with no game scheduled for memorial day weekend, so either of those matches could be moved for a doubleheader if they wanted...
A very good tuneup for the big summer coming. US soccer is doing a good job scheduling friendlies against competative teams which are willing to come to the US and play.
According to the extended schedule I posted a long time ago which is now buried, that date is for San Jose. The source was from inside US Soccer.. If you look at it you'll see that all the "predictions" of dates have held true so far if you doubt my source. https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25755
Boy, I hope that the game is played in DC instead of San José. Spartan Stadium is brutal for international games.
This is a West Coast date, based on the TV time. No chance of it happening in D.C., unless they want it to be televised on tape-delay.
The last time, we played them did we win or tie? Wasn't that in a tournament like gold cup or something?? -PB20
Wolves 67 thanks this is as good or better than last years pre cup schedule.Would be nice to see El Diablo play for Bolivia at RFK. I was at the 96 game us nike cup v Bolivia Moreno scored early in a 2-0 loss how little did we know what glory those two would bring to DCU. Finally USsoccer is doing it's job.
I think it was a friendly match which ended in a tie. I'm pretty sure it was Arena's second game or something.
From the archives... 24 January 1999 Santa Cruz, Bolivia Bolivia 0:0 USA Bolivia (4-4-2) - Fernandez, S. Castillo, Jiguchi, Arana, Alvarez, Tufino, Justiniano (Loayza 74), R. Gutierrez (Liendo 46), Ramos (Galindo 68), Gottardi (B. Suarez 46), L. Gutierrez (R. Suarez 68) USA (3-5-2) - Meola, Fraser, Agoos, Pope (Brown 64), Lewis (Baba 75), Armas, Reyna, Jones, Kirovski, McBride, Moore (Lassiter 68) Imad Baba?!?!?!?! Whoa.
Is there any hope we could see the US open up the HDNTC? I think thatd be the best. Time slot looks good, looks around the date they expect to see it open. Hhmmmmm.........
Might be a long shot, but I think they're keeping the possibility open. It sounds to me like they have the TV time slot and the opponent locked up. Maybe they're waiting another month or so to announce it so that they can get a projection on completion time for the NTC before deciding between that and somewhere like San Jose. From what I've seen/read, it sounds like the NTC is pretty far along, except the actual playing surface. Much of the structure and seating seems to be in place. It does seem odd to me that U.S. Soccer sounds like they're playing a high-profile match (Portugal) across the country (Gillette/Foxboro or Giants Stadium) the same weekend as the Galaxy's home opener at the new place, that USSF is partners with them on. Maybe there is something in the works with U.S. Soccer as the high-profile opener of the NTC.
Previous sources all point to Costa Rica (Steve Sampson!) in San Jose, California on that date. Of course, nothing is confirmed, so this could be a change.