What a leap day.
Clint Dempsey scored the winner for the senior men's side at 55' for the first win in Europe against a European team since forever. The last time the team faced Italy it was a card-fest, and ended in a draw that saw the team fail to qualify for the knockout stage of the 2006 World Cup.
The women trashed Denmark five nil as Alex Morgan netted a brace. The team is participating in the Algarve Cup, an annual tournament in Portugal held in high esteem in the women's soccer world, though obviously overshadowed this year by the looming Olympics. The senior women's national team has won the Cup seven of the last nine years, falling on penalties those other two times.
the Olympic squad took on the Mexican U-23 team in Texas as well Wednesday and completed the trifecta of victories. Juan Agudelo found the net off a Mix Diskerud corner, then Diskerud found net, redirecting Freddy Adu's bomb.
More to come tomorrow.
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