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ASN Morning Read: A New Night, Another Draw
They came, they saw, the conquered—right up until the 87th minute or so when it all fell apart and the Americans settled for another tie. The women's national team should fare better in its Wednesday match.
BY
Noah Davis
Posted
October 15, 2014
7:56 AM
Jozy Altidore put the United States ahead but Honduras tallied a late equalizer on Tuesday night. The team looked good while it had the starters on the field. Why don't you tell us how you felt with the player ratings system? Go ahead, get all the frustration out.
The Jermaine Jones center back experiment is going well so far:
The United States women shouldn't have much trouble qualifying for the 2015 World Cup. The road begins tonight against Trinidad & Tobago at Sporting Park (8:30 p.m.; Fox Sports 2)
Christian Press, star of the almost-present: “I kind of dropped all of that pressure, dropped that kind of tenseness that I had on the field—that I had to be perfect, I had to score, I couldn’t choke—and that thought that was kind of creeping in my head. It just quieted when I was in Gothenburg, and I was able to be independent. I was able to live on my own in a new country, be any person I wanted to, be whatever player I wanted to be. As soon as I had that comfort on the field and that freedom, I started to convert a lot more of my chances, and I actually re-found my love for the game. I stopped thinking about everything being goal-oriented, everything being about competition. It was also something bigger than that, just loving the sport, enjoying yourself, finding yourself. When I was able to better live in the moment that I was in, I think that it really freed me.”
Dom Kinnear will leave the Houston Dynamo for San Jose. He managed the Earthquakes before they moved to Houston. History is a powerful force.
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