U.S. 1 Honduras 3
This one is mercifully over (if you're a U.S. fan).
Conor Casey shooting wide in second half stoppage time with only the goalkeeper to beat pretty
much summed up this poor effort.
A crowd of 18,626 - the largest crowd to see a U.S. friendly at Home Depot Center - witnessed
this one and it's hard to think of an American player who stood out tonight (although Robbie Rogers
was pretty active and did hit the post).
We're expecting a fourth consecutive day of at times torrential rain that hopefully is going
some way to easing the drought in Southern California, but the weather looks a helluva lot better
for Saturday when the U.S. plays Honduras at 6 p.m. in Carson.
The game is live on Fox Soccer Channel, but U.
Chivas USA and U.S. international defender Jonny Bornstein is auctioning off the pair of boots
he wore when he scored a goal for the U.S. on the final day of World Cup qualifying that sealed
Honduras' trip to South Africa and made him a national hero in the Central American nation.
Bornstein, of Los Alamitos, has autographed the boots and put them up for sale on eBay today
with 100 percent of the proceeds to go to the American Red Cross to aid in their relief efforts in
Haiti.
We're less than an hour away, and we have the USMNT line-up card. O brother, where art Geoff
Cameron?Perkins; Wynne, Conrad, Marshall, Bornstein; Kljestan, Feilhaber, Beckerman, Rogers;
Cunningham, FindleyBench: Rimando, Goodson, Pearce, McCarty, Bedoya, Casey, DavisBack later with
the wrap, enjoy the game.
The U.S. men's national team will kick off the new year tonight looking for a win against a
familiar foe in Honduras at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California (9pm ET, FSC and
Telefutura).
While tonight's match won't have most of the U.S. team regulars, there are potential World Cup
spots up for grabs, so it should be interesting to see how the fringe players fare in one of their
last opportunities to impress head coach Bob Bradley.
This week I had the pleasure to join Scott Bornstein, Sandra Franz, and Joe Covino on Winning Ugly
Radio's Episode 60: "Don't Sweat It, Bornstein is Gonna Get It." If you've never tuned in, it's a
comedy game show about the beautiful game. Trust me, it works.
