Soccer World Cup 2010 / United States

This article covers the United States national soccer team at the 2010 Soccer World Cup .

qualification

The team qualified via the CONCACAF qualifying games for the World Cup in South Africa .

Due to a bye for the first round, the team only took part from the second qualifying round, where it clearly prevailed with an 8-0 and 1-0 home and away match against Barbados .

In the third round, the team under national coach Bob Bradley met Trinidad and Tobago , Guatemala and Cuba . Here, too, with five wins and one defeat from six games, the first place in the group was clearly occupied and the USA reached the fourth qualifying round.

The US national team was again the group winner in the fourth qualifying round, where Mexico , Honduras , Costa Rica , El Salvador and the opponent from the previous round Trinidad and Tobago waited as opponents .

Second round

June 15, 2008 : USA - Barbados 8: 0 (3: 0)

June 22, 2008 : Barbados - USA 0: 1 (0: 1)

Third round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	United States	14: 3	15th
2	Trinidad and Tobago	9: 6	11
3	Guatemala	6: 7	5
4th	Cuba	5:18	3

August 20, 2008 : Guatemala - USA 0: 1 (0: 0)

September 6, 2008 : Cuba - USA 0: 1 (0: 1)

September 10, 2008 : USA - Trinidad and Tobago 4: 1 (1: 1)

October 11, 2008 : USA - Cuba 6: 1 (2: 1)

October 15, 2008 : Trinidad and Tobago - USA 2: 1 (0: 0)

November 19, 2008 : USA - Guatemala 2-0 (0-0)

Fourth round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	United States	19:13	20th
2	Mexico	16:10	19th
3	Honduras	17:11	16
4th	Costa Rica	15:15	16
5	El Salvador	9:15	8th
6th	Trinidad and Tobago	10:22	6th

February 11, 2009 : USA - Mexico 2-0 (1-0)

March 28, 2009 : El Salvador - USA 2: 2 (1: 0)

April 1, 2009 : USA - Trinidad and Tobago 3-0 (1-0)

June 3, 2009 : Costa Rica - USA 3: 1 (2: 0)

June 6, 2009 : USA - Honduras 2: 1 (1: 1)

August 12, 2009 : Mexico - USA 2: 1 (1: 1)

September 5, 2009 : USA - El Salvador 2: 1 (2: 1)

September 9, 2009 : Trinidad and Tobago - USA 0: 1 (0: 0)

October 10, 2009 : Honduras - USA 2: 3 (0: 0)

October 14, 2009 : USA - Costa Rica 2: 2 (0: 2)

American contingent

National coach Bob Bradley announced his final World Cup squad on May 26th, removing Alejandro Bedoya (Örebro SK), Brian Ching (Houston Dynamo), Eddie Johnson (Aris Thessaloniki), Sacha Klještan (CD Chivas ) from the provisional 30-player squad USA), Chad Marshall (Columbus Crew), Heath Pearce (FC Dallas) and Robbie Rogers (Columbus Crew).

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Tim Howard	Everton FC	03/06/1979	4th	0	0	0	0
18th	Brad Guzan	Aston Villa	09/09/1984	0	0	0	0	0
23	Marcus Hahnemann	Wolverhampton Wanderers	06/15/1972	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Jonathan Spector	West Ham United	03/01/1986	0	0	0	0	0
3	Carlos Bocanegra	Rennes stadium	May 25, 1979	4th	0	1	0	0
5	Oguchi Onyewu	AC Milan	05/13/1982	2	0	0	0	0
6th	Steven Cherundolo	Hannover 96	02/19/1979	4th	0	2	0	0
12	Jonathan Bornstein	CD Chivas USA	11/07/1984	2	0	0	0	0
15th	Jay DeMerit	Watford FC	December 04, 1979	4th	0	1	0	0
21st	Clarence Goodson	IK start	05/17/1982	0	0	0	0	0
midfield player
4th	Michael Bradley	Borussia M'gladbach	07/31/1987	4th	1	0	0	0
7th	DaMarcus Beasley	Glasgow Rangers	05/24/1982	1	0	1	0	0
8th	Clint Dempsey	Fulham FC	03/09/1983	4th	1	0	0	0
11	Stuart Holden	Bolton Wanderers	08/01/1985	1	0	0	0	0
13	Ricardo Clark	Eintracht Frankfurt	02/10/1983	2	0	1	0	0
16	José Francisco Torres	CF Pachuca	October 29, 1987	1	0	0	0	0
19th	Maurice Edu	Glasgow Rangers	04/18/1986	3	0	0	0	0
22nd	Benny Feilhaber	Aarhus GF	January 19, 1985	3	0	0	0	0
striker
9	Hérculez Gomez	Puebla FC	04/06/1982	3	0	0	0	0
10	Landon Donovan	Los Angeles Galaxy	03/04/1982	4th	3	0	0	0
14th	Edson Buddle	Los Angeles Galaxy	05/21/1981	2	0	0	0	0
17th	Jozy Altidore	Hull City	11/06/1989	4th	0	1	0	0
20th	Robbie Findley	Real Salt Lake City	08/04/1985	3	0	2	0	0
Trainer
	Bob Bradley		03.03.1958

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	United States	4: 3	5
2	England	2: 1	5
3	Slovenia	3: 3	4th
4th	Algeria	0: 2	1

In the preliminary round of the World Cup 2010 in South Africa, the US team met in Group C on England , Algeria and Slovenia . After wresting a draw from the English in the first game and also equalizing a 2-0 deficit against Slovenia, they secured progress with a 1-0 last minute against Algeria. Thanks to the more goals scored, they were even ahead of group favorites England in the table.

• Saturday June 12, 2010; 8:30 p.m. in Rustenburg England - USA 1: 1 (1: 1)
  

• Friday June 18, 2010; 16:00 in Johannesburg Slovenia - USA 2: 2 (2: 0)
  

• Wednesday June 23, 2010; 16:00 in Tshwane / Pretoria USA - Algeria 1: 0 (0: 0)
  

Final round

Round of 16

The US selection qualified as the winners of Group C for the round of 16 and met Ghana , the runner-up in Group D.

• Saturday June 26, 2010; 8:30 p.m. in Rustenburg USA - Ghana 1: 2 a.d. (1: 1, 0: 1)
  

The USA were eliminated in the round of 16.

Web links

• All matches in the preliminary round at a glance ( memento from September 29, 2010 on the Internet Archive ) on FIFA.com
• FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010: Squad USA ( Memento from June 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jere Longman: Final Cuts for US World Cup roster. May 26, 2010, accessed February 24, 2016 .