3rd Degree are reporting that FC Dallas have waived injury plagued 32 year old Costa Rican defender Daniel Torres. Torres has one cap for the Costa Rican national team and made 15 appearances this season for FC Dallas. The 32 year old has had stints with Deportivo Saprissa, Tromso, Bryne, Real Salt Lake and Columbus [...]

Players will talk about the long and strenuous road that is qualifying for the World Cup. For the U.S. men’s national team, this last week of qualifying has been as emotionally charged as any other.
Finding themselves down a goal with only minutes remaining in stoppage time, Jonathan Bornstein connected with a Robbie Rogers corner kick [...]

Two tournaments, two second-place finishes, and more noteably two second-half collapses.
But is that how American supporters should remember this summer’s U.S. soccer campaign?
The U.S. failed to hold a 2-0 lead at halftime against Brazil, then after outplaying Mexico for the first 50 minutes of the Gold Cup final; they were embarrassed to the tune of [...]

Here is this years complete 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup television broadcast schedule:
Group Stage:

Group
Date
Match
Time
TV
Venue

A
July 3
Canada vs. Jamaica
8 p.m. ET
Galavision
Los Angeles

A
July 3
Costa Rica vs. El Salvador
10 p.m. ET
TeleFutura
Los Angeles

B
July 4
Honduras vs. Haiti
7 p.m. ET
Galavision
Seattle

B
July 4
Grenada vs. United States
9 p.m. ET
FSC & TeleFutura
Seattle

C
July 5
Panama vs. Guadaloupe
5 p.m. ET
Galavision
San Francisco

C
July 5
Nicaragua vs. Mexico
7 p.m. ET
Univision
San Francisco

A
July 7
Jamaica vs. Costa [...]

Coming off a poor performance against Costa Rica, how would the U.S. respond? Finding themselves down early yet again, see how Bradley’s boys faired this time.

The atmosphere in preparation to this match was the same as it was down on the field, pressure-filled. Coming into their match with Costa Rica, the U.S. men’s national team had never won a World Cup qualifying match in Saprissa Stadium.
On a humid night in Costa Rica, in front of a lively and boisterous, the [...]

With World Cup qualification play set to resume in about a week, the U.S. men’s national team will enter into a month-long stretch that will prove to be a litmus test for how well coach Bob Bradley has prepared his team for South Africa 2010.

After a their most recent 3-0 victory versus Trinidad and Tobago, the U.S. men’s national team will have a two month lay-off before resuming World Cup qualification action.