Rosters for USA vs Mexico

Mexico
GOALKEEPERS: Guillermo Ochoa (Club América), Luís Ernesto Michel (CD Guadalajara), Moisés Muñoz (Morelia)

DEFENDERS: Rafael Márquez (FC Barcelona / SPA), Carlos Salcido (PSV Eindhoven / HOL), Johnny Magallón (CD Guadalajara), Fausto Pinto (Pachuca), Israel Castro (Pumas UNAM), Oscar Rojas (América)

MIDFIELDERS: Pavel Pardo (VFB Stuttgart / GER), Gerardo Torrado (Cruz Azul), Francisco Arce (Santos Laguna), Andrés Guardado (Deportivo la Coruna / SPA), Antonio Naelson (Toluca)

FORWARDS: Giovani Dos Santos (FC Barcelona / SPA), Carlos Vela (Osasuna), Juan Carlos Cacho (Pachuca), Adolfo Bautista (Jaguares de Chiapas), Antonio de Nigris (Ankaraspor / TUR)

USA 

GOALKEEPERS: Brad Guzan (Aston Villa) , Tim Howard (Everton FC)

DEFENDERS : Carlos Bocanegra (Rennes), Jonathan Bornstein (Chivas USA), Danny Califf (FC Midtjylland), Frankie Hejduk (Columbus Crew), Oguchi Onyewu (Standard de Liege), Heath Pearce (Hansa Rostock), Marvell Wynne (Toronto FC)

MIDFIELDERS: DaMarcus Beasley (Glasgow Rangers), Michael Bradley (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Ricardo Clark (Houston Dynamo), Sacha Kljestan (Chivas USA), Robbie Rogers (Columbus Crew), José Francisco Torres (Pachuca)

FORWARDS: Jozy Altidore (Xerez C.D.), Brian Ching (Houston Dynamo), Charlie Davies (Hammarby IF) Clint Dempsey (Fulham FC), Landon Donovan (Bayern Munich)

Final scores and results from the German Bundesliga games played on Saturday, February 7, 2009.

Karlsruhe 3-2 Hamburger SV ( Sebastien Freis*2, Giovanni Federico/ Jose Guerrero, Collin Benjamin)
A late goal from Sebastien Freis gave Karlsruhe a surprise 3-2 win over Martin Jol’s Hamburger SV. Hamburg, who beat Bayern Munich last week, took a two goal lead and then shocking squandered it as Karlsruhe ended up surprise winners at the Wild Park Stadium. Giovanni Federico also scored his first Karlsruhe goal since his winter switch from Borussia Dortmund

Schalke 1-0 Werder Bremen ( Benedikt Hoewedes)
Schalke beat Werder Bremen thanks to a second half goal from defender Benedikt Hoewedes. Jermaine Jones however collected his fifth yellow card, and will miss next week’s game against Bochum due to suspension.
Wolfsburg 2-0 Bochum ( Edin Dzeko*2)
Edin Dzeko grabbed a brace as Wolfsburg secured their first win in the new year against Bochum at the Volkswagen Arena.
Borussia Moenchengladbach 1– TSG Hoffenheim ( Alexander Baumjohann/ Wellington)
Leaders TSG Hoffenheim nearly fell to a shock defeat against bottom place Gladbach, but were saved the blushes by Brazilian striker Wellington.
Bayer Leverkusen 2-4 Vfb Stuttgart ( Stefan Kiessling, Angelos Charisteas/ Mario Gomez*2, Lukas Sinkiewicz OG, Thomas Hitzlsperger)
Stuttgart won a high voltage six goal encounter against Bayer Leverkusen thanks to a wonderful individual performance from Mario Gomez. Greek striker Angelos Charisteas also scored on his debut for Leverkusen. Bayer’s hopes of landing something from the game were hugely reduced when Arturo Vidal was sent off early in the second half.
Eintracht Frankfurt 2-2 Cologne ( Marko Russ, Martin Fenin/Milivoje Novakovic*2)
Eintracht Frankfurt drew with Cologne at the Commerzbank Arena. Milivoje Novakovic scored twice for Cologne, including a penalty that proved to be the equaliser after Christian Henning was sent off for hauling Radu down.

Games Airing Sunday February 8 2009

11 a.m. EST FSC West Ham United-Manchester United

11 a.m. EST GOLTV Landon Donovan's Bayern Munich-Borussia Dortmund

5 p.m. KMEX EST Club America-Pachuca

English Premier League Today

Fernando Torres' extra-time goal gave Liverpool an exiting 3-2 come-from-behind victory at Portsmouth to put the Reds back on top of the Premier League - one point ahead of Manchester United. Earlier, Chelsea side slipped to fourth place after being held to a 0-0 draw at Stamford Bridge by Hull. The Blues lost third place to Aston Villa, who secured a 2-0 win at Blackburn.

Here is the highlights of the exciting Liverpool vs Portsmouth game

Best Goals 2008

Here is a compilation of the best goals of 2008

Vidic named Player of the Month

Manchester United’s Serbian defender Nemanja Vidic has been named Premier League player of the month for January 2009. Sir Alex Ferguson got the Premier League manager of the month award for January 2009 after he guided the Red Devils to wins in all four of their league games. In January 2009, Manchester United beat Chelsea 3-0, Bolton 1-0, West Bromwich Albion 5-0 and Everton 1-0. Vidic scored two goals in these four games- one against Chelsea and the other against West Brom.
This is the first time Vidic has been named Player of the Month however, his manager has won it 21 times before though- this is his 22nd award.

Los Angeles Galaxy Turn Down 10 Million Dollar Offer for Beckham

The Los Angeles Galaxy have turned down a ten million dollar offer from AC Milan for David Beckham, who is currently on loan to AC Milan. Apparently Beckham has stated he wishes to prolong his loan-stay in Milan beyond March 9, when he should return to the United States for the MLS season. Beckham has been a great asset for Milan so far, scoring two goals in his opening five games, and Milan obviously wishes to keep him for this reason.

USA vs Mexico Feb 11

The US will begin its bid on Wed Feb 11 to qualify for its sixth consecutive world cup finals. They will host Mexico at the Columbus Crew Stadium for the 55th meeting of this historic rivalry. Over the last decade the US has been controlling the rivalry with an 8-0-2 home record against Mexico since 2000. However, Mexico will be pumped under new head coach Sven Goran Eriksson to break their jinx within the U.S. borders. Will the US prevail or will Mexico finally break their losing streak in the US?

World Cup Coming to US in 2018 or 2020?

The US has officially expressed interest in bringing the Worlds most watched sporting event back to the United States for the first time since 1994. The Winning bidders will be announced in December of 2010. England, Russia, Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Qatar and Mexico are among other nations that have declared interest in hosting the prestigious event. The advantage that the United States has over many of these countries is a better infrastructure and more sports venues to host the games.