U.S. will play World Cup qualifying match at Busch Stadium - STLtoday.com
For the first time in more than 25 years, the U. S. men’s national team will play a match that matters in St. Louis when it plays its first home game of qualifying for Russia on either Nov. and either Antigua and Barbuda or Guatemala, for the fourth round of qualifying. CONCACAF, the regional governing body for soccer, had yet to finalize the schedule as of Saturday night, but those two November dates are set aside for the first two qualifying matches, one of which will be a home date for the Americans. The United States and Trinidad got byes into the fourth round of qualifying. It’s the first time the men’s national team has played in St. Louis, once one of its regular homes, since a friendly match with Paraguay in 1997. An official announcement of the game will be made on Sunday and a news conference with further... Not that there is much doubt about the Americans reaching the final round of CONCACAF qualifying, but the draw was about the easiest possible for the Americans for the fourth round, in which each team plays the other teams twice and the top two... Honduras has qualified for the past two World Cups and Panama almost, and probably should have, beat Mexico on Wednesday in the Gold Cup. Guatemala, meanwhile, is ranked 105th in the world and recently lost to the U. S. 4-0. Antigua is 107th, St. Vincent 115th and Aruba 135th. Still, it’s a breakthrough for. Source: www.stltoday.com
