USA To Play Nigeria, Netherlands, and Japan in 2008 Olympics
Its been a long time since we’ve updated the blog. School has been a hassle, and really the time just has not been there. Apologies to those who have been loyal to this blog and have kept checking it out over the months. We’re back in business though, so lets do this thing.
The u-23 team will face Nigeria, Japan, and the Netherlands in the group stage of this summer’s Olympics in Beijing. Talk about a group of death. The Netherlands have a very tough squad and Nigeria might just be the best squad on paper in this group, as members of the team played in the 2005 u-20 World Cup and won the 2007 u-17 World Cup. What does this mean for the US? It is what it is. We will have to play well, otherwise we will be going home earlier than we anticipated. I think it is imperative that we bring a veteran keeper to this tournament(Brad Guzan? Tim Howard?) and Landon Donovan and possibly a defender(Bocanegra? Demerit? Spector? Gooch?) or winger(Beaz!) to go with the young talent already in place. I’m predicting that Nigeria and the US come out of this group, but it will not be a walk in the park for anybody. Here are the rest of the groups:
- USA, Netherlands, Nigeria, Japan
- Argentina, Ivory Coast, Serbia, Australia,
- Brazil, Belgium, China, New Zealand
- Italy, Cameroon, South Korea, Honduras
And that’s that. What do you guys think?