2009 US Open Cup

The US's answer to the FA Cup gets underway tonight (a preliminary round match between Charm City F.C. and Go Soccer F.C. was rescheduled)

The MLS "Play-in" games start this month, and tonight it's:

Colorado Rapids @ LA Galaxy

Perhaps this tourney will get its due in my lifetime.

http://www.usopencup.com/

 

If Beckham really wants to help promote soccer in the US, getting behind this tournament would help.

 

I love this tournament!
I know it is way underrated but it really brings a good crowd when one of the MLS teams comes and visits the Charleston Battery, I hope it is the same at other USL team stadiums. I know this tournament even gets some coverage on FSC, and it has some great potential to boost the camaraderie at all levels of US soccer, too bad people don't see the excitement of watching some US "giant killers" taking down MLS teams.

I will definitely be following this tournament, hoping to make it to a game.

Go Battery!

 

Flamingcokecans couldn't be more right. This tourney deserves a million times more attention and credit. It is a great and historical (history being something the sport has very little of in this country) competition. I will be following the tourney vary closely this year. Hopefully my Sounders can go all the way this year

 

Rapids win 0-0 (4-2 PK)

http://www.coloradorapids.com/TheMatch/ ... 3&NID=8017

Now its on to Salt Lake or Seattle and let's win there

 

Well if I do recall it was Seattle that drubbed the Rapids 5-0 to knock them out of the cup a couple years ago. I'm sure Colorado wants to make amends for that loss.

 

Yes, 5-0 loss to Seattle in 2007, so revenge is in order - besides, someone needs to knock Seattle off its high horse. Colorado might have some previous US Open Cup hardware if it weren't for those meddling Rochester Raging Rhinos.

Don, I wasn't alive in '68, but I'm well aware of the import of the expression - I guess you could say that I'm expecting an abrupt exit by my Rapids.

 

Well my Rapids failed to qualify for the Open Cup yet again, losing 1-0 to Seattle this week.

Anyways, the brackets are set, MLS teams start in the 3rd Round:

http://www.usopencup.com/2005bracket/index_E.html

 

I just got back from a heartbreaker between Carolina Railhawks and Wilmington Hammerheads. After 120 minutes of epic battle(3-3), it goes to Wilmington 4-3 on penalty kicks. They now get the pleasure of facing Chicago Fire. Wilmington pulled off that upset against Dallas back in 2003, can we see it again?

 

Here's the modern history and results

I've been to several OC games, including the Rhino's v Rapids Final in 99. For a guy who encourages folks to follow their local team, my memories still are summary: "What a sucky game!"

- That was mainly because Rhinos took Rapids out of any semblance of form.

{Think taking Border Collie from herding sheep to herding chickens}

But that's the beauty of the series, innit!

 

On the Ocean City/Real Maryland newscast highlights, the sportscaster said OC won in overtime.

I know its the Eastern Shore, but sigh...

 

Third round upsets abound.

Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup

Third Round, June 30


Rochester (USL-1) 1:1 Columbus (MLS) Rochester advance on PKs 5-3
Wilmington (USL-2) 1:0 Chicago (MLS)
New England (MLS) 1:2 (aet) Harrisburg (USL-2)
D.C. United (MLS) 2:0 Ocean City (PDL)
Charleston (USL-1) 3:1 Chivas USA (MLS)
Minnesota (USL-1) 3:3 Kansas City (MLS) Kansas City advance on PKs 4-2

July 1

Austin (USL-1) -:- Houston (MLS)
Portland (USL-1) -:- Seattle (MLS)

 

Go on Battery!

 

Funny, because many of the same clubs seem to more than OK in fielding full strength squads in SuperLiga.

The same tournament that doesn't qualify for anything, and only makes money through matching up the 3-6th placed MLS teams with whatever Mexican (youth) teams feel like showing up.

 

Out of curiosity Don why do you find the Crew to be the worst offenders when they lost to a USL-1 side and both the Revolution and Fire lost to USL-2 sides?

 

Sounders edge Wizards 1-0.


SEATTLE (AP) - Sebastien Le Toux drilled in a penalty kick in the 89th minute Tuesday night, giving the Seattle Sounders a 1-0 victory against the Kansas City Wizards in a U.S. Open Cup quarterfinal.

The Sounders were awarded the penalty kick when Fredy Montero was taken down in the area by Wizards goalkeeper Kevin Hartman.

Seattle keeper Kasey Keller, who was red-carded in the 29th minute when the teams met in a regular-season Major League Soccer game in Seattle on April 11, earned the shutout.

The Sounders will host the Houston Dynamo of MLS in a semifinal game on July 21. The Wizards were eliminated from the Cup in the quarterfinals for the second straight year, having fall to the USL First Division Sounders last season.

Stephen King, who scored Seattle's winning goal in last week's 2-1 third-round Open Cup victory at Portland of USL-1, started the play that led to Seattle's goal. He sent a long through ball to Montero, who advances into the box and was about 15 yards from the net when Hartman, who came out to challenge Montero on the play, took him down while trying to run him off the ball.

Sounders coach Sigi Schmid has a team in the Open Cup semifinals for the fifth time. He won it with the Los Angeles Galaxy in 2001 and was runner-up with Los Angeles in 2002.

This is the third straight year a Seattle team has made the Open Cup semifinals. The USL-1 Sounders got that far in 2007 before losing to FC Dallas, and in 2008 before falling to Charleston of USL-1.

Seattle is on a six-game overall unbeaten streak (4-0-2), which includes two U.S. Open Cup victories.

The Sounders doubled Kansas City in shots, 12-6. That included a 7-3 advantage during the first half when Seattle dominated the opening 20 minutes of play.

D.C. United win 2-1 in US Open Cup quarterfinals

Associated Press

Thabiso Khumalo and Andrew Jacobson scored early in the first half Tuesday night to lead defending champion D.C. United to a 2-1 victory over the Harrisburg City Islanders in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open Cup.

Khumalo netted in the eighth minute and Jacobson in the 18th for United, who will play a semifinal match on July 21.

Nicki Paterson scored in the 64th minute for the Islanders, who play in the United Soccer League's Second Division, the third tier of American professional soccer.

The game was a rematch of the Islanders' stunning 1-0 upset of United in the Open Cup in 2007.