THE SEND OFF U.S. women to face Brazil twice
U.S. women to face Brazil twice
CHICAGO — The U.S. Women’s National Team will face Brazil in its final two matches before the Beijing Olympics.
The two-game set begins July 13 at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colo. (ESPN, 4 p.m), before traveling to San Diego, Calif. at the University of San Diego’s Torero Stadium July 16 (Fox Soccer Channel, 10 p.m. ET).
The U.S.’s pre-Olympic schedule also will include three games at the Peace Queen Cup in June (and possibly a fourth if the U.S. reaches the championship game) as well as a two-game trip to Norway and Sweden in early July.
At the Peace Queen Cup, the U.S. will face Australia on June 15, Brazil on June 17 and Italy on June 19. The Americans will depart for China one week after the San Diego encounter.
This will be the Women's National Team first match at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park and the first trip to Colorado since 1999, when it played at Mile High Stadium after the 1999 Women’s World Cup. That match marked the first and only game in Colorado for the U.S. women. The U.S. has played two games at Torero Stadium, tying Japan 0-0 in January, 2003 and defeating Ireland, 5-0, in July, 2006.
The two games will pit the 2007 Women’s World Cup semifinalists together again, but it will not be the first meeting since the U.S’s 4-0 loss in Hangzhou, China. The two teams will meet in group play at the Peace Queen Cup in Suwon, South Korea June 17. The Americans last played Brazil in the U.S., winning, 2-0, at Giants Stadium in June 2007.
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