2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup
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The 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup
CONCACAF Gold Cup
The CONCACAF Gold Cup is the main association football competition of the men's national football teams governed by CONCACAF, determining the regional champion of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean.The Gold Cup is held every two years and when it does not fall the same year as an...

was the tenth edition of the Gold Cup competition, and the twentieth association football championship of North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

, Central America
Central America
Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast. When considered part of the unified continental model, it is considered a subcontinent...

 and the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...

 (CONCACAF
CONCACAF
The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football is the continental governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean...

). It was contested from 3 July to 26 July 2009 in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. This competition was the fourth tournament without guests from other confederations. Mexico
Mexico national football team
The Mexican national football team represents Mexico in association football and is governed by the Mexican Football Federation , the governing body for football in Mexico. Mexico's home stadium is the Estadio Azteca and their head coach is José Manuel de la Torre...

 won their fifth Gold Cup, and eighth CONCACAF Championship overall, after beating the United States
United States men's national soccer team
The United States men's national soccer team represents the United States in international association football competitions. It is controlled by the United States Soccer Federation and competes in CONCACAF...

 5–0 in the final. It was the second consecutive Gold Cup final and fourth overall to feature Mexico and the United States and the third won by Mexico.

Participating nations

Team Qualification Appearance
in Gold Cup
North American zone
North American Football Union
The North American Football Union, often referred to by the acronym NAFU, is a regional grouping under CONCACAF of national football organizations in the North American Zone.-Members:...

Host 10th
Automatic 10th
Automatic 9th
Caribbean zone
Caribbean Football Union
The Caribbean Football Union, often referred to by the acronym CFU, is the nominal governing body for Caribbean football. It represents 25 FIFA member nations, as well as 5 territories that are not affiliated to FIFA. Its member associations compete in the CONCACAF region...

 qualified through the 2008 Caribbean Championship
Winners 7th
Runners-up 1st
3rd place 2nd
5th place 4th
Central American zone qualified through the 2009 UNCAF Nations Cup
Winners 4th
Runners-up 9th
3rd place 9th
4th place 6th
5th place 1st


Notes:

Match officials

Paul Ward Walter Quesada
Wálter Quesada
Wálter Enrique Quesada Cordero is a Costa Rican football referee.He has been a FIFA International referee since 2001.During his career he was appointed for four CONCACAF Gold Cup tournaments where he took charge of a single group stage fixtures in 2005 , 2007 and 2009...

 Joel Aguilar
Joel Aguilar
Joel Antonio Aguilar Chicas is a Salvadoran football referee who currently resides in San Salvador. He has been a full international referee for FIFA since 2001....

 Walter López José Pineda
Courtney Campbell Benito Archundia
Benito Archundia
Benito Armando Archundia Téllez is a retired Mexican football referee. He is known in Mexico as Armando Archundia, but appears as Benito Archundia in FIFA records. He has been a professional referee since 1985 and has had his FIFA referee permission since 1993...

 Marco Antonio Rodríguez
Marco Antonio Rodríguez
Marco Antonio Rodríguez Moreno is a Mexican football referee. In his homeland, he is commonly nicknamed "Chiquidrácula" due to his resemblance to a Mexican TV character of child Count Dracula, portrayed by Carlos Espejel...

 Roberto Garcia Roberto Moreno
Enrico Wijngaarde
Enrico Wijngaarde
Enrico Wijngaarde is a Surinamese football referee who currently resides in Paramaribo. He has been a full international referee for FIFA since 2002....

 Geoffrey Hospedales Neal Brizan Jair Marrufo
Jair Marrufo
Jair Marrufo is an American soccer referee. He has been a referee in Major League Soccer since 2002 and a FIFA referee since 2007. His father, Antonio Marrufo, was a FIFA referee from Mexico and served on the Mexican Referee Commission...

 Terry Vaughn
Terry Vaughn (referee)
Terry Vaughn is an American football referee who currently resides in Mount Vernon, Iowa. He has been a full international referee for FIFA since 2004....



Venues

The set of thirteen venues–the largest number ever used to stage the Gold Cup–was announced on March 9.
Carson
Carson, California
Carson is a city in Los Angeles County, California. As of the 2010 census, Carson had a total population of 91,714. Located south of downtown Los Angeles and approximately 14 miles away from the Los Angeles International Airport, it is known as a suburb of the city....

/Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

Seattle Columbus
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...

Oakland
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...

Washington
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

The Home Depot Center
The Home Depot Center
The Home Depot Center is a multiple-use sports complex located on the campus of California State University, Dominguez Hills in Carson, California. It is located approximately 10 miles south of Downtown Los Angeles. Its title sponsor is hardware retailer The Home Depot. The $150 million complex was...

Qwest Field
Qwest Field
CenturyLink Field is a multi-purpose stadium in Seattle, Washington, United States. It serves as the home field for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League and Seattle Sounders FC of Major League Soccer...

Columbus Crew Stadium
Columbus Crew Stadium
Columbus Crew Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium in Columbus, Ohio and the home stadium of Major League Soccer club, Columbus Crew. Built in 1999, Crew Stadium was the first soccer-specific stadium built for a professional soccer team in the second pro era of American soccer...

Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium, in Washington, D.C., United States, and the current home of MLS's D.C. United....

Capacity: 27,000 Capacity: 67,000 Capacity: 22,555 Capacity: 47,416 Capacity: 56,692
Houston Miami Foxborough
Foxborough, Massachusetts
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 16,246 people, 6,141 households, and 4,396 families residing in the town. The population density was 809.1 people per square mile . There were 6,299 housing units at an average density of 313.7 per square mile...

Glendale
Glendale, Arizona
Glendale is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA, located about nine miles northwest from Downtown Phoenix. According to 2010 Census Bureau, the population of the city is 226,721....

Reliant Stadium
Reliant Stadium
Reliant Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium, in Houston, Texas, USA. Reliant Stadium has a seating capacity of 71,500, a total square footage of with of natural grass playing surface....

FIU Stadium
FIU Stadium
FIU Stadium, popularly known as "The Cage", is the on-campus American football stadium of Florida International University in Miami, Florida, United States. It is the home field of the FIU Golden Panthers football team. The stadium opened in 1995, replacing nearby Tamiami Field, which was used for...

Gillette Stadium
Gillette Stadium
Gillette Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Foxborough, Massachusetts, 21 miles southwest of downtown Boston and from downtown Providence, Rhode Island. It serves as the home stadium and administrative offices for the New England Patriots football team and the New England Revolution...

University of Phoenix Stadium
University of Phoenix Stadium
University of Phoenix Stadium, opened August 1, 2006, is a multipurpose football stadium located in Glendale, Arizona. It is the home of the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League and the annual Fiesta Bowl...

Capacity: 71,500 Capacity: 20,000 Capacity: 68,756 Capacity: 63,400
Philadelphia Arlington
Arlington, Texas
Arlington is a city in Tarrant County, Texas within the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. According to the 2010 census results, the city had a population of 365,438, making it the third largest municipality in the Metroplex...

Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

East Rutherford
East Rutherford, New Jersey
East Rutherford is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 8,913. It is an inner-ring suburb of New York City, located west of Midtown Manhattan....

Lincoln Financial Field
Lincoln Financial Field
Lincoln Financial Field is the home stadium of the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles. It has a seating capacity of 68,532 . It is located in South Philadelphia on Pattison Avenue between 11th and 10th streets, also aside I-95 as part of the South Philadelphia Sports Complex...

Cowboys Stadium Soldier Field
Soldier Field
Soldier Field is located on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, United States, in the Near South Side. It is home to the NFL's Chicago Bears...

Giants Stadium
Giants Stadium
Giants Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium, located in East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA, in the Meadowlands Sports Complex. Maximum seating capacity was 80,242. The building itself was 230.5 m long, 180.5 m wide and 44 m high from service level to the top of the seating bowl and 54 m high to...

Capacity: 68,532 Capacity: 80,000 Capacity: 61,500 Capacity: 80,242

First round

The twelve teams that qualified were divided into three groups. The draw for the Group Stage was announced on 2 April 2009. The top two teams in each group advanced to the knockout stage along with the best two of the third-place teams, filling out the knockout field of eight.
Key to colours in group tables
Group winners, runners-up, and best two third-placed teams advance to the quarter-finals

Group A

Team
3 2 1 0 4 2
2
7
3 1 1 1 4 4 0 4
3 1 0 2 1 2 −1 3
3 1 0 2 2 3 −1 3

3 July 2009
1 – 0
1 – 2
7 July 2009
0 – 1
0 – 1
10 July 2009
2 – 2
0 – 1

Group B

Team
3 2 1 0 8 2
6
7
3 2 0 1 5 2
3
6
3 1 1 1 4 3
1
4
3 0 0 3 0 10 −10 0

4 July 2009
1 – 0
0 – 4
8 July 2009
2 – 0
2 – 0
11 July 2009
2 – 2
4 – 0

Group C

Team
3 2 1 0 5 1
4
7
3 2 0 1 4 3
1
6
3 1 1 1 6 3
3
4
3 0 0 3 0 8 −8 0

5 July 2009
1 – 2
0 – 2
9 July 2009
2 – 0
1 – 1
12 July 2009
4 – 0
2 – 0

Ranking of third-placed teams

Team
C 3 1 1 1 6 3
3
4
B 3 1 1 1 4 3
1
4
A 3 1 0 2 1 2 −1 3

Knockout Round

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final

Awards

Golden Boot Award Most Valuable Player Award Best Goalkeeper Award Fair Play Award
  Miguel Sabah
Miguel Sabah
Miguel Sabah Rodríguez is a Mexican footballer. He currently plays for Monarcas Morelia and the Mexican national team. Previously Sabah played with Guadalajara and Cruz Azul. Sabah made his debut in the Invierno 2000 with Guadalajara entering in the 46th minute. Sabah played five years with...

  Giovani dos Santos
Giovani Dos Santos
Giovani dos Santos Ramírez is a Mexican footballer who currently plays as an attacking midfielder for English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur. He can also play as a winger or second striker. Since joining Tottenham, he has had loan spells at Ipswich Town, Galatasaray and Racing de Santander...

  Keylor Navas
Keylor Navas
Keylor Navas is a Costa Rican football goalkeeper who used to play for Saprissa. He is considered to be one of the most secure, quick and agile young goalkeepers in CONCACAF...

  United States
United States men's national soccer team
The United States men's national soccer team represents the United States in international association football competitions. It is controlled by the United States Soccer Federation and competes in CONCACAF...


2009 All-Tournament Team

The All-Tournament Team was selected by the CONCACAF Technical Study Group. The player selections were made from the eight teams that reached the quarterfinals of the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Goalkeepers Defenders Midfielders Forwards

  Keylor Navas
Keylor Navas
Keylor Navas is a Costa Rican football goalkeeper who used to play for Saprissa. He is considered to be one of the most secure, quick and agile young goalkeepers in CONCACAF...


  Guillermo Ochoa
Guillermo Ochoa
Francisco Guillermo Ochoa Magaña is a Mexican goalkeeper who currently plays for French Ligue 1 club Ajaccio. He also plays for the Mexican national football team.-América:...


  Mike Klukowski
  Freddy Fernández
Freddy Fernández
José Freddy Fernández is a Costa Rican player currently playing for Municipal Liberia, he plays as defender.-External links:*http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2009/mayo/25/deportes1975591.html...


  Fausto Pinto
Fausto Pinto
Fausto Manuel Pinto Rosas is a Mexican football defender currently playing for Cruz Azul in the Primera División de México....


  Luis Moreno
  Clarence Goodson
Clarence Goodson
Clarence Goodson is an American professional soccer player who currently plays defender for Brøndby in Denmark, with whom he signed a three-year deal in November 2010.-Career:...


  Chad Marshall
Chad Marshall
Chad Marshall is an American soccer player who currently captains the Columbus Crew in Major League Soccer.-Youth and College:...


  Julián de Guzmán
Julian de Guzmán
Julian de Guzman is a Canadian soccer player who currently plays for Toronto FC in Major League Soccer.Previously, he played for Deportivo de La Coruña, and was the first Canadian to play in the Spanish La Liga...


  Celso Borges
Celso Borges
Celso Borges Mora is a Costa Rican professional football player who currently plays for Fredrikstad FK. He plays as midfielder or striker.-Personal:...


  Stephane Auvray
Stéphane Auvray
Stéphane Auvray is a Guadeloupean footballer who currently plays for New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer.He plays as a midfielder and currently serves as captain of the Guadeloupe national team...

 
  Gerardo Torrado
Gerardo Torrado
Gerardo Torrado Diez de Bonilla is an international Mexican football player, currently playing as a midfielder for Cruz Azul and is captain of the team. He is known as "El Borrego" for his bushy-like hair...


  Giovani dos Santos
Giovani Dos Santos
Giovani dos Santos Ramírez is a Mexican footballer who currently plays as an attacking midfielder for English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur. He can also play as a winger or second striker. Since joining Tottenham, he has had loan spells at Ipswich Town, Galatasaray and Racing de Santander...


  Stuart Holden
Stuart Holden
Stuart Alistair Holden is an American football player who currently plays as a midfielder for Bolton Wanderers in the English Premier League....


  Alvaro Saborio
Álvaro Saborío
Álvaro Alberto Saborío Chacón is a Costa Rican footballer, who currently plays for Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer and the Costa Rica national football team.-Deportivo Saprissa:...


  Walter Martinez
  Miguel Sabah
Miguel Sabah
Miguel Sabah Rodríguez is a Mexican footballer. He currently plays for Monarcas Morelia and the Mexican national team. Previously Sabah played with Guadalajara and Cruz Azul. Sabah made his debut in the Invierno 2000 with Guadalajara entering in the 46th minute. Sabah played five years with...


  Kenny Cooper
Kenny Cooper
Kenneth Scott Cooper, Jr. is an American soccer player who currently plays for Portland Timbers in Major League Soccer....


Goalscorers

4 goals Miguel Sabah
Miguel Sabah
Miguel Sabah Rodríguez is a Mexican footballer. He currently plays for Monarcas Morelia and the Mexican national team. Previously Sabah played with Guadalajara and Cruz Azul. Sabah made his debut in the Invierno 2000 with Guadalajara entering in the 46th minute. Sabah played five years with...


3 goals Blas Pérez
Blas Perez
Blas Antonio Miguel Pérez Ortega is a professional footballer who currently plays for Indios de Ciudad Juárez. He is nicknamed Super Ratón. He is a distant cousin to Portland Timbers midfielder Miguel Guante....


2 goals

Ali Gerba
Ali Gerba
-Canada/United States:In 2000 Gerba signed with the Montreal Impact where he recorded 6 goals and 2 assists, a club record for a rookie. In 2001 Gerba signed with the Miami Fusion of the MLS but had little success in Miami...

 Celso Borges
Celso Borges
Celso Borges Mora is a Costa Rican professional football player who currently plays for Fredrikstad FK. He plays as midfielder or striker.-Personal:...

 Andy Herron
Andy Herron
Andy Francisco Herron Aguilar is a Costa Rican footballer. He currently plays for Limón FC in Costa Rica.-Club career:...

 Álvaro Saborío
Álvaro Saborío
Álvaro Alberto Saborío Chacón is a Costa Rican footballer, who currently plays for Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer and the Costa Rica national football team.-Deportivo Saprissa:...

 Osael Romero
Carlo Costly
Carlo Costly
Carlos Yaír "Carlo" Costly Molina is a Honduran footballer who plays as a striker for Houston Dynamo. He is a member of the Honduras national football team. Prior to his transfer to Europe, he played with Club Deportivo Platense where he managed to be the top scorer of Honduras Apertura...

 Walter Martínez Gerardo Torrado
Gerardo Torrado
Gerardo Torrado Diez de Bonilla is an international Mexican football player, currently playing as a midfielder for Cruz Azul and is captain of the team. He is known as "El Borrego" for his bushy-like hair...

 Giovani dos Santos
Giovani Dos Santos
Giovani dos Santos Ramírez is a Mexican footballer who currently plays as an attacking midfielder for English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur. He can also play as a winger or second striker. Since joining Tottenham, he has had loan spells at Ipswich Town, Galatasaray and Racing de Santander...

 Pablo Barrera
Pablo Barrera
Pablo Edson Barrera Acosta is a Mexican footballer who plays as a winger or outside forward for La Liga side Real Zaragoza, on loan from West Ham United...


Guillermo Franco
Guillermo Franco
Guillermo Luis Franco Farquarson is an Argentine-born Mexican football striker who plays for Vélez Sársfield. He also played for the Mexico national team, until his international retirement in September 2010.-Early life:...

 Luis Tejada
Luis Tejada
Luis "Matador" Tejada is a Panamanian professional association football striker. He currently plays for Juan Aurich of the Peruvian Primera División and the Panamanian national team.-Club career:...

 Kenny Cooper
Kenny Cooper
Kenneth Scott Cooper, Jr. is an American soccer player who currently plays for Portland Timbers in Major League Soccer....

 Stuart Holden
Stuart Holden
Stuart Alistair Holden is an American football player who currently plays as a midfielder for Bolton Wanderers in the English Premier League....



1 goal

Patrice Bernier
Patrice Bernier
Patrice Bernier is a Canadian soccer player who currently plays in Denmark for Lyngby Boldklub.A 177 cm central midfielder, also capable of playing on the right wing.-Club career:...

 Marcel de Jong
Marcel De Jong
Marcel de Jong is a Canadian football player of Dutch descent who currently plays for Bundesliga side FC Augsburg.-Club career:...

 Walter Centeno
Walter Centeno
Wálter Centeno Corea, is a Costa Rican midfielder, who currently plays for C.D. Saprissa. He is one of Costa Rica's best players in the past decade. He has sublime vision and passing skills. He also has good dribbling abilities, great technique and a top eye for goal. He dictates play for the...

 Warren Granados
Warren Granados
Warren Granados is a Costa Rican professional footballer. As of 2009, he plays for Asociación Deportiva Ramonense.Granados has played for the full Costa Rica national football team, including four appearances at the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup finals...

 Pablo Herrera
Pablo Herrera Barrantes
Pablo Herrera Barrantes is a Costa Rican professional footballer. He currently plays for Aalesunds FK, and is known for his dribbling skill and pace.- Career statistics :-International career:...

 Froylán Ledezma
Froylán Ledezma
Froylán Ledezma Stevens is a Costa Rican international football forward who currently plays for Admira Wacker. His nickname is "El Cachorro" which means "The Puppy".-Club career:...

 Alexandre Alphonse
Alexandre Alphonse
Alexandre Alphonse is a footballer from France who currently plays as forward for FC Zurich in the Swiss Super League. He was part of the 2005–06, 2006–07 and 2008–09 Swiss Championship winning team....

 Stéphane Auvray
Stéphane Auvray
Stéphane Auvray is a Guadeloupean footballer who currently plays for New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer.He plays as a midfielder and currently serves as captain of the Guadeloupe national team...

 David Fleurival
David Fleurival
David Fleurival in Vitry-sur-Seine, France is a Guadeloupean football midfielder currently playing for FC Metz.-Club career:He has played at Tours FC where he was the team captain and in Portugal with Boavista F.C.....

 Ludovic Gotin
Ludovic Gotin
Ludovic Gotin is a Guadeloupean footballer who currently plays for French club Le Moule on the island of Guadeloupe in the Guadeloupe Division d'Honneur. He plays as a striker...

 Loïc Loval
Loïc Loval
Loïc Loval Landré is a Guadeloupean footballer who currently plays for Vannes OC and the Guadeloupean national team. He spent most of his career playing in the Netherlands for De Graafschap, Go Ahead Eagles and FC Utrecht.-Early life:...


Mones Chéry
Mones Chéry
Mones Chéry is a Haitian footballer. Chéry debuted in the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup for Haiti and is also on the Haitian roster for the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup. Chéry's performance has led him to becoming a recent mainstay to the national squad.-External links:*...

 James Marcelin
James Marcelin
James Marcelin is a Haitian footballer who currently plays for Portland Timbers in Major League Soccer.-Professional:...

 Fabrice Noël
Fabrice Noël
Fabrice Noël is a Haitian soccer player who currently plays for Shanghai East Asia in the China League One.-Early life and career in Haiti:...

 Vaniel Sirin Roger Espinoza
Roger Espinoza
Roger Espinoza is a Honduran footballer who currently plays for Sporting Kansas City in Major League Soccer.-Youth and College:Espinoza moved from his native Honduras to Denver, Colorado when he was 12 years old...

 Melvin Valladares
Melvin Valladares
-Career:Valladares currently plays for Dorados de Sinaloa. He is also a member for the Honduras national football team and made his debut for the national side in 2007. In November 2009, he went on a trial with Tottenham Hotspur after being recommended by Wilson Palacios1.- External links :* 1...

 Omar Cummings
Omar Cummings
Omar Cummings is a Jamaican international footballer who plays professionally for the Colorado Rapids in Major League Soccer, as a forward.-Youth and amateur:...

 José Antonio Castro
José Antonio Castro
José Antonio Castro González is a Mexican football player who plays as a defender for Club Necaxa. He gained notoriety for his performances with Club America and at the 2006 FIFA World Cup for Mexico...

 Luis Miguel Noriega
Luis Miguel Noriega
Luis Miguel Noriega Orozco is a Mexican footballer who currently plays for Monarcas Morelia in Mexico's First Division.-Club career :...

 Carlos Vela
Carlos Vela
Carlos Alberto Vela Garrido is a Mexican association football player, currently playing as a striker for La Liga club Real Sociedad on loan from Arsenal. He also plays for the Mexico national football team. He started his career at Mexican club C.D...


Nelson Barahona
Nelson Barahona
Nelson Barahona is a Panamanian football attacking midfielder. He currently plays for the Primera Division Venezolana side Caracas FC in Venezuela....

 Gabriel Enrique Gómez
Gabriel Enrique Gómez
Gabriel Enrique Gómez Giron is a Panamanian footballer who plays for Indios de Ciudad Juárez as a defensive midfielder.-Club career:...

 Freddy Adu
Freddy Adu
Fredua Koranteng "Freddy" Adu is a Ghanaian-born American soccer player who currently plays for Philadelphia Union in Major League Soccer. He plays primarily as an attacking midfielder, but he is also used as a winger or forward....

 Davy Arnaud
Davy Arnaud
Davy Arnaud is an American soccer player who currently plays for Montreal Impact in Major League Soccer.-College:Arnaud played college soccer at West Texas A&M University from 1999 to 2001, finishing his career with 31 goals and 11 assists...

 Kyle Beckerman
Kyle Beckerman
Kyle Beckerman is an American soccer player who currently plays for Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer and the United States national team. He is a holding midfielder and also serves as team captain for Real Salt Lake.-Youth:Beckerman began his career participating in various youth leagues in...

 Brian Ching
Brian Ching
Brian Ching is an American professional soccer forward currently playing for the Montreal Impact of Major League Soccer.-Youth and College:...

 Charlie Davies
Charlie Davies
Charles Desmond "Charlie" Davies is an American soccer player who plays as a striker for French Ligue 1 side Sochaux....

 Clarence Goodson
Clarence Goodson
Clarence Goodson is an American professional soccer player who currently plays defender for Brøndby in Denmark, with whom he signed a three-year deal in November 2010.-Career:...

 Santino Quaranta
Santino Quaranta
Santino Quaranta is an American soccer player.-Youth:Quaranta partially attended Baltimore's Archbishop Curley High School for his freshman and sophomore years, where he started both years, and was recognized as one of the top soccer players in the state...

 Robbie Rogers
Robbie Rogers
Robbie Rogers is an American soccer player who currently plays for Columbus Crew in Major League Soccer and the United States men's national soccer team.-Youth and College:...



Team statistics

Team |GP |W |D |L |GF |GA |Dif
F 6 4 2 0 15 2 +13
F 6 4 1 1 12 8 +4
S 5 3 0 2 6 4 +2
S 5 2 2 1 10 6 +4
Q 4 2 1 1 4 3 +1
Q 4 2 0 2 5 8 -3
Q 4 1 1 2 7 5 +2
Q 4 1 1 2 4 7 −3
1 3 1 0 2 2 3 −1
1 3 1 0 2 1 2 −1
1 3 0 0 3 0 8 −8
1 3 0 0 3 0 10 −10

Media coverage

In Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, the tournament was broadcast by Setanta Sports

In Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

, the tournament was broadcast by Multisport
Multisport
Multisport is a family of athletic competitions in which athletes race in a continuous series of stages or "legs", and rapidly switch from one athletic discipline to another in order to achieve the best overall time...

s

In Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, the tournament was broadcast by Rogers Sportsnet
Rogers Sportsnet
Sportsnet was launched on October 9, 1998 as CTV Sportsnet. The name was chosen to match the regional "Fox Sports Net" operations across the United States...

 and GolTV Canada

In Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

, the tournament was broadcast by Teletica Canal 7
Teletica Canal 7
Canal 7 is a private Costa Rican television channel, owned and operated by Teletica's founders, the Picado family.Canal 7 has the largest audience in Costa Rica. Repretel currently holds the second spot....

, XPERTV 33 and Repretel
Repretel
Repretel or Representaciones Televisivas S.A. is a Costa Rican television company, founded in November 1994, when they acquired Canal 9 which belonged to Multivisión. Months later, by May 1995, Repretel acquires Canal 6, which belonged to Telecentro for several years.In 1996, they acquired Canal...



In Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 and Central America
Central America
Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast. When considered part of the unified continental model, it is considered a subcontinent...

, the tournament was broadcast by Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

 and TV Azteca
TV Azteca
Azteca, is the second largest Mexican television entertainment. It was established in 1983 as the state-owned Instituto Mexicano de la Televisión , a holding of the national TV networks channel 13 and 7 and was privatized under its current name in 1993 and now is part of Grupo Salinas...

 (Mexico and United States Matches) and SKY México
SKY México
SKY México is a company that operates a subscription television service in the Mexico, Central America, Dominican Republic area. It produces TV content, and owns several TV channels...



In Honduras
Honduras
Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...

, Televicentro was broadcasting in three of their channels, MegaTV, Tele Sistema, Canal 7y4.

In Panama
Panama
Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...

, the tournament was broadcast by RPC TV Canal 4 and TV Max.

In Malaysia, the tournament was broadcast by Astro Supersports.

In the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, English language coverage of games involving the USA, as well as one game from each round of the knockout stages even if the USA was not involved, was on Fox Soccer Channel
Fox Soccer Channel
Fox Soccer is an American television specialty channel, owned by News Corporation's Fox Entertainment Group, that specializes in soccer. It formerly broadcast rugby and Australian rules football, but is now dedicated strictly to soccer...

. All tournament games received Spanish language coverage split between Galavision, TeleFutura
TeleFutura
TeleFutura is a U.S. Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by Univision with headquarters in Miami, Florida.-Overview:TeleFutura Is America’s #2 Spanish-Language Network in prime time...

, Univision
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...

.

Worldwide, except in the Americas, the tournament was streamed by Omnisport.TV the legal online rights holder working in partnership with CONCACAF, with English commentary and in HDTV
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...

quality.

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