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• Vince_egg

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  The ticket number given there is old. Since this was written they are saying Sell Out.  Last time they played here it was a Sell Out - in 2003 - and it got more people at Reliant than any Texans game ever did.

  watch for great atmosphere there tonight

  Posted 2/6/2008 [reply] [flag]

• MVNsoccer

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  It was officially SOLD OUT, with 70,103 at Reliant tonight.

  Score was 2-2  ..a great game  

  This article a good find from Fanhouse

  NY Times GOAL blog is always good. One of the USA goal scorers tonight (Jozy Altidore) even writes on there, too  !

  Posted 2/7/2008 [reply] [flag]

• jay-2-the-z

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  Mexico has improved  fo' sho'

  Gooch and Bocanegra were potent together and Gooch got in a GooooooooooooooooL. Bocanegra's good as US capt.

  But watch out 4 Mexico

  Posted 2/7/2008 [reply] [flag]

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Jozy Altidore Was Almost a Royal
Published 2/6/2008 by David J. Warner at FanHouse
... 18-year-old striker Jozy Altidore will be one of many young American hopefuls on display when the U.S. men's national team takes on Mexico tonight in Houston. (We mentioned that this no-so-friendly will be on ESPN2 at 9:00 PM ET, right? Okay, good.) As it turned out, however, the New York Red Bulls' starting forward and ...

USA! USA! USA!
Published 2/6/2008 by Ian at Unprofessional Foul
... have more or less a first choice starting XI. The crowd will likely be overwhelmingly pro-Mexico, but I think the US continues its domination with a 3-1 win. Oh, and the best news of the night by far is that the moronic tandem of Dave O'Brien and Eric Wynadla have apparently been replaced by J.P. Dellacamera and John Harkes. So hopefully there won't be any comparisons of corner kicks to Manny Ramirez home runs over the Monster tonight. For more pregame hype, check out these links.