{"id":1400,"date":"2009-03-29T11:47:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T16:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/03\/29\/team-usa-escapes-el-salvador-heads-concacaf-table\/"},"modified":"2011-01-30T10:12:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T15:12:11","slug":"team-usa-escapes-el-salvador-heads-concacaf-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/03\/29\/team-usa-escapes-el-salvador-heads-concacaf-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA escapes El Salvador.  Heads CONCACAF table."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US got extremely lucky last night, getting goals in the 76th and 87th minutes to pull even with a 2-2 draw against El Salvador.  Not sure if this was a case of extremely poor play, looking past a clearly over matched opponent, shaky play in the opposition\u2019s stadium, or some combination of the above.  At any rate, escaping with a tie was much better than the alternative.  The end result is that Team USA now sits at the top of the CONCACAF table with a one point margin over Mexico and Costa Rica.<\/p>\n<p>Next up, Wednesday night (April 1) is Trinidad & Tobago.  Team USA should take care of business, and control of the CONCACAF table as an early favorite to advance to the 2010 World Cup.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US got extremely lucky last night, getting goals in the 76th and 87th minutes to pull even with a 2-2 draw against El Salvador. Not sure if this was a case of extremely poor play, looking past a clearly over matched opponent, shaky play in the opposition\u2019s stadium, or some combination of the above. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/03\/29\/team-usa-escapes-el-salvador-heads-concacaf-table\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Team USA escapes El Salvador.  Heads CONCACAF table.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-u-s-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3412,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/3412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}