U.S. National Team

1997 Schedule and Results

Through Oct. 15, 1997. World Cup Qualifiers are in bold type. All other matches are international friendlies.

Date		Result	USA Goals	Site	Crowd
Jan. 17	Peru (U.S. Cup)	L, 0-1	—	San Diego, Calif.	35,232
Jan. 19	Mexico (U.S. Cup)	L, 0-2	—	Pasadena, Calif.	31,725
Jan. 22	Denmark (U.S. Cup)	L, 1-4	Joe Max-Moore	Pasadena, Calif.	17,342
Jan. 29	China	L, 1-2	Eric Wynalda	Kunming, China	40,000
Feb. 1	China	T, 1-1	Alexi Lalas	Guangzhou, China	35,000
Mar. 2	Jamaica	T, 0-0	—	Kingston, Jamaica	35,764
Mar. 16	Canada	W, 3-2	Wynalda, Eddie Pope, Ernie Stewart	Palo Alto, Calif.	28,896
Mar. 23	Costa Rica	L, 2-3	Wynalda, Roy Lassiter	San Jose, Calif.	23,000
Apr. 20	Mexico	T, 2-2	Pope, own goal	Foxboro, Mass.	57,877
June 4	Paraguay	T, 0-0	—	St. Louis, Mo.	7,016
June 17	Israel	W, 2-1	Lalas, Jovan Kirovski	Jacksonville, Fla.	8,436
June 29	El Salvador	T, 1-1	Lassiter	San Salvador	32,000
Aug. 7	Ecuador	L, 0-1	—	Baltimore, Md.	13,629
Sept. 7	Costa Rica	W, 1-0	Tab Ramos	Portland, Ore.	22,396
Oct. 3	Jamaica	T, 1-1	Wynalda	Washington, D.C.	51,528

Remaining World Cup Qualifying games: Nov. 2 at Mexico, Nov. 9 at Canada, Nov. 16 vs. El Salvador.

Overall record: 3-6-6. US Cup '97 record: 0-3-0. Team scoring: Goals for– 14; Goals against– 19.

1997 U.S. National Team Statistics

Individual records for entire season through Oct. 3, 1997. Note that the column labeled “Career C/G” refers to career caps and goals.

Forwards	GP	GS	Mins	G	A	Pts	Career C/G
Jovan Kirovski	6	4	374	1	0	2	24/4
Roy Lassiter	11	5	570	2	0	4	21/4
Brian McBride	6	5	453	0	0	0	14/2
Joe-Max Moore	3	3	270	1	0	2	56/16
Preki	6	2	283	0	0	0	10/1
Ernie Stewart	6	6	524	1	0	2	41/5
David Wagner	5	4	256	0	1	1	6/0
Dante Washington	1	0	26	0	0	0	6/2
Roy Wegerle	1	1	73	0	0	0	27/3
Eric Wynalda	9	9	810	4	2	10	88/31

Defenders	GP	GS	Mins	G	A	Pts	Career C/G
Jeff Agoos	12	11	1024	0	1	1	74/3
Marcelo Balboa	6	6	720	0	1	1	121/12
Mike Burns	11	8	779	0	1	1	59/0
Dan Calichman	3	2	154	0	0	0	3/0
Ted Chronopolous	1	0	18	0	0	0	1/0
Ramiro Corrales	2	1	120	0	0	0	3/0
Thomas Dooley	7	7	617	0	0	0	69/7
Robin Fraser	1	1	90	0	0	0	16/0
Alexi Lalas	12	11	1015	2	0	4	89/8
Steve Pittman	1	1	60	0	0	0	3/0
Eddie Pope	7	7	593	2	0	4	12/2
Mark Sanbal	1	1	90	0	0	0	11/1
Greg Vanney	1	1	90	0	0	0	2/0
Martin Vasquez	4	4	271	0	0	0	5/0
Peter Vermes	1	0	16	0	0	0	71/11

Midfielders	GP	GS	Mins	G	A	Pts	Career C/G
Dario Brose	1	1	45	0	0	0	4/1
Mark Chung	1	1	59	0	0	0	23/2
Chad Deering	1	1	45	0	0	0	5/0
John Harkes	8	8	890	0	2	2	81/6
Frankie Hejduk	3	1	97	0	0	0	8/1
Chris Henderson	1	0	31	0	0	0	74/2
Cobi Jones	11	8	685	0	0	0	93/8
Miles Joseph	1	1	45	0	0	0	3/0
Jason Kreis	5	2	235	0	0	0	7/0
Brian Maisonneuve	2	1	111	0	0	0	2/0
Michael Mason	5	1	138	0	1	1	5/0
Steve Ralston	4	3	181	0	0	0	4/0
Tab Ramos	3	3	270	1	0	2	77/6
Claudio Reyna	10	9	774	0	0	0	52/4
Tony Sanneh	3	2	225	0	2	2	3/0
Mike Sorber	6	6	506	0	0	0	65/2

Goalkeepers	GP	GS	Mins	Record	SO	Career Caps
Mark Dodd	3	2	225	0-1-1	0	15
Brad Friedel	7	7	556	1-4-2	1	50
Kasey Keller	6	6	540	2-1-3	3	25
Juergen Sommer	1	0	27	0-0-0	0	6

Yellow cards: Cobi Jones and Ernie Stewart (3), John Harkes, Alexi Lalas, Claudio Reyna and Tony Sanneh (2), Jeff Agoos, Marcelo Balboa, Mike Burns, Jovan Kirovski, Mark Sanbal, Eric Wynalda. Red cards: Lalas.

Head coach: Steve Sampson; Assistant coach: Clive Charles; Goal coach: Milutin Soskic; General Manager: Tom King; Captain: John Harkes.

U.S. Cup '97

Fourth U.S. Cup hosted by the United States, Jan. 17-22, 1997. Match results listed with city and attendance.

Round Robin Standings

	Gm	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Mexico	3	2	0	1	5	1	7
Denmark	3	2	1	0	7	4	6
Peru	3	1	1	1	2	2	4
United States	3	0	3	0	1	7	0

Match Results

Jan 17	San Diego (35,232)	Peru 1, United States 0
Jan. 17	San Diego (35,232)	Mexico 3, Denmark 1
Jan. 19	Pasadena (31,725)	Denmark 2, Peru 1
Jan. 19	Pasadena (31,725)	Mexico 2, United States 0
Jan. 22	Pasadena (17,342)	Denmark 4, United States 1
Jan. 22	Pasadena (17,342)	Mexico 0, Peru 0