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Sweden:
GOALKEEPERS (2):
Rami Shaaban (Fredrikstad FK)
Johan Wiland (IF Elfsborg)

DEFENDERS (6):
Matias Concha (VfL Bochum)
Erik Edman (Stade Rennais FC)
Petter Hansson (Stade Rennais FC)
Daniel Majstorovic (FC Basel)
Olof Mellberg (Aston Villa)
Mikael Nilsson (Panathanaikos)

MIDFIELDERS (9):
Niclas Alexandersson (IFK Göteborg)
Daniel Andersson (Malmö FF)
Kennedy Bakircioglü (Ajax Amsterdam)
Dusan Djuric (Halmstads BK)
Samuel Holmén (IF Elfsborg)
Kim Källström (Lyon)
Tobias Linderoth (Galatasary)
Fredrik Ljungberg (West Ham United)
Christian Wilhelmsson (Bolton FC)

FORWARDS (5):
Marcus Allbäck (FC Copenhagen)
Johan Elmander (Tolouse)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Inter Milan)
Rade Prica (Aalborg BK)
Markus Rosenberg (Werder Bremen)


USA:
Goalkeepers (2) –
Marcus Hahnemann (Reading FC)
Tim Howard (Everton FC)

Defenders (6) –
Carlos Bocanegra (Fulham FC)
Jonathan Bornstein (Chivas USA)
Steve Cherundolo (Hannover 96)
Jay DeMerit (Watford FC)
Oguchi Onyewu (Standard de Liege)
Jonathan Spector (West Ham United)

Midfielders (6) –
DaMarcus Beasley (Glasgow Rangers)
Michael Bradley (SC Heerenveen)
Bobby Convey (Reading FC)
Clint Dempsey (Fulham FC)
Benny Feilhaber (Derby County)
Pablo Mastroeni (Colorado Rapids)

Forwards (5) –
Landon Donovan (Los Angeles Galaxy)
Charlie Davies (Hammarby IF)
Kamani Hill (VfL Wolfsburg)
Josh Wolff (1860 Munich)
Sal Zizzo (Hannover 96)

This may be one of the best USA rosters that I have seen since the World Cup...Once again we need fowards though....Defence will be solid though...I would have liked to see Adu in this squad since he will be in Europe, he would have provided flare in the foward position. I also wanna see preform like he did in the U20's for the senior level team.

How about the kid at Benfica? Can he put the ball in the net?

It's nice to see Sal Zizzo on the squad. He had an excellent U-2O World Cup and has a very bright future!

I thought Howard, Beasley, and Dempsey had decent games. The rest was barley par.

You can notice how going abroad really improves a players 'touch'. I noticed that Donovans touch was very bad in this game as his traps were rolling away from him and in the wrong directions. You can see that playing in Europe has helped players like Donovan, and even Beasley(I know he has been there for a while, but he just got on the Rangers) pass Donovan on ball handleing skills.

what was the score?

1-0 Swedes

by the way for those of you who saw it that was a foul by #9 (or 11 cant remember) to open up the shot by the swedes...bad reffing

The worst part of that whole sequence is that Feilhaber did the "right" thing by staying on his feet (when most would have been on the ground as soon as Bakircioglü laid hands on him)..and a blatant foul results in a goal.

Of course, the score probably should have been 3-1 Sweden anyway..

Wasn't really sure how to feel during this match. Some good stuff, but not much cohesion..and it was downright painful to watch Bobby Convey. I'm glad he's match fit now, but it may have been a bit early to put him in action.

Lots of youngsters in the game, but not much US possession in the last 20-30 to really talk about their "impact"..

I'm a Bobby Convey supporter but he was a horror show last night. Jonathan Spector didn't have his best game either.

Unbelievable how that Swedish attacker was able to two-hand shove an American defender, while still maintaining possesion as he dribbled with pace.

Those Swedish tactics are light years ahead of ours...