SOCCER: U.S.' GAVEN MAKES HIS MARK IN WIN U.S. 6, T&T 1.Byline: Scott French Staff Writer CARSON - Freddy Adu Fredua Koranteng "Freddy" Adu (born 2 June 1989 in Tema, Ghana) is a Ghanaian-American footballer playing as a striker and an attacking midfielder. He currently plays for Portuguese team S.L. Benfica. drew the oohs and aahs, but it was another teen phenom, Eddie Gaven Eddie Gaven (born October 25, 1986 in Hamilton, New Jersey) is an American soccer player who plays for the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer. Gaven became the youngest player to sign with MLS, doing so at the age of 16 years and two months (since passed by Freddy Adu), , who made a greater imprint on the U.S. under-20 national soccer team's 6-1 romp Wednesday night over Trinidad & Tobago at Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box Center. Gaven, Major League Soccer's youngest player before Adu's arrival last year, scored three goals in the first 25 minutes and came inches from netting a fourth first-half goal as the Americans took command of their regional qualifying tournament for the FIFA FIFA International Association Football Federation [French Fédération Internationale de Football Association] FIFA n abbr (= Fédération Internationale de Football Association) → FIFA f World Youth Championship later this year in the Netherlands. Panama, the Americans' opponent Friday in the second of three qualifying doubleheaders, rallied to tie Costa Rica 1-1 in the tournament opener. A U.S. victory Friday will secure one of four CONCACAF CONCACAF Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Soccer) CONCACAF Confederacion Norte, Centroamericana y del Caribe de Futbol Asociacion (Spanish) berths - the top two finishers in Carson advance - for the June 10-July 2 world championship. ``I thought we were capable of this,'' said U.S. coach Sigi Schmid, the former UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX and Galaxy coach. ``You never expect to get the goals that early, that quickly ... but Holland is not in the bag. It's just three points (in the standings) for us, and it's a good goal-differential.'' UCLA's Benny Feilhaber played a prominent role in the United States' first four goals, and his Bruins teammate, Marvell Wynne, helped set up two as the Americans scored three goals in the first 10 minutes and took a 5-1 advantage after 25 minutes. Gaven, 18, scored in the second, 10th and 25th minutes. He finished Wynne's cross after a long ball from Feilhaber just 106 seconds into the game, knocked in a Feilhaber feed (from Wynne's throw-in up the right wing) off Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (trĭn`ĭdăd, təbā`gō), officially Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, republic (2005 est. pop. 1,088,000), 1,980 sq mi (5,129 sq km), West Indies. The capital is Port of Spain. goalkeeper Hasely Holder, then finished Will John's pass. Adu, the celebrated 15-year-old D.C. United forward, converted a seventh-minute penalty kick after Feilhaber was chopped down in the T&T box. Feilhaber created another goal, in the 17th minute, with a corner kick that T&T defender Radhanfah Abu Bakr knocked into his own goal. John added a second-half goal. In the opener, Costa Rica surrendered a lead forged on Jose Luis Cordero's 54th-minute goal after Greivin Arce, who created Cordero's strike, was sent off after receiving his second yellow card in the 67th. Scott French, (818) 713-3617 scott.french(at)dailynews.com |
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