In preparations for this afternoon's World Cup Qualifying match against Trinidad and Tobago I decided to take a stroll down memory lane and look at how we fared in previous World Cup Qualifiers over the last four World Cup cycles. Not surprisingly, the U.S. generally has performed pretty well sporting an overall mark of 44-12-12 between 2000 and 2012. Here's some of the more notable observations I made:
1) Earnie Stewart was a beast during the 2002 World Cup Qualifying cycle scoring 8 goals in a 12 match span. He only scored 19 international goals in his entire career. He didn't pile them up against just the minnows either scoring against Mexico, in Costa Rica, and in Honduras.
2) Eddie Johnson scored goals during qualifiers during the cycles of 2006, 2010 and 2014. The only other players to do that were Carlos Bocanegra and Landon Donovan.
3) Clint Dempsey, an omission from the current squad, scored 8 times in World Cup Qualifying for the U.S. during the 2014 cycle.
4) The last American to score in a World Cup Qualifier in Trinidad and Tobago was Ricardo Clark (2009).
5) For all the talk about how Mexico is such a tough place for the U.S. to play, the U.S. has lost every World Cup Qualifying match they've played in Costa Rica going back to the 1990 cycle and have been outscored 19-6 over their last eight matches. You have to go back to the 1985 CONCACAF Championship - the precursor to the current World Cup Qualifying - where the U.S. drew 1-1 inCosta Rica to find a qualifier the U.S. didn't lose there.
6) The U.S. had just 7 shutouts in 16 World Cup Qualifying matches during the 2014 cycle. Only one of those shutouts came on the road, and that was in Mexico.
7) Of all the U.S. players who scored against St. Vincent and the Grenadines, only Jozy Altidore had previously scored for the U.S. in a World Cup Qualifier.
8) The U.S. lost in Trinidad and Tobago in 2008, 2-1.
9) Jozy Altidore's first international hat trick came against Trinidad and Tobago in 2009.
10) Dating back to last cycle, the U.S. has won four consecutive World Cup Qualifying matches.
Here's a detailed look at the last four cycles. Home games are highlighted in red:
2014 (11-3-2)
6/8/2012 - USA 3 Antigua and Barbuda 1 - Bocanegra (1), Dempsey (1), Gomez (1)
6/12/2012 - USA 1 Guatemala 1 - Dempsey (2)
9/7/2012 - Jamaica 2 USA 1 - Dempsey (3)
9/11/2012 - USA 1 Jamaica 0 - Gomez (2)
10/12/2012 - USA 2 Antigua and Barbuda 1 - E.Johnson 2 (2)
10/16/2012 - USA 3 Guatemala 1 - Bocanegra (2), Dempsey 2 (5)
2/6/2013 - Honduras 2 USA 1 - Dempsey (6)
3/22/2013 - USA 1 Costa Rica 0 - Dempsey (7)
3/26/2013 - Mexico 0 USA 0
6/7/2013 - USA 2 Jamaica 1 - Altidore (1), Evans (1)
6/11/2013 - USA 2 Panama 0 - Altidore (2) , E.Johnson (3)
6/18/2013 - USA 1 Honduras 0 - Altidore (3)
9/6/2013 - Costa Rica 3 USA 1 - Dempsey (8)
9/10/2013 - USA 2 Mexico 0 - E.Johnson (4), Donovan (1)
10/11/2013 - USA 2 Jamaica 0 - Zusi (1), Altidore (4)
10/15/2013 - USA 3 Panama 2 - Orozco (1), Zusi (2), Johannsson (1)
2010 (13-3-2)
6/15/2008 - USA 8 Barbados 0 - Dempsey 2 (2), Donovan (1), Bradley (1), Ching 2 (2), E.Johnson (1), Own Goal
6/22/2008 - USA 1 Barbados 0 - Lewis (1)
8/20/2008 - USA 1 Guatemala 0 - Bocanegra (1)
9/6/2008 - USA 1 Cuba 0 - Dempsey (3)
9/10/2008 - USA 3 Trinidad and Tobago 0 - Bradley (2), Dempsey (4), Ching (3)
10/11/2008 - USA 6 Cuba 1 - Beasley 2 (2), Donovan (2), Ching (4), Altidore (1), Onyewu (1)
10/15/2008 - Trinidad and Tobago 2 USA 1 - Davies (1)
11/19/2008 - USA 2 Guatemala 0 - Cooper (1), Adu (1)
2/11/2009 - USA 2 Mexico 0 - Bradley 2 (4)
3/28/2009 - USA 2 El Salvador 2 - Altidore (2), Hejduk (1)
4/1/2009 - USA 3 Trinidad and Tobago 0 - Altidore 3 (5)
6/3/2009 - Costa Rica 3 USA 1 - Donovan (3)
6/6/2009 - USA 2 Honduras 1 - Donovan (4), Bocanegra (2)
8/12/2009 - Mexico 2 USA 1 - Davies (2)
9/5/2009 - USA 2 El Salvador 1 - Dempsey (5), Altidore (6)
9/9/2009 - USA 1 Trinidad and Tobago 0 - Clark (1)
10/10/2009 - USA 3 Honduras 2 - Casey 2 (2), Donovan (5)
10/14/2009 - USA 2 Costa Rica 2 - Bradley (5), Bornstein (1)
2006 (12-2-4)
6/13/2004 - USA 3 Grenada 0 - Beasley 2 (2), Vanney (1)
6/20/2004 - USA 3 Grenada 2 - Donovan (1), Wolff (1), Beasley (3)
8/18/2004 - USA 1 Jamaica 1 - Ching (1)
9/4/2004 - USA 2 El Salvador 0 - Ching (2), Donovan (2)
9/8/2004 - USA 1 Panama 1 - Cobi Jones (1)
10/9/2004 - USA 2 El Salvador 0 - McBride (1), E.Johnson (1)
10/13/2004 - USA 6 Panama 0 - Donovan 2 (4), E.Johnson 3 (4), Own Goal
11/17/2004 - USA 1 Jamaica 1 - E.Johnson (5)
2/9/2004 - USA 2 Trinidad and Tobago 1 - E.Johnson (6), Lewis (1)
3/27/2005 - Mexico 2 USA 1 - Lewis (2)
3/30/2004 - USA 2 Guatemala 0 - E.Johnson (7), Ralston (1)
6/4/2005 - USA 3 Costa Rica 0 - Donovan 2 (6), McBride (2)
6/8/2005 - USA 3 Panama 0 - Bocanegra (1), Donovan (7), McBride (3)
8/17/2005 - USA 1 Trinidad and Tobago 0 - McBride (4)
9/3/2005 - USA 2 Mexico 0 - Ralston (2), Beasley (4)
9/7/2005 - USA 0 Guatemala 0
10/8/2005 - Costa Rica 3 USA 0
10/12/2005 - USA 2 Panama 0 - Martino (1), Twellman (1)
2002 (8-4-4)
7/16/2000 - USA 1 Guatemala 1 - Razov (1)
7/23/2000 - Costa Rica 2 USA 1 - Stewart (1)
8/16/2000 - USA 7 Barbados 0 - Pope (1), McBride (1), Moore 2 (2), O'Brien (1), Ramos (1), Stewart (2)
9/3/2000 - USA 1 Guatemala 0 - McBride (2)
10/11/2000 - USA 0 Costa Rica 0
11/15/2000 - USA 4 Barbados 0 - Mathis (1), Stewart (3), Cobi Jones (1), Razov (2)
2/28/2001 - USA 2 Mexico 0 - Wolff (1), Stewart (4)
3/25/2001 - USA 2 Honduras 1 - Stewart (5), Mathis (2)
4/25/2001 - USA 1 Costa Rica 0 - Wolff (2)
6/16/2001 - USA 0 Jamaica 0
6/20/2001 - USA 2 Trinidad and Tobago 0 - Razov (3), Stewart (6)
7/1/2001 - Mexico 1 USA 0
9/1/2001 - Honduras 3 USA 2 - Stewart 2 (8)
9/5/2001 - Costa Rica 2 USA 0
10/7/2001 - USA 2 Jamaica 1 - Moore 2 (4)
11/11/2001 - USA 0 Trinidad and Tobago 0
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