The United States Under-20 National Team beat hosts Northern Ireland 3-0 to win the 2010 Milk Cup's elite division on Friday. Gale Agbossoumonde opened the scoring for the United States and Juan Agudelo made it 2-0 in the 43rd. Adrian Reulas finished off the scoring in the 68th minute. Agbossoumonde and Northern Ireland's Chris Hegarty were sent off in the 77th minute.
-- GAME REPORT --
Participants: U.S. U-20 MNT vs. Northern Ireland
Competition: 2010 Milk Cup Final
Location: Ballymena Showgrounds, Northern Ireland
Date: July 30, 2010
Time: 8:00 pm Local
Weather: Cool and Damp
Scoring Summary: 1 2 F
USA 2 1 3
NIR 0 0 0
USA – Gale Agbossoumonde 24th minute
USA – Juan Agudelo 43
USA – Adrian Ruelas (Zarek Valentin) 68
Lineups:
USA: 18-Zac MacMath; 2-Zarek Valentin, 6-Perry Kitchen, 22-Gale Agbossoumonde, 5-Greg Garza; 17-Juan Agudelo, 8-Dillon Powers (3-Sacir Hot, 88), 7-Alex Molano (21-Conor Shanosky, 63), 14-Fuad Ibrahim (15-Bryan De La Fuente, 58); 13-Adrian Ruelas (19-Ethan White, 78), 9-Omar Salgado (10-Francisco Navas Cobo, 68)
Subs not used: 16-Ernest Nungaray, 24-Samir Badr
Head coach: Thomas Rongen
NIR: 1-Wayne Drummond; 14-Liam Bagnell, 6-Chris Hegarty, 2-Adam Thompson, 3-Dean Jarvis (5-Craig Hill, 46); 7-Jonathan Gorman, 4-Paddy McLaughlin, 8-Jonathan Breeze (17-Neil Dougan, 46), 10-James Gray (16-Scott Davidson, 65), 11-Shane Ferguson (15-Daniel Devine, 77); 9-William Grigg
Subs Not Used: 12-Andrew Dickey, 13-Aaron Burns, 18-Michael McCrudden
Head Coach:
Statistical Summary: USA / NIR
Shots 13 / 7
Saves 4 / 4
Fouls 14 / 16
Corner Kicks 9 / 3
Offside 1 / 1
Misconduct Summary:
USA – Omar Salgado (caution) 32nd minute
USA – Zarek Valentin (caution) 60
USA – Gale Agbossoumonde (sent off) 77
NIR – Chris Hegarty (sent off) 77
USA – Conor Shanosky (caution) 85
2010 Milk Cup Elite Section Final Standings
Champion: USA
Second Place: Northern Ireland
Third Place: Denmark
Fourth Place: Mexico
Fifth Place: Japan
Sixth Place: China
