Fifty Star Matchday: United States Qualifier Clippings

Tonight the United States will take on Antigua and Barbuda, broadcast at 4:00pm PDT on beIN Sport. If you don't have DirecTV or Dish, get yourself to a sports bar. It's an important fixture with three teams in the group tied at seven points. So important, the Sporting Magazine of record, the Sporting News Television Channel of Record, the National Broadsheet of record, and the West Coast Broadsheet of record are all talking about it.

So take a look at these clippings, and be sure to tune in tonight:

U.S. short-handed for key World Cup stretch - latimes.com

U.S. Soccer Stretched Thin for Qualifier vs. Antigua - NYTimes.com
The United States soccer team will play Antigua and Barbuda on Friday in a crucial World Cup qualifier, but many of the team’s top players will not be available.

For the U.S., pressure is a hard-earned privilege - ESPNFC

Sunil Gulati, Jurgen Klinsmann, U.S. face Antigua and Barbuda - Grant Wahl - SI.com
NEW YORK -- U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati has a smaller 10th-floor office than you might expect -- he's a popular economics lecturer at Columbia University -- but there are plenty of intriguing soccer mementos inside on the walls, including a picture of him with Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela; a framed photograph of his young son, Emilio, hand-in-hand with Ronaldinho in a pre-game walk out the tunnel; and a series of 1990s-era MLS official game balls. (Gulati has worn many hats, including deputy commissioner of MLS in its early days.)