| Rude Warm-Up Match for U-20s by Greg Seltzer - June 7, 2007 |
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The US Under-20 National Team has the tables turned by a vengeful Canada in a 4-0 friendly loss in Kingston, Ontario on Wednesday night.
Thomas Rongen's crew had scored a 4-1 victory over the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup hosts a few days earlier, but were hit early and often by their northern neighbors in the rematch.
Tousaint Ricketts netted after only two minutes, then added another near the half hour after teammate Jonathon Beaulieu-Bourgault had doubled in the 19th minute.
Ricketts completed his hat trick in the 65th minute, corralling a long ball and rounding Julian Valentin to beat US debutant Diego Restrepo.
Rongen, who will unveil his World Cup roster next week, still has a June 23rd tune-up against Chile at Giants Stadium in New Jersey remaining before their tourney gets underway with a North Korea clash in Montreal one week later.
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CAN – Tousaint Ricketts 2'
USA - Diego Restrepo; Tony Beltran, Julian Valentin (Dane Brek-Shea 69'), Ofori Sarkodie, Amaechi Igwe, Mitchell van den Beld (Preston Zimmerman 46'), Bryan Arguez, Anthony Wallace, Gabriel Ferrari, Sal Zizzo, Andre Akpan (Sheanon Williams 76')
CAN - Asmir Begovic (David Monslave 46'); Nana Attakora-Gyan, Kent O'Connor, Marcus Haber, Steve Lumley, Christian Nunez, Keegan Ayre (Kennedy Owusu-Ansah 46'), Jonathon Beaulieu-Bourgault (Olivier Lacoste-Lebuis 69'), Michael D'Agostino (A.J. Gray 82'), Will Johnson, Toisaint Ricketts
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