July 2, 2001

USA ready for Canada Tuesday. July 3, 1 PM Eastern Time (ESPN live)

The U.S. National Team will finish its two-game Independence Day Series vs. Canada tomorrow, July 3, at the National Sports Center in Blaine, Minn. in a match broadcast live on ESPN at 1 p.m. ET (Noon Local Time/10 a.m. PT). Rob Stone, a long-time side reporter for the U.S. women's broadcasts, will do his first game as the play-by-play announcer while former U.S. National Team goalkeeper Amy Griffin will do color commentary. After traveling from Canada on Monday, a day in which the USA did not train, the Americans conducted their lone practice in Minnesota on the immaculate stadium field at the NSC on Tuesday morning. Over 300 female youth players who were attending a soccer camp watched the practice and the U.S. players sent them home happy by signing autographs for 20 minutes after training. U.S. head coach April Heinrichs, her assistant coaches, team captain Julie Foudy and Minnesota native Jena Kluegel conducted a 45-minute clinic for the youngsters following the U.S. training. As Brandi Chastain walked through the gauntlet of screaming girls on her way to the locker room, she pulled off her cleats and threw them into the crowd, making two lucky Minnesota youths the owners of some of the world's most famous, if not muddy, cleats.

Tuesday's match at the National Sports Center in Blaine, Minn. is a virtual sell-out. More than 13,000 fans will be on hand to see the 1999 Women's World Cup champions and Olympic silver medallists.

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