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When Andre U. Akpan ’10 donned the whites of the U-20 U.S. National Soccer Team for the first time, he was a member of a squad composed nearly entirely of professionals. He started against Haiti and scored three goals, one on a header. That summer, he played in the U-20 World Cup in Canada, helping the U.S. advance to the quarterfinals. At this point, he had played with and against some of the best soccer talents in the world. He had also just finished his freshman year at Harvard...
Maryland keeper Zac MacMath was called to action in the third minute, easily bringing in co-captain Andre Akpan’s header...
With its season on the line, the Hawks pushed hard for an equalizer in the second half. In the 67th minute, Monmouth stringed together a few good passes, but Anthony Vasquez’s back-post header cannoned off the crossbar...
...75th minute, Nyamekye came inches away from scoring off a header from a Harvard corner. But Hawks’ keeper Bryan Meredith pulled off a great save to keep Monmouth in the contest...
...pounding drums, blaring car horns and exploding fireworks on sidewalks. Buses were commandeered, and mobs ran screaming through the streets. But the victory that was being celebrated was not from a war as much as a single battle: the home leg of the national soccer team's double header against Algeria, whose outcome will determine which country makes it to next year's World Cup in South Africa. Egypt's second goal, in the dying minutes of the game, had given the home team a 2-0 victory that put it neck and neck with its fiercest rival; the winner...