The three remaining World Cup qualifying game locations have been announced today by the USSF. Chicago, Salt Lake City and Washington DC all will host the final three games of qualifying.

Chicago will host the Honduras game at Solider Field on June 6th; Rio Tino Stadium in Sandy, Utah, will host the El Salvador game on September 5th; and RFK Stadium will see the final game against Costa Rica on October 14th.

I said before those were the three cities I thought would host the final games after they announced Nashville as a host for a game last week. I think I just got the order wrong in the process. I believe I had Salt Lake hosting the June game in my prediction and Chicago hosting the September one.

Three quality picks for locations if you ask me. Nashville still blows my mind away but these three will sell well, no doubt about that.

DC United won their 12th club trophy last night in the 2008 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup with their 2-1 defeat of the USL-1 Charleston Battery at RFK Stadium. DC was lead by their two Brazilians Luciano Emilio and Fred in this one as Emilio got the Black-and-Red up early and after Charleston leveled things at 1-1, Fred put home the go ahead goal shortly after the start of the second half.

This was probably one of the more entertaining US Open Cup finals that I’ve seen in the past couple years. Maybe it was because of the DC fans making RFK a fortress or maybe it was because you had a USL club in the final for the first time in a few years.

With the win, DC becomes the first MLS club to qualify for the 2009/10 edition of the CONCACAF Champions League. Continue Reading…