Another fun weekend abroad for Americans. Some played very well and others either did not or didn’t play at all. We had a couple game-winners from Americans, and a couple guys on the wrong end of a defeat.

If there are players I forgot to list feel free to list them below, also if anything is incorrect please let me know. Thanks to a couple readers who e-mailed in a couple players that I missed last week to add to this list.

England

• Bobby Convey (Reading): Dressed but did not play.
• Jay DeMerit (Watford): Started and played a full 90 minutes in a 2-1 win vs. Ipswich.
• Clint Dempsey (Fulham): Club did not play this weekend.
• Brad Friedel (Aston Villa): Started, played a full 90 minutes, and made one save in a 0-0 tie vs. Liverpool.
• Brad Guzan (Aston Villa): Dressed but did not play.
• Marcus Hahnemann (Reading): Started, played a full 90 minutes and made two saves in a 4-2 win vs. Crystal Palace.
• Tim Howard (Everton): Started, played a full 90 minutes, and made four saves in a 3-0 loss to Portsmouth.
• Eddie Johnson (Cardiff City): Came off the bench and played five minutes in a 0-0 tie vs. Sheffield United.
• Frank Simek (Sheffield Wednesday): Did not dress in a 1-1 tie vs. Swansea.
• Jonathan Spector (West Ham): Did not dress in a 4-1 win vs. Blackburn.

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Call it a new feature here on WVH, while I’m trying to maintain focus on the MLS playoff race; this is something I’ve been wanting to do for a while now, a focus on the Americans abroad in other leagues. I was going to debut this last week but honestly ran out of time early in the week so I put it off until today.

Hopefully this will evolve a bit more over time but for now its just going to be a simple rundown of how everyone did this weekend in their respective leagues.

Some Yanks had the weekend off, some didn’t make it back to their respective clubs after the World Cup qualifier on Wednesday in Guatemala.

Biggest news may be out of France, Freddy Adu did make his debut for AS Monaco this weekend, playing just three minutes in place of Jeremy Menez. We could see Adu replace Menez at Monaco here real soon as from what I’ve been reading Menez is looking to transfer out. That could be a very good thing for Adu as we all want to see him get more playing time, wherever he is.

If there are players I forgot to list feel free to list them below. Or if something is incorrect, also please post it below. As much as I try to focus on everyone I know I will miss or slip up on someone, somewhere.

ENGLAND

• Tim Howard started, played 90 minutes, and made three saves in Everton’s 2-1 win against West Bromwich Albion on Saturday. Give this man an iron-man award for actually making the hustle back to England for this match, despite getting knocked in the head by Carlos Ruiz on Wednesday.
• Brad Friedel started, played 90 minutes, and made zero saves in Aston Villa’s 3-2 loss to Stoke on Saturday. Ugly game really, I caught some of it and felt kind of bad for Friedel, his defense really looked bad in this one.
• Marcus Hahnemann started, played 90 minutes and made six saves in Reading’s 4-2 loss to Charlton on Saturday. Another ugly game, lots of goals though which was fun but defensively it was not pretty.
• Bobby Convey started and played 73 minutes for Reading.
• Clint Dempsey came off the bench and played 13 minutes in Fulham’s 1-0 win vs. Arsenal on Saturday.
• Jay DeMerit started and played 90 minutes in Watford’s 3-2 loss to Nottingham Forest on Saturday.
• Eddie Johnson did not dress in Cardiff City’s 2-2 tie vs. Norwich on Saturday. Might wanna cut Eddie a break, if you’ve seen this video you will know what I am talking about. The Grown-Ass Man clearly is a bit jet-lagged right now and knows very little of why he is playing in the Coca-Cola division.

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