About USA Soccer versus Spain

The U.S. Men’s National Team will take on Spain on June 4th, 2011 at Gillette Stadium (4:30pm) in Foxboro.

The match will be the first meeting between the teams since the United States pulled off the stunning 2-0 upset victory against Spain in the 2009 Confederations Cup in South Africa.

The friendly will also serve as the final tune-up for the United States before the CONCACAF Gold Cup, which the Americans begin on June 7th against Canada.

The U.S. and Spain have met just four times previously, with Spain holding a 3-1-0 edge. The USA’s lone victory during the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup is the most famous of the encounters. Facing a Spain team that had been on an international record run of 15 consecutive victories and a 35-game unbeaten streak, goals by Jozy Altidore and Clint Dempsey lifted the United States to a 2-0 victory and a place in its first final of a major FIFA tournament.

This is the first meeting between the countries on U.S. soil. It will be three years ago to the day that the U.S. traveled to Spain, the teams remaining scoreless through 78 minutes before a goal from Xavi Hernandez carried Spain to a 1-0 victory. The first meeting between the teams came at the 1950 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, with Gino Pariani scoring the only U.S. goal in a 3-1 loss in group play (although the goal is disputed in the record books and FIFA still credits John Souza). The only other meeting between the teams was a friendly on March 11, 1992, in Valladolid, Spain, that was won 2-0 by the host.

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