USA men national football team will take on Colombia in the 2016 Copa America Centenario tournament celebrated as 100th anniversary. The match will be played on 3rd June 2016 at Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara. The kickoff time of the match will be at 6:30 PM PST. Fox Sports will provide the live coverage of this match in the USA in the English language while Univision will broadcast in Spanish. Indian viewers can watch the USA vs Colombia live stream on Sony Six & Sony ESPN Tv Channels.
USA vs Colombia Copa America 2016 Live Stream
Date: Friday, 03 June 2016 – Time: 06:30 p.m ET
Venue: Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, USA
TV Channels: Fox Sports 1 (US), PremierSport (UK), beIN Sports (France, middle-east), Sony Six (India/South Asia)
Live Stream & Highlights: We will add the live streaming of all Copa America matches. On this page, we will add USA-Colombia match stream links before 20 minutes of the kick-off time.
USA Soccer team has played 3 friendlies till now before the start of Copa America. They have played against Puerto Rico on 22 May (W by 1-3), 25 May against Ecuador (W by 1-0) and against Bolivia on 28 May (W by 4-0). So they have won their all warm-up games before starting their campaign on 3rd June against Colombians.
On the other side, Colombia has played only one friendly warm-up game against Haiti on 29 May and won by 3-1.
USA Copa America Full Squad:
Goalkeepers: Brad Guzan (Aston Villa, ENG), Ethan Horvath (Molde, NOR), Tim Howard (Colorado Rapids, USA)
Defenders : Matt Besler (Sporting Kansas City, USA), Steve Birnbaum (D.C. United, USA), John Brooks (Hertha Berlin, GER), Geoff Cameron (Stoke City, ENG), Timmy Chandler (Eintracht Frankfurt, GER), Michael Orozco (Club Tijuana, MEX), DeAndre Yedlin (Sunderland, ENG)
Midfielders : Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake, USA), Alejandro Bedoya (Nantes, FRA), Michael Bradley (Toronto FC, CAN), Fabian Johnson (Borussia Mönchengladbach, GER), Jermaine Jones (Colorado Rapids, USA), Perry Kitchen (Hearts, SCO), Darlington Nagbe (Portland Timbers, USA), Christian Pulisic (Borussia Dortmund, GER), Graham Zusi (Sporting Kansas City, USA)
Forwards : Clint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders FC, USA), Chris Wondolowski (San Jose Earthquakes, USA), Bobby Wood (Hamburg, GER), Gyasi Zardes (LA Galaxy, USA)
Colombia Copa America Full Squad:
Goalkeepers: Cristian Bonilla (Atletico Nacional), David Ospina (Arsenal), Robinson Zapata (Santa Fe)
Defenders: Felipe Aguilar (Atletico Nacional), Santiago Arias (PSV), Farid Diaz (Atletico Nacional), Frank Fabra (Boca Juniors), Stefan Medina (Pachuca), Jeison Murillo (Inter), Oscar Murillo (Pachuca), Cristian Zapata (AC Milan)
Midfielders: Edwin Cardona (Monterrey), Guillermo Celis (Junior FC), Juan Cuadrado (Juventus), Sebastian Perez (Atletico Nacional), Andres Roa (Deportivo Cali), James Rodriguez (Real Madrid), Carlos Sanchez (Aston Villa), Daniel Torres (Independiente Medellin)
Forwards: Carlos Bacca (AC Milan), Roger Martinez (Racing Club), Marlos Moreno (Atletico Nacional), Dayro Moreno (Tijuana)
Match Preview:
The USA has only played 3 times before this year. They have reached to semi-final stage only once in 1995 in Uruguay. Also, this is the first time when Copa America is being organized outside South America and that too in the United States. This is a great opportunity for them to show the world soccer their strength.
Head to Head:
The two teams had met in 17 previous matches, the last friendly held in 2014 at Craven Cottage in London, a match won by Colombia 2–1. In Copa América, the 1995 third-place match, won by Colombia 4–1, and in a group stage match in 2007, also won by Colombia with a lone goal by Jaime Castrillón.
So far Colombia has an edge over the US. MNT in Copa America and friendly games.
Match Prediction:
Colombia has some world class players who played in various European Football leagues which give them an edge over US team players. James Rodriguez, Carlos Bacca, Carlos Sanchez, Juan Cuadrado has some great experience playing in big clubs and with big players. So Colombia will win this game by 2-0.
