Opportunities to practice as a team are rare with members of the US team living across the country, no two residing in the same state. Newly signed coach, Roy Howell, took advantage of the gathering to run three practice sessions today, a light early morning kick around on the beach followed by a one hour skill building session and finally a full field two hour practice at a local university. The one legged soccer playing gringos drew quite an audience wherever they went and managed to recruit a dozen or so USA fans to offset the hundreds of Mexican fans expected at the match.

I enjoyed photography on both ends of the day. First with a six mile sunrise walk near our condo and then with a 5 mile sunset walk after a joint US-Mexican team dinner held downtown.