29 May 2008
VIDEO: Tim Howard speaks

Everton and USA stopper Tim Howard talks to TheFA.com following England's 2-0 win over the USA at Wembley.

England

2-0

USA

Terry 38, Gerrard 59

 

International Friendly
8.05pm, Wednesday 28 May 2008
Wembley Stadium

Everton and USA goalkeeper Tim Howard says his appearance at Wembley capped off a great season for both club and country.

Despite ending up on the losing side at Wembley, Howard described his Wembley appearance as a "perfect cap" with which to finish a great season that has seen him achieve European qualification with his club.

"It's relief to finally be in Europe," Howard explained.

"Aston Villa pushed us to the wire and we had a few sleepless nights, but it was good.

"For me to come back here [to England] is always a pleasure as I live here and ply my trade here, so it was a perfect cap."

While American Howard plies his trade in England, England's David Beckham plays his football in America, and the Everton custodian was impressed with the form of LA Galaxy's star man.

"I think he's as good as advertised," said the American stopper.

"We know that he's a tremendous football player.

"Any time you can play against a top quality player, who I think David Beckham was and still is, that's the sort of people you want to test yourself against.

"Unfortunately we gave him a few too many chances and with one of the dead balls he punished us."

England
1 David James, 2 Wes Brown (13 Glen Johnson, 57) 3 Ashley Cole (14 Wayne Bridge, 82), 4 Owen Hargreaves, 5 Rio Ferdinand, 6 John Terry (c), 7 David Beckham (17 David Bentley, 46) 8 Frank Lampard (21 Gareth Barry, 57) 9 Jermain Defoe (25 Peter Crouch, 68) 10 Steven Gerrard, 11 Wayne Rooney (22 Joe Cole, 78)

Substitutes not used
12 Joe Hart, 15 Stephen Warnock, 16 Jonathan Woodgate, 18 Phil Jagielka, 19 David Wheater, 20 Tom Huddlestone, 23 Stewart Downing, 24 Ashley Young, 26 Dean Ashton, 27 Theo Walcott, 28 Gabriel Agbonlahor, 29 Joe Lewis

Coach
Fabio Capello

Colours
White shirts, blue shorts, white socks

USA
1 Tim Howard (18 Brad Guzan, 46) 3 Carlos Bocanegra (c), 4 Michael Bradley, 12 Heath Pearce, 6 Steven Cherundolo (27 Frankie Hejduk, 46) 7 DaMarcus Beasley (11 Eddie Lewis, 68) 8 Clint Dempsey, 9 Eddie Johnson (14 Nate Jaqua, 89) 13 Ricardo Clark, 16 Josh Wolff (19 Freddy Adu, 68) 22 Oguchi Onyewu

Substitutes not used
2 Danny Califf, 26 Mo Edu.

Coach: Bob Bradley

Colours: Grey shirts, white shorts, grey socks 

Referee: Kyros Vassaras (Greece)

Assistant Referees: Dimitrios Bozaizides & Dimitrios Saraidaris (both Greece)

Fourth Official: Peter Walton (England)

Attendance: 71,233