245. WALK THRU THURS - Joshua 1:9
Channel: Croak and Crow
Date: 2022-01-27

🥳Congratulations USA Mens National Soccer! defeated El Salvador in Jan 27 World Cup qualifier ⚽

USA 1 - El Salvador 0 - Final

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USMNT - U.S. Men’s National Team
The United States men's national soccer team represents the United States in men's international soccer competitions. The team is controlled by the United States Soccer Federation and is a member of FIFA and CONCACAF. 
Three critical World Cup qualifying matches in the next week that will leave the U.S. either in a comfortable position to qualify or sweating heading into the final window of qualifying in late March. And while a whole host of external factors, from weather to injuries to travel clearance and club responsibilities, threaten the USMNT’s position, it’s do-or-die time if the U.S. wants to play in Qatar at the end of this year.

2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifier
Date: Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022
Location: Lower.com Field; Columbus, Ohio
ET, ESPN2, watch on fuboTV, ESPN+, UniMas and TUDN

The U.S. Men’s National Team returned to World Cup qualifying action Thursday when it faced El Salvador in Columbus, Ohio, a familiar fortress that delivered frigid conditions in the midst of the Midwestern winter. In its quest for Qatar, the USA enters the new year sitting strong in the Octagonal standings. 
 
With just two home games remaining, the USA-El Salvador match represented another crucial stop on the road to the World Cup. 
Scheduling changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic have set the stage for a special January/February international window with three World Cup qualifying matches. Canada will host the middle match of the slate in Ontario, the U.S. will double down on the wintry conditions and unleash a unique home field advantage in the arctic clime of St. Paul, Minn. as it did in Columbus, Ohio. The playing fields are ready to roll and the USMNT squad is excited to take on the polar conditions.

“You know what? I want it to be freezing. I want it to be cold,” said USMNT defender Walker Zimmerman. “I want the snow. I want to be a part of something so iconic that I saw and I really remember growing up. And that’s exciting to me. So, I think the guys are ready to embrace it, and it will be a really good environment for us fan-wise as well.”
 
Walker Zimmerman has been widely regarded as one of the top defenders in MLS and he has embraced his leadership role and adjusted to life as an MLS franchise. As a high schooler, Zimmerman felt his coach was being unnecessarily harsh with his team and decided to do something about it. Then just a freshman, he asked his coach if he could pray for him — on the spot, in the middle of practice.

“After praying, [Zimmerman] goes, ‘Coach, I think that sometimes the tougher the stuff we go through on a personal level, the closer we get to God,’”.
Now the captain of Major League Soccer team Nashville SC and a member of the U.S. men’s national team, the center back grew up in a family dedicated to ministry. His dad was a pastor for 21 years and now serves as the global director of Novo’s reFocusing team, which helps pastors live out their calling.
“Going into the ninth grade, I think my faith became way more of my own,” Zimmerman told The Tennessean. “I almost did, or did not, do certain things because I’m a pastor’s kid. Even now, there’s way more out there than just soccer or me being known as a soccer player.”

 As he explains in the biographical section of his personal website, his leadership philosophy is rooted in his faith.
“For me, caring means showing up for people and loving them like Jesus would,” Zimmerman wrote. “A team that genuinely cares about each other has team chemistry. It’s a formula for winning.
“So, for me, being a pro athlete is using the most of my God-given ability to win and to compete and to enjoy the journey of my career. But it’s also something just as important. It’s about selflessly impacting the world.”
Listed at the top of the section is 1 Corinthians4:20 “For the kingdom of God does not consist in words but in power.”

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