The MetroStars defeated a reserve team of Boca Juniors players, 1-0, Wednesday at legendary La Bombonera in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Defender Eddie Pope scored the lone goal of the game. in the 68th minute. Tim Howard preserved the victory by stopping Franco Cangele's penalty kick in the 83rd minute.
Cangele was one of five members of Boca's first-team squad — three with playing time in the 2003 Torneo Clausura — to play against the Metros.
Metros coach Bob Bradley looked at three potential signings: 30-year-old Argentine defender Juan Fontana of First Division Gimnasia y Esgrima, Irish U-21 midfielder Michael Doyle of Celtic and 21-year-old Bolivian midfielder Johnny Etcheverry.
BOCA-METROSTARS SUMMARY:
March 19 in Buenos Aires
Boca Juniors XI (Arg.) 0 MetroStars 1. Goals: Pope (Glowienka) 68.
Boca Juniors — Munoz, Mendez, Forchetti, Barbosa, Alvarez, Veron, Christovao, Cepeda, Galvan, Bracamonte (Cangele, 46), Waltner.
MetroStars — Howard, Jolley, Pope, Fontana (Addo, 46), Regan, Clark, Glowienka, Williams, Doyle, Moreno (Etcheverry, 73), Magee (LeBlanc, 46).