SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Jozy Altidore started the comeback in the 77th minute, and Frankie Hejduk scored the tying goal in the 88th as the United States rallied for a 2-2 draw with El Salvador in a World Cup qualifier on Saturday night.
Ranked just 106th in the world, El Salvador built a 2-0 lead against the No. 17 Americans before a boisterous crowd of 30,500 on goals by Eliseo Quintanilla in the 15th minute and Crisian Castillo in the 72nd.
In other Cup qualifiers of note:
• Diego Maradona won his first official match as Argentina’s coach, a 4-0 win over visiting Venezuela.
• Mexico ended a four-game winless streak in qualifying with a 2-0 victory over Costa Rica.
• Guillermo Barros Schelotto scored on a penalty kick in Toronto FC’s 1-1 tie with the host Columbus Crew in MLS action.
• Patrick Nyarko scored in the 53rd minute to lift the visiting Chicago Fire into a 1-1 tie with D.C. United.
• Kenny Mansally‘s goal in the final minute lifted the visiting New England Revolution to a 1-1 tie with the New York Red Bulls.
• Fredy Montero and Steve Zakuani scored as Seattle FC beat visiting Real Salt Lake 2-0.
• Cam Weaver scored in the 44th minute to give the host San Jose Earthquakes a 3-2 win over the Houston Dynamo.
Armstrong back on his bike.
Three days after surgery to fix his broken right collarbone, Lance Armstrong posted a photo of himself training on his Twitter feed.
The 37-year-old American cyclist was expected to resume training almost immediately to meet his goal of racing in the Giro d’Italia, which begins May 9.
• Victoria Pendleton edged Willy Kanis of the Netherlands to win the women’s individual sprint title at the track world championships in Pruszkow, Poland.
Also, the Danish duo of Alex Rasmussen and Michael Morkov won the men’s madison, and Josephine Tomic of Australia won the women’s inaugural omnium.
Warriors lose Jackson.
Guard Stephen Jackson will undergo surgery next week to remove a bone fragment in his left big toe, and the Golden State Warriors’ leading scorer is expected to miss the rest of the season.
• Washington Wizards guard Mike James is out for the season after breaking his right pinkie.
Footnotes.
Kaylin Richardson and Marco Sullivan both won downhill events at the U.S. Alpine Championships in Girdwood, Alaska, mastering the same mountain where they won titles in 2007.
• Ole Einar Bjorndalen won the pursuit discipline title after finishing second to Norwegian teammate Emil Hegle Svendsen in the next- to-last World Cup race in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Defending World Cup champion Magdalena Neuner of Germany won the women’s 10-kilometer pursuit.
• Auburn won the 400-yard freestyle relay to complete a final-day rally past Texas to win the NCAA men’s swimming and diving championship in College Station, Texas.
The Associated Press
