Thursday, January 24, 2008
Eddie Johnson Fulham blah blah. There’s no way you’re reading this story here first.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
My good buddy Reverend Paul is even more OG than I am. If you were watching the Nats before the existence of Sam’s Army(TM), then you’ve seriously got some historical perspective. So there we were on Saturday, and just about the only thing we could talk about was how weird it was to see so [...]
In this week’s USSoccerPlayers.com column, I report that the United States defeated Sweden two goals to zero. Focused mostly on the on-field stuff, rather than – well, okay. Press conference after the game. Maximum Bob and Landon are, for whatever reason, showing about as much emotion as financial planning commercial. I’d love to start [...]
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
We can divide the January roster into several categories: Players Matt Reis Is Better Than Players Oguchi Onyewu Should Be Better Than But Isn’t Players Having Their Annual Last Chance To Make The National Team Players Who Will Contribute Significantly To World Cup Qualification Sadly, this last category could carpool in one of Landon Donovan’s [...]
Saturday, December 29, 2007
THE YEAR IN REVIEW – 2007 First we had a couple of months ending in “ary,” then a couple of months starting with “M” with April in between, then another couple of J’s, August, and then a string of “ber” months. Mostly “embers,” one “ober.” Oh, and it started out cold, got real hot, and [...]
Friday, December 28, 2007
Cruising Soccernet, and what do you know, I hear news about an old friend. Park Ji-sung, of course, was the man whose goal against Portugal turned a World Cup first round choke job into a chance for glory. He’s recovered from injury, and has rocketed up to fourth or fifth on the Manchester United depth [...]
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Steve Davis, in a special for MLSnet: Essentially, each team will have the flexibility to add one additional foreign player. Previously, teams were allotted seven international spots, four categorized as Senior Internationals and three as Youth Internationals. Now each club may have eight internationals, which no longer will be split into “Youth” or “Senior” designations. [...]
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Take THAT, Mandela! That’s right! Where’s your Nobel Prize NOW? Huh? Looking back, I don’t know why I was annoyed at the scheduling of this game. I was thinking it took some of the spotlight from MLS Cup. But heck, MLS was competing against Euro qualifiers anyway. And the US game really ended up being [...]
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Offside Rules gives us the sad news that the North End of Columbus Crew Stadium is being torn out and replaced with a concert stage. The North End was a mixture of Charenton Asylum and the People’s Front of Judea, where Columbus Crew fans waged ongoing battle against their arch-enemies, other Columbus Crew fans. We [...]
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Hm. Interesting, Heath Pearce is taking the field these days for the US National Team, after saying he thought he was the team’s best choice at right back – thereby questioning his coach and stabbing his teammates in the back. So, I guess that healing process is over. I never truly thought that nepotism was [...]
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Tired of reading tedious snipes at writers more popular than I am? Sure, but what are you gonna do. Ian Plenderleith lays out the case for calendar reform: Is it any wonder that many of the best young US players move abroad when you have a better chance of being called up for the National [...]
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
“Kids in the Hall” reference. Easier to fit into the subject title bar than Orson Welles’ quote about 500 years of peace producing the cuckoo clock. The roster for next week’s game is up at US Soccer. The only MLS guys – Findley, Edu, Seitz – are ones whose teams will play as many playoff [...]
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
What do you MEAN, you were too busy watching Brazil play I forget who to watch the Eastern Conference tectonic shifts on Sunday? SHAME on you! What kind of MLS fan ARE you, anyway? MLS games. The Brazil game. Speaking of Brazil, I love this joke – what do they call American cheese in America? [...]
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Why do I watch the US men’s national team play Scandinavian teams? Why does anyone? Women’s national team, fine. (Although I dunno how much of a fight Finland’s gonna put up this weekend.) But every US-Vikingstan game always turns out to be a colossal waste of time, and yes, I am including the day Twellman [...]
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
I’ve harped on this, but the premise that the US needs today’s Sweden game, or in fact any more games this year, is ridiculous. The 2010 World Cup will not be won this morning in Sweden. Out of the MLS players Bradley called up, only Bornstein is anything remotely resembling an unknown quantity on the [...]
So the US-Brazil game is officially official. And now for an opinion you won’t get anywhere else. Goff asks whether the US would be better served playing Mexico, or Brazil. I say neither one. The US national team should not play friendlies during the MLS season. The league was caught with its pants down this [...]
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Based on the World Cup – was it really only last year? – I said something about Buddy Holly being a more likely candidate to recover from his injuries than DaMarcus Beasley. The little big man is proving me wrong, and this not three days after reading an article about how Celtic just beat the [...]
I wanted to put my tuppence ha’penny on this debate on whether the United States or Mexico has the better soccer team, but I wanted to wait to see how Mexico finished in Copa America. The only way this even becomes a debate would be if Mexico had won the tournament.
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