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Well it's happened again. The United States has been drawn into a virtual group of death at the U-20 World Cup. This time it isn't Brazil or Argentina the US is drawn in with, but Germany along with Cameroon and South Korea (again). The U-20 World Cup is in September ...
The decision of Hermann Trophy winner Marcus Tracey of Wake Forest to sign in Europe put a bit of a damper on the day, but still plenty of quality players were available after one of the best seasons of college soccer in recent memory. The 2008 NCAA campaign maybe remembered ...
Dulio Davino becomes the latest former Mexican National Team star to more or less flop in MLS. Sure some Hoops fans will say "he helped solidify our back line when healthy," but for his $400,000 salary I can think of much better players and more marketable ones also to sign. Here ...
My colleague at the Champions Soccer Radio Network, Daniel Feuerstein has a very interesting take on what now seems like an age old question: Has Soccer arrived? Much along the same lines as my column over the weekend about how MLS Cup garnered about one fourth of the total ...
This past Sunday’s MLS Cup Final on ABC received a 0.7 Nielsen rating. Last year’s final between Houston and New England received a 0.8 rating. From my vantage point this is a disappointing number considering the game started at 3:30 PM ET instead of 12:30 PM ET as it did ...
Don Garber as always has been conducting a major charm offensive as MLS Cup approaches. But as someone who has watched the league since its inception I’ve become numb or even totally immune to the league’s propaganda. MLS the way I see it has problems and has not delivered ...
The United States got a rude welcome to 2009 this morning. A day after agreeing to a friendly with Sweden to conclude the traditional January camp, Bob Bradley’s men were handed an opening date of qualifying versus Mexico at home. The United States has not lost at home to Mexico ...
If Columbus wins tonight, we'll have our first ever MLS Cup Final that does include DC United, the LA Galaxy, Houston/San Jose or Chicago.  MLS can rightly claim it is more competitive than I ridiculed it for not being just a few short months ago. The keys tonight: The Crew backline ...
Landon Donovan is arguably the greatest footballer ever produced in the United States. This past MLS season, Donovan dominated the opposition, despite being on one of the worst teams in the league. Now Landon Donovan begins the nest phase of his career in Germany, with a ten day trial at ...
Maybe I was simply delusional. Perhaps I was drinking the Kool Aid. This past April on EPL Talk.com I had engaged in a back and forth dialogue with the publisher of that site, Christopher Harris (aka the Gaffer) arguing the English Premier League would always have a niche following in ...