USA – Panama: Round Three – Your TYAC Preview

Jon Levy  The Yanks are coming off what’s becoming the typical Jurgen Klinsmann USMNT performance when faced with less skilled competition. They possessed the crap out of ball, moved it well in their opponent’s half, but failed to generate clear cut scoring chances against a well organized defense. But they did get a pinch of [...]

Puck’s Gameday Happy Hour: Thoughts on the USWNT Goalfest, Clint Dempsey, Venezuela and More…

Puck Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back into the Happy Hour. Since we last got together, I have been on top of the world. The Syracuse Orangemen (they will never be the Orange to true fans) are the number one team in the land, Manchester City remains atop the EPL table thanks to the head of [...]

USMNT- Venezuela: Your TYAC Official Preview

Jon Levy The national team hasn’t even suited up in 2012, but it’s already been an encouraging year for American soccer. Dempsey and Donovan (for two months, at least) are both leading the line of attack for their respective English Premier League teams, the Women’s National Teamers avoided a would-be tragedy in their Vancouver hotel [...]

TYAC USMNT Olympic Qualifying Position Breakdown: Am I Being Too Forward ?

Neil W. Blackmon Caleb Porter’s U-23 side, the January camp edition, fell 4-0 to the Klinsmann Camp Cupcake edition of the USMNT this weekend, and while conceding four goals to the senior side may cause some alarm among those anxiously monitoring this group’s progress, it’s the lack of goals that was somewhat surprising to those [...]

TYAC Olympic Qualifying Position Breakdown: Holes in the Back ?

Connor Walsh Caleb Porter has just wrapped up the second of what will be four U-23 training camps ahead of 2012 Olympics Qualifying which begins for the United States this coming March.  The teams’ first camp, this past November, was held in Duisberg, Germany and due to Porter’s commitment to the University of Akron, the [...]

TYAC Olympic Qualifying Position Breakdown: Making Middy Music

Jon Levy You’ll have to forgive all of us here at The Yanks Are Coming for getting into a more-than-healthy amount of self-referencing in the coming months. We’re coming up on the blog’s fourth birthday this summer, TYAC having been created in the wake of a very talented 2008 Olympic soccer team’s early and unexpected exit from the Beijing [...]

Our Claudio Reyna Plaque Winner as the Most Improved US Player in 2011 is FC Dallas star and ESPN's Next- Brek Shea.

2011 Yanks Are Coming Best of US Soccer Award Winners: Part Three

First, let us be among many, but hopefully not the last, to wish all our readers a Happy New Year. We wish you blessings, good fortune and health in 2012. We begin a comprehensive look at the Men’s U-23 Olympic Team this week, and we’re very excited about those pieces given our background as a [...]

| Jan 01, 2012 | Comments 0
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Eva Amurri wishes you a Happy New Year. So do we at The Yanks Are Coming, for what it's worth.

New Year’s Eve Happy Hour: Preston Zimmerman, and Puck’s 2012 Bold Predictions

By Puck Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back to Puck’s Happy Hour. Hopefully the Holiday Season is treating you well with your family, friends, and, of course, cocktails filling the calendar. After spending some time in Upstate New York with the family, I am back at the TYAC home office taking some much needed time to [...]

| Dec 31, 2011 | Comments 1
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The USMNT may have spent 2011 in transition and chasing Mexico, but Tim Howard remains its solid rock.

2011 Yanks Are Coming Best of US Soccer Awards: Part Two

Part I of the 2nd Annual Yanks Are Coming Best of US Soccer Awards featured 2011′s US Soccer disappointments, frustrations, and best hairdo. The second portion of our awards focuses on the promise of youth, goalkeepers, and the goals scored in what was a thrilling year in American soccer. Again, a list of the finalists [...]

| Dec 29, 2011 | Comments 2
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And I Ran, I Ran So Far Away....And yeah, that's a donkey.

2011 Yanks Are Coming Awards Winners: Part One

First, we’d like to wish our own holiday wishes to our readers and new visitors. Thanks for making 2011 a special year at The Yanks Are Coming, and we hope to provide more solid coverage, analysis and unique perspectives on both the USMNT and USWNT in 2012. Soccer has always had a place at Christmas- [...]

| Dec 29, 2011 | Comments 4
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