Author Archive for Daniel Seco
Shea, Gonzalez Headline Jan Camp Roster
Fresh off the presses from Chicago comes the USMNT roster for Coach Klinsmann’s January camp. Set to begin on January 3, the camp will initially take place in Phoenix before heading to the Home Depot Center in Los Angeles for a week and then returning to Phoenix. The USMNT will face Venezuela on January 21 [...]
Top 5 Holiday Gifts For Soccer Fans
With Hanukkah already underway and Christmas mere days away, The Yanks Are Coming presents our first annual Top 5 holiday gifts for soccer fans. From the latest in kits to books that may change the way you view the game, you’ll surely find a gift for that special soccer hooligan in your life (or something awesome [...]
MLS CUP Betting Insider Preview
MLS Cup Betting Insider There are just two teams left alive in the 2011 MLS season, and only one will be left standing after Houston and Los Angeles faceoff in the MLS Cup Final on Sunday night. Let’s preview the unlikely matchup for the league’s most important match. This game will be shown on ESPN [...]
How Will German Homeland Affect Klinsmann’s Search for an American Style of Soccer ??
By Garrett Mcinnis It’s hard not to notice Brek Shea. The newly minted US national winger is an unusually tall 6 foot three inches and his golden blonde ‘Flo-Hawk’ of sorts threatened to steal the show from Marouane Fellaini’s famous Euro-Fro last Tuesday. Lately Brek hasn’t needy a fancy hairstyle to get attention, as his [...]
OP-ED: Don’t Tell Me To Be Nice to Timmy Chandler
Editor’s Note: With this piece, we at The Yanks Are Coming are pleased to welcome Garrett McInnis to our team. Welcome Garrett, and we look forward to your pieces on the USMNT and Major League Soccer. You can follow Garrett on Twitter at @captainmcinnis. By Garrett McInnis Every few months/weeks/minutes/etc, supporters of the USMNT pluck [...]
Major League Soccer Set to Take Over CONCACAF ?
Editor’s Note: With this piece, we welcome Connor Walsh to the Yanks Are Coming family. We’re excited to have him on board, and think you’ll like what he has to say…or at least want to discuss it if you don’t! By Connor Walsh Ask even the most pessimistic American soccer fan, and they’ll [...]
WANTED: TWO-THREE NEW WRITERS
In response to various direct messages, e-mails to the editors and twitter concerns- we are posting this here. The Yanks Are Coming is seeking two-three new writers for the site. If you are interested, please note the following areas we’re looking for content in and e-mail either Editor-In-Chief Neil W. Blackmon at nwblackmon@gmail.com or Associate Editor [...]
Yanks Are Coming Fantasy Premier League
Loyal Yanks Are Coming Readers- It’s that time of year again– when we set our alarms for the same time on weekends as we set them on workweeks– where 9 am is an appropriate time to visit the pub– where Jon F. Levy talks of dominating everyone and we can only smile and point at [...]
USWNT Send-Off Series: 1999 More than A Memory: For US Fans, It’s A Reason To Watch This Summer
Editor’s Note: This is another piece in our US Women’s World Cup Send-Off Series, written not simply by The Yanks Are Coming writers but by some of our favorite soccer writers around the internet, as well as TYAC readers and general American soccer fans. This piece was written by Wesley Pickard, who is a writer [...]
Much Overdue TYAC Re-Design Thank You’s: Sam Wiseman and Ash Damodar
From The Editors As our loyal readers know, the most important blog of our time went through some very visible growing pains right around the time the calendar flipped from 2010 to 2011. It’s not always easy transitioning from a grassroots niche website to a global superpower in the blogosphere, or whatever it is that [...]
