Author Archive for Jon Levy
Showdown at the Azteca: The US-Mexico Preview
Tweet Jon Levy This week provides a perfect example of why I love international soccer so much. The sheer magnitude of every little event is staggering. Just a few days ago the US was in grave danger; one snowcapped goal later and they’re practically in the CONCACAF World Cup Qualification driver’s seat. On the other [...]
USA-Costa Rica Preview: Part II – Three Points, Any Which Way
Tweet Jon Levy The United States Men’s National Team faces a number of crises ahead of crucial World Cup Qualifiers against Costa Rica in Denver, and away to Mexico at the Azteca. The team lost its first match in this final hexagonal round of qualifying, and looking back to last month, those were the good [...]
USA U-20′s Enter the Knockout Round: Previewing the Canada Match
Tweet Jon Levy Last week I wrote a post on the US Under-20 team that was filled with backhanded compliments, branding the team less complete and far less talented than its recent predecessors, but applauding Tab Ramos and his squad for squeaking out an ugly victory over Haiti. One match later not much about my [...]
US U-20 Team: Looking Back and Looking Forward
Tweet Jon Levy Well that was quite different, wasn’t it? It was an uninspired first match for the US U-20 team to start the 2013 CONCACAF Championship/U-20 World Cup Qualification Tournament, but a match in which a shorthanded team fought through its weaknesses to pick up an ugly win against an inferior opponent. Can’t think [...]
Hex Begins in Honduras: Tall Order for Yanks in Qualifying Opener
Tweet Jon Levy I really couldn’t have said it better than the US Soccer official site myself. We’re not just playing Honduras, the third best team in CONCACAF. We’re not just playing them in one of the largest, loudest, most hostile venues in CONCACAF either. No, Honduras had to go and declare a national holiday [...]
Super Bowl And Soccer: NFL Teams, and their Soccer Counterparts, Part II
Tweet Jon Levy As promised, Part II of our Super Bowl weekend look at NFL franchises, and what soccer clubs they most resemble around the world. We now turn our attention to the AFC, which anyone who’s anyone knows is the NFC’s little, less tradition-laden brother. AFC Miami Dolphins – Arsenal: Invincibles = 72 fins, [...]
Super Bowl and Soccer: A Guide to NFL Teams, and their Soccer Companion Clubs, Part I
Tweet Jon Levy The Yanks played maybe their most miserable match of the Jurgen Klinsmann era Tuesday night in Houston. But rather than turning this website into a 24/7 pessimism parade, we here at The Yanks Are Coming decided to remind you that we can have a little fun. Last year we kicked around the [...]
USA-Canada Preview: Texas Sized Appetizer Precedes Hex
Tweet Jon Levy The last time we saw Jurgen Klinsmann and his American charges they played gritty, unattractive football in Russia and managed a draw from the jaws of sure defeat against a Russian side playing extremely good football. Michael Bradley showed his ever-improving quality with a howitzer of a goal and Mix Diskerud scored [...]
World Cup 2014: 23 Americans For The Big Plane South
Tweet Jon Levy and Neil W. Blackmon This is the first of many lists over the next eighteen months that will feature our twenty-three selections for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. It is important to note that this list is essentially a list we would use today to select a team tomorrow, although we [...]
As Winter Nears, A Measuring Stick Friendly in Russia: TYAC Preview
Tweet Jon Levy How quickly things can change in the world of international soccer, especially when you change the lens through which you perceive success. Last month we were staring at a couple key games that could have seen The Yanks eliminated from the 2014 World Cup before even reaching the final hexagonal round of [...]
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