All Entries in the "March 2010" Category
Let’s Beat England!
Tweet In a few short weeks, 11 of our boys will step out onto a field in South Africa to take on the England national team. The country that invented the sport, and never lets anyone forget it. The country we won our independence from. The country against who our greatest soccer triumph was won. [...]
Clint Dempsey: Soccer Player, Realist
Tweet As you probably already know, Clint Dempsey recently spoke on the Yanks World Cup group consisting of England, Algeria, and Slovenia. He came to the not-so-groundbreaking conclusion that a third or fourth place finish in group play and no trip to the knockout rounds would be a failure for the team. In the realm [...]
MLS Rewind: Opening Weekend
Tweet Praise the Lord, the MLS is back. On an eventful season opening weekend, soccer fans enjoyed exciting clashes three nights in a row, including two nationally televised matches courtesy of ESPN. On the other hand, MLS’ Match Center remains unavailable, but they deserve a little leeway regarding the whole CBA debacle resolving itself little [...]
History Of The World Cup (1958)
Tweet This is the sixth in a weekly series of World Cup history lessons brought to you by our very own “Professor” Guy Bailey. He is not actually a professor; the only professor on staff is Jamie Clary. Well, sort of. The 1958 World Cup The venue of the 1958 World Cup was Sweden which [...]
Yanks Abroad: The Week In Review
Tweet West Ham Utd v. Wolverhampton Wanderers (3-23-10) Jonathan Spector came on at the half in the 3-1 loss. It was the first time that Spector did not start since February 10th. Spector is from the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, which also happens to be the birthplace of Brian McBride and the city where [...]
AFC Forever, Franchise Never
Tweet With the Portsmouth FC saga going from tragedy to farce this week when it was revealed that every player was going to be sold or released and that next season’s team would be recruited primarily through free transfers, garage sales, charitable donations and open casting, like managing a lower level club in Worldwide Soccer [...]
Ex-Pats: Redefining “Home” Country
Tweet The World Cup gives players a chance to represent their country, but not everyone represents the country they were born in. Sometimes through parentage, other times through naturalization, there are plenty of players who don’t play for their birth nation. Here are some of the players who might play in the World Cup for [...]
1996 Seems So Long Ago
Tweet With the players and owners in agreement and the 15th MLS season upon us, complacency is coming at soccer fans like an unskilled, college defender. Let us remember that we have not always had this level of soccer in the U.S., and it wasn’t easy getting here. There were some extremely dark days. The [...]
Friday Odds & Ends
Tweet If there is one thing missing from The Yanks Are Coming, it is probably our lack of a podcast (and a female voice). We’re not ones to make excuses, so all I’ll say is look for one to drop in the coming weeks. Until then, I implore you to check out the good things [...]
US Position Battle: Central Midfield
Tweet Since prior to the inception of the most important blog of our time the USMNT has relied on a dynamic duo of center mids. This duo consists of Michael Bradley, a.k.a. MB90 a.k.a. Junior, and “your face here.” While the revolving door at “the other” CMF spot is sometimes glossed over by Yanks fans [...]
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