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 [...]
Thriving in Belgium, Sacha Kljestan Sits Down for an Interview
Tweet Neil W. Blackmon Sacha Kljestan, now in the best run of form in his life, has come a long way. Then again, he’s used to it. It wasn’t that long ago that Kljestan was a lightly recruited midfielder who got nary a look o US development teams as a teenager, most coaches thinking he [...]
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 [...]
Previewing the US U-20 Qualifying, Landon’s Return, and other Monday Musings
Tweet Neil W. Blackmon With the failure in Honduras for the Senior team only a week and a half in the rearview, another US national team will take the field in a CONCACAF qualifying effort tonight in Puebla, Mexico, when the US Men’s U-20′s face off against Haiti (6:30 PM, Fox Soccer Network). Head Coach [...]
Robbie Rogers’ Announcement Was Honest, Brave, and in the Larger Context, It was Necessary
Tweet Neil W. Blackmon Real Madrid and Manchester United played an incredible soccer match this past week, and certainly plenty of pubs were crowded to view that masterpiece and plenty of articles were written breaking it down, but the reality is that stateside, last week was a slow news week for soccer. The United [...]
Honduras 2, USA 1: Vexing Opener to Hex For Klinsmann’s Men
Tweet Neil W. Blackmon The United States lost a match Wednesday, 2-1 at the Estadio Olimpico in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. They lost a game on a hot, sticky, Honduran national holiday afternoon in front of a stadium that shook from fans stomping in unison for the first half hour of the match. They lost [...]
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 [...]
In Mind-Numbing Draw, Few Positives, Plenty Questions
Tweet Neil W. Blackmon The United States played a unique new style last night in Houston: let’s call it anti-total football. In so doing, they played to a scoreless draw against a weak, MLS-reserve heavy Canadian side under an interim manager, and doubtlessly left Jurgen Klinsmann shaking his head about the options that are [...]
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