All Entries Tagged With: "Honduras"
As MLS Season Opens, Matt Besler Is Sporting Kansas City’s Anchor: Our Interview
Tweet Neil W. Blackmon 2012 was a season of championship and promise for Sporting Kansas City, as they won the US Open Cup championship and finished first in the Eastern Conference. Unfortunately for the club, despite the top seed, they were eliminated by Houston 2-1 on aggregate in the conference semifinals. It was a difficult [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Olympics 2012: Window Shopping the Moneyball Talent
Tweet Jon Levy We humble writers here at The Yanks Are Coming have always been proponents of infusing the soccer world with both logic and reason, less common elements within the game than you might think. So it should come as no surprise that we’re big fans of the book Soccernomics. Written by Simon Kuper [...]
Life Without Landon: Your U.S.-Honduras Match Preview
Tweet By Jon Levy A month ago it looked like we were in for what could pass for a marquee CONCACAF friendly. Now that’s wrong for a couple reasons. Aside from the fact that no “marquee CONCACAF friendly” outside of U.S./Mexico exists, both the U.S. and Honduras have now both been hit with the injury [...]
2011 Gold Cup Preview: Breaking Down the Forgotten Group B
Tweet By Puck Alright soccer fans, if you are anything like me, you must be foaming at the mouth for the Gold Cup to finally get underway. After months speculating about the roster, we finally know what squad the US will be taking out onto the pitch. While “The greatest blog in the history [...]
The Dark Underbelly of Andy Najar’s Choice Is How Many Kids Can’t Make their Own
Tweet By Neil W. Blackmon “CAPITANO” It’s a crisp, cold and clear, winter half-moon early February night, the kind where the stars are in full regalia, and I’m early for the first of my early spring Men’s League games at a soccer park in Atlanta’s Edgewood neighborhood . A few of my new teammates are [...]
Live Updates On Twitter
Tweet For instant reactions and news on the game, check us out on Twitter (@yanksarecoming). We’ll have tons of stuff up on the site at halftime, after the game and later tonite. Thanks!
Two Quick Yellows…
Tweet Luckily, the count on the yellow cards is one for each side. Capt. Jimmy Conrad received one in the sixth minute for clipping Walter Martinez (F) just after the Robbie Rogers corner kick. For Honduras, Jerry Palacios (F) got called for a yellow for a challenge at the top of the box during the [...]
Your Starting Lineups…
Tweet USA Starters GK – Troy Perkins D – Marvell Wynne M – Benny Feilhaber M – Kyle Beckerman D – Chad Marshall D – Jonathan Bornstein M – Robbie Rogers D – Jimmy Conrad (Capt.) M – Sacha Kljestan F – Robbie Findley F – Jeff Cunningham Honduras Starters D – Erick Norales D [...]
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