All Entries Tagged With: "Jurgen Klinsmann"
US-Mexico Gameday: Final Pre-Match Thoughts and Links
Tweet Neil W. Blackmon I love the smell of Mexico City in the morning. Smells of crisp spring air, flatas and baked breads, a touch or two of smog and today, of desperation. It’s a strange, brutally small-sample size world we live in as fans and journalists following the international game and so the narratives [...]
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-Costa Rica Preview, Part One: As Pressure Swirls, A Proposed Plan of Attack for Klinsmann (Again)
Tweet Garrett McInnis and Neil W. Blackmon on the US Roster and What They’d Like to See Friday Night in Denver Well, so much for having that steady presence in the back four. As I mentioned earlier this week I was hoping to see a defense of Timmy Chandler, Geoff Cameron, Carlos Bocanegra and Fabian [...]
State of the Union: With Howard Injured, Brad Guzan Gets Chance to Prove US Still A Goalkeeper Factory
Tweet Connor Walsh Editor’s Note: This is the third piece in a four-piece “State of the (US Soccer) Union” running in the build-up to the March World Cup qualifiers. Garrett McInnis broke down the US defense in part one. Neil W. Blackmon covered the midfield dilemma for Jurgen Klinsmann in part two. Today we discuss [...]
State of the Union: US Midfield Still A Position of Strength, But Must Provide More
Tweet Neil W. Blackmon Editor’s Note: This is the second of a four-part series analyzing the “State of the US Soccer Union” as the Americans prepare for two critical CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying matches later this month. Today we look at the US midfield. Garrett McInnis breaks down the US defense in Part One. It wasn’t [...]
State of the Union: US Defense Desperately Searching for Right Combination, Continuity
Tweet Garrett McInnis Editor’s Note: This is the first in a four-part “State of the (US Soccer) Union” series that will run between today and the US World Cup qualifiers against Costa Rica and Mexico in two weeks. Today we examine the defense. When I set out to examine the current State of our Union’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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