All Entries Tagged With: "Landon Donovan"
USA-Costa Rica: Your Jurgen Plays A Los Angeles Home Game TYAC Preview
By Jon Levy Jurgen Klinsmann welcomes most of the important European-based pieces of his new national team as he looks to build on the Mexico draw in matches two and three of his USMNT regime. But before we get into the Costa Rica match, some news and notes are in order. Clint Dempsey did not [...]
Major League Soccer Set to Take Over CONCACAF ?
Editor’s Note: With this piece, we welcome Connor Walsh to the Yanks Are Coming family. We’re excited to have him on board, and think you’ll like what he has to say…or at least want to discuss it if you don’t! By Connor Walsh Ask even the most pessimistic American soccer fan, and they’ll [...]
The Wacky World of MLS Playoff Standings
By Andrew Villegas Take a second to look at the up-to-the-moment playoff standings for MLS. What strikes you? If you’re anything like most people, it’s that the New York Red Bulls – is it wrong that I automatically think to add “machine” to the end [...]
Ain’t No Friendly Vs. Mexico: Your Preview To Klinsmann’s Debut Tonight In Philadelphia
By Jon Levy USA–Mexico: TYAC Preview There is no such thing as a “friendly” soccer match when the USA and Mexico meet, so you won’t see that term appear a second time in this preview. The Yanks and El Tri will meet in an exhibition match on Wednesday night; a match sure to be filled [...]
A Dickensian Summer For US Soccer Ended Today With The Appointment of Jurgen Klinsmann, and one last plot twist: Hope.
By Neil W. Blackmon It finally ended today. Not a five year era—no—that was Thursday’s news. No—it ended. The summer that wouldn’t end. The summer that reminded us how great we can be; how fleeting success is; how far we have to go. The summer of everything ended this afternoon at what can only fairly [...]
Bob Bradley: A Eulogy: In the End, Hard Work Not Enough To Overcome His Limitations
By Neil W. Blackmon “It’s disappointing to hear because I think he’s done a fine job. Always a diligent, hard worker.” – Sir Alex Ferguson “There is no other sport like football. It is beautiful and it imitates life because it is a game of failure. Americans have baseball, and it is beautiful and there [...]
Gold Cup 2011. US vs. Mexico. The Final. Your Preview. Part Two.
By Jon Levy USA – Mexico: TYAC Previews The Gold Cup Final – Part 2 of 2 My Gold Cup Final Preview Part 1 should provide all the preface you want or need. Now let’s get down and dirty, let’s get down to brass tax, let’s get down to any number of trite clichés! What [...]
Gold Cup 2011: US vs. Mexico. The Final. Your Preview. Part One.
By Jon Levy USA – Mexico: TYAC Previews The Gold Cup Final – Part 1 of 2 The North American neighbors took drastically different paths to Pasadena, but CONCACAF doesn’t count style points. The US struggled in group play before finding form in the quarterfinal and gutting out a quality win in the semi over [...]
Gold Cup 2011: “I Knew It Was You, Panama. You Broke My Heart.” Your Preview to the Sequel
By Jon Levy One match changes everything. That’s a mantra gleaned from marketing exec’s and an idea prevalent in pretty much every Hollywood sports movie. It’s not usually true in real life. What’s more likely, and what actually happens more often, is that one match changes a season or tournament. Fans of the United States [...]
Gold Cup 2011: At Gut-Check Time Again, Bradley’s US Answers the Bell, and other final Jamaica Thoughts
By Neil W. Blackmon Three thoughts on a great win for the USMNT today at RFK Stadium and more broadly on a weekend that changed (for now) the complexion of this Gold Cup tournament. Mexico looked vulnerable Saturday night, despite a comeback victory. They were disorganized in the back against a Guatemalan team that only [...]
