All Entries Tagged With: "Mexico"
A Closer Look At The Márquez Experiment
By Andrew Villegas Paging Sports Illustrated’s Grant Wahl, I have the topic and title for your next book: The Márquez Experiment. In a lot of ways, the Rafa Márquez experiment in NY was a more important experiment than the David Beckham experiment was for MLS. Márquez was supposed to bring in Mexicans — a huge [...]
Puck’s Friday Happy Hour: Klinsy’s Debut, and Building on the MB 90 Nickname Legacy at TYAC
By Puck Ladies and Gentlemen welcome back to the Happy Hour. Wednesday’s match with Mexicowent just about as scripted, at least in this writer’s view. The USMNT veterans were unfamiliar with their new assignments under Klinsy and El Tri took advantage, exploiting the resulting gaps in defense. The addition of former USMNT outcasts like JFT [...]
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 [...]
Puck’s Friday Happy Hour: Klinsmann’s Culture Change Will Take Time, and Lingering Questions Remain
By Puck Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back into the Happy Hour. My apologies for missing last week’s gathering. I was home in Rochester, New York, land where USWNT stars are born, to celebrate my old man’s 60th birthday. As you turn 60 once in a lifetime, unless of course you are the Dali Lama or [...]
Youth academies could kindle burn if Designated Player signings not stoking MLS fire
By Andrew Villegas If Mexico’s U-17 World Cup win this week has shown us anything, it’s that the gap between U.S. Soccer and FMF development has widened into a gulf. In that tournament, the U.S. lost to Uzbekistan in the group stage after beating the Czech [...]
Gold Cup 2011: Puck’s Gameday Happy Hour: US-Mexico Drinking Game
By Puck Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back into the Happy Hour—Special Gold Cup Final edition. It has certainly been a rollercoaster month for USMNT fans. After dispatching Canada, I personally witnessed (along with the rest of the AO Tampa crew) the worst loss in the Bradley era against Panama in Tampa. Victory over Guadeloupe secured [...]
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: Recapping Group A– Where Only Mexico Matters
By Sean McElroy Fox Soccer Channel might not have aired the matches, but my friends at Telemundo and Galavision provided excellent (and high definition) coverage of the affairs of Group A. In my preview, I considered Group A to be the CONCACAF version of a group of death. I had originally planned to write a [...]
GOLD CUP 2011: USA vs. Mexico Roster Analysis: Goalkeepin’ It Real
By Jon Levy The following is the first in a four part series comparing the 2011 Gold Cup rosters of the two “giants of CONCACAF.” Goalkeepers The Yanks: Tim Howard (Everton), Marcus Hahnemann (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Nick Rimando (Real Salt Lake) El Tri: Guillermo Ochoa (Club America), Alfredo Talavera (Toluca), Jonathan Orozco (Monterrey) Edge: USA This [...]
What the Gold Cup And Other Regional Tournaments Could Learn From The Big East Tournament
By Jon Levy A week prior to the tipoff of college basketball’s NCAA Tournament, the only American sports playoff which inspires anything near World Cup-level madness, The World’s Most Famous Arena hosts a yearly five day competition that doesn’t garner half the prestige of “the big dance.” No one fills out brackets, and Sally the [...]
