All Entries Tagged With: "Rafa Marquez"
For US Soccer, McBride’s Goal vs. Mexico Changed Everything
Tweet Today is the 10th Anniversary of the Beginning of the World Cup Run for the United States in 2002, marked by a thrilling 3-2 win over Portugal that remains one of the best games we ever saw. We have argued that the more important result, from a historical standpoint, happened two weeks later, with [...]
2011 Yanks Are Coming Awards Winners: Part One
Tweet First, we’d like to wish our own holiday wishes to our readers and new visitors. Thanks for making 2011 a special year at The Yanks Are Coming, and we hope to provide more solid coverage, analysis and unique perspectives on both the USMNT and USWNT in 2012. Soccer has always had a place at [...]
A Closer Look At The Márquez Experiment
Tweet 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 [...]
Gold Cup 2011. US vs. Mexico. The Final. Your Preview. Part Two.
Tweet 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! [...]
Gold Cup 2011: US vs. Mexico. The Final. Your Preview. Part One.
Tweet 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 [...]
Gold Cup 2011: Pardon Me For Being Too Forward, But Mexico’s Young Star May Be The Tournament’s Difference Maker
Tweet By Andrew Villegas The following is the fourth in a four part series comparing the 2011 Gold Cup rosters of the two “giants of CONCACAF.” Forwards The Yanks: Jozy Altidore (Villarreal/Bursapor), Juan Agudelo (NYRB), Chris Wondolowski (San Jose Earthquakes) El Tri: Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez (Manchester United), Giovanni Dos Santos (Tottenham Hotspur/Racing de Santander), Aldo [...]
Gold Cup 2011: USA vs. Mexico Roster Analysis: Getting Defensive
Tweet By Jon Levy The following is the second in a four part series comparing the 2011 Gold Cup rosters of the two “giants of CONCACAF.” Defenders The Yanks: Carlos Bocanegra (St. Etienne), Jonathan Bornstein (Tigres), Steve Cherundolo (Hannover 96), Clarence Goodson (Brondby), Eric Lichaj (Aston Villa), Oguchi Onyewu (Twente), Tim Ream (Red Bulls), Jonathan [...]
Which MLS Player Will Have the Best Gold Cup 2011 ?
Tweet By Andrew Villegas MLS clubs are well represented on the rosters of the nations participating in this summer’s Gold Cup (37 players total), and with good reason. National team managers are recognizing and tapping a growing pool of player talent in the United States’ domestic league to fill their Gold Cup teams despite the league’s [...]
Create Your Own MLS Salary Adventure!
Tweet By Andrew Villegas Every year, we working stiffs await with eager anticipation the day when MLS salaries are released. We crunch numbers and either feel good or bad about how much money professional soccer players in America make. Also we feel better or worse about how much money we make ourselves. With that in mind, [...]
Charlie Davies Comeback Hits a Bump in the Road, Agudelo’s Future, and other Mid-Week MLS Musings
Tweet By Neil W. Blackmon Last week was one of the more eventful seven day periods in the history of MLS thanks o Real Salt Lake’s 2-2 draw at Monterrey, and with the return leg Wednesday night providing the Claret and Cobalt an opportunity to be the first MLS side to win the competition in [...]
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