All Entries Tagged With: "Sacha Kljestan"
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 [...]
Showdown at the Azteca: The US-Mexico Preview
Tweet Jon Levy This week provides a perfect example of why I love international soccer so much. The sheer magnitude of every little event is staggering. Just a few days ago the US was in grave danger; one snowcapped goal later and they’re practically in the CONCACAF World Cup Qualification driver’s seat. On the other [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
World Cup Qualifying: Loss At Jamaica Means Klinsmann’s Feeling Out Process Over
Tweet Jon Levy and Neil W. Blackmon Call it thirty-seven seconds of bliss and an evening of agony if you’re into the poetic. Credit an improved Jamaica side that exploited an American group that was missing two of its finer players and curiously omitted its longtime captain from a competitive match starting lineup for the first [...]
USMNT 23 for 2014: TYAC November/December Power Rankings
Tweet Garrett McInnis In the second iteration of the Yanks Are Coming “Top 23” series, the staff here at TYAC remains fairly settled regarding which players comprise the most important contributors to the USMNT, with most of the main contributers carrying over from the previous list. Only four players differ from the previous list of [...]
USA-Costa Rica: Your Jurgen Plays A Los Angeles Home Game TYAC Preview
Tweet 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 [...]
Altidore’s Big Week, Jon Spector Solid Away From West Ham, and Other Yanks Abroad
Tweet by Dru Boyer The season is back, and I’m late. How was your summer? The start of European football brings with it all things good in this world…soccer, NFL, college football, and here in the Bluegrass State, college basketball preseason. I’m really looking to adopt an EPL side this season, I’ve remained neutral for [...]
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: “I Knew It Was You, Panama. You Broke My Heart.” Your Preview to the Sequel
Tweet 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 [...]
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