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Expect A Blend of Reserves, New Faces, For South Africa Friendly
Tweet Most the attention in American soccer circles right now is rightly focused on the MLS Playoffs and this weekend’s upcoming Conference finals, the US Women’s struggle to qualify for the World Cup following the shocking defeat to Mexico some have labeled the greatest upset in the history of soccer, as well as the US [...]
World Cup Final Week: How US Soccer Writers See It
Tweet One of the sadder realities of humanity is that a single human life rarely involves more than twenty World Cups. Without question, South Africa 2010 has been a memorable one, no matter how you feel about the hornet’s nest noise emanating from your television. As a blog, this is our first go round covering [...]
Your Post-USA Rooting Guide
Tweet Now that I’m on the road to accepting what happened last Saturday and I’ve finally managed to crawl my way out of this empty bottle of whiskey, I guess I should go back to writing about the big worldwide soccer tournament which is apparently still taking place. Most readers of the most important blog [...]
Time To Move To A Bigger Ocean
Tweet Whilst tinged with regret and remorse, the USA has nothing to be ashamed about when reflecting on its performance at the 2010 World Cup, unlike it’s more feted and illustrious group-mates from over the pond. They battled hard as a unit, stuck to the coaches gameplans and with a bit of luck, could [...]
US Soccer: What’s Next?
Tweet Well that was rough. It seemed as if we had the kind of draw that comes once every three or four World Cups, a legitimate chance for the USMNT to get into the semis. It felt as if we would be able to ride the momentum of a last second goal all the way to the [...]
Quick Quips On Group H
Tweet Like an attractive older auntie who’s had too much yaegermeister at Thanksgiving, Group H is beginning to show a bit too much leg for everybody’s comfort. Firstly, the Rojas are still rocking at the top of the group as they came through their test against the suddenly serious Swiss. The 1-0 scoreline probably flatters [...]
Who We Hate In The World Cup
Tweet A friend of mine said that she would be more excited about the World Cup if she knew who to cheer for among the 32 teams. My response was to tell her cheer for the U.S. and against everybody else. Upon further review, I realize that my directions are too simple. Most soccer fans [...]
Group B Rundown
Tweet Argentina vs. South Korea This proved to be one of the more interesting matches of the World Cup thus far. Going into the match, everyone knew that the Argentineans were the favored side. However, South Korea’s pervious performance against the Greeks showed the world they were a much more formidable side than originally thought. [...]
Group A: Final Matchday
Tweet It’s not as wide open as we thought it might be going into Tuesday’s final matches, but no team has guaranteed themselves qualification or elimination just yet. Essentially Mexico and Uruguay, both on four points after great wins, will be battling for group supremacy, but will they play for a draw? Meanwhile, France and [...]
Group H Round-up
Tweet The Rojas have arrived in Group H and as I exclusively predicted, took off like a rocket, even if the scoreline didn’t reflect their superiority against the game but limited Hondurans. Jean Beausejour (who sounds like he’d appear if you say his name three times) scored for Chile with a tap-in on 34 minutes [...]
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