All Entries Tagged With: "Stuart Holden"
Yanks Abroad: Dempsey Double Duty, Buddle Brace Headline Europa Action
by Dru Boyer The Yanks Abroad returned to Europa League play on Thursday with a vengeance … not a single Yanks’ squad lost a match. It was a pretty decent Thursday, in fact the Yanks were 7-2-0 in the matches (Dominic Cervi and Brad Friedel did not dress for Celtic and Tottenham, respectively.) The Player of the Week honor goes [...]
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 [...]
Pounding Capri Suns and Hi-C’s: Your Americanized Weekend Preview, Plus A Warning About Jermaine Jones
By Neil W. Blackmon Weekend preview time, folks!! With MLS just around the corner, our wandering Anglophile eyes can shortly turn a lonely eye homeward—but this weekend there are several critical matches in England, Spain, France, Germany and the beleaguered Serie A—and at least a few of those matches involve your Yanks. So go ahead [...]
Puck’s Christmas Cheer Happy Hour: Top Five USMNT Moments 2010 Edition
By Puck, writing from Rochester, New York Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back into another Happy Hour. Hopefully, last week’s Sad Edition of the HH did not keep you up at night. Unfortunately, I did catch a lot of shit via Twitter regarding my Gooch is Dead piece. Clearly, the entire post should have been taken [...]
Yanks Abroad: December 8-21 Edition
Did you miss me last week? You didn’t even realize I was gone? That’s cold broseph. Well regardless, I’m here with your December update. Even without the full weekend slate of EPL action, there were quite a few fixtures for me to give you the run down on. Check out what went down and look [...]
Holden’s Heroics, Dempsey’s BBC Award, Tevez, and Other Musings
The wonderful thing about being a soccer fan, particularly one based in the United States, is that no matter the time of the year, there’s always a soccer season. There’s no quiet period, even in the week and a half leading up to Christmas, where all that you really have going elsewhere is regular season [...]
If A Few USMNT Mainstays Played Other Sports, Here’s Where They’d Shine
If you’re a regular reader of The Yanks Are Coming, or even if this is your first time here, you’re probably familiar with the “what if” blog post or column that publishes somewhere online once or twice every year, usually when soccer or the national team hits some sort of peak in relevancy to American [...]
The Fortunate Mr. Stu Bolton
As you may have already read or heard, USNMT attacking midfielder Stuart Holden just signed a contract extension with Bolton Wanderers that will tie him to the English Premier League outfit until 2013. Last week’s deal should come as no surprise to anyone who’s had the good fortune of watching Holden play for the Trotters [...]
US World Cup Cycle Report Cards: Midfielders Edition
This is the second of a four-part Series of Report Cards for the U.S. Men’s National Team’s Four Year World Cup Cycle, 2007-2010. While we are not issuing grades for all 92 players capped by Bob Bradley during the cycle, we will feature players not on the World Cup roster who figured prominently in the [...]
Stuart Holden: Yanked Around
Things can never be simple when it comes to American players and transfers, especially transfers from clubs in the States to clubs over in the UK/Europe. Sure Landon Donovan’s loan to Everton was pretty straightforward, but that was by far the exception to the rule. Here’s an example of how American “transfers” usually go… from [...]
