All Entries Tagged With: "USMNT"
USA – Panama: Round Three – Your TYAC Preview
Jon Levy The Yanks are coming off what’s becoming the typical Jurgen Klinsmann USMNT performance when faced with less skilled competition. They possessed the crap out of ball, moved it well in their opponent’s half, but failed to generate clear cut scoring chances against a well organized defense. But they did get a pinch of [...]
Puck’s Gameday Happy Hour: Thoughts on the USWNT Goalfest, Clint Dempsey, Venezuela and More…
Puck Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back into the Happy Hour. Since we last got together, I have been on top of the world. The Syracuse Orangemen (they will never be the Orange to true fans) are the number one team in the land, Manchester City remains atop the EPL table thanks to the head of [...]
USMNT- Venezuela: Your TYAC Official Preview
Jon Levy The national team hasn’t even suited up in 2012, but it’s already been an encouraging year for American soccer. Dempsey and Donovan (for two months, at least) are both leading the line of attack for their respective English Premier League teams, the Women’s National Teamers avoided a would-be tragedy in their Vancouver hotel [...]
TYAC USMNT Olympic Qualifying Position Breakdown: Am I Being Too Forward ?
Neil W. Blackmon Caleb Porter’s U-23 side, the January camp edition, fell 4-0 to the Klinsmann Camp Cupcake edition of the USMNT this weekend, and while conceding four goals to the senior side may cause some alarm among those anxiously monitoring this group’s progress, it’s the lack of goals that was somewhat surprising to those [...]
TYAC Olympic Qualifying Position Breakdown: Holes in the Back ?
Connor Walsh Caleb Porter has just wrapped up the second of what will be four U-23 training camps ahead of 2012 Olympics Qualifying which begins for the United States this coming March. The teams’ first camp, this past November, was held in Duisberg, Germany and due to Porter’s commitment to the University of Akron, the [...]
TYAC Olympic Qualifying Position Breakdown: Making Middy Music
Jon Levy You’ll have to forgive all of us here at The Yanks Are Coming for getting into a more-than-healthy amount of self-referencing in the coming months. We’re coming up on the blog’s fourth birthday this summer, TYAC having been created in the wake of a very talented 2008 Olympic soccer team’s early and unexpected exit from the Beijing [...]
New Year’s Eve Happy Hour: Preston Zimmerman, and Puck’s 2012 Bold Predictions
By Puck Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back to Puck’s Happy Hour. Hopefully the Holiday Season is treating you well with your family, friends, and, of course, cocktails filling the calendar. After spending some time in Upstate New York with the family, I am back at the TYAC home office taking some much needed time to [...]
A New Year, With Some New Faces: Santa Klinsmann Names Early Gifts for the Fans
It’s time again for the USMNT’s annual edition of Camp Cupcake, or as our friends over at The Best Soccer Show have coined it in honor of a certain German influence on US Soccer, Camp Strudel. Reserved for Scandinavian and MLS players who are just outside the core USMNT lineup, this edition of Camp Strudal [...]
Shea, Gonzalez Headline Jan Camp Roster
Fresh off the presses from Chicago comes the USMNT roster for Coach Klinsmann’s January camp. Set to begin on January 3, the camp will initially take place in Phoenix before heading to the Home Depot Center in Los Angeles for a week and then returning to Phoenix. The USMNT will face Venezuela on January 21 [...]
Top 5 Holiday Gifts For Soccer Fans
With Hanukkah already underway and Christmas mere days away, The Yanks Are Coming presents our first annual Top 5 holiday gifts for soccer fans. From the latest in kits to books that may change the way you view the game, you’ll surely find a gift for that special soccer hooligan in your life (or something awesome [...]
