All Entries Tagged With: "World Cup"
America’s Problem: Defense
After the heartbreaking loss to Ghana last Saturday, I was furious. How was it possible that with this once in a lifetime opportunity to get to the final four of the world’s largest and globally significant tournament that we could blow it? When we started extra time, I had this feeling slowly creeping into my [...]
USA-Ghana Player Ratings
The compliment to my “Out of Miracles” piece, and a painful reminder of the U.S. exit as it stands to be my final player ratings piece of a competitive (non-friendly) match until next summer’s Gold Cup, which again becomes a point-of-emphasis for the U.S., as victory ensures qualification for the 2013 Confederations Cup in [...]
Out Of Miracles, Opportunity Lost
I can’t tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like, And right now it’s a steel knife to my windpipe… – Eminem Marshall Mathers describes the pain of this one pretty accurately. It hurt. It still hurts. And to a large extent, it is hard to believe [...]
Time To Move To A Bigger Ocean
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 well [...]
US Soccer: What’s Next?
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 world’s [...]
Group A Versus Group B
Group A (written by TYAC Group A Expert Jon Levy) First off, let’s address my predictions. I had the French winning the group on goal differential and Uruguay taking second place. I will admit that despite all the signs pointing to France taking a dump (Anelka) all over the World Cup, I believed they’d get [...]
USA v. Ghana: Preview
I’m so happy I don’t have to follow the most dramatic game winning goal in U.S. Soccer history with a doom and gloom, “now it’s time to lose to a soccer powerhouse” match preview! Ghana is no pushover, we all know that, but this should be a good matchup, and more importantly a matchup in [...]
US Soccer: The Rise Of A Nation
A friend and colleague from law school wrote on my Facebook wall yesterday evening: Try putting that into words. He’s right. It’s been over twenty-four hours since Landon Donovan catapulted the United States to its first group win in the modern era, and I still don’t quite know what to make of what happened. I [...]
Quick Quips On Group H
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 the [...]
Donovan To World: I Got This
Sometimes in life, all you need is a bro. A Lanbro, that is. One that’s totally getting iced tonight. Still numb from the awesomeness that is Landon Donovan, I find myself hardly in a state of mind to articulate the innumerable emotions running through my sober veins hours after the US took the group from [...]
