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/ 6885 days agoUS Climbs to 16th in FIFA Rankings
The FIFA rankings seemed to favorable to the USA when the National Team was ranked 5th entering last year's FIFA World Cup. The rankings seemed slightly biased against the USA when the nats were ranked 29th last month. But thanks to a strong start in the Gold Cup (which under FIFA's new rankings formula hold […]
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/ 6885 days agoEpisode 3 Will be Released Thursday
I apologize to our loyal listeners and readers, but due to the Gold Cup schedule which placed the final US Group match on Tuesday Night. In order to cover the US match and get some reaction from our correspondents, We'll be releasing this weeks podcast a day later than usual.
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/ 6886 days agoUS Win Group After Strong Second Half
While the initial few minutes of the second half of tonight's match looked dicey for the US (largely because of Landon Donovan being replaced by Taylor Twellman), the squad recovered and played outstanding soccer without its captain for the night and best player. The US offense seemed stagnant until Brian Ching entered the match around […]
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/ 6886 days agoImpressive 2nd Half Send US on to Quarters
While the initial few minutes of the second half of tonight's match looked dicey for the US (largely because of Landon Donovan being replaced by Taylor Twellman), the squad recovered and played outstanding soccer without its captain for the night and best player. The US offense seemed stagnant until Brian Ching entered the match around […]
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/ 6886 days agoUSA-El Salvador Halftime Thoughts
Playing Michael Bradley, Benny Feilhaber and Pablo Mastroeni together is a mistake. You don't have anyone remotely resembling a playmaker occupying space in the center of the midfield, thus a tendency to push the ball exclusively down the flanks or play long ball seemed to set in at points during the first half. Landon Donovan […]
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/ 6886 days agoHalftime Thoughts on USA-El Salvador
Playing Michael Bradley, Benny Feilhaber and Pablo Mastroeni together is a mistake. You don't have anyone remotely resembling a playmaker occupying space in the center of the midfield, thus a tendency to push the ball exclusively down the flanks or play long ball seemed to set in at points during the first half. Landon Donovan […]
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/ 6886 days agoMoreno to Play Copa for Bolivia
Jaime Moreno will not become the MLS' all time leading scorer in the next month. That's because the DC United Forward who is tied with Jason Kreis for the league's all time scoring lead (with a 106 MLS goals) has been called up to Bolivia's Copa America team. Moreno had been discgarded by Bolivia in […]
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/ 6886 days agoUS vs. EL Salvador Gold Cup 06-12-07
About an hour from game time and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot to say about this one. The United States is guarenteed at least a second-place finish in the group while El Salvador is still fighting for a place in the quarterfinals. Obviously, the US will want to win the group, but […]
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/ 6886 days agoUS Vs. T & T Gold Cup 06/09/07; Individual Player Ratings
Predictably, Trinidad was not very good. Would've liked to see the US get 3 or 4, but oh well; a win's a win. Keller: 5.5; didn’t have to make any big saves; distribution was inconsistentSpector: 6; had his best performance for the National Team this year, although he still has some work to do; instrumental […]
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/ 6888 days agoOther Gold Cup Thoughts
The intensity of the Gold Cup matches is higher than I recall in the past. Nations such as Guadeloupe, Haiti, Panama and Honduras are viewing this event as a genuine continental championship and are going for goal early in matches against higher rated opposition. This has led to a remarkable number of upsets and near […]
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/ 6888 days agoGold Cup Update
Major League Soccer Talk correspondent Michael Haley and I both attended the US-Trinidad and Tobago match yesterday at the Home Depot Center outside Los Angeles. The US made ten changes in the starting eleven from Thursday night's victory over Guatemala. Most interestingly the new players seemed to adjust well to Bob Bradley's attacking formation which […]
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/ 6888 days agoUS-T&T postgame thoughts
Michael Haley and I both attended the US-Trinidad and Tobago match yesterday at the Home Depot Center. The US made ten changes in the starting eleven from Thursday night's victory over Guatemala. Most interestingly the new players seemed to adjust well to Bob Bradley's attacking formation which features many overlapping runs and requires the defensive […]
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/ 6889 days agoUS vs T&T Gold Cup 06/09/07
It'll be interesting to see who Bradley starts in this one. i felt that 10 of the starting 11 for the Guatemala game were pretty obvious (Twellman being the only exception), but with the short rest (only 1 full day after a very physical game in which the US had to finish with 10 players), […]
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/ 6890 days agoGold Cup Report from the Shed
WOW! The Home Depot Center was rocking last night. The atmosphere was great as many of the 21,344 in attendance were on their feet throughout the game. Unfortunately most of the crowd was in the powder-blue and white of Guatemala, but the spread-out USA fans gave some good cheers. USA came out in a formation […]
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/ 6890 days agoUS vs. Guatemala Gold Cup 06/07/07; Individual Player Ratings
First, some general thoughts…>That wasn’t pretty (it never will be against Guatemala), but it’s 3 points. I think the team did a nice job holding on to the result after Gooch was sent-off. Several guys had to move around in the readjustment after the red-card (Hejduk to center back for a few minutes, Ralston to […]