latest articles by Kartik Krishnaiyer
News
/ 6189 days agoBob Bradley: Proactivity or Cynical Call Ups?
Thanks to FIFA's rules and the poaching of players nations such as France and Mexico have engaged in lately, more focus and emphasis than ever has been placed on players eligible to play for more than one nation recently. Obviously the United States has previously depended on naturalized players like Earnie Stewart, Tom Dooley, Hugo […]
News
/ 6189 days agoPodcast #78
I am traveling today and will be unable to release the MLS Talk Podcast with the roundup of this past weekend's action until Wednesday morning. As usual we will also release a new interview podcast on Friday afternoon. A reminder to all fans of MLS, WPS and USL-1 and USL-2 that if you follow a […]
News
/ 6190 days agoMaurice Edu: Late Bloomer, Old Firm American Hero
In the last few years a great deal of ink has been spent in the American football press about how young aspiring American soccer players must go to Academies and then skip college for MLS or a trip to Europe in order to properly develop. I've never subscribed entirely to this view as culturally our […]
News
/ 6191 days agoMLS/WPS/USL Review
The march on DC by supporters will be covered extensively on this week's podcast. We're doing the review a day early this week because I will be traveling on Monday morning. Kansas City-DC was a difficult game to watch, but both teams fought hard to split the points. Referee Michael Kennedy made two very questionable […]
News
/ 6192 days agoMajor League Soccer Talk Podcast #77: Beau Dure
Beau Dure the Soccer (and mixed martial arts) online editor/writer for the USA Today joins us on the show. We cover a potpourri of topics including the US Men's National Team, Kenny Cooper, Freddy Adu, MLS, WPS, David Beckham, Zach Thornton, Jair Marrufo USL's success in certain markets and many many more issues in today's […]
News
/ 6193 days agoWeekend TV; May 8, 2009
ALL TIMES EASTERN Friday Austin-Puerto Rico, 8pm FSC Saturday Everton-Spurs, 10am FSC (Tim Howard) Milwall-Leeds 10 am Setanta (Zac Whitbread) Fulham-Aston Villa Noon Setanta (Clint Dempsey, Brad Friedel) West Ham-Liverpool 12:30 pm FSC (Jonathan Spector) San Luis-Toluca 6pm Telefutura (Michael Orozco) Columbus-Kansas City 7pm FSC Houston-FC Dallas 9pm ESPN America-Necaxa 10 pm Telefutura (Daniel Hernandez) […]
News
/ 6194 days agoMLS Needs to Refocus on the Domestic Game
Two weeks ago Commissioner Don Garber made some very disturbing remarks to the Associated Press. He indicated that MLS has to sign more foreign players and resemble European football more than it does currently to win over masses of football fans in the United States. My sense is that this is absolutely the wrong course […]
News
/ 6195 days agoDave Denholm Podcast
I appeared on the podcast of my former CSRN American Soccer Show co-host Dave Denholm yesterday. Give a listen: it's an entertaining half hour of talk about Major League Soccer and other topics.
News
/ 6195 days agoMajor League Soccer Talk #76
In this weeks show we debut two MLS Talk correspondents. Robert Jonas from San Jose and Brian Zygo from Houston. In the upcoming weeks we will debut reports from Washington, Puerto Rico, Miami, and other MLS/USL/WPS markets. Host Kartik Krishnaiyer also urges all DC area listeners and readers to attend this weekend's save DC United […]
News
/ 6196 days agoPeterlin Signs with Everton: Lessons for MLS
American Anton Peterlin has signed with Everton. Who you ask? Peterlin, is a former midfielder for Cal Poly, and UC Santa Cruz as well as having played in the PDL as many collegiate footballers do with the Ventura County Fusion. Peterlin grew up in San Francisco around the game with Danish parents and developed a […]
News
/ 6197 days agoMonday Review
Sadly, I have yet to see a minute of MLS or WPS action this weekend due to work commitments. I did see plenty of USL-1 action but for a better summary please check out the USL Week in Review from Brian Quarstad of Inside Minnesota Soccer. Tuesday evening we'll release the first of our new […]
News
/ 6200 days agoWeekend TV; May 1, 2009
ALL TIMES EST Friday Cleveland-Rochester 8pm FSC Saturday Bayern Munich- Gladbach 11:30 am GOL TV (Michael Bradley) Stoke City- West Ham Noon, FSC (Jonathan Spector) Cruz Azul- Indios, 6pm ESPN Deportes/ Azteca America (Marco Vidal) DC United-FC Dallas 7:30pm FSC Pachuca-Chiapas 8pm Telefutura (Jose Fransisco Torres) Sunday Sunderland-Everton 11am FSC (Tim Howard) New England-Houston 3pm […]
News
/ 6201 days agoMajor League Soccer Talk Podcast #75: Rod Underwood
We mark our 75th ever show today with an announcement that we will be covering MLS and USL like never before, with weekly features and locker room interviews. Rod Underwood, coach of the Cleveland City Stars joins us to preview his teams home opener Friday night on FSC versus Rochester. We also speak with Ignacio […]
News
/ 6201 days agoIdeas for Bob Bradley from Europe
A busy critical summer period for the US National Team looms ahead. Coach Bob Bradley has a core of 25-30 players he's looking at to fill 22 World Cup squad spots. The Confederations Cup and Gold Cups provide competitive atmospheres to test players without the pressure of World Cup Qualifying. At the top of list […]
News
/ 6202 days agoEnhancements to the MLS Talk Podcast
Beginning in the next episode of the podcast we will have a weekly Zygo Soccer Report from our friend Brian Zygo covering the Houston Dynamo as well as his other thoughts from around the world of football. We are also adding a new feature, the Miami Minute with Ignacio Rodriguez the director of Public Relations […]