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/ 6229 days agoDetails of FOX Sports/ Setanta UEFA Champions League Packages
I was fortunate to be invited on a conference call with FOX Sports International and Setanta Sports to discuss the new UEFA Champions League packages for the US market beginning next season. FOX takes over as the primary package from ESPN and Setanta has acquired a separate package which includes exclusive broadband rights. Here are […]
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/ 6229 days agoUS National Team: Now the Challenge Begins
The United States National Team faced three of its four easiest qualifying matches at the beginning of the Hexagonal schedule. The expectation that the United States would capture nine points from these three matches and have a security buffer against failures in the summer and the fall has not been achieved. Yet largely thanks to […]
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/ 6229 days agoCONCACAF Gold Cup Groups and Schedule
We don't know what kind of team the US, Honduras, Costa Rica and Mexico the four leading CONCACAF nations are going to send to this tournament given the rigors of qualifying and in the case of the US the Confederations Cup. Thus we'll save analysis of the groups for a later date. Jamaica is the […]
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/ 6229 days agoBusy Day at MLS Talk
We'll have more analysis of the US current World Cup Qualifying campaign and a look at the daunting stretch facing the US this summer later today. The CONCACAF Gold Cup Draw is today. I will be on a conference call with FSC later today to officially unveil the Champions League coverage plans. The AP reports […]
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/ 6229 days agoUS 3-0 T&T: Landon Donovan's Masterpiece
Bob Bradley shook up the US lineup entering tonight's must win qualifier in Nashville against Trinidad and Tobago. The squad responded with a 3-0 win over Trinidad and Tobago. But I will preface the analysis of the match with the fact that T&T created more chances than they should have considering Dwight Yorke was injured […]
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/ 6230 days agoUS Lineup for Trinidad and Tobago Qualifier
US Lineup: Hejduk , Onyewu, Bocanegra, Beasley, Dempsey, Mastroeni, Bradley, Donovan; Altidore, Ching. Beasley plays left back replacing Heath Pearce, Beasley is replaced in left midfield by Clint Dempsey who is replaced on the right side by Landon Donovan. Jozy Altidore starts up top for Donovan. Please join us on twitter, at twitter.com/mlstalk for a […]
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/ 6230 days agoMatchday: US vs Trinidad & Tobago
Nashville is the venue for the today's World Cup Qualifier between the United States, high flying side at home and Francisco Maturana's Soca Warriors. The last time these two teams met on US soil, last September in Chicago, Maturana got his tactics all wrong and T&T was smoked. Quite frankly, I see the same exact […]
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/ 6231 days agoCONCACAF Hexaganol Matchday Three
The empire strikes back could have been the headline for Saturday as Mexico beat nemesis Costa Rica to reclaim a little bit of lost mojo. But now Mexico must go to Honduras and slay another dragon, in the form of traditional Mexican killer Carlos Pavon. Pavon's international career has been on the rocks of late […]
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/ 6231 days agoThe Collapse of ESPN's Soccer Empire
The loss of Champions League rights for the United States is just the latest blow to ESPN's once dominant position broadcasting Football in the United States. As we reported almost two weeks ago, FOX has wrestled the rights to the marque annual event in world club football away from ESPN. In the late 1990s, ESPN […]
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/ 6232 days agoBradley's Bucket: Safety First?
Bob Bradley's tactics are worrisome to begin with, but now player selection is becoming a bigger and bigger issue for the US National Team. The bucket formation which has been criticized from the get go as non conducive to international football (although the formation and its variations have been very successful in MLS). Bradley's Bucket […]
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/ 6232 days agoWPS Opener a Big Hit
WPS first season opened up with a showcase match at the Home Depot Center. Marta's LA Sol versus Abby Wambach's Washington Freedom. I predicted a spectacular match this morning on the site and even with those lofty expecations the game was amazing. So as far as the Football is concerned, WPS is probably better than […]
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/ 6233 days agoWPS Opener Should Be Spectacular
The inaugural WPS season opens tonight in Los Angeles as the Sol play host to the Washington Freedom. Marta is the star attraction no doubt, as arguably the greatest female footballer on the planet touches down on American soil. But this match like so many others to come in the WPS will pit two evenly […]
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/ 6233 days agoEl Salvador 2-2 USA: CONCACAF Personified
AP Photo If you missed this match, you missed something special. The US with their backs against the wall in a hostile atmosphere came through with two incredibly skillful goals to draw in El Salvador 2-2. This match had everything for skeptic of football or the eurosnob who looks down on CONCACAF. A great crowd, […]
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/ 6234 days agoMLS vs USSF
It's been going on so long now, we should all be immune to it. But somehow it still evokes anger. For the record while I do not believe MLS should play during international breaks for a variety of reasons, if MLS must play through the breaks why must they schedule games on national TV at […]
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/ 6234 days agoCONCACAF Match Previews
Mexico-Costa Rica 7pm ET, TELEMUNDO Sven Goran Eriksson's seat could not get any hotter. Published reports in the Mexican media indicate the FMF would have already sacked the Swede if not for the exorbitant salary buyout the Federation would be forced to pay for any early firing. Gio Dos Santos, Carlos Vela, Rafa Marquez and […]