After week 14 the numbers look like this... 5 year comparison WK 14 106 GP YTD Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP 2005 9,538 6 14,692 13,862 93 2006 10,494 10.02% 7 14,814 0.83% 14,602 5.34% 88 2007 15,376 46.52% 12 15,035 1.49% 15,174 3.91% 97 2008 […]

Musa Otieno (leftmost) captained Kenya to a critical World Cup Qualifying win yesterday. But the insistence on the American leagues, MLS and USL to play through international breaks meant Otieno was not available for his club side Cleveland City who lost twice at home in three days to Miami FC. ESPN 2 achieved it's highest […]

Episode 119 features an interview with Soccerex Director of Business Development Misha Sher. Hear about Sher's football background as a youth player in the Ukraine (part of the USSR in those days), his college and professional career in the United States at Ohio Wesleyan and in the A League (now USL-1). After moving to the […]

PER CONCACAF here is the preliminary squad the US submitted, I believe yesterday to the Confederation. This squad will be trimmed to 23 players next week. Goalkeepers: Brad Guzan, Marcus Hahnemann, Troy Perkins, Luis Robles Defense: Jonathan Bornstein, Danny Califf, Steve Cherundolo, Jay DeMerit, Clarence Goodson, Eric Lichaj, Chad Marshall, Michael Orozco, Michael Parkhurst, Heath […]

Inter Milan have made big moves to keep star-man Zlatan Ibrahimovic, they've slapped a massive price tag on the Swede's head and it looks a fairly safe online football bet the 27-year-old will be at the Giuseppe Meazza next season. Kaka went to Real Madrid for £59million and Inter value Ibra as 'superior' to the […]

Matt Reis was the hero in the 2008 Superliga Final/AP A day after the US suffered its worst ever loss to Brazil and four days after our national team was beaten by Italy by the worst scoreline since 1934 let's refocus temporarily on the club game. (I suspect thanks to the disgraceful US performances of […]

The Premier League have announced that they have terminated their contract with Setanta Sports in the United Kingdom. That means that Setanta has lost the TV rights for the 2009-2010 Premier League season and will sell the rights to the 46 lives games to the highest bidder. The bidding deadline for the TV rights to […]

After Clint Dempsey moved to Fulham in 2007, his leap in quality was beyond remarkable. This was evidenced in his subsequent call-ups to the US national team. Stronger, defter, more confident. He was a new player. He'd already been a stand-out in Germany 2006, scoring the only non-own-goal for the US, but after his move […]

ESPN recently released a new app for the iPhone entitled ESPN ScoreCenter, which is a must-have app for soccer fans. The free app features real-time score updates, live game details, schedules, stats, game summaries and more for an exhaustive number of leagues and tournaments, such as: Premier League, Champions League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, […]

In 1998 the United States finished dead last in the World Cup. But truthfully that World Cup showed itself better in France than the current US team has performed of late. Despite an inability to finish chances in Steve Sampson's odd 3-6-1 formation, the US only conceded five goals in the entire World Cup. Moreover […]

Does everyone see this picture of the head coach from the land of the pyrimid's? Does everyone see who we are comparing the USA to in Group B of the Confederations Cup. That's right everyone the Egyptian National Team is doing the things the USA has failed to do. Actually stand up to their opposition […]

Recently, the Football Partnerships Podcast interviewed me about EPL Talk and the business of football blogging. It's quite different than the typical EPL Talk interview. Listen to the Football Partnerships interview today. Some of the topics discussed include: How the idea of EPL Talk was created, How EPL Talk's initial target audience has changed over […]

Bora Milutinovic couldn't do it. Steve Sampson couldn't do it. Bruce Arena couldn't do it. But Bob Bradley has accomplished it: consecutive games against Brazil where the US allowed three or more goals. Prior to the September 2007 friendly in Chicago the US had held Brazil to two or fewer goals in ten straight matchups, […]

The United States bombed out of the Confederations Cup with a 3-0 loss to Brazil. Phil Schoen of GOL TV and Martin Rogers of Yahoo! Sports join us to discuss the game and the current state of the US National Team. Among the topics discussed are Bob Bradley's tactics, Dunga's embrace of anti-football, the US […]

Well it looks like those of us who thought there would be something positive coming in this version of the Confederations Cup we're just wishful thinking. If you thought there would be at least, maybe three points in the first two matches then I would say that I was thinking the same thing. Sadly […]