Features news coverage of Team USA and its players, including match reports and general football news.
Bruce Arena is a tired retread who ran out of ideas ages ago.
Bruce Arena is just the tonic the LA Galaxy needs to salvage its disastrous two and a half year run, during which it has managed to miss the play-offs in each year.
Or both,...
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We’re constantly hammered with one side of the coin, including Sunday at the conclusion of the US-Netherlands match on NBC by Marcelo Balboa, that Major League Soccer is responsible for the US being more competitive in major international tournaments....
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Written by Kartik Krishnaiyer. 10 comments
The United States of America got off to a great start at the Beijing Olympics, getting a great opening result in a 1-0 win over Japan. Stuart Holden scored for the US, who needed this win badly before playing the other 2 teams in its group, Nigeria...
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Japan 0-1 USA (Holden 47′)
Tianjin Olympic Centre Stadium, Tianjin, China
Thursday August 7 2008
Kickoff: 17:00 China Standard Time (UTC + 8 )
The United States defeated Japan in their opening round Olympic...
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Written by Victor Li. 6 comments
The Olympics are less than a week away, but the football tournament will kick off with the start of the preliminary round on the 6th, two days before the big show starts.
So, similar to the Euro 2008 Best XI that I did several months ago,...
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Written by Eddie Griffin. 21 comments
The Women’s Professional Soccer league kicks off its inaugural season in April 2009. WPS teams will be based in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New Jersey/New York, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C. The league will expand to eight teams by...
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The United States Men’s Olympic Football squad for Beijing 2008:
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Usually, when one of our sporting legends retires, we Americans spend weeks praising him (or her, usually him, though) and reflect on his career while wondering if anyone will ever meet or surpass his standard. ESPN devotes a considerable amount of...
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Written by Victor Li. 3 comments
If you’re a US soccer fan, I’m going to ask that you take yourself back to a dark time in our nation’s soccer history. Don’t worry, I feel your pain. On June 22nd, 2006, Ghana ended any US hope of advancing to the quarterfinals...
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Written by Brian Lomax. 12 comments
Last week, Ahmed wrote a tongue-in-cheek piece on why Americans suck at soccer. I believe he enlisted seven points to back his claim — some based on truth whilst...
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Written by Red Ranter. 33 comments
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games kick off in a month, with the 2008 Olympic football tournament from 6th to 24th August.
Written by Soccerlens. 14 comments
Olympic Football squads for the 16 teams participating at the 2008 Olympics:
Written by Soccerlens. 9 comments
The 2008 edition of the European Championships was an unbridled success. The quality of play, the desire to compete by the participants on the field and the enthusiasm of the crowd were all of the highest order.
A few weeks ago. as a preview...
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Written by Dan Leo. 22 comments
Quick. Name a soccer player. David Beckham’s name is generally the first name that comes to mind to the average American followed by Ronaldinho in most cases. Sometimes Pele will be named, but for the most part, its Beckham.
Becks has...
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Written by Brian Lomax. 18 comments
The world’s greatest nation is surprisingly mediocre when it comes to playing the world’s most popular sport. It’s not that they keep losing - far from it. Americans have a winning mentality that automatically ensures...
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 80 comments
The parallels surrounding the United States Men’s National team are striking when you compare them to the same group in 2004.
As qualifying began, the US was ranked very highly in the FIFA World rankings, as high as fourth(!) in 2006, a few...
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Written by Brian Lomax. 25 comments
When you think of USA vs. Argentina, the first thing that might come to your mind is ‘demolition’ or ‘crushing defeat’. As an avid US Soccer fan, those were the words I was hoping wouldn’t have to be thought about, talked...
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Written by Max Zeger. 10 comments
One word can describe the United States Men’s National Team’s effort tonight against England: disappointing. The hype that this match has been getting was grossly undermined by a lackluster performance on the pitch by the players in anthracite...
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Written by Liviu Bird. 5 comments
For England, having failed to qualify for Euro 2008, this game was always likely to be a fairly meaningless affair. For the first half hour of the game it is difficult to remember a single incident of any real note.
David Beckham delivered a...
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Written by Graham Fisher. 4 comments
England were off the pace but managed to overwhelm and beat an even worse USA side. Seeing as the England team were coming off a full season and the US team were playing away from home, both teams could have done a lot better and will come away disappointed.
Liviu...
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Written by Ahmed Bilal. 26 comments
Rio Ferdinand might have been backed by Owen Hargreaves to lead England in the long run. But, as Fabio Capello wants to try out various options for the England captaincy, John Terry will have the honour of leading England tomorrow against the US, BBC...
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England v USA, 28 May 2008, Friendly, Wembley.
The USA is the habitual underdog in football, and England is the habitual underachiever. Those two virtues make...
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Written by Max Zeger. 21 comments
The European domestic leagues are coming to a close, but the US Men’s National Team players based on the continent are just getting warmed up. This summer will be an important one for the USMNT in their run-up to qualifying for the 2010 World Cup...
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Written by Liviu Bird. 7 comments
In many ways US soccer remains a bastard child. Unwanted by many sports fans in the states, and scoffed at by much of the rest of the world as second class. I generally try to ignore my countrymen who hate soccer. For the rest of the soccer world,...
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Written by Guest Authors. 2 comments
In my previous Soccerlens column, I touched on the quality of soccer/football in the top domestic US league called MLS (Major League Soccer). Clearly, the subject isn’t...
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Written by Dan Leo. 20 comments
Recently, there has been some criticism on the site about the state of soccer in the United States. However, I feel that this is not true, and because of that, I have...
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Written by Liviu Bird. 3 comments
Dan Leo takes an in-depth look at US Soccer, the problems it faces and what the future holds for soccer in America.
Soccer isn’t big in the US. It’s not a major sport. It’s not even a second tier sport. It’s...
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Written by Dan Leo. 12 comments
In today’s video roundup we look at yesterday’s friendlies.
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Football fanatics in Europe would dismiss the Major League Soccer (MLS) in the United States as second-rate at best that embraces faded starts of European football for ludicrously large amount of cash. Well, to be frank, this notion is not entirely...
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Written by Subhankar Mondal. One comment
Without being one of England’s historic sporting rivals like Scotland or Germany, it’s a bit strange that there were some Americans pleased with England’s failure to qualify for Euro 2008.
No one doubts that the Americans and the English...
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Written by Cherie Getchell. 39 comments
