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It wasn’t long ago when everyone was wondering where all the USA goal keepers went. For decades we had a parade of great keepers from Keller to Friedel to Howard. Even guys behind them like Hahnemann were great keepers with good European careers that barely got a chance to play. Then following Couva, when it […]
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The call came in, it was my mom. She said “your cousin Peter is dead.” I was living on campus at James Madison University in Virginia and we had been asked by the Head RA if they could use our room to show incoming Freshman what the dorms looked like on our side of campus. […]
The dates are set, the road is set for the 2021 Gold Cup. The 2021 Gold Cup schedule is locked in now and we know who we will face and the road to the Cup. of the European based players are not present due to a long season, the Nations League and also pre-season in […]
The base formation for the USMNT under Berhalter has been the 433. That’s been unchanged. If you look around the world at some of the best teams, many seem to have the base of a 433. Man City, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Bayern, Barcelona, Ajax. Why is this structure or formation so popular? I have a […]
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The USMNT plays six world cup qualifiers in the September and October FIFA windows. It is widely reported that we play: September At El Salvador Canada At Honduras October Jamaica @Panama Costa Rica Much has been made about how the USMNT might rotate and approach these games but what of our opponents? Many […]
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US World Cup Qualifying 2022 begins on September 2, 2021 against El Salvador. They have never felt more pressure than they do now. The team is youthful and very few faces were a part of the previous cycle, but the weight of failing to qualify for 2018 is on Christian Pulisic and the young group’s […]
To begin, I am going to tell you two stories about me and my love of soccer. I promise there is a reason for telling these stories, but should you wish to skip those, the section entitled “Growth in America” begins the meat of this article. Meeting My Love I remember the moment I fell […]
I was around ten-years-old and my family was on tour to yet another boring castle or other, I thought at the time. We had moved to London two years before and spent countless hours traveling around the UK – England, Scotland, Ireland now we’d crossed the border into Northern Ireland. At the time it didn’t […]
About Last Night Where to begin? This seems to be the question on everyone’s mind. So much happened over the course of that 120 minutes, well probably closer to 140 or even 150 minutes with all the stoppage time, that no one seems to know what to discuss first. In this case, let’s start at […]
My Dad is a Boston Red Sox fan. He grew in South Boston during the 1950s when gangsters ran the city (The movie The Town is inspired by that community). The Red Sox were an outlet for him and his siblings, something positive in the city. His entire life as a fan they had never […]