If you are a connoisseur of Twitter like me, then you’ve already stumbled upon the terms “twiggers” and “twitches” numerous times and you’ve undoubtedly already figured out what they really mean. So to pacify the Decency and Morals Subcommittee of World Cup Blog, I will be using those terms (well, actually only one of [...]

Here are the facts (or as many facts as I can remember): The #1 and #2 ranked teams in the world are about to play a friendly in the future location of the 2011 Women’s World Cup. Germany recently won the Euros by destroying England 6-2 and if you caught that one on [...]

US Soccer has been a little slow to update news-starved fans on whereabouts of the USWNT. And almost as if Abby Wambach knew a few tweeters were loudly voicing their complaints (in 140 characters or less), on Oct 20th she updated her twitter: leaving for germany tonight. i will keep you more up to [...]

For the last time, it’s pronounced HUE-clees!
The Boston Breakers site just announced Angela Hucles is retiring from professional soccer. She says:

I always wanted to involve myself in things I was passionate about and give 110 percent. I feel like I’ve come to a point where I no longer can give that much and I [...]

Image stolen with love and all due respect from the US Women’s National Team blog. Talking bubbles by yours truly. I’m sure that’s really not what Wambach and Sinclair said to each other while this picture was snapped but I’d like to think it was. And that pretty much sums up the [...]

Sacha scored his first goal for US MNT last night and liked it so much that he decided to follow it up with two more. The first was a Ronaldinho-esque free kick that should have make Celtic’s decision on whether to make an offer a little bit easier.
More later…

File this one under least shocking news announcement I’ve read in a while. Today, US Soccer announced Pia Sundhage signed a 4 year contract to continue as the head coach of the USWNT. Considering the fact that after she accepted the job on in 2007, the team won all five of the tournaments [...]

For the second straight game of the ING Cup, the USA failed to win.
For the second straight game of the ING Cup, the USA failed to score.
For the second straight game of the ING Cup, the USA failed to reward the handful of die-hard Yankee supporters who woke up with the sun to (illegally or [...]

Sunday’s friendly against Argentina had all the ingredients needed. A full house, national pride, first choice squads, and a hunger to win on both sides. Sadly, there was no winner, but I could make a case for the USA to be the winner in the long run here.
I’m not much for moral victories, [...]

Ok sorry for the lack of post-game coverage on Spain folks. Needless to say, it was a pretty good performance, and as you can tell by the amout of coverage on Freddy, he did it. He should be in line for starts from here on out, including Sunday.
Heavy pre-game coverage will come tommorow, [...]