I’ll have the full Yanks Abroad weekend recap coming tomorrow, but just before you lay your head to rest, here is a little update on a somewhat unknown Yank Abroad, Eric Lichaj. Great work to Ravi Ubha at Soccernet for this one.
The name may sound familiar. Eric Lichaj. No I don’t even [...]

Over the past few years, German striker Lukas Podolski has become known for two things: Scoring loads of goals for the German National Team and riding the pine at Bayern Munich.
Football logic tells you that if a player doesn’t get quality playing time for his club side, he won’t be able to perform at [...]

Nothing cures a slow news week like a little (probably) inconsequential tidbit from the on-going Neven Subotic multi-national soap opera.
Today, we find Soccer America reporting on FIFA’s blockade on the German National Team in their quest to obtain Neven Subotic, and what Subotic’s options are from here.
For those of you playing catch-up, the current state [...]

Another garbage time sub. It’s just about all Freddy Adu gets these days. Sure he has his own 100% Freddy blog on the AS Monaco site, sure he supposedly works hard in practice, and sure he has an American owner backing him as an ambassador of French soccer, but all he gets is [...]

In case you missed (or were too drunk to remember) the US MNT’s 6-1 thrashing of a depleted Cuba side, here are the highlights:

A few random thoughts about the match:
-After looking like someone on his last legs with the US MNT recently, DaMarcus Beasley played like the Run DMB of old, scoring the team’s first [...]

Before you go out for your usual Saturday night of looking like a spaz on the dance floor and drinking ’till you puke on a potential hook-up partner, be sure to join Carter and I as we make our way through another live blog odyssey.
As always, you will be able to submit your own comments [...]

TOOT, TOOT!
Hear that? What could it be? Look! In the Potomac!

Yes, the Cuban national team has climbed aboard their failboat and held on for dear life all the way to Washington D.C. for Saturday’s World Cup Qualifier against the US (7 pm ET, ESPN Classic). The last time these two faced each other a [...]

As you may or may not have heard, after their abysmal free fall to last place in the Bundesliga, Borussia Monchengladbach’s manager Jos Luhukay was fired last week. In most cases these types of manager firings early in a season work to hurt the chances of Yanks Abroad to see the field for their [...]

As part of our Speak The Hell Up initiative around here, we decided to start recognizing some of our outstanding commenters by singling one out each month, naming them Commenter of the Month (or, CotM to those in the know), and beating them mercilessly. Once Carter convinced me that that last part probably wouldn’t go [...]

As you all probably saw when Brooks posted the roster a few short days ago, it appears that, for now, Bob Bradley actually knows what he is doing in regards to roster selection. It took him long enough.
But even with a roster so popular due to its cornucopia (yeah, I said it) of youth [...]