Ok it’s almost game time at Giants Stadium, lets get into things.
Bob Bradley: You can expect the tactics to be fairly conservative, as always with Bob, but don’t call for his head just yet. People are getting antsy with the gaffer because they think he is building a team without the killer instinct [...]

A nice little video preview to hold you over until the real afternoon posting begins…

Needless to say, the players are amped.

He moved his career to England, as everyone advised, and proceeded to make no impact. So the question is, does he deserve to make an impact against England at Wembley?
First off, the whole criticism of EJ and his tenure at Fulham is a little ridiculous. We see this all over the world. [...]

Giuseppe Rossi.
A duel-citizenship that did not work out in the USA’s favor.
Francisco Torres
A duel-citizenship that may work out in the USA’s favor.
Good.
The 20 year old midfielder was never heard of prior to the CONCACAF Champions Cup, when his club side Pachuca defeated DC United to make it to the finals of the least coveted of [...]

As well as other U-20 standouts.
Late breaking story thanks to Ives.
Adu and a list of other impressive youths will be called into the Oct 17. camp for the friendly against Siwtzerland. Not going to go into detail now, read the Ives, I will analyze tommorow.
Rejoice, rejoice.

Today Freddy arrived at the airport in Portugal with his moms, looking like a big timer in his shades and Benfica scarvs.
Here’s a video of his arrival. It’s funny, just about a month ago, I was standing with Freddy in a different airport at the baggage claim at Newark. Freddy and Chris Seitz [...]

Today, through a story put out by the Salt Lake Tribune, we learned that Freddy Adu to Benfica may be closer to happenning then some of us thought. It seems Adu’s agent requested some extra days off for Freddy from Salt Lake so he could presumably work out his European transfer. The story [...]

The marathon summer of Men’s US Soccer is now pretty much closed, save for the U-17’s, if you want to count them. The boys and men of the program have gone through a handful of friendlies and three tournaments. The main objective of winning the Gold Cup was accomplished and props are always [...]

I have a feeling we will have a new one of these things every few days or weeks until Adu finally makes his move across the Atlantic.
Yesterday we heard Celtic was lining up their bid, and today we get word that Parma may be formulating one as well.
It seems that Parma have interest, but may [...]

…for I am in a soccer dream.
If you have yet to realize, let me bring something to your attention. Right now, as I write, we are in one of the most monumental times in American soccer history. Take a second to soak that in. I’ll get to all of the parts that [...]