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 [...]

It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these things, but coming off that massive 2-0 win over Mexico in the first match of this final round of World Cup qualifying, I figured this could be very important in keeping the momentum going as Bob’s boys make the trip to San Salvador. Or not. [...]

This is an extra half-assed edition since I would much rather be playing FIFA 09 right now than writing one of these things (but I can’t do that because it turns out the game didn’t ship until today so it won’t be in stores until tomorrow, even though every advertisement says I should be playing [...]

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 [...]

Just four days after slogging through their second straight mind-numbingly boring 1-0 win, the US team will finally get to play in front of a friendly crowd when they face Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday in Chicago. No more third world accommodations! No more crappy pitches! No more bags of urine hailing down on their [...]

After starting off the group stage with a 1-0 win over Guatemala last month, the U.S. team now makes a rare trip to Cuba to take on el equipo de Castro.
Before we delve into the opposing side itself, here are a few fun facts about Cuba:
-It’s a socialist republic (read: commieland where natives feast [...]

The men’s national team faces Guatemala tomorrow in the semifinal round of qaulifying for World Cup 2010. As the senior squad looks to help us forget about the embarrassment that was the Olympic campaign with a Kenny Cooper-less side (though, DaMarcus Beasley was a late addition), I must say I have a hard time getting [...]