If you were a knowledgeable US Soccer fan watching the match on Wednesday night, you probably would not have blinked twice if Benny Feilhaber did not make an appearance on the pitch at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.
Knowing that Benny has been banished to the depths of the Derby County pine, you could see why […]

We all saw it coming. But we tried to convince ourselves that the inevitable wasn’t so.
“Ah, it will be ok. It is only one player. It is Mexico, and we own them on US soil. He will do fine…”
Not so much.
In predicting lineups throughout the days leading up to the rivalry […]

For a full 90 minutes last night in Houston Texas, an 18 year old American by the name of Josmer Altidore pushed, pulled, and physically dominated the Mexican National Team’s defense in front of 70,000 screaming soccer fans. An experience and a feeling that will always ring true in the memories and myths of […]

Remember Gabe Ferrari?
Yeah, me neither.
But a friend was telling me he used to be quite the teen sensation across message boards and the like. He was 18 when he left the Red Bull New York Youth Program to sign with Serie A club Sampdoria, where he first gained fame by consistently making the bench […]

The U-23’s played their second match against the Olympic hosts, resulting in another draw, though this time there was some scoring to be seen. Robbie Rogers, Patrick Ianni, and Charlie Davies accounted for the USA’s trifecta of tallies.
Match report here.
A pair of dissapointing results, but Nowak has time to iron out the issues with […]

Hard to believe that just around the corner is 2008, that leaves us only two more years ’till 2010.
This past weekend the USA just passed their last friendly test of 2007 and in the New Year many different challenges will await them.
Let’s look back and look forward at the same time in some sort of […]

November 17, we are almost there.
It is kind of sad that we look upon these single friendly matches with so much anticipation, but it is the international soccer down season for the United States, so we can’t help it.
A few roster changes to make note of after the latest round of MLS Playoffs…
Bye-bye for now […]

It happened today. The moment every U.S. soccer fan and supporter has been waiting for since that summer night about a little over a year ago when Jozy Altidore first scratched the surface.
It was honestly pretty random if you weren’t a hardcore. Watching the Red Bulls game, this 16 year old kid gets […]

If you closed your eyes and listened, you would hear nothing. The reverberations of the emergence of Freddy Adu have gone largely unnoticed by public America. If you didn’t stalk Bigsoccer for a play by play thread or catch an illegal Japanese TV stream of the Benfica games you would know nothing. […]

With site captain Bob breaking the tragic story that the Bafana Bafana nickname for South Africa will be fazed out, it brought to mind our beloved USA National Team and it’s lack of a certain distinguishable moniker.
Yanks, Stars n’ Stripes… it really ends there. In a country where bold symbolism and folk lore are […]