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33 Man Player Pool Called

May 16th, 2008 | By: Carter Daly | No Comments »

Bob Bradley will have a player pool of 33 to choose from for the three upcoming friendlies this summer against the world super-powers. All of the usual suspects were included, as well as some not so usual.
Here is the list:
GOALKEEPERS- Dominic Cervi (Out of Contract), Brad Guzan (Chivas USA), Tim Howard (Everton FC), Troy […]

Venues for World Cup Qualifying Announced

May 14th, 2008 | By: Carter Daly | 1 Comment »

The venues for World Cup Qualifying were announced today.
They are: Sept. 10: USA-T&T in Bridgeview, Ill., 8 p.m. ET (ESPN2)
Oct. 11: USA-Cuba in Washington, 4 p.m. (ESPN Classic)
Nov. 19: USA-Guatemala in Commerce City, Colo., 10 p.m. (ESPN2)
While this is a solid set of venues, the real focus is on the upcoming friendlies against England, […]

USA Round-Up (U-23’s/Qualifying)

December 18th, 2007 | By: Carter Daly | 2 Comments »

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 […]

U-23 Olympic Warm-Up Friendly Set in China Briefing

December 12th, 2007 | By: Carter Daly | 1 Comment »

Tommorow the US U-23 squad will take on their respective Chinese counterparts at the Changsha He Long Sports Centre in the first of a two-set of friendly matches for Peter Nowak’s young boys. This will be Nowak’s debut at the helm for the eventual Olympic squad and he will use these two games to […]

USA Round Up

December 10th, 2007 | By: Carter Daly | 5 Comments »

Ok folks finally a lot to talk about and I am back.
-Lets kick things off with our younger representatives of the U-17 division who put in a great showing at the Nike Friendly matches in Florida. They lost their last match to Turkey 2-0, but finished with a 2-1-0 record, beating the likes of […]

US Soccer Round Up

November 16th, 2007 | By: Carter Daly | 4 Comments »

Some things for you to chew on as you ponder the possible starting lineup that Bob will use…
-Danny Szetela made his first Racing Santander appearance this week, starting and going 66 in a scoreless draw against Málaga. Szetela completed 20 passes and made 2 steals…God bless the man that’s job is to count Danny […]

Hola, Mexico

November 13th, 2007 | By: Carter Daly | 2 Comments »

USA v. Mexico. The rivalry is to be renewed at Reliant Stadium in Houston on Feb. 6. Gonna be another pro-Mexico crowd, but that didn’t seem to be a problem for the Stars and Stripes in Arizona now did it?
Should be a tough test for our youngsters. I think the Giovanni Dos […]

Landon Ruled out of Friendly in South Africa

November 13th, 2007 | By: Carter Daly | 4 Comments »

Due to a calf strain obtained by Donovan during one of the stops on the traveling David Beckham circus of post-season friendly matches, Landy has been ruled out of the Nov. 17 friendly against South Africa.
Although it is an injury, this continues a little run of Donovan-less United States teams taking the field. […]

Thoughts on the road to South Africa (friendly)

November 12th, 2007 | By: Carter Daly | 2 Comments »

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 […]

Calling Jozy Altidore: Your Time is Now

November 9th, 2007 | By: Carter Daly | 3 Comments »

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 […]


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