That’s captain Kristie Mewis showing everyone the celebratory devil horns after her U-17 squad beat Germany in the semi-finals of the inagural U-17 Women’s World Cup taking place in New Zealand right now. The US competes in the final against Korea DPR this coming Sunday. A pretty good match report of the semi [...]

A few things US Soccer to get caught up on as you continue waiting for the Olympic roster release…
-Danny Szetela will be moving to Serie B club Brescia permanently from Racing Santander. Danny was a consistent starter with Brescia towards the end of last season and will again play a significant role in a [...]

Rongen and his youngins are back, all be it a different set.
The U-20 roster for the friendly against Mexico on July 11 was announced today and is as follows…
U.S. Under-20 MNT Roster by Position
GOALKEEPERS (2): Josh Lambo (FC Dallas), Brian Perk (UCLA)
DEFENDERS (4): Richard Balchan (Indiana), Ike Opara (Wake Forest), Zarek Valentin (Lancaster, [...]

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 [...]

That’s not the performance anybody was looking for.
What was supposed to be a thrashing and goal scoring exhibition put on by the USA U-23’s under the guidance of new head coach Peter Nowak turned into a dull and disappointing scoreless draw with their Chinese counterparts in the first of a two-set of friendly matches in [...]

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 [...]

Although I am dubbing this the official hibernation period of US National Team Soccer, there is some action going on in the coming days, well sorta.
First off here are the dates for the upcoming Nike U-17 Friendly matches:
U.S. Under-17 92s MNT vs. Russia
Live on FSC
12/06/2007 3:00 PM ET
U.S. Under-17 92s MNT vs. Brazil
Live [...]

They slipped, they stumbled, and they fell. They were relentless. Not once during this match did any USA player quit, no matter how ugly and disheartening the soccer was.
As USA supporters, we had seen this all too many times before. Most recently, the last time Bob’s boys took the pitch in Europe, [...]

Germany is a killer for the United States in knockout roudns of World Cups. Sure, this does not compare at all to 2002, but its a decent way to start a post.
The USA lost 2-1, the 1 being another Mykell Bates goal, to the Germans this morning. All in all you could say [...]

They did it. Who knows how, but they did.
Now come on down and see what you have won….
…A shiney new knockout round game against Germany! (ooh aaaaah)
Some prize right?
Deffinatley going to be a tough fixture, but they put themselves in this place (and they know it) and now it is time to [...]