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 [...]

That’s really all that needs to be said to garner attention. I don’t care if we are talking a U-10 American girl’s rec. side beating one from Brazil; that is still impressive. But we are talking the U-20 World Cup here, a tremendous achievement.
First and foremost I must say that in level of [...]

Copa America is done, with nothing to show for it.
Really nothing. Charlie Davies sorta kinda impressed me for a bit tonight, but I just haven’t seen enough. No young guys really stepped up. That is most dissapointing. No one even really impressed at this “tryout” of ours. Only two [...]

The U-20’s are picking up serious steam as they head into the youth world cup hosted by our neighbors to the north.
First was the friendly against Chile in Giants Stadium, a 2-1 victory lead by goals from Freddy and Robbie Rogers.
More recentley was the 4-0 drubbing of New Zealend in a closed door scrimmage. [...]