Articles tagged with "usa"
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 23rd, 2006
Rumour has it that Michael Bradley will dress for the Send-Off Series, and may get his first cap in one of the games.
The 18 ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 22nd, 2006
Some excellent Cary training footage, mixed in with Arena/player interviews from no lesser source than Reuters news agency available here.
Really gives you a good feel ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 22nd, 2006
Always interesting to see what the rest of the world thinks of America's World Cup resistance. The BBC recently sent a reporter to the DC ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 22nd, 2006
The Cary training camp is over, and it seems like everything went well. Definitely the players are fitter after some intensive work-outs, and definitely team ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 21st, 2006
It will be Jay DeMerit, not Eddie Lewis, playing in the English Premiership next season. DeMerit's Watford beat Leeds 3-0 with Watford's goals including a ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 19th, 2006
Kasey Keller's blog has been updated. Looks like it will be every Friday from now on. Highlights from this one:
"You will always find a crime ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 19th, 2006
USA beat USL Div 1 team Charleston Battery 5-0 in the behind closed doors scrimmage today. Goals came from Donovan (2), DMB, Eddie Johnson and ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 18th, 2006
If Arena were to leave, who would replace him?
I'd argue that Arena is the perfect fit for the national team right now, as the only ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 18th, 2006
It's no secret that Arena fancies coaching in Europe, and he reiterated that desire on Tuesday, when he faced questions from the visiting Italian media.
Will ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 18th, 2006
USA has dropped a place to joint fifth (with Spain) in the new FIFA world rankings. Mexico have moved up to fourth, taking the "worlds ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 17th, 2006
This is a couple of weeks old, but definitely worth watching. It's behind the scenes video at ESPN as Arena prepares to announce the roster. ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 17th, 2006
The team will play a closed door scrimmage against USL D1 outfit Charleston Battery (their roster here) on Thursday. The increasingly generous folk at USsoccer.com ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 17th, 2006
With the May 15th deadline behind us the 2006 roster is set.
So which roster looks stronger, 2006 or 2002?
2006
2002
Kasey KellerBrad Friedel
Tim HowardKasey Keller
Marcus HahnemannTony ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 17th, 2006
Very confident quote from Donovan in this AP article. He recently rewatched the US-Germany 2002 quarterfinal and had this to say:
"We destroyed them. It wasn't ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 15th, 2006
Under the impression that FIFA's May 15 roster deadline also applied to them, ABC/ESPN announced their World Cup roster today.
It's top pairing will be the ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 14th, 2006
Bruce Arena was asked about the level of media attention in 2006 compared to 2002, here's what he had to say:
"I don't know the exact ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 14th, 2006
The players had their first full scale 11 v 11 scrimmage on Sunday, no video available as yet but it'll be posted if and when. ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 14th, 2006
Great highlights from Cary, as three different squads (green, red, yellow) take turns to compete in some pretty high tempo 6v6 scrimmages.
In an interesting twist, ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Chuck Closterman | May 13th, 2006
By Thursday, June 15th, all of the 32 World Cup finalists will have played their opening match of the 2006 World Cup.
Of all the ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 12th, 2006
This is part of Nike's massive Joga TV campaign of soccer videos. It's a short documentary/promo about Eddie Johnson and his home town of ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 12th, 2006
Kasey Keller has his own blog on the CBS Sportsline website.
It's nowhere near as dull as some other players blogs (this means you Michael ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 12th, 2006
Two podcasts and a bit of video from Camp Cary via the US Soccer website.
There's video of the fitness work the players went through first ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 12th, 2006
Brown is the new black, Messi is the new Maradona and, for USA fans, right midfield is the new left back.
Remember all the panic ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | May 11th, 2006
Even in the USA people are getting World Cup fever, including Ecuadorian merchants and fans of La Tri.
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 11th, 2006
The training camp in Cary, N.C. got underway Wednesday. Arena says the idea is to push fitness levels hard (the players, not his) before "building ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 10th, 2006
I'm 100% behind Arena's 4-5-1, and from the majority of comments it seems WCB USA readers are too.
But even with Bruce's legendary planning and ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 9th, 2006
The Red, White and Blue will be mostly blue this summer, as the team will face both Czech Republic and Italy wearing the away jerseys.
Slightly ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 9th, 2006
More good transatlantic transfer news today, as Tim Howard looks set to join Everton on a season long loan from Man Utd.
The man who we ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 8th, 2006
Big shock today is that England's normally conservative coach Sven Goran Eriksson has gone where Bruce Arena feared to tread and named teenage prodigy Theo ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 8th, 2006
There'll be another American in the English Premiership next season after Cory Gibbs agreed a deal with Charlton Athletic.
He was available on a free ...
