Articles tagged with "usa"
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 26th, 2006
Almost as soon as the final whistle blew on the United States' World Cup campaign the speculation started as to whether coach Bruce Arena would ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 26th, 2006
USSF President Sunil Gulati made a brief appearance on ESPN's "Outside The Lines" recently, discussing the implications of USA's early World Cup exit.
With regard ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 23rd, 2006
Freddy Adu has suggested he may still play for Ghana ahead of the US.
"It's still open, you never know," he said. "The way Ghana is ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 23rd, 2006
Claudio Reyna has more or less definitely retired from international football.
"I'm probably done," Reyna told reporters after the Ghana game. "That's it."
"I knew pretty much ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Peter | Jun 23rd, 2006
Chances are, sometime soon or maybe even today, your team will have played its last game of the 2006 World Cup. I hate to bring ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 22nd, 2006
Whether Arena stays or goes, it seems likely that some of the older players will hang up their intenational boots after this. Just because a ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 22nd, 2006
The following is a rough transcription of Arena's post-match press conference, around an hour after the final whistle. Some of the quotes may not be ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 22nd, 2006
Will US Soccer want Arena to stay?
Possibly not. Fingers will be pointed at Arena tactically and preparation wise, especially after the Czech game. Key players ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 22nd, 2006
First thing first, it was a harsh penalty. Looks like Onyewu was penalised for being too big as he barely touched Pimpong, had his eyes ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jun 22nd, 2006
Ghana win 2-1 with a slightly dodgy penalty. USA out, Ghana through. Good effort from the Americans, but their tactics were maybe a little too ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 22nd, 2006
Click here to follow the match highlights as they happen on the Ghana vs. USA LiveBlog and stop by to leave your thoughts and comments ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 22nd, 2006
The guys at The Big Lead have penned an An Open Letter To Bruce. Here's my favourite excerpt:
"We humbly bow down to your soccer knowledge; ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 22nd, 2006
Over on the main page, Bob has been busy calculating who needs what to happen today in Group E.
In Bob's words, the situation is as ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 22nd, 2006
In a recent press conference (listen to it here) both Arena and Reyna agreed that four points from a difficult Group E would be a ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 22nd, 2006
Another Grant Wahl article here, considering the implications of Thursday's games.
According to Wahl they are:
A place in the second round (obviously).
The sanity of US fans.
Landon ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 22nd, 2006
Good golly, Thursday is a huge day of World Cup football. Brazil is the only team playing today that is guaranteed a spot in ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 21st, 2006
Andrea Canales has come up with a novel way to end USA's goal drought: shooting.
In this article she basically argues that Donovan needs to take ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 21st, 2006
With Pablo Mastroeni and Eddie Pope suspended (can't remember why, did something happen?) Bruce will have a few questions to ponder before picking his first ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 21st, 2006
The Guardian had a reporter in Kaiserslautern to report on USA fans, and didn't like what they found.
They basically took all the negative stereotypes ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 21st, 2006
Arena had this to say about Landon Donovan on Monday: "I think he emerged in this game and demonstrated to the world, but more ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 21st, 2006
Hindsight is a wonderful thing isn't it? On Saturday I was one of many US fans screaming (literally) for Arena to replace Brian McBride with ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 21st, 2006
Assistant coach Curt Onalfo (pictured) was given the responsibility of scouting Ghana, and SI.com have a short article describing how he went about it, and ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 20th, 2006
The USA Italy game drew a prelimenary 5.2 rating, the highest since the 1998 final.
The fact that it was on ABC, and at a ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 19th, 2006
As always, player ratings are up for debate:
Kasey Keller 7: beaten by another header, but made some great saves in the second half
Steve Cherundolo ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 19th, 2006
Let's be honest, it's not a good tackle. It's late and may or may not be two-footed, but the tone in the commentators voice says ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 19th, 2006
He definitely seemed proud of his red card, showing it to three players.
On ABC, Marcello Balboa wanted him subbed out after the Eddie Pope ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Peter | Jun 19th, 2006
There may be no better place to meet people than the Berlin Fan Fest. But let me just tell you now that the muscular, cyborg ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 19th, 2006
Leaving the red card happy refereeing aside (for now) this was at least an impressive performance from the MNT. After the disaster against the Czechs, ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 17th, 2006
Quick reminder, click here for the LiveBlog of USA vs Italy.
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 17th, 2006
Eddie Johnson's comment that ''We're here for a war. We came here to battle, we came here to represent our country,'' was very, very silly ...
