Articles tagged with "usa"
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 2nd, 2006
The team touched down in Hamburg just after 6 a.m. (World Cup Time) this morning. Apparently they were greeted by a 75 foot red carpet ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jun 1st, 2006
Click on Gooch's smiling face to see him interviewed on ESPN News. Nothing new for US fans but once again they make a big deal ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 31st, 2006
Sports Illustrated is stepping up it's World Cup coverage, with DMB and Landon Donovan pointing at you from the cover. It features two decent articles:
"Where ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 30th, 2006
The number of Americans playing top flight European football next season has been reduced by one. After captaining Energie Cottbus' into Germany's 1. Bundesliga, Gregg ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 30th, 2006
As always, player ratings (on the now patented 5-10 scale) are up for debate:
Kasey Keller 7: quiet night, but made that late save when he ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 29th, 2006
If you've got a spare $1,000 and love the smell of sweat then you might want to visit the US Soccer store. They're selling ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 28th, 2006
The final game in the Send-Off Series kicks off at 7 p.m. Eastern.
Latvia should provide a challenge somewhere inbetween that of Morocco and Venezuela, ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 28th, 2006
Bruce has named his starting eleven to take on Latvia:
GK: Kasey Keller
RB: Steve Cherundolo
LB: Eddie Lewis
CB: Eddie Pope
CB: Jimmy Conrad
DM: Pablo Mastroeni
AM: Landon Donovan
RM: DaMarcus ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | May 28th, 2006
There's no rest for the weary with six World Cup teams taking part in some good, healthy, friendly competition on Sunday as they continue to ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 28th, 2006
In a not at all marketing motivated stunt, the team will wear one-off "Don't Tread" themed jerseys for tonight's game against Latvia.
We won't see what ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 28th, 2006
There's a definite groundswell of support for Bobby "Backstreet" Convey (that nickname's been added to the list) to make the first eleven come World ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 27th, 2006
Do you have trouble telling Eddie Johnson and Taylor Twellman apart? The London Times does.
They also describe Oguchi Onyewu as elegant. I kid you ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 27th, 2006
One of the best things about following the US is Bruce Arena's post match press conference. While other managers keep their assessment of players close ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 27th, 2006
Click on Clint, then press play, to see Bobby-Convey-tastic highlights of the energetic but slightly unfocused 2-0 victory over Venezuela.
Warning: content not suitable for ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 26th, 2006
As always, player ratings are up for debate:
Howard: 7 -apart from when he was lobbed and Gooch rescued him, Howard looked rock solid. great acrobatic ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 26th, 2006
After coming up short against a very defensive but very effective Morocco, the US will be hoping for a decent performance and a win in ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 26th, 2006
Seems Tim Howard has been told he will definitely be starting against Venezuela tonight.
With another game on Sunday, expect Arena's starting XI to be five ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 26th, 2006
This won't be popular. Cory Gibbs has withdrawn from the World Cup roster after being diagnosed with a right knee injury earlier today (Thursday). He's ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 25th, 2006
Bit of good news. The MRI on Reyna's hamstring shows no permanent damage, just a strain.
"Good news, definitely," Reyna said. "I'm happy, more relieved today."
Seems ...
Posted on: Tunisia World Cup Team Blog by Bessam | May 24th, 2006
As I have posted before, Morocco is a team extrememly simular to Tunisia. I was surprised however that they pulled out a Victory 1-0 ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 24th, 2006
Click on The Bruce to see his post game press conference. He gives respect to Morocco for executing their gameplan.
On the US's failing:
"our last pass ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 24th, 2006
Friendlies are all about what you take from them, even 1-0 home defeats to Morocco. So, here are some positives and negatives to take from ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 24th, 2006
As always, player ratings are up for debate:
Kasey Keller: 6 -possibly could have made himslf bigger for the goal. definitely needed to wipe that stray ...
Posted on: Tunisia World Cup Team Blog by Bessam | May 23rd, 2006
I am about to watch USA play Morocco in a friendly. This is a very interesting game for fans of USA and Tunisia.
If ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Peter | May 23rd, 2006
Bruce Arena has announced the starting lineup for the friendly against Morocco. Don't forget to join us for the LiveBlog during the match.
Kasey Keller
Steve ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | May 23rd, 2006
In the first of their four exhibitions leading up to the World Cup, South Korea were held to a 1-1 draw by Senegal in a ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 23rd, 2006
Ladies and gentlemen... Clint "Deuce" Dempsey.
I'm no expert, but this seems pretty decent. Goes some way toward countering the 'spoilt rich kid' view some people ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 23rd, 2006
There's an excellent New York Times article here, which takes a very serious look at John O'Brien's injuries.
It explains how each injury has helped ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 23rd, 2006
Click the image to see Donovan, Dempsey and Mastroeni interviewed on ESPN's "Cold Pizza" talk show. It's all part of introducing the team to the ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | May 23rd, 2006
Soccernet has a decent article by Ives Galarcep about the questions that need to be answered in the Send-Off Series, while Marc Connolly asks similar ...
