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Written by: Gabe
Months ago, around the time the World Cup lottery was drawn, US Soccer publicly set one clear goal: Get out of the group stage. Surviving the group stage was a fair measure for the players, the program and the coach, and after all, the USA was improving incrementally over 2006 and their group seemed winnable. [...]
Written by: Gabe
The group stage of FIFA’s 2010 World Cup is in the books, and while some of the balance was restored in the soccer universe, a few stories that will define this tournament have been told. EuroFail—France, Italy, Denmark and Greece are all gone in a continent-spanning shocker. However, the chances of The Netherlands, Germany, and [...]
Written by: Gabe
Two weekends of television monopoly, seven business days of GameCasts, tweets and streaming video, some hours of sleep filled with dreams of Cristiano Ronaldo (either as him, watching him, or married to him, depending on your fancy)… we’re now eleven days into the 2010 FIFA World Cup. It has been a flurry of the unpredictable. [...]
Written by: Gabe
It won’t be our most famous game. It wasn’t an amazing display of skill. It wasn’t even enough to get the USA out of the group stage… but something about our 2-2 draw with Slovenia was special. After (and in spite of) a typically lackluster first half, the American team battled back for three goals [...]
Written by: Gabe
First, click the image. It’s a comment (and reply) posted on Grant Wahl’s inquiring blog post about the low scores of the opening World Cup round. The comment is common, prejudiced, red-blooded, base-circling, upright-splitting drivel, but the reply is oh so, “WIN,” as they say on the internet.
Written by: tyler ransburgh
To kick off one of the most anticipated games of the World Cup (and that’s a fact), FIFA has decided to put a referee in change that was suspended in his own country for corruption and incompetence. FIFA has allowed Brazilian Carlos Simon the chance to ref the England v United States game in the [...]
Written by: Gabe
Johnette Howard seems like a competent sports writer. I mean, she authors books and gets paid by NBC for her opinion. So, why does her recent MSNBC World Cup primer read as shallow and smug? Did she actually skip the 1. Research step, or is she pandering to the anti-soccer American stereotype? Some issues I [...]
Written by: tyler ransburgh
In the past two days, four significant players have suffered injuries in preparation for the World Cup. Two of the players are now out of the competition: Jozy Altidore : On Thursday, the United States starting striker suffered an injury to his right ankle and is currently listed day-to-day. Altidore did not participate in field [...]
Written by: tyler ransburgh
“Off the field, I have always felt American. On the field I’ve always felt Italian.” This quote from ESPN magazine has not treated Rossi well. While the quote was ignorant as he is trying to get the best of both worlds, he is in a position to make the statement. What I believe is the [...]
Written by: tyler ransburgh
When Mexico coach Javier Aguirre announced the 23-man roster that would be going to the World Cup in South Africa, the biggest surprise was the absence of Barcelona midfielder Jonathan Dos Santos. Jonathan’s brother, Giovani dos Santos, did however make the squad which I am sure made things a bit uneasy in the Dos Santo household. The Mexican squad has since [...]
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