All posts tagged "United States national team"

  • American soccer’s revolutionary week

    American “soccer” fans are a boisterous breed. Rowdy, taking up too much space and all for a team that is never really that competitive. That’s what they say; but then the US occasionally outperforms and proves everybody...

    • Posted June 10, 2015
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  • Five takeaways from the international break

    International breaks have a reputation for being very, very boring, but for national sides used to operating under tight time constraints, there is ample time for many takeaways: USMNT still experimenting  The headlines have been grabbed by the...

    • Posted April 2, 2015
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  • MOTD: Denmark 3-2 USMNT

    On paper the match was a friendly, but in practice anything but — Jurgen Klinsmann is facing increasing pressure for his US Men’s National Team to perform. It’s been almost five years since Klinsmann took over, and...

    • Posted March 25, 2015
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  • MOTD: United States 2-1 Panama

    While the construction of the StubHub Center’s new JumboTron loomed large in the background, the construction process being played out on the pitch wasn’t quite as straightforward an operation. For while Jurgen Klinsmann’s redesign of US Soccer...

    • Posted February 8, 2015
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  • The future is now – What 2015 holds for USMNT breakout prospects

    Julian Green: Since scoring his famous hundred-and-seventh minute goal against Belgium in the World Cup Round of 16, Bayern Munich have done a good job of sheltering Green from media hype. Green returned to his parent club...

    • Posted December 31, 2014
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  • MOTD: USA 1-2 Colombia

    After watching the USA’s friendly live in London tonight alongside the American Outlaws, I got a clear sense that the attitude regarding the USMNT is changing for the better outside its home soil. Everyone from dedicated journalists...

    • Posted November 14, 2014
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  • USA’s size is just as much of constraint as it is an advantage in optimizing youth talent

    If there is one thing I have learned in playing in and around the USA’s developmental academy system, is that until the ages of eighteen or so, a developmental academy is more or less just a label....

    • Posted October 27, 2014
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  • MLS and USMNT must work together for the future of US Soccer

    Jurgen Klinsmann has had experience in managing a nation. Moreover, he has had experience revamping a youth program of a country. If anybody Klinsmann knows that he will not be popular. He wasn’t popular when changed the...

    • Posted October 16, 2014
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  • Three thoughts from the international break

    Yawn….. Had it not been for a few choice matches and few surprise results, the international break would have been quite boring so far. Landon Donovan bid farewell to the Us Mens national team, for which he...

    • Posted October 11, 2014
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  • MOTD: USMNT 1-1 Ecuador – Three Thoughts

    Prior to the match, Landon Donovan could only describe his relationship with the US Mens National Team coach Jurgen Klinsmann, the man who denied him of playing in a fourth World Cup this summer, in two words:...

    • Posted October 10, 2014
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