Soccer Limey in America

Michael Bradley: Guatemala game is the kind of pressure we welcome – Yahoo! Sports Prior to the USA vs Antigua game last week, I was amazed by the reaction of US fans who couldn’t understand why the 2-1 scoreline was so close. I wasn’t surprised in the slightest as this game was played on a [...]

Jürgen Klinsmann named new USA coach | Football | guardian.co.uk. As I failed to predict, German coach Jurgen Klinsmann was announced today as the successor to Bob Bradley as coach of the USA Men’s National team. His official unveiling is at a press conference on Monday, and hopefully, with his record, it should herald a [...]

Gold Cup loss was final nail for Bradley – World Soccer – Yahoo! Sports. Today, the  United States Soccer Federation (USSF) dismissed MNT coach Bob Bradley following months of speculation about his future. The USA’s defeat in the Gold Cup Final against Mexico was thought to have been the final straw for the former Chicago Fire [...]

News today that Clint Dempsey had suffered possible cruciate ligament damage to his right knee in a Premier League match for his club side Fulham , came as a hammer blow to USA hopes for a successful World Cup in South Africa . He was taken off after 61 minutes under his own steam but [...]

This past Saturday saw the 2010 debuts of Landon Donovan and David Beckham across the pond for their respective “foster” clubs , Everton of the English Premier League and AC Milan of Serie A in Italy. Certainly in weather conditions a world apart from what both players are used to playing in for the Los [...]

Over the course of the next six months or so , two soccer players will most likely command most of the news copy in the soccer section of the sports world on both sides of the Atlantic . David Beckham and Landon Donovan will hog the soccer headlines for more than one reason . They [...]