Soccer Limey in America

It seems like only yesterday to me when former Real Madrid, Man Utd, and England midfielder David Beckham was introduced to the soccer community in the USA with great pomp and circumstance befitting an idolized movie star but here we are, five years later, following the Galaxy’s 1-0 win over the Houston Dynamo in the MLS Cup [...]

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 [...]

A worrying trend has developed with the preparations of World Cup USA 2010. Looking back on 2009 , supporters of the US National team have to be pleased with performances leading up to a World Cup year . Their record of 13 wins, 3 draws and 8 losses is a pretty impressive one considering the [...]

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 [...]

Fill a room with 100 Soccer fans from either side of the Atlantic and I doubt that even half of them would have ever heard of Belo Horizonte , let alone its significance in the progress of the sport in England and the US . It was of the course the site of probably the [...]