The newly re-tooled Yanks are heading down to T&T for Wednesday's next WCQ match. Hear what a bald man with an accent and a man with crazy eyes and an accent have to say about it. Do you want to know what I have to say about it? Who cares, I'm a nobody on Blogspot. Click to continue reading...

Feel free to agree or disagree with Johnny Harkes on the following:

D.C. United 2008 = A Bust
U.S. v. Cuba = 80's Babies on parade
Rio Tinto field = "almost Wembley condition"
Designated Players = It could go either way
Chelsea = Team to beat Click to continue reading...

Jeffrey Marcus of the new York Times Goal blog recently spoke with former MLS Rookie of the Year and current Glasgow Ranger Maurice Edu about what's really going on. He has some cliched things to say ("Every day, you're really grinding, competing for your position") but they're probably cliche because they're true. Click to continue reading...

Steven Goff took advantage of the Nats being in the Beltway region to take young Michael Bradley to his first go-go concert catch up with young Michael Bradley and chat about what it was like to grow up in that family. Good stuff from the nation's Minister of Soccer Propaganda. Click to continue reading...

About 10 of the cats called into camp ahead of Saturday's tie with Fidel's Fellows by Bobby Bradley have arrived in D.C. and have begun training. A couple of the guys including Landon, Ching and Frankie "Joe Six-Pack" Hejduk gave U.S. Soccer a few words on match preparation, their love of the savvy fans and the great grass at RFK. Click to continue reading...

Brian Ching gets another call while Kenny Cooper gets voice mail once again. Looks like I'm ordering him a gift certificate from Lids.com for Christmas; apparently this is the only way he'll get a cap this year.

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Johnny Harkes thinks that the US mens national team still has room to grow. He says "we're playing well, but we're not playing great." He is captain for life after all, so he may know what he's talking about. Plus, he's bucking for more caps for Freddy & Jozy so I'm kinda feeling what he's saying. Click to continue reading...

No Cooper, no peace. Click to continue reading...

Timbo Howard and Duece Dempsey on the CONCACAF haters. But you know what they say, "if no one hates you then no one cares"...so it's nothing but nice to hear tales of vitriol and spite aimed at our boys. I guess when you are on top so it has to happen just to keep the world turning.

You know, someone should really cut a video of US soccer footage to that song by "Haters Everywhere We Go" by B.

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Ever the diplomat, US winger Eddie Lewis describes thier final training session prior to tonight's match as being "short on light". From the looks of it, it's not "short on light". To me it looks like someone cut the power on them but I'm a paranoid conspiracy theorist. I still think that "they" killed Kennedy. Click to continue reading...

Looking to the week ahead, Wednesday has all the makings of a great "personal day"; England-Czech Republic on FSC at 3pm EST, D.C. United-New England Revolution at 7.30pm EST on Direct Kick, and Chivas USA-Houston at 9.00pm EST on Direct Kick all setting the table for the US-Guatelmala World Cup Qualifier on ESPN2 at 10. Click to continue reading...

I'm told that the lady at the center of this scrum is a former Houston Rockets cheerleader. Or was it a dancer? I can't remember but I do know that she looks positively tits-over-tail about her place in life at the moment.

Meanwhile, Stuart Holden looks pleasingly pickled, Jozy Altidore looks troubled and recent Rangers acquisition Maurice Edu is licking his lips as if she were slathered in hot wing sauce. Click to continue reading...

Coach Peter Novak says that tomorrow's massive match with Nigeria is "going to be a fight". Although not at full strength due to yellow cards and Jozy's lingering ankle injury, our boys are rested and ready for what lies ahead. This is what it is all about y'all.

But are you ready for this? Click to continue reading...

There's some talk around the interwebs about US national teamer Cory Gibbs being a target of the LA Galaxy, who now hold the top spot on the allocation list. That's cool and all except he wants to play for that other team that plays at the HDC.

If true that really sucks for LA because they could really use that back line help. Click to continue reading...

You know, McBride really does look a little aged next to the young pups. I'm not baggin' on him, just saying that he looks olde with a "e". He also sounds vaguely sage and wise. Perhaps in times of crisis and difficulty we should start asking ourselves "What would Macca do?" Click to continue reading...

From Charlie Rose's most unlikely guest, the boss player of SI.com's soccer coverage, comes this timely piece on US Olympic coach Piotr Nowak's unexpected decision to start the match against the Japanese with Jozy Altidore on the bench.

Aside from the swift publication, deft wording and general awesomeness of this piece I just love the fact that a real writer (read: not some jackass with a blogspot account like me) described Nowak as "ballsy". Click to continue reading...

Somewhere on the other side of the world MLS' own Stuart Holden has a smile on his face the length of the Great Wall and I love it. He may also have a massive plate of damn good General Tso's chicken in front of him as well which I wouldn't mind myself right now.

Hopefully getting a goal, and more importantly an early win, will give our boys a nice confidence boost before they play the Dutch. Click to continue reading...