For the Future of United States Soccer

Lack of Preparation for Azteca

I’m sitting here, reflecting on today’s mess in Mexico City and just can’t come to terms with our preparation & execution.
What was the reason for the 80 minutes of bunker ball? Was the team absolutely winded by the conditions? A further look into the so called ‘home field’ advantage conditions doesn’t provide alot [...]

Prevent Defense Prevents Wins

The American football adage certainly applies to the way Bob Bradley has been losing games this summer. While most Americans are lauding how great the United States National Team has been doing over the past few months (I’m guilty as well), it has become apparently more clear that Bob Bradley simply can not coach [...]

The Substitutes, Oh My!

2-0 up at half time, and the United States come out at half flat and content to play defense. That game plan worked for all about 20 seconds until Brazil got a quick and effortless goal, making this a contest that we only knew was a matter of time before Brazil equalized.
With the obvious [...]

Keep Bob Bradley Now

All I can do is say wow, just wow. That was the best performance I have ever seen by the United States defense.
This will be my last post on this site, Bob Bradley will be our coach through the World Cup.
I regret nothing, however, because I honestly think we saw the emergence of the [...]

Cinderella or Just Plain Lucky?

So I’m still trying to digest what just transpired today in South Africa and am struggling to put my finger on my feelings.  In case you missed it the United States Men National Team defeated Egypt 3-0 and moved onto the next round due to an Italy loss to Brazil of the same score.  It [...]

No Adu? No Sense

Since we’ve already talked about the biggest issue with Bob Bradley’s coaching in the lack of passion instilled in his team, now is a good time to continue the biggest discussion spreading throughout US Soccer at the moment.  Why doesn’t Freddy Adu see any playing time under Bob Bradley?
Unless your Eric Wynalda or some other [...]

Bob Bradley’s Team Has No Passion

If Bob Bradley can’t get his team to put on their Stars and Stripes with pride then he is not the right man for the job