usmnt

33' agudelo steams in and heads a corner 1-0
35' adu shoots from outside the 18, 2-0

we have a name for this, dos a cero

love gyau running with the ball

is he #11?

yeah, that's gyau

saw the end of this in a bar, shouted "dos a cero" and startled some people

didn't see the goals but thought gyau, agudelo, and adu all looked good. diskerud too.
really liked the senior team's new kits. though the us still needs a new badge.

watching some highlights this morning I started feeling some real hope for some of these dudes, can't wait to see a few more of them integrated with the senior team

hadn't realized that az is in first place in the netherlands (and jozy is their leading scorer). has there been an american on a league winning side in europe before?

Edu and Beasley won the SPL with Rangers iirc. Gooch with Standard Liege in Belgium, maybe?

good call. beasley also won twice with PSV.

Demerit's Watford won promotion but I don't think they actually finished top of the Championship.

Did Man Utd not win the league when Timmy was there then?

no, he was there for three seasons, arsenal chelsea chelsea winners.
he won a fa cup and a league cup.

http://blogs.thescore.com/footyblog/2012/03/06/bandini-how-michael-bradley-became-chievos-captain-america/

his game has visibly risen since moving to italy

el equipo de todos

god damn pathetic

this fucking team

Am I wrong or is this mostly the same group that failed to qualify for the U20 world cup? Unreal.

http://theoriginalwinger.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Legends-Game-Flyer2.jpg

has anyone deserved to go bald as much as clint mathis? kinda love that idiot.

The United States, which, will be coached by Curt Onalfo, will feature Ian Feuer, Cobi Jones, Paul Caligiuri, Thomas Dooley, Eric Wynalda, Roy Lassiter, Chris Klein, Cle Kooiman, Ted Eck, Clint Mathis, Alexi Lalas, Jovan Kirovski, John O'Brien and Brian McBride.

Mexico, meanwhile, will be coached by Carlos Reinoso and will trot out Jorge Campos, Claudio Suarez, Ramón Ramírez, Martin Zúñiga, Mariano Trujillo, Zague, German Villa, Alberto García Aspe, Ramon Morales, David Oteo, Luis Hernández, Joel Sánchez, Eduardo Missael Espinoza, Chima, Jesús Olalde, Jared Borgetti and Francisco Palencia.

no Blanco :( guess it's not a big enough payday

Not sure if Fabian Johnson has been involved in the US team this year, but he scored a super goal for Hoffenheim midweek.

About 6.00 mins in

http://youtu.be/-Ns5lXNIvAY

http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1043145/533027_10150790949863941_32421823940_9381208_1177782620_n.jpg

lots of people seem to hate it, I don't

I like it!

always thought that would be an obvious scheme, and it has been done before right? it looks nice, but i was liking the sash ok too.

The sash always kind of irked me - it reminds me too much of South American tinpot dicator wear somehow. I like the hoops more than I expected.

so the sash is still there, just barely.
are there other national teams that wear hoops?

http://www.soccerbyives.net/.a/6a00e54ef2975b88330167653721b6970b-pi

barely sash is worse imo

i've loved the hoops as a kit design, would be stoked if we snaked it from the rest of the world first (DONT TREAD ON ME)

chandler begging out again

http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/usa/story/tim-chandler-sends-clear-message-to-jurgen-klinsmann-usmnt-051512

I don't really like Ives Galarcep as a writer but I think he is totally otm here

scottish taboard.com poster on the entrance of beckerman

Posted Today, 01:43
Now there even bringing on a homeless guy. Thats just taking the pish.

Oh dear.

scottish poster otm

bradley goal was tasty. usa looking good despite the lack of competition.

We looked pretty good but, man, did Scotland look bad.

http://imgon.net/di-QLL5.gif

daaaaaamn

psyched for will ferrell tbrr

fuck sake scotland, i was looking at a match report there thinking maybe they fielded a weakened team, and while there's some players missing it's a fairly "strong" (in relative terms) first XI.

It's maybe the most depressing cold-hard-footy-truth I can remember. At least taking humpings from Portugal or Holland, you knew they were always secretly our betters, we just beat them sometimes. But Scotland and the US weren't ever in the same class when I was little, and they're certainly not now.

i have the good fortune of not caring all that much about the national team,but even vaguely following the team and feeling goodwill towards it has became painful.could easily see scotland not make a world cup in the next 20,30 years,and they used to be almost perennial participants.

hercules v hulk!

Some positives to take from this I guess, except for the defending. Fabian Johnson a greater threat from left-back than most of the attackers. I like Bradley-Jones-Torres in midfield, don't see what Edu offers though.

Brazil no. 10 Oscar looks like a real talent.

sucks so much that holden got injured and can't replace edu in this midfield, think if he could bring his 2010-2011 bolton form to the team they'd be really tough

the defense would still be a problem against solid competition, but yeah holden jones bradley would be great.

most interesting thing about that game was canada's new shirts, oh and the bizarre goal called back

here's an argument for what edu offers

Having deployed the 4-3-3 Jurgen Klinsmann long advocated to great effect against both Scotland and Brazil, moving the ball around with gusto and creating chances by the bushel, the U.S. went back to a 4-4-2 – or a 4-4-1-1, or whatever – against Canada.

This formation undermined the progress the U.S. has made. In the pre-Klinsmann dark ages, a 4-4-2 with two deep central midfielders perennially put the Yanks on the back foot, making them a counter-attacking team forced to absorb a great deal of pressure in hopes of being granted a chance or two to break away. In Klinsmann's 4-3-3, the U.S. can usurp much more possession, involve its full backs and free up two of three central midfielders to join the attack and orchestrate from the inside of the field. But by removing the Number 6, usually either Maurice Edu or Kyle Beckerman, a knock-on effect disturbed much of the team, negating the extra center forward it put on the field. Without a man to cover for them, central midfielders Jermaine Jones and Bradley were forced to hang back more, preventing them from crowding the opposing midfield in its own half and distributing. This, in turn, forced the deep striker, Clint Dempsey, to fall back and help out on defense, making him easy to mark out of the game. The advanced striker, Gomez, thus became isolated and the wingers, Jose Torres and Landon Donovan, were insufficiently involved and advanced, blocking the path of the wing backs to push forward.

By taking out the holding midfielder for a trequartista, in other words, Klinsmann made his side a much more defensive one than before. The effect was noticeable, as the U.S. mustered only the rare chance and had trouble commanding the midfield. LS