Real Salt Lake turned in perhaps the most impressive road performance of the young MLS season to hand Sporting Kansas City its first loss, 2-1. New England, Seattle and Chicago got their firstvictories, but D.C. United, which squandered a 1-0 lead in San Jose, and Columbus stayed winless. Week 5 Results April 1 New England 1, […]
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Projecting USA's Copa America Centenario roster
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) March wasn’t the best month for U.S. Soccer’s elite men’s teams and thus the plan goingforward for head coach Jurgen Klinsmann is rife with possibilities. Had the USA swept Guatemala, Klinsmann might have taken a different approach at the Copa America Centenario in June.It will probably clinch a berth in the […]
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What They're Saying: Sigi Schmid
“With Jordan, the way they played down there and the way they played in the first half, they were a little bit not confident, or a little bit afraid. He was on his own up front. Sometimes thathappens with our youth teams.” — Seattle Sounders coach Sigi Schmid after the U.S. U-23s with Sounders rookie […]
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MLS Countdown: Internationals return from duty
The days immediately following the FIFA fixture dates are anxious ones for club coaches unsure of how fit their players will be when they rejoin their teams. Counting the U.S. U-23 s pickedby head coach Andi Herzog for the Olympic playoff series against Colombia, more than 70 MLS players were summoned by their national teams. […]
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What They're Saying: Jordan Morris
“You get one chance at this. You dream about it since you’re a little kid. So it’s a tough one to swallow.” — Jordan Morris after the USA failed to qualifyfor the Rio Olympics in men’s soccer, losing to Colombia, 2-1, on Tuesday in the second game of their playoff series. (MLSSoccer.com)
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USA-Colombia Olympic Qualifying Playoff Player Ratings
USA-COLOMBIA EXPRESS: March 29 in Frisco, Texas USA 1 Colombia 2. Goals: Own goal 58; Martinez 30, 64. Red Cards: USA — Gil 72, Miazga 90. Att.: 7,998.—————————————-The Americans’ Olympic dreams were extinguished Tuesday night by Colombia, which overcame an own goal to down the USA, 2-1, in Frisco, Texas. Roger Martinez scored both goals […]
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USA-Colombia Olympic Qualifying Playoff Player Ratings
USA-COLOMBIA EXPRESS March 25 in Barranquilla Colombia 1 USA 1. Goals: Quintero pen. 68; Gil 5. —————The U.S. needed to use two goalies and battle to the very end to secure a 1-1 tie with Colombia in Barranquilla on Friday. The teams meet again Tuesday in Frisco, Texas to determine which of themfill the final […]
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USA is going for the sweep against Guatemala
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) Six points should clinch. The objective for back-to-back games against Guatemala Friday and Tuesday isclear: win them both, even if road wins can be very hard to find in Central America, and attentions will be divided — as was the player pool — by a do-or-die Olympic playoff series for the […]
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Galaxy's Keane: 'If anyone has a chance, it's certainly us'
By Ridge Mahoney (@ridgemax) In each of the four head-to-head matchups between MLS teams and Liga MX foes in the Concacaf Champions League,there’s no question where the advantage lies. The Mexican teams are nearly halfway through their league seasons, the MLS teams are still two weeks away from opening day. In Mexico,rosters are set; in […]
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What They're Saying: Sigi Schmid
“I don’t think we have that many ills to cure to begin with. There are no saviors out there. It’s a sport that requires 11 players. It’s not basketball where you only havefive, where one or two guys can really turn things a lot more. [Rookie Jordan Morris] is part of the team concept, and […]