[U.S. SOCCER] In addition to an annual salary of $2.5 million, U.S. men’s national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann‘s contractwith U.S. Soccer calls for bonuses as high as $10.5 million based on the national team’s performance at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. (Klinsmann’s minimum bonus is $500,000.) Bycomparison, new women’s coach Tom Sermanni, whose contract […]
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Klinsmann's Advice: 'It's driven by you, coaches are just helpers'
By Mike Woitalla Last Sunday, U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann showed up at a breakfast for the 46 finalists of the 7Up Sueno Alianza National Finals presented by Verizon in Southern California. The Complete Soccer Goalkeeper andco-author with Claudio Reyna of MoreThan Goals: The Journey from Backyard Games to World Cup Competition. Woitalla’s youth soccer articles […]
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Brooks sidelined with elbow and forearm injuries
[AMERICANS ABROAD] Hertha Berlin defender John Brooks could miss the upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Jamaica andPanama, the last chance for him to be cap-tied before the World Cup finals, as he will have to sit out at least two weeks after suffering a hyper-extended elbow and a small radius fracture and muscletear of his […]
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What They're Saying
“No, you’ve got to be realistic. I mean, I think we have the potential, obviously like in the past, to get out of the group stage — it depends, obviously, who you have in your group — and thenit’s all down to 50-50 games. Then, you give the real battles in the knockout stage.” — […]
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Di Canio Blasts Ref for Disallowed Altidore Goal
Sunderland coach Paolo Di Canio pointed out that referee Martin Atkinson’s decision not to award Jozy Altidore his first Premier League goalof the season was decisive in Sunderland’s 3-1 loss at home to Arsenal. With the score at 2-1 to the Gunners, Altidore escaped an illegal challenge from Arsenal fullback BacarySagna and went on to […]
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FIFA launches investigation into incidents
[COSTA RICA-USA] The USA and Costa Rica have kept FIFA busy this year with controversy surrounding both Hexagonals matches. First was the snow game in Colorado,where the USA won, 1-0, in a blizzard. The Ticos won their rematch, 3-1, in San Jose, but FIFA has launched an investigation into various incidents before and during the […]
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USA begins Brazil countdown at Scotland
[DATEBOOK] With its ticket to Brazil 2014 in hand, the U.S. national team will kick off its preparations for next summer’s World Cup on Nov. 15 when it facesScotland at Hampden Park in Glasgow. Kickoff at Scotland’s National Stadium is set for 3 p.m. ET (8 p.m. local), and the match will be shown live […]
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Combined USA-Mexico audience was upwards of 7 million
By Paul Kennedy Tuesday’s USA-Mexico match on UniMás averaged 4,132,000 viewers during the match broadcast. Combined with the2+ million average viewers on ESPN — the broadcast measured as beginning at 7:41 p.m. ET averaged 2,243,000 viewers — that means an average of upwards of 7 million viewers watched Dos a Cero IV onEnglish- and Spanish-language […]
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A game plan for USA's final qualifiers
By Ridge Mahoney Two games remain in the Hexagonal, with only the Americans’ final placing to be determined. How should they be handled? With a win anda tie in its games against Jamaica and at Panama Oct. 11 and 15, the Americans would duplicate the 6-2-2 mark with which it finished first in the 2009 […]
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Chandler Hits 'Low Point' at Nuremberg
United States defender Timothy Chandler has been demoted to the substitutes’ bench at Nuremberg following a poor performance during the Bundesliga club’s first-roundcup exit to minor league side Sandhausen. The 23-year-old says he is currently at the “low point” of his career, and worries that his predicament could lead to continued exclusion from theU.S. national […]