Jeff Bradley, a sportswriter for ESPN The Magazine and younger brother of U.S. national team coach Bob Bradley,remembers Colonel John McHugh, who captained the 1985 Army men’s soccer team and was recently killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. Jeff Bradley and McHughwere teammates on the same American Legion baseball team in New Jersey. McHugh […]
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The USA's father-son combo
Kelly Whiteside checked in with the USA’s father-son combo: Coach Bob Bradley and midfielder Michael Bradley, who says, “He’sthe coach, he’s my dad. I’m a player, I’m his son. There’s not much else to it. … It’s not something I think about a whole lot, not something he thinks about a whole lot. It is […]
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Donovan: 'Last year was priceless'
[USA 30] At the second day of the U.S. national team training camp for the World Cup, most of the players had arrived and gotten their physicals out of the way.One of them was star Landon Donovan, who is preparing for his third World Cup. Donovan said that like most of the teams at the […]
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U.S. sparring partners set rosters
[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] The Czech Republic and Turkey both named their rosters for their trip the United States, where they will face each other Saturday at RedBull Arena and then meet the USA in its two World Cup warmups on home soil before departing to South Africa. The USA will meet the Czech Republic Tuesday […]
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Foreign club appearances (USA 30)
[MAKING A LIST] Of the 22 players on the provisional U.S. World Cup team roster who played abroad in 2009-10, Jose FranciscoTorres (Pachuca) led with 48 appearances in league and continental action. Tim Howard (Everton) and Clint Dempsey(Fulham) were the only other ones to play more than 40 games. GP PLAYER (TEAM, COUNTRY) 48 (38+10) […]
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Gooch gets 'wish' to play for free
[AMERICANS ABROAD] U.S. national team defender Oguchi Onyewu has signed a one-year contract extension with Italianclub AC Milan through the 2012-13 season during which he agreed to play without pay. Onyewu was sidelined for most of the 2009-10 after injuring himself playing for the USA in its finalWorld Cup qualifying match against Costa Rica in […]
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Things gets physical
[USA 30] Sunday was the first day for U.S. national team candidates to get their physicals at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. Watch and listen as theU.S. training staff members go through what they are looking for in terms of health and risk issues … VIDEO-ussoccer.com:
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Bradley shares advice to Davies
[USA 30] U.S. national team coach Bob Bradley is usually adverse to discussing the conversations he has with hisplayers, but in light of Charlie Davies‘ stinging criticism of Alexandre Lacombe, president of French club Sochaux,following his exclusion from the U.S. provisional squad, Bradley shared some advice he had given Davies. Bradley said the conversation took […]
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Focus on missing center backs
[USA 30] On the opening day of the USA’s pre-World Cup training camp at Princeton University, as much attention was on who wasn’t on the field as was who wasthere. Considering Oguchi Onyewu, scheduled to arrive from AC Milan on Tuesday, hasn’t played a game in seven months, the news that three other regular centerbacks […]
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What They're Saying
“Let’s be honest — you’re only allowed four or five foreigners per club, so if I was a foreigner, there’s no chance. And I was cheap compared to what others make, so theyoffered me a six-month deal and if it pans out, it pans out. But I don’t think they ever expected anything like this […]