[AMERICANS ABROAD] Alexandre Lacombe, president of French club Sochaux, said CharlieDavies will not play for the Ligue 1 club this season, dealing a blow to the striker’s bid to make the U.S. World Cup team after suffering multiple injuries in a car accident last October. Butthe 23-year-old striker remains hopeful he’ll play. Davies has been […]
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USA will train at Princeton
[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] The U.S. national team will hold its pre-World Cup training camp at New Jersey’s Princeton University, the alma mater of head coach Bob Bradley and assistant coach Jesse Marsch.
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Gomez: 'Odds stacked against me'
[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] Unless he’s selected to represent the USA at the World Cup, Herculez Gomez‘s season is over — andquite a season it’s been. Before being red-carded late in Puebla’s 4-1 win over Cruz Azul on Sunday, the American striker scored twice to give him 10 goals and a tie for first place among […]
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Ching's rehab ahead of schedule
U.S. World Cup hopeful Brian Ching kicked a ball in Houston Dynamo practice for the first time since he suffered a hamstring injury in the Dynamo’s homeopener and feels good about his progress, albeit slow. “I’m still limited,” he said. “I still cannot swing my left leg with too much force right now. We’retwo weeks […]
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Big camp for U.S. World Cup hopefuls
The USA’s final training camp ahead of the World Cup will include more than 23 players — the tournament roster limit. Team spokesman Michael Kammarman said it hasn’t beendecided exactly how many players will be brought into the East Coast camp, but Coach Bob Bradley could call as many as 30 when camp opens May […]
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What went wrong for Freddy Adu?
Freddy Adu was American soccer’s biggest star at age 14. Six years later he’s a journeyman pro, now sitting on the bench for Greek club Aris, his fourth European team in threeyears since leaving MLS. “What went wrong, and is there hope for him yet?” asks Grant Wahl, who points out that to mainstream U.S. […]
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Spots 21-23 on U.S. team remain up for grabs
[WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN] FIFA’s deadline for World Cup finalists to submit their short list of 30 players is May 11, and the deadline to cut that list down to 23is June 1. That’s good news for U.S. coach Bob Bradley. While 20 spots on the U.S. World Cup team seem to be set, no one […]
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Bedoya's Orebro loses in BC reunion game
[AMERICANS ABROAD] World Cup hopeful Alejandro Bedoya and Michael Parkhurst were the only Americans in action in Scandinavia on Monday. Bedoya’s Orebro fell at home to GAIS Gothenburg. Bedoya, who received a yellow card in thesecond half, faced old Boston College teammate Reuben Ayarna. Parkhurst’s FC Nordsaelland tied Koge, 1-1, at home.
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Claudio Reyna is the right man for the job, but …
By Paul Gardner It is difficult to think of anyone involved in American soccer who is more fitted to a role in the game’s organization than Claudio Reyna. The topplayer of his generation, American born and trained, with full experience of the youth club, high school and college scenes, followed by a sparkling pro career […]
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Claudio Reyna handed critical youth development job
[U.S. SOCCER] U.S.Soccer President Sunil Gulati calls player development perhaps the most important thing the federation does, and he the job of overseeing the long-termdevelopment of young players to former national team captain Claudio Reyna. For what Gulati says player development is broken into three zones, and Reyna’sappointment helps address the third zone, the development […]