Category Archives: Yaks
Preston fights for the rights of every man
Everyone’s talking about what Zimmerman in Germany has to say – and no wonder! We intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare. We shall endeavor in spite of this to keep the United States of America neutral. In the event of this not succeeding, we make …
Year-in-review articles are insanely hacky, but indulge me this one. This was the year that marked a sea change in the fates of not just our national team, but that of our friendly rival to the immediate south, in ways that will reverberate for ten years. And MLS still upstaged …
On the bright side, the red uniforms look nice
And as soon as we start scoring, our defense crumbles, but we still win. Perhaps Slovenia is the European version of Paul Westhead’s Denver Nuggets. Unless the next few friendlies and early qualifiers are similar goalfests – and that would highly benefit us, as likely the more talented team – …
“It could have been better but some players were playing their first game for France and we made a lot of changes in the second half,” coach Laurent Blanc told French TV channel TF1. “We would like to be better but it’s easy to say. It was a pleasant game …
The MVP award is a connected series of statements to establish a definite proposition
EDIT – Yikes on the first version of the title. (For those of you who missed it, I said nice things about Hitler. Whoops! Also my grammar sucked, but it was primarily the Hitler thing.) I should have waited until this week to start complaining about the two-legged first round, …
By the way, would FSC mind wiping the damn raindrops off the camera lens once in a while?
As US soccer fans, we know not to get excited over the results of friendlies. We have seen our national team built into a perennial World Cup competitor after several decades in the wilderness. So we are uniquely capable of taking the long view. Although as passionate and devoted as …
Will Klinsmann EVER win a game for the US? Also, do trolling headlines get more comments?
It would be simplistic, lazy, cheap and superficial to simply blame the Costa Rica loss on Jozy Altidore. So that’s exactly what I’m going to do. Seriously, do they not call offside in Holland? Because Altidore showed a lack of timing and game awareness that singlehandedly crippled what should have …
In which I overreact to Klinsmann dropping players I dislike
Phillippe Lahm’s favorite coach has now had to pick two rosters in a single month, so while it’s fun to see where he might be going, we probably will have to wait until the annual January retreat to get a truly good idea of the vision Klinsmann has for the …
In its first game under interim coach Juergen Klinsmann, the United States beat Mexico 1-1. The United States won after the first Mexican goal, and in fact the entire first half, was disallowed under FIFA’s little known “Yeah, but we were way better in the second half” clause. I’m probably …
Bob Bradley to spend less time with his family
Okay, here’s an in-depth look at the All-Star Game, and what it means in the grand scheme of things for MLS. As I explain in great detail, the product of a significant amount of work and research on my part, the All-Star Game provides Major League Soccer with a oh …
