The foreign player route works for a lot of college coaches for 3 reasons: 1) It is easy. They just have their contact in the foreign country...
The other teams coaches figured out in the spring last year that if you keep 5 back on defense and take away the fast counterattack, Spurs will...
THis is shaping up as a very disappointing transfer window
I think the key is still to get another quality forward. If Adebayor is injured or resting there is no one to fill his spot currently on the roster.
I agree that Penn State is doing much beeter than in the past in recruiting PA. The previous coach had a history of not even recruiting from the...
Penn State is still not getting many recruits from the top soccer area of PA., the Southestern section, most fo the Pa. recruits are oming from...
I have to give the coaches credit. They identified a wqeakness in the Montreal defense at right back and really went after that area. We were...
The scouting / evaluation is the issue. We should not be seeing players on YNT's based on having influential college coaches (in this case the...
Yea, actually selecting the best and most skilled players for teams instead of who fits the diversity profile requested by the marketing people...
Re: Nowak On ESPN It is hard to understand paying Adu $560K per year for doing little for the team and then saying no to a $400K salary for a...
One of the great things about premier league fans is that most understand the game enough to appreciate what a player like Parker does for a team....
I think you are greatly overestimating the amount of research and scouting done by US Professional teams. What you say would be true in most...
Amen. Saw this recently with our a college conference in this area. Best player in conference got no recogntion because coach did nothing to...
The committee would actually have to get out and watch college soccer players play and have some idea what they are looking at to make a real...
Until the best players start getting selected for national duty at all levels, not the richest, best connected, have a personal PR man, or the...