I think that a good general rule is that players who are always aware of what is going on around them and thinking a couple steps ahead have a...
Will Johnson and Diego Chara are both more #8 type midfielders rather than #6 type midfielders. They somehow managed to form a good partnership...
Is standardizing training, formations, and tactics really a good thing? The soccer world is constantly evolving, and whatever standard tactics we...
I'm pretty sure that we were undervaluing mental ability before, though I wasn't paying as much attention to the youth teams back then. It's...
Westbrook still had a descent amount of interest from colleges if he was recruited by a top program like UCLA. Damian Lillard, on the other hand,...
I think the problem now is that we are overvaluing technical ability and undervaluing mental ability. Between physical ability,technical...
Are the first team and the U23s both going to be playing in the NPSL? Or is one of them going to be in a different league?
Actually the PASL is a professional league. Rather than being a step up, the NPSL could be considered a significant step down from the PASL....
To me, level of play = ability to win games. By that standard, the level of play of the teams that are able to get themselves promoted to the...
To state the blatantly obvious, good teams win games and bad teams don't. Chattanooga has won their conference 3 times and never finished lower...
I think that the reward would be that most of the basket case teams that aren't at all competitive and are likely to fold in the middle of the...
The league blocked Portland from signing Mix Diskerud.
And yet despite that Ghana is ranked below teams like Costa Rica and Australia in the Elo rankings. It just goes to prove that a national team's...
If the potential ceiling for MLS players with the USMNT is scoring 50+ international goals and 50+ international assists, then I am pretty happy...
Nagbe is a mediocre winger, I don't think he has a future with the national team at that position unless he makes some major changes to the way...
