All right! For the vanishingly small number of people who, like me, are for whatever reason deeply interested in the performance of Portuguese...
Official now for Jan/Feb WCQ locations: 1/27 v El Salvador: Columbus, Lower.com Field 1/29 @ Canada: Hamilton, ON, Tim Hortons Field [still...
Interesting year shaping up for Portugal in European competition. With the addition of a third competition--the Europa Conference League--there's...
OK so this game is a dead rubber (term they use in Davis Cup for moot point match, not a reference to prophylactics to my knowledge), but it's...
Man, third decade of the new millennium is already nigh. How tempus fugit, as they say in Latin. Here's the current lay of the CL/EL land: Thanks...
Since watching the MNT play these days is about as enjoyable as having one's ballsac repeatedly smashed with a rubber mallet, thoughts turn to...
I saw the score crawl on the bottom of an ESPN broadcast the other day and was reminded, "Oh yeah, European soccer is happening." Clearly I am not...
Ah, late summer. A time when schoolchildren drearily head back to the books, and hurricanes head menacingly toward Texas. But it's not all bad...
I will be in Santa Fe NM for the Colombia game. I had figured I could simply watch the game in my hotel room but the hotel gets no relevant...
Didn't see a pre-match thread, thought I'd start it up since the game is only a few days away. Will the players who transformed the MNT's play in...
I haven't been able to see any of these games due to their being on in the total dead-ass middle of the night where I'm located, but based on...
OK, y'all--I've been derelict but thanks to a reminder by @ChessPanther, I am hereby starting this year's Portugal UEFA coefficient watch thread....
Since I can't make time speed up and have the Portugal game happen any sooner, I will instead bide my time by slicing and dicing some stats from...
Let's get this started. Here's what we're dealing with: Champions League: Benfica and Porto already in the group stage, both as seeded teams....
I'll be on the road during this game and the only way I can follow it is old fashioned radio. But I've had the damnedest time finding a radio...
Some people think lopsided wins against overmatched opponents are boring. I don't. I effing love watching teams I support (including, obv., the...
There are some interesting patterns in the goals the USMNT conceded during the semis round of qualifying. At least one is the unusual distribution...
I did not enjoy watching US v A&B tonight. The way the US played did not fill me with hope for this World Cup cycle. But since as per BigSoccer...
After the way the US looked in the last two games against Jamaica, it's easy to feel kind of bummed out. Twas not exactly world-beating form, to...
OK, so with all the kerfuffle over away US qualifiers being on obscure and/or PPV cable channels, those of us without access to those channels...
2010/11 was Portugal's best overall year ever in Europe, at least by the numbers. We were the top ranked team in Europe, closed out the Europa...
I've seen Oguchi Onyewu play a lot for the US. I was there in person to see the penalty he surrendered to Ghana. I remember seeing him burn it up...
I get that many people are unimpressed with Bradley's work as MNT coach. I don't pretend to have the tactical knowledge of some soccer fans, but...
Hi all, I'll be living and working here in Buenos Aires, Argentina for the duration of the Gold Cup and would love to find a friendly locale to...
Yesterday's results put three Portuguese teams (Braga, Benfica, Porto) into the semifinals of the Europa League. I know it's happened once before...