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It shouldn’t be horrible for the next American to suit up with ChelseaHow American soccer players are treated in the Premier League has always been an interesting conundrum. Unless you’re a goalkeeper or somehow wind up at Fulham, heightened levels of scrutiny are at your doorstep that don’t appear in other top leagues around the world. There have been a few other saf...

USWNT's striker depth will be put to the test at World CupThe U.S. Women’s National Team’s spoils at forward have always been in excess. Most countries’ talent pools over 50 years don’t go as deep at striker as America’s would for one World Cup cycle. That depth is being put to the test this summer as a second potent goal-scorer won’t be traveling with the...

The Gang Enters The Soccer TournamentThis is a fever dream for soccer, or a fever nightmare depending on what team you root for. The Soccer Tournament, or TST for short, was announced this week as a 32-team showcase taking place in early June in North Carolina. Based on The Basketball Tournament, it’s a winner-take-all, 7-on-7, $1 mill...

I fear I may never know joy and happiness like Andrés Cantor

Maybe years ago, like a couple decades, Andrés Cantor was something of a cartoon to non-soccer fans with his outsized “GOOOOOOOOOOOOL!” calls making the rounds on various highlight shows as evidence of how silly soccer was to the agnostics and why it should never be bothered with....

So that’s why Gio Reyna didn’t play

Perhaps it’s a sign that the USMNT is moving into the big time that they hold their big controversies until after the tournament than before. We’ve been through Jürgen Klinsmann keeping Landon Donovan at home in 2014 simply to show everyone what a brain genius he was. Or John Harkes way back when. T...

Red, white, and the blues

How far do moral victories and actual losses go for the United States men’s national team? After failing to defeat The Netherlands at the World Cup, U.S. Soccer needs to take a hard look in the mirror....

U.S. beats England, 0-0

What psychopath called the long-awaited United States men’s national team’s Black Friday showdown against England a scoreless draw? I’ll have whatever you’re drinking. After gaining my bearings after that stiff cocktail, and realizing Matt Turner nor Jordan Pickford allowing a goal wasn’t just falla...

World Cup Daily Diary Day 3: Whoops!

Saudi Arabia manager Herve Renard might be the most handsome manager at this tournament, and he certainly didn’t have a problem taking a page from another handsome manager, Jose Mourinho. If you recall the cold war that Barcelona and Real Madrid had when Mourinho was at the helm at the Bernabeu, th...

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USMNT’s Christian Pulisic finally gets his chance

The embarrassment of the United States men’s national team missing the 2018 World Cup had several layers. One of the most understated at the time, and one that luckily has been forgotten about over time for fans of the Stars and Stripes, is how the adorned future of American soccer would always be a...

by Eric Blum|

|Tue Nov 22 2022

DeAndre Yedlin is USMNT’s only bridge to last World Cup appearance

Before we can truly look forward, we must go back in time, to a marvelous place where the United States men’s national team missing the World Cup was such an afterthought, it would be equal to falling into the abyss. Yeah, a few CONCACAF rivals like Panama and Costa Rica were rapidly improving and b...

by Eric Blum|

|Wed Nov 16 2022

Landon Donovan: Fall World Cup could hurt USMNT

Part of the charm of every FIFA World Cup is how it takes up a large chunk of summer. It either coincides with the tail end of the NBA and NHL playoffs, or misses it all together and only has to share sports airwaves with baseball’s slow ass. And it’s much more palatable to sit through a pair of 45-...

by Eric Blum|

|Wed Jun 01 2022

Where does the USMNT stand in World Cup Qualifying?

Call this the Idiot’s Guide to World Cup Qualifying. The diehard American Outlaws probably know this information by heart. Casual fans may know some. Most general sports fans in America will only tune in to soccer should the United States men’s national team make it to the World Cup, meaning it’ll b...

by Eric Blum|

|Thu Feb 03 2022

Christian Pulisic just made American men’s soccer history — in Europe’s Champions League final

American men’s soccer remains, even with all the growth of Major League Soccer and the rise in popularity of the sport, very much a sleeping giant on the world stage....

by Jesse Spector|

|Sat May 29 2021

Landon Donovan's USL team forfeits second straight match due to racial and homophobic slurs

Last night, the USL’s San Diego Loyal walked off the field and forfeited their match against the Phoenix Rising when one of their players, Collin Martin, who is openly gay, had a homophobic slur directed at him on the pitch by another player. At first, the referee had red-carded Martin for his react...

by Sam Fels|

|Thu Oct 01 2020

Landon Donovan Can’t Stop Playing Soccer

Landon Donovan’s latest attempt to retire from soccer is apparently over. Sports Illustrated’s Grant Wahl reports that Donovan will join the San Diego Sockers of the Major Arena Soccer League....

by Dan McQuade|

|Wed Jan 23 2019

Why did Landon Donovan come out of retirement again to play in Mexico? And why is he strangely okay with basically never playing? Kevin Baxter of the Los Angeles Times spoke to Donovan about it all....

by Patrick Redford|

|Wed Mar 21 2018

Landon Donovan And I Would Like To Announce Our Availability For The USMNT

In some ways, Landon Donovan and I are very different people. He is an internationally famous and widely beloved MLS legend who just recently decided to unretire from the sport he was born to play and rejoin the L.A. Galaxy. I am a largely anonymous yet widely loathed MLS hater who never played prof...

by Billy Haisley|

|Thu Sep 29 2016

Famous Old Soccer Man Comes Out Of Retirement To Join Retirement League

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a great and celebrated soccer star, who not too long ago decided he didn’t have the drive and/or talent to hack it in the sport anymore, has chosen to take his talents to the geriatric enrichment program known as MLS due to his (likely accurate) belief that, ...

by Billy Haisley|

|Thu Sep 29 2016

Here’s Landon Donovan’s Nipple And Also The <i>Game Of Thrones</i>-Ass Name He Picked For His Son

Hey, Landon Donovan has spawned!...

by Billy Haisley|

|Thu Sep 29 2016

This New Year, Resolve To Ignore Abby Wambach's Bad Opinions

Last week, USWNT legend Abby Wambach played the final match of her career with the national team. This should have been time only for rapturous praise of her long and illustrious career, with everyone acknowledging everything she’s done for the sport as she rode off into the sunset (or whatever coun...

by Billy Haisley|

|Thu Sep 29 2016

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