Jon Levy The Yanks are coming off what's becoming the typical Jurgen Klinsmann USMNT performance
when faced with less skilled competition. They possessed the crap out of ball, moved it well in
their opponent's half, but failed to generate clear cut scoring chances against a well organized
defense. But they did get a pinch of [.
Puck Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back into the Happy Hour. Since we last got together, I have
been on top of the world. The Syracuse Orangemen (they will never be the Orange to true fans) are
the number one team in the land, Manchester City remains atop the EPL table thanks to the head of
[...]
Jon Levy The national team hasn't even suited up in 2012, but it's already been an encouraging year
for American soccer. Dempsey and Donovan (for two months, at least) are both leading the line of
attack for their respective English Premier League teams, the Women's National Teamers avoided a
would-be tragedy in their Vancouver hotel [.
Neil W. Blackmon Caleb Porter's U-23 side, the January camp edition, fell 4-0 to the Klinsmann Camp
Cupcake edition of the USMNT this weekend, and while conceding four goals to the senior side may
cause some alarm among those anxiously monitoring this group's progress, it's the lack of goals
that was somewhat surprising to those [.
Connor Walsh Caleb Porter has just wrapped up the second of what will be four U-23 training camps
ahead of 2012 Olympics Qualifying which begins for the United States this coming March. The
teams' first camp, this past November, was held in Duisberg, Germany and due to Porter's commitment
to the University of Akron, the [.
Jon Levy You'll have to forgive all of us here at The Yanks Are Coming for getting into a
more-than-healthy amount of self-referencing in the coming months. We're coming up on the blog's
fourth birthday this summer, TYAC having been created in the wake of a very talented 2008 Olympic
soccer team's early and unexpected exit from the Beijing [.
First, let us be among many, but hopefully not the last, to wish all our readers a Happy New Year.
We wish you blessings, good fortune and health in 2012. We begin a comprehensive look at the Men's
U-23 Olympic Team this week, and we're very excited about those pieces given our background as a
[...]
By Puck Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back to Puck's Happy Hour. Hopefully the Holiday Season is
treating you well with your family, friends, and, of course, cocktails filling the calendar. After
spending some time in Upstate New York with the family, I am back at the TYAC home office taking
some much needed time to [.
Part I of the 2nd Annual Yanks Are Coming Best of US Soccer Awards featured 2011′s US Soccer
disappointments, frustrations, and best hairdo. The second portion of our awards focuses on the
promise of youth, goalkeepers, and the goals scored in what was a thrilling year in American
soccer. Again, a list of the finalists [.
First, we'd like to wish our own holiday wishes to our readers and new visitors. Thanks for making
2011 a special year at The Yanks Are Coming, and we hope to provide more solid coverage, analysis
and unique perspectives on both the USMNT and USWNT in 2012. Soccer has always had a place at
Christmas- [.
It's time again for the USMNT's annual edition of Camp Cupcake, or as our friends over at The Best
Soccer Show have coined it in honor of a certain German influence on US Soccer, Camp Strudel.
Reserved for Scandinavian and MLS players who are just outside the core USMNT lineup, this edition
of Camp Strudal [.
Fresh off the presses from Chicago comes the USMNT roster for Coach Klinsmann's January camp. Set
to begin on January 3, the camp will initially take place in Phoenix before heading to the Home
Depot Center in Los Angeles for a week and then returning to Phoenix. The USMNT will face Venezuela
on January 21 [.
With Hanukkah already underway and Christmas mere days away, The Yanks Are Coming presents our
first annual Top 5 holiday gifts for soccer fans. From the latest in kits to books that may change
the way you view the game, you'll surely find a gift for that special soccer hooligan in your life
(or something awesome [.
Garrett McInnis In the second iteration of the Yanks Are Coming "Top 23" series, the staff here at
TYAC remains fairly settled regarding which players comprise the most important contributors to the
USMNT, with most of the main contributers carrying over from the previous list. Only four players
differ from the previous list of 23, [.
Loyal Readers, It's that time of year again. Sparing you the cliches about how it seems like we
just handed these things out a few weeks ago, it is indeed time to cap a rollercoaster year for US
Soccer with our website's awards. First, a few notes about the hardware up for [...]
