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Planning for summer friendlies is already in the works, and it appears that the New York Red
Bulls will be welcoming one of the Premier League's top sides to Red Bull Arena for an
exhibition.
According to the New York Post, the Red Bulls will play against Tottenham either July 31 or
Aug.
Jurgen Klinsmann has added another date on the busy calendar that the U.S. National Team has for
the summer. In between friendlies with Scotland and Canada, the U.S. will be host Brazil
England's Euro 2012 plans have been thrown into disarray after Fabio Capello stepped down as
national team manager.
Capello's resignation came after he publicly disagreed with the Football Association's decision to
strip John Terry of the England captaincy.
He spoke out against the FA on Italian state broadcaster RAI on Sunday and resigned after a meeting
with the FA on Wednesday.
USA 2014 World Cup Squad Projection Version 1.5 - The 90th Minute Soccer Blog
It's been a few months since the initial projection and it's changed a bit with several
friendlies taking place. Overall, the core of the team remains the same with the final spots still
unclear. This projection is of what the team (23 man squad) will be for the World Cup (in 2014) and
not during qualifying.
The recent upheaval following a club match in Egypt that left 74 people dead and more than a
thousand others injured could have easily convinced Bob Bradley to pack up his things and return to
the comfort of the United States.
Instead, the former U.S. national team coach and current Egypt national team coach reportedly
remains committed to his job while doing his part in the rebuilding of a nation.
Daneil Cyrus is not in camp with Sporting KC due to "personal reasons" and it doesn't look like
he'll be joining the team soon. Word out of Trinidad (h/t The Daily Wiz) is that Cyrus will be
joining the Trinidad and Tobago U-23 for a camp. The camp will be capped off by two friendlies
again the full national team of Guyana.
And we are back...
Since the last post, I have found a new job and gotten twins so there has been a lot to do. In
between changing diapers and walking a baby-carriage, I have found a moment to update the dear
readers of this blog.
Lets start with the national team. Since beating the Netherlands to make it to the Euro 2012
endgame, we have been absolutely piss awful.
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With Thursday night's official announcement that the U.S. men's national team will be taking on
Canada in a pre-World Cup qualifying friendly at BMO Field in Toronto on June 3, another piece to
the team's 2012 puzzle is in place.
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It appears U.S. men's national team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann is making a concentrated effort
to get to know CONCACAF teams prior to World Cup qualifying.
According to a report, the United States will travel to Canada to take on its northern rival in
a friendly before World Cup qualifying begins in June.
STARTERS
Remember two weeks ago when forward Kris Boyd of Rangers turned down Houston? Well, today he signed
with Portland!! Hoooo-Weeeee! Bet he won't receive a friendly welcome when he makes his first visit
to whatever that new stadium in Houston is called.
dN
After getting a yellow card in the first minute of play(!
I'm pretty sure the first time I saw Wes Morgan play for Forest was in a pre-season friendly at the
City Ground whilst he was still a youngster. He put in a thunderous tackle on a similar-unfamiliar
Rafael Van Der Vaart which left the Dutch midfielder without his boot on one foot. I think this was
back in 2003, unfortunately the Forest website doesn't seem to show friendlies on its'
retrospective fixture lists, so I can't check [.
No major news out today, but here are some quick hits news wise for you on your Friday.
Sporting KC vs LA game time changed
Sporting KC's match up with LA on April 7th at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park has changed times and
stations. Yesterday the team announced that the game would now kick off 1 hour earlier at 3pm
Central time.
Ricardo Clark got a little redemption but that's about it. (Getty Images)
It has been a long time coming for the US Men's National Team. A solid three-game winning
streak.
Typically these sorts of things happen around the January friendly time. It certainly isn't the
first time this has happened but with Jurgen Klinsmann in as boss, it is.
The USA has won 3 friendlies in a row. At this point in the Klinsmann era are
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U.S. 1, Panama 0. First thing's first, there is a special ring of purgatory reserved for an
American soccer blogger/writer with the temerity to poo-poo a result on foreign soil ... even in a
no-stakes friendly. In that regard, let's say a hearty well done for Graham Zusi for being Johnny
on the spot and scoring inside of 11 minutes and the rest of the U.
By FRANCO PANIZO
U.S. men's national team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann scheduled the friendly in Panama to
experience what a road game in CONCACAF was like, and he got just what he wanted.
Four days after beating Venezuela, the United States defeated Panama, 1-0, on Wednesday night in
a game that felt much like a CONCACAF World Cup qualifier on the road.
By Alan Duffy
Having found himself in the middle of the Andrei Arshavin/Arsene Wenger booing controversy at
the Emirates at the the weekend, teenage winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has apparently now played
himself into Fabio Capello's plans for the Euro 2012 finals.
Last night in Arizona, the US national team topped Venezuela in the first of two friendlies for the
camp cupcake roster, 1-0 thanks to a late goal by Ricardo Clark. Sporting KC forward Teal Bunbury
and midfielder Graham Zusi both started for the US, while forward, CJ Sapong came on as a second
half sub, replacing Zusi.
The January friendlies are usually for the hardest of die hards. Being held outside of a FIFA
sanctioned window means that player pool is reduced for both sides, and tonight's game isn't
against the highest profile of opponents. Venezuela is decent, currently ranked 31st and slightly
ahead of the United States by ESPN's Soccer Power Index.
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After turning in a dynamic year for the U.S. men's national team, Clint Dempsey being named U.S.
Soccer Male Athlete of the Year should come as a surprise to nobody.
Dempsey turned in perhaps his finest year as a professional for both club and country.
Smiles mandatory, umlauts optional. "You want it to be one way ... but it's the other way." --
Marlo Stanfield. Back in the spring of 2010, during my epic, streets of Bodymore, Muderland-tinged
World Cup preview, that quote was used to describe a lingering sentiment hanging around certain
corners of the U.
Imagine a bad breakup with someone you shouldn't have hooked up with in the first place, someone
who seemed perfect for you but who belittled you to your friends, was a slob, didn't pay their half
of the rent and utilities and criticized your sexual performance. Now imagine having to have that
person spend one weekend a month at your house for the next two years.
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The Philadelphia Union announced on Wednesday morning that they have declined the contract
options on Levi Houapeu, Morgan Langley, Ryan Richter and Joe Tait.
The release of Levi Houapeu and Joe Tait frees up two international spots on the Union roster, a
key concern with the recent offseason signings of Gabriel Gomez, Nizar Khalfan, Porfirio Lopez,
and Josué Martinez.
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After months of stagnating, the U.S. men's national team is back on the rise in the FIFA
rankings, although barely.
The United States improved one spot to No. 33 in the latest rankings after having spent the last
three months at the No.
The first few months of the Jurgen Klinsmann era certainly had its ups and downs, but that should
be expected. When a new coach is brought in, he needs time to see what he has to work with, to
implement his philosophies, and to see what works and what doesn't, and as impatient as some are to
see instant results, that process is still very much in its infancy for Klinsmann.
Jay DeMerit worked his way up from Bay Port High School all the way to the Premier League
and the U.S. national team – his incredible tale was turned into a documentary, "Rise and Shine:
The Jay DeMerit Story."
Now you can win a DVD of the movie, a t-shirt and a poster from the theatrical release from
Wisconsin Soccer Central.
It's that time again. Time to talk all things soccer in the first SBI Live Q&A of 2012.
We have plenty to talk about today, from the MLS Draft, to the U.S. national team camp and
upcoming friendlies, to the U.S. Under-23 training camp and upcoming Olympic qualifiers.
We don't have to stop there.
BY ADAM SERRANO
It appears that injury bug has hit the U.S. January camp and that may render two key players for
the senior team and Under-23 side doubtful for upcoming friendlies.
Under-23 right winger Josh Gatt was unavailable for training on Monday after suffering an
apparent ankle injury on Sunday evening.
Liverpool and Chelsea are both planning summer tours to the United States to compete in preseason
friendlies, which may include Liverpool playing AS Roma at Boston Red Sox's Fenway Park baseball
stadium, says The Boston Globe. The newspaper reports...
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BY ADAM SERRANO
CARSON, Calif. -- There were plenty of lessons learned on Friday as the United States senior
squad soundly defeated the U.S. Under-23's 4-0 in a scrimmage that took place on the Mooch Myernick
Field at the Home Depot Center complex.
Jermaine Jones might currently be serving a lengthy ban for Schalke 04, but that does not mean
he will be without playing games until it is over.
In the midst of serving an eight-week suspension for stomping on an opponent's injured foot,
Jones has been called into the U.S. men's national team camp by head coach Jurgen Klinsmann.
The US Soccer Federation announced on Friday that Jermaine Jones will be joining the US National
Team squad for the January friendlies. Jones is unavailable to his club team after being suspended
by the German Federation for an incident that occurred in the DFP Pokal cup competition. "Obviously
this is a very difficult moment for Jermaine," US National Team coach Jurgen Klinsmann said in a
press statement.
While the USMNT has not officially announced it yet, Brazil is saying they are traveling to the US
to face the USMNT either May 30th or 31st.This is good news for the US as this now tallies our
friendlies up to 4 and all against pretty good competition before we enter the WC qualifying
cycle.USMNT Schedule:Jan 21 USMNT v Venezuela Univ.
While the USMNT has not officially announced it yet, Brazil is saying they are traveling to the US
to face the USMNT either May 30th or 31st.This is good news for the US as this now tallies our
friendlies up to 4 and all against pretty good competition before we enter the WC qualifying
cycle.USMNT Schedule:Jan 21 USMNT v Venezuela Univ.
With the holiday season in our rearview mirrors, the MLS pre-season is about to kick into gear.
Likewise, the USMNT returns to action with the annual January camp and friendlies. But we begin
with the different roster trajectories of the two biggest names in American club soccer...
The Perils of Success
It seemed that the price of the Galaxy's 2011 success would be an off-season dismantling,
headlined by the long-rumored departure of David Beckham.
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The long-rumored friendly between the United States and Italy appears to have come to
fruition.
The Italian soccer federation announced that the Azzurri will host the United States at Stadio
Luigi Ferraris in Genoa on Feb. 29, the first FIFA international fixture date of the new year.
US U-23 head coach Caleb Porter today announced a 22 player roster for an upcoming camp that will
also feature a pair of friendlies in Costa Rica against
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With the release of the Union's 2012 regular season schedule, I, along with my colleagues at the
PSP, am buzzing about the prospects of the new season. Just 66 more days (stupid leap year) until
the Union take the pitch in Portland to get Year Three underway. In the meantime, now that MLS has
thrown out last year's balanced schedule (take that purists) we have plenty to talk about with
respect to the construction of the 2012 Union schedule.
The U.S. Men's National Team has begun the annual gathering known as the January Camp, and with the
start of World Cup qualifying now six months away, the next 22 days represent a huge opportunity
for this group of largely untested internationals.
Jurgen Klinsmann has gathered his charges farther east than the usual starting point of the
National Training Center in Carson, Calif.
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As the calendar gets set to turn to 2012, it's an obvious time to reflect and look back at the
year that was for U.S. Soccer.
While the year provided the ushering in of a new coaching era, a 6-8-3 international record and
a breakout stage for a number of players, it also saw some of the more familiar names rise to the
occasion on both the club and international levels.
