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Your Questions Answered (Part 2 of 4)

Soccer By Ives 25 March @ 09:54 AM EST
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Your Questions Answered (Part 2 of 4)

Soccer By Ives 25 March @ 09:54 AM EST

 

Good morning and welcome to the latest installment of Your Questions Answered. Although the questions answered in this segment were from a month ago, most of the issues covered in them are still the issues being discussed today.

Such as? You have Landon Donovan's time at Bayern, David Beckham's MLS play, Jonathan Spector's prospects as the national team left back and how will Bobby Convey do in MLS.

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Your Questions Answered (Part 1 of 4)

Soccer By Ives 02 March @ 01:33 PM EST

Good afternoon and welcome to the Snowstorm Edition of Your Questions Answered. If you're fresh from shoveling some snow, or stuck at work wondering how the drive home will be, you probably need something to help pass the time.

With that in mind, here is the first installment of the answers from the most recent SBI Q&A.

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Your Questions Answered (Part 1 of 4)

Soccer By Ives 02 March @ 01:33 PM EST

Good afternoon and welcome to the Snowstorm Edition of Your Questions Answered. If you're fresh from shoveling some snow, or stuck at work wondering how the drive home will be, you probably need something to help pass the time.

With that in mind, here is the first installment of the answers from the most recent SBI Q&A.

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Q&A: Santino Quaranta

Behind the Badge 02 March @ 11:17 AM EST

The team is back in D.C. for about a week between pre-season trips. Most recently, the guys were in Puerto Rico and on Thursday the team heads to Charleston, SC to participate in the Carolina Challenge Cup - along with Toronto FC, Real Salt lake and the USL-1 Charleston Battery. We caught up Santino Quaranta to get his thoughts on pre-season so far and how the team is coming along.

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Your Questions Answered (Part 5 of 5)

Soccer By Ives 17 February @ 01:11 PM EST

 

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Good afternoon folks. If you are looking at the above photo wondering why in the world John O'Brien is there, I can explain.

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Your Questions Answered (Part 5 of 5)

Soccer By Ives 17 February @ 01:11 PM EST

 

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Good afternoon folks. If you are looking at the above photo wondering why in the world John O'Brien is there, I can explain.

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It's Q&A Time

Soccer By Ives 17 February @ 11:32 AM EST

Hello all. It is that time again. Time for you to fire your soccer-related questions my way and time for me to take two months to answer them.

Okay, so I'm kidding about that last part. A little. There will be a slight change to the Q&A, a change I am hoping will lead to a much quicker turnaround time on answering your questions.

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Your Questions Answered (Part 4 of 5)

Soccer By Ives 16 February @ 12:18 PM EST

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Good afternoon all and welcome to the latest installment of Your Questions Answered.

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Your Questions Answered (Part 3 of 5)

Soccer By Ives 09 February @ 10:53 AM EST

 

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If you were starting to wonder when the rest of the most recent Q&A session would be done (and by most recent I mean New Year's Day), I can't say that I blame you.

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Your Questions Answered (Part 2 of 5)

Soccer By Ives 26 January @ 02:16 PM EST

    

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Good afternoon folks. Apologies for the lack of posts today. I'm using the relatively slow news day to take care of some SBI business.

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Your Questions Answered (Part 2 of 5)

Soccer By Ives 26 January @ 02:16 PM EST

    

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Good afternoon folks. Apologies for the lack of posts today. I'm using the relatively slow news day to take care of some SBI business.

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Your Questions Answered: Part 1 of 5

Soccer By Ives 23 January @ 05:01 PM EST

   

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Yes, I know, one of my New Year's resolutions was to starting doing these Q&A sessions more quickly.

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Q&A: Ivan Guerrero

Behind the Badge 21 January @ 12:10 PM EST

D.C. United midfielder/defender Ivan Guerrero has had a busy off-season. He has been training with the Honduras National Team since the beginning of the year in preparation for the UNCAF Cup, a tournament for Central American National Teams that will take place in Tegucigalpa, Honduras from January 22 to February 1.

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(The rest of) Your Post-MLS Draft Questions Answered

Soccer By Ives 20 January @ 02:22 PM EST

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Good afternoon folks. For those of you who have taken a break from all the inauguration coverage (or a break from work), here are the answers to (most of) the rest of your post-draft questions.

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Some of your Post-Draft Questions Answered

Soccer By Ives 19 January @ 11:04 AM EST

The 2009 MLS Draft has come and gone and while it didn't boast the myriad of trades we thought there would be, there was still plenty of action.

For those of you who haven't seen it, here is my piece on ESPN.com on some of the deals that almost took place. Also, here is my ESPN.com piece with the MLS Draft grades for all 15 teams.

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Q&A: Tom Soehn & Dave Kasper

Behind the Badge 15 January @ 05:38 PM EST
Things are wrapping up here in St. Louis, but before I depart for the airport I wanted to pass along a few interview excerpts from Head Coach Tom Soehn and GM Dave Kasper on the draft. We'll have plenty more tomorrow, including some video from today's event. General Manager Dave KasperBTB: What was your overall impression of how the draft went? Click to continue reading...

Q&A: Rodney Wallace & Chris Pontius

Behind the Badge 15 January @ 04:31 PM EST
Here's the promised Q&A with both of United's first round draft picks. Rodney had to split for the airport after all of his interviews to catch a flight back to Maryland, while Chris is still taking in the draft sporting his United scarf and hat. D.C. United sixth overall pick Rodney Wallace BTB: What was it like hearing your named called? Click to continue reading...

(Some of) Your MLS Draft Questions Answered

Soccer By Ives 14 January @ 11:49 PM EST

Good evening folks. We're less than half a day away from the 2009 MLS Draft and you all have plenty of questions heading into the event. Here are some of those questions answered:

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MZ- Who pays for players to attend and stay at the combine and attend and stay at the mls draft?

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(Some of) Your MLS Draft Questions Answered

Soccer By Ives 14 January @ 11:49 PM EST

Good evening folks. We're less than half a day away from the 2009 MLS Draft and you all have plenty of questions heading into the event. Here are some of those questions answered:

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MZ- Who pays for players to attend and stay at the combine and attend and stay at the mls draft?

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Q&A: Marc Burch

Behind the Badge 09 January @ 09:50 AM EST

What a week for Q&As here at Behind The Badge! Yesterday, we briefly caught up with Marc Burch to ask him about his new contract, the off-season and his memories from being drafted back in 2006.

BTB: How is your off-season going? "It's going well. I had minor knee surgery so I've been doing rehab. Click to continue reading...

Q&A: Dave Kasper

Behind the Badge 08 January @ 04:25 PM EST

With the MLS SuperDraft just a week away, we sat down with General Manager Dave Kasper and asked about the technical staff's preparation and perspective. With the sixth and seventh picks overall (and three more in later rounds), the club has the opportunity to pick up some solid prospects. The last time D.

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Q&A: Santino Quaranta

Behind the Badge 07 January @ 02:47 PM EST

Yesterday, we officially announced that Mr. Santino Quaranta had signed a new contract with the Black-and-Red. The 24-year old returned to United, after dealing with a much-publicized drug addiction, and put together the most impressive season of his eight-year career. I caught up with Tino earlier today to ask him about the new contract and his expecations for 2009 (and also found out more about the upcoming addition to the Quaranta family!

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It's Q&A Time (New Year's Eve Edition)

Soccer By Ives 31 December @ 10:48 AM EST

Hello all. It is the last day of 2008 and it feels like the perfect opportunity to have the final Q&A of the year, especially since one of my New Year's resolutions is to not take so long to complete the Q&As.

It has been six weeks since our last Q&A, meaning there are plenty of fresh topics to discuss.

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It's Q&A Time (New Year's Eve Edition)

Soccer By Ives 31 December @ 10:48 AM EST

Hello all. It is the last day of 2008 and it feels like the perfect opportunity to have the final Q&A of the year, especially since one of my New Year's resolutions is to not take so long to complete the Q&As.

It has been six weeks since our last Q&A, meaning there are plenty of fresh topics to discuss.

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Your Questions Answered (Part 5 of 5)

Soccer By Ives 30 December @ 04:00 PM EST

Good afternoon all and welcome to the latest installment of Your Questions Answered. This is the fifth and final chapter of the most recent Q&A session (and yes, by recent I mean six weeks ago). It took a while (a long while) but it's finally done.

There are a lot of expansion questions in this batch, as well as questions about promotion/relegation (yes, unfortunately) as well as an Eddie Johnson question (and yes, that's him against Manchester United last year.

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Your Questions Answered (Part 5 of 5)

Soccer By Ives 30 December @ 04:00 PM EST

Good afternoon all and welcome to the latest installment of Your Questions Answered. This is the fifth and final chapter of the most recent Q&A session (and yes, by recent I mean six weeks ago). It took a while (a long while) but it's finally done.

There are a lot of expansion questions in this batch, as well as questions about promotion/relegation (yes, unfortunately) as well as an Eddie Johnson question (and yes, that's him against Manchester United last year.

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Your Questions Answered (Part 4 of 5)

Soccer By Ives 29 December @ 01:25 PM EST

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Good afternoon folks. As you can tell, it's been a bit of a slow news period. That doesn't mean we won't be able to provide you with some good reading material and updates on both MLS and European soccer as they become available.

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Your Questions Answered (Part 4 of 5)

Soccer By Ives 29 December @ 01:25 PM EST

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Good afternoon folks. As you can tell, it's been a bit of a slow news period. That doesn't mean we won't be able to provide you with some good reading material and updates on both MLS and European soccer as they become available.

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Your Questions Answered (Part 2 of 5)

Soccer By Ives 16 December @ 11:33 AM EST

 

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Hello all. It's time for the latest installment of Your Questions Answered. There are still a bunch of questions to be answered from the November Q&A, but I'm hoping to knock them out all this week.

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Your Questions Answered (Part 2 of 5)

Soccer By Ives 16 December @ 11:33 AM EST

 

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Hello all. It's time for the latest installment of Your Questions Answered. There are still a bunch of questions to be answered from the November Q&A, but I'm hoping to knock them out all this week.

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Your Questions Answered (Part 1 of 5)

Soccer By Ives 04 December @ 11:57 AM EST

  
 

Hello all and welcome to the newest installment of Your Questions Answered, where I provide answers to your soccer-related questions.

We had another record-setting number of questions, but I think I will be able to respond to them all more quickly than the past few Q&A sessions so stay tuned for all the installments.

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SBI is heading to LA (It's Q&A Time)

Soccer By Ives 19 November @ 01:50 PM EST

Good afternoon folks. I am on the plane and getting ready to leave for Los Angeles. SBI senior writer Dylan Butler will be keeping you all informed on the news of the day while I make my way to California ahead of Sunday's MLS Cup final.

While I'm flying I figured I could post a new Q&A session.

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Your Questions Answered (Part 5 of 5)

Soccer By Ives 17 November @ 10:09 AM EST

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Good morning and welcome to the latest installment of Your Questions Answered. It took a long time, but I finally finished off the last Q&A session, from October, and have those remaining answers for you today.

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Your Questions Answered (Part 4 of 6)

Soccer By Ives 08 November @ 04:07 PM EST

Good afternoon folks. It is time for the latest segment of Your Questions Answered. I was able to finish another portion of the record-setting Q&A session from last month. I'm hoping to have it all done by this week, and with so many long questions and answers in this batch, I figured it would be good to post these now.

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