Well, well, well. What with Scott Sealy, Brian Carroll, a bunch of Revs, and now the NCAA title, looks like we got ourselves a new little soccer powerhouse. Ideally, of course, we get to the point where the only players on NCAA champions are those who were completely and utterly missed by the dozens of [. Click to continue reading...

Well, well, well. What with Scott Sealy, Brian Carroll, a bunch of Revs, and now the NCAA title, looks like we got ourselves a new little soccer powerhouse. Ideally, of course, we get to the point where the only players on NCAA champions are those who were completely and utterly missed by the dozens of [. Click to continue reading...

Rob has a very interesting article about the USSF's recent, ambitious effort to develop better players. Not at all surprised to see resistance to the USSF here. I can even see it from the amateurs' point of view - the Fed is supposed to represent their interests, not compete with them. And [...] Click to continue reading...

People said the Hubbell Telescope was a waste of money, but it's getting some cool shots of the US-Tunisia game. You could almost read the names on the back of the jerseys! Apparently we're not doing so well this tournament. Maybe we should have sent players instead of tiny white dots. Click to continue reading...

What have we learned, apart from every single college champion for the past year? (Belated congratulations to Messiah College, division III soccer champs. As if being on a constant loop on ESPNU isn't reward enough.) Click to continue reading...

So I got to talk to TopDrawerSoccer.com editor Rob Ziegler the other day when he was in town. He was there to watch the US U-15 team play a series of games against local youth soccer cartel Real So Cal. Do we have any hot prospects for the future? Beats the hell out of [...] Click to continue reading...

Okay, so, Thomas Rongen has beaten Brazil. Yes, it was the U-20's, but still. Thomas Rongen, Danny Szetela, Robbie Rogers, and that washed-up flash-in-the-pan Freddy Adu has Brazil's scalp on the wall. I don't get it either. Okay, Jozy Altidore, fine, he looks like he's for real. But Chris Seitz hasn't even [...] Click to continue reading...

Sorry I didn't get to this in a more timely manner, but I had to track down yesterday's announcer and kill his whole family for using "Much Adu about nothing" yet again. Use that pun = whole family dies. Look, I don't make the rules, I just enforce them. Otherwise, instead of gushing about [...] Click to continue reading...