Wasn't it always going to end this way? Ironically.

Enough!

With Fabio Capello's rumored brush-up with John Terry again John Terry! at World Cup 2010 in mind here at TSG, Capello resigned his England post today, taking umbrage with the English FA for usurping his power and "de-captaining" John Terry last week.

January is treating TSG like Gio Dos Santos doing the US at the 2011 Gold Cup. Unmercifully. Ouch.

Parkhurst gets his shot?

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The US attempts to break down Venezuela at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona Saturday night 6pm PT.

A friendly alert for all those that will be in Philadelphia range on February 2nd: the documentary Laduma (formerly known as One Goal) will have a screening/fundraiser at the Ritz East (125 So. 2nd St.) on that evening.The film rolls at 7:30 pm, and you can attend with a $15 donation to help cover the independent event, with 20% going to HELP KICK HUNGER, a food drive organized by the Sons of

Feeling a bit misty for South Africa? Maybe hear Landon Donovan's goal call one more time from Ian Darke? "One Goal USA" just released the official trailer for their 2010 World Cup film, "LADUMA".

"Millions of people worldwide watched the 2010 FIFA World Cup on television, as Spain won the first ever soccer World Cup to be played on the African continent.

The death of long time North Korean leader Kim Jung Il was greeted with shed loads of tears by North Koreans living within the secretive Communist state. Kim Jung Il's death has also triggered memories of Jong Sae-Te's heart-wrenching tears before North Korea's match with Brazil at World Cup 2010. It was eye-opening stuff and [.

Once again Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo went missing as Jose Mourinho's men were beaten 3-1 by Barcelona in the El Clasico begging the question can he perform in big matches? For many onlookers Barcelona's 3-1 win over Real Madrid in Saturday's El Clasico brought up many talking points typical of such a titanic European [.

Hi everyone,
I has been widely talked that Sepp Blatter (FIFA's President) is planning to introduce goal line technology as of next season.
At the moment, the system with ''additional assistants'' is being tested, where there are two more referees added to the field of play. Each additional assistant stands next to the goal post, right on the goal line, in order to see wheather the ball has crossed the line or not, instead of using technology.

Euro 2012 Finals Group Stages Draw Result- December 2011 is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Euro 2012 Finals Group Stages Draw Result- December 2011 is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter The Euro 2012 Finals Draw for Group Stages is due to take place in Kiev, Ukraine on December 2, 2011 at 18.

I was only able to watch part of the Slovenia game yesterday. I have been saying for some time that I like Altidore, but he is not good enough to be a lone striker. In theory Klinsmann's 4-3-3 should put more guys forward, but the reality was that the wingers played more defensive roles and Altidore was left to do the attacking work himself.

Roger Espinoza has started the offseason fairly busy. Espinoza played yesterday for the Honduran national team as they took on Serbia in a friendly in Honduras. Espinoza started and went the full 90 minutes in Honduras' 2-0 win over their fellow World Cup 2010 qualifier. Honduras scored their first goal in the 4th minute through Georgie Welcome.

Tuesday's 3-2 win in ridiculously foggy Slovenia was big for the U.S. program. In fact, let's file this one under "Huge."

It must be qualified with this reality: Slovenia doesn't look anything like the close-knit, highly organized side that swept shockingly into World Cup 2010, riding role players and a heavy dose of esprit de corps.

For TSG's USA Slovenia Preview, click here.

World Cup 2010 gave US fans four full games of drama. Group stage game two was of course against the relatively-unknown Slovenia. Charlie Brown put a hurt on the Yanks in the 1st half, but the States would storm back and make more than a game of it.

Setting expectations, time constraints prevent our customary official preview format.

The USA plays Slovenia Tuesday in a rematch of the US World Cup group stage second match. No doubt there will be review of that match in depth across the US soccer media outlets. Here's one piece from us back then.

Photo by ISIPhotos.com

The U.S. men's national team faces its first World Cup 2010 rematch on Tuesday against the same Slovenia side the Americans earned a dramatic 2-2 draw against in World Cup group play.

Jurgen Klinsmann will look to find the right combination of players to help a sagging offense that has managed just two goals in six matches since he took over as head coach.

After the first leg of the Euro 2012 play-offs, there were a wide variety of results to compare and analyze before the second leg on Tuesday. Some ties already look finished, while some are still very much alive.

We take a look at one thing we learned from each match.

Croatia remain world class

A 3-0 demolition of Turkey reaffirms that despite missing out on the World Cup, Croatia are still a team with enough quality and talent to win the European Championships.

The U.S. men's national team will face its toughest test of the new Jurgen Klinsmann era in Paris today as the Americans take on France (2:45pm, ESPN2).

The United States returns to action with a pair of friendlies in Europe, starting with today's friendly in France and ending with a World Cup 2010 rematch against Slovenia on Tuesday.

Barcelona midfielder Xavi, who will be among the several superstars Spain will unleash against England on Sunday evening at Wembley, has expressed his shock at Fabio Capello's assessment of the Three Lions' quality, insisting that they remain one of the most daunting opponents in the world.

Xavi last celebrated a famous UEFA Champions League title at Wembley when his Barca side defeated English champions 3-1 in May.

Nasri has pulled out the squad injured (Malouda, Remy, and Cabaye are also injury doubts), but we all know that Lyon have an attacking midfielder who can do the job just as well, or better, on his day: our very own Christian Gourcuff. But Gourcuff is left to watch from home as his club teammate Maxime Gonalons has been called up.

Kawasaki Frontale (川崎フロンターレ) is a Japanese football club currently campaigning in Division 1 of the J. League the top-tier of soccer in the country. Among the more popular and most successful soccer teams in Japan, Frontale is currently in 12th place in the J. League. On the club's books are Japan World Cup 2010 [.

As you already know, a promising young midfielder named Josh McEachran may be leaving the club on loan in January. Could an injury-blighted veteran with monster upside make his return around the same time? We can only hope.

Moving forward

Andre Villas-Boas, speaking today in his customary pre-match press conference, dropped some knowledge on the situations of both Didier Drogba and Michael Essien.

Take a look for yourselves, courtesy of the mugshots on FFF.fr. And that's without Gourcuff.

I'll update later, but here's the squad to face the USA and Belgium:

Goalkeepers
Cedric Carrasso (Girondins Bordeaux)
Hugo Lloris (Olympique Lyon)
Steve Mandanda (Olympique Marseille)

Defenders
Eric Abidal (Barcelona)
Matthieu Debuchy (Lille)
Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal)
Adil Rami (Valencia)
Anthony Reveillere (Lyon)
Jeremy Mathieu (Valencia)
Mamadou Sakho (Paris St Germain)

Midfielders
Yohan Cabaye (Newcastle United)
Alou Diarra (Marseille)
Yann M'Vila (Stade Rennes)
Marvin Martin (Sochaux)

Attacking Midfielders
Franck Ribery (Bayern Munich)
Jeremy Menez (PSG)
Samir Nasri (Manchester City)
Florent Malouda (Chelsea)

Forwards
Karim Benzema (Real Madrid)
Kevin Gameiro (PSG)
Olivier Giroud (Montpellier)
Loic Remy (Marseille)

I am far from the best person to write a scouting report on Olympique de Marseille, but no one else is volunteering. (Add comments if you have any thoughts.)

Match: Champions League Group Phase Away to the Arsenal

Result: 0-0

Standings after this 4th match
1.

Mertesacker gets a helping hand from a returning player

Aren't we all glad that it's finally over. The last round of internationals for the season. Of course there will still be stoppages here and there for friendlies as teams prepares their sides for the upcoming Euro 2012. However, that will a 3 days get-together instead of a full 10 12 days break.

The call for youth to reinvigorate a national squad every two and four years must be included in the standard guidebooks for both managers and football association officials on what to say in response to failed attempts at qualification for a big tournament. Just the previous summer after Green's Gaffe and Germany's show of youth in revolt, England supporters received an earful from Fabio Capello through his suddenly atrocious grasp of the language and delivered an annoyingly vuvuleza-like din themselves about how the only way forward for the Three Lions was in bringing more youth into the senior side.

Now that the group stages of the Euro 2012 qualification are over, I thought I'd take a look at the attendances. It's especially interesting this time around as many of the games have been played on Friday/Tuesday rather than the traditional (and I use that term very loosely) Saturday/Wednesday. For the record of the 240 qualification ties 26 were played on a Saturday, 4 were played on a Tuesday, 103 were played on a Friday and 106 were played on a Wednesday.

Portugal's loss to Denmark yesterday is almost like a deja-vu from World Cup 2010 qualifying as the Danes took the group and Portugal needed to defeat Bosnia to reach the soccers main stage. Portugal can thank the Dutch for losing to Sweden costing the Portuguese an automatic spot in Euro 2012 as the best second place finisher, so as seems the norm of late, Portugal will need to qualifying

A host of Chelsea players are in action today for their respective countries as qualifying for next year's European Championships comes to a close. Some, including Branislav Ivanovic, are in for a nervy couple of hours.

Rant it up on an international level right here.

Bane.

World Cup 2010: FA chief Lord Triesman accuses Spain and Russia of bid to bribe referees in South Africa

England's campaign to host the 2018 World Cup was in chaos after the FA's chairman accused Spain and Russia of planning to bribe referees in this summer's tournament.

The blue article of clothing in question should look familiar, as it's the one Jogi Loew was sporting during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. An item so desirable a German football museum has paid one million euros for it, crusty remnants of sinus spelunking and all.

It looks authentic, if only because it looks like most well-worn sweaters like it's been crumpled at the bottom of a closet in the corner.

By Jon Levy A month ago it looked like we were in for what could pass for a marquee CONCACAF friendly. Now that's wrong for a couple reasons. Aside from the fact that no "marquee CONCACAF friendly" outside of U.S./Mexico exists, both the U.S. and Honduras have now both been hit with the injury bug. [.

Euro Qualifier on Friday.

Fifa.com has a post about Cisse and Gomis being called up as replacements to injured players who include:

Benzema;
Ribery; and
Sagna.

That's 3 starters, plus Abidal reportedly has "fitness concerns."

Mexes is still out, right? We should get an updated roster:

From AFP "one day ago":

Revised France squad

Goalkeepers
Hugo Lloris (Lyon)
Steve Mandanda (Marseille)
Cedric Carrasso (Bordeaux)

Defenders
Eric Abidal (Barcelona/ESP)
Mathieu Debuchy (Lille)
Adil Rami (Valencia/ESP)
Patrice Evra (Manchester United/ENG)
Anthony Reveillere (Lyon)
Younes Kaboul (Tottenham/ENG)
Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal/ENG)
Jeremy Mathieu (Valencia/ESP)

Midfielders
Alou Diarra (Marseille)
Yohan Cabaye (Newcastle/ENG)
Yann Mvila (Rennes)
Florent Malouda (Chelsea/ENG)
Jeremy Menez (Paris SG)
Samir Nasri (Manchester City/ENG)
Marvin Martin (Sochaux)
Mathieu Valbuena (Marseille)

Forwards
Bafetimbi Gomis (Lyon)
Kevin Gameiro (Paris SG)
Loic Remy (Marseille)
Djibril Cisse (Lazio/ITA)

Just a brief reminder that if France do not win against Albania, we're probably screwed (i.

James: Hello, this is James reporting live from the Etihad Stadium, where we've got some lovely cup football to share with you on this very fine afternoon. I'm joined by my long-time colleague, John, and John, I certainly have to say, we are in for a treat today, aren't we?

A pair of quick updates on the Bob Bradley job odyssey:- It seems while the former USMNT coach was off flirting with Santos Laguna, a World Cup 2010 adversary, ex-Ghana boss Milovan Rajevac, entered the picture. And so they meet again. - The Egyptian FA is scheduled to decide and announce their new manager on Wednesday.

A pair of quick updates on the Bob Bradley job odyssey:- It seems while the former USMNT coach was off flirting with Santos Laguna, a World Cup 2010 adversary, ex-Ghana boss Milovan Rajevac, entered the picture. And so they meet again. - The Egyptian FA is scheduled to decide and announce their new manager on Wednesday.

Earlier in the week the England boss Fabio Capello criticised the Arsenal medical team over their treatment of Jack Wilshere. Well today they have hit back claiming that Capello does not know what he is talking about. Hang on a minute that sounds familiar. World Cup 2010 ring any bells Fabio? A source at the [.

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I'm not entirely sure where to start with this article, but I can safely say that yesterday represented, for me at least, the culmination of almost 12 months of agony whilst following the fortunes of England and it's now hapless manager, Fabio Capello. A good place to begin would be to think back to the Group qualifying game against Algeria in South Africa last year at the 2010 World Cup.

I know it was just a friendly. I know it wasn't the full team. I know it doesn't mean anything. Yet I still found myself feeling a bit like Wesley in the Pit of Despair, torture device and all.

The real agony is not in losing 1-0 to Costa Rica in a friendly. Nor is it Ian Darke's insistence on referring to them as Honduras.