Michael Bradley to serve 4-game suspension

Grant Wahl is reporting on his blog that FIFA have ruled that Michael Bradley is to serve a four-game suspension for his post-game confrontation of Jorge Larrionda.  Despite the seemingly harsh penalty, it turns out that it doesn’t mean much.  Bradley will be allowed to serve his suspension during the Gold Cup–a competition for which he [...]

Roster Changes: Rolfe and Carroll in

US Soccer announced this morning that Bob Bradley has called in Chris Rolfe and Brian Carroll to replace two players who suffered injuries in their Sunday matches, Robbie Rogers (sore back) and Pablo Mastoeni (knee).  It’s a shame–I was looking forward to seeing Rogers play.  And I was about as excited to see Mastroeni play [...]

Strategy analysis: USA @ Barbados (6.22.08)

Happy to see Bob Bradley breaking out the fabled 4-6-0 formation against Barbados. And they said it couldn’t be done. Good thing we didn’t hire one of them foreign coaches. Their lack of understanding of the American player/system would never have allowed them to think this far outside the box and field no strikers…and don’t [...]

Manifesto

In 1998, Nike and the United States Soccer Federation created Project 2010, a blueprint to “ensure that the US Men’s National Team become a legitimate threat to win the World Cup by 2010.” While the project’s ambition was commendable, any self-respecting U.S. soccer fan knew this goal was a bit far fetched to say the [...]