Jul 28, 2013

Did you know that Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant is a big soccer fan? Like me Kobe spent many of his younger years in Europe where his father played basketball in the Italian A1 and A2 leagues. Kobe naturally started playing soccer with his Italian friends joking that they usually put him in goal due to his size. His childhood team was AC Milan, but now...

Jul 6, 2013

Friday night saw a much changed U.S. men’s national team, who just recently moved up six places on Fifa’s charts to 22nd place in the world rankings take on 93rd placed Guatemala in a friendly at the Qualcomm Stadium; San Diego, California in front of a crowd of just over 25,000. The match was seen as a warm up to the CONCACAF Gold Cup that starts with the...

Jun 23, 2013

It was a 73rd minute goal from the inform Jozy Altidore that provided the United States with a 1-0 victory over Honduras last Tuesday evening in Sandy, Utah, that will almost certainly mean that the Star and Stripes will be heading to Brazil next summer for the 2014 World Cup finals. The win gives Jurgen Klinsmann’s men 13 points and top place in their...

Jun 15, 2013

Who ever said that Americans don’t like soccer? Tell that to the 40,847 who crowded into the Century Link Field home of the MLS franchise Seattle Sounders in last Tuesday evening to watch the U.S.A. take on Panama in the 10-game final round of the North and Central American and Caribbean region qualifiers for next year’s world cup in Brazil. It wasn’t just the...

Jun 9, 2013

Following two stress free friendlies that saw Jürgen Klinsmann’s team sustain a 2-4 loss to a Belgium team full of star players that are being called the golden generation of Belgium football, and an exciting 4-3 win over the always tough Germans. The match against Germany saw the home teams Clint Dempsey score two goals moving up the ladder to become the...