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Sports Illustrated May 2, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Starting at the Top The U.S. is unbeaten in World Cup qualifying. Why is the once-struggling team so torrid? |
Sports Illustrated August 30, 2000 Grant Wahl |
The crazy life of Landon 18-year-old sniper Landon Donovan is much more likely to start for coach Clive Charles now that another field position has opened up for an under-23 player... News on the MLS and national team fronts... |
Sports Central April 4, 2013 Kevin Beane |
Welcome Back, Landon Landon Donovan has held the weight of United States soccer on his shoulders for a very long time. It has been almost 15 years since he earned tryouts with soccer giants like Manchester United and Arsenal. |
Sports Illustrated August 31, 2001 |
Donovan's big chance Every indication is that 19-year-old American soccer player Landon Donovan will get his first World Cup qualifying start on Saturday when the U.S. meets Honduras. |
Sports Illustrated April 19, 2000 |
Mad Bulgarian fires up Chicago Hristo Stoitchkov at the Chicago Fire... Which soccer players got the most votes?... World Cup qualifying to begin in July?... Extra time... Game of the Week... |
Sports Illustrated September 19, 2002 Grant Wahl |
Unfamiliar refrain The Yanks are coming! The Yanks are coming! The U.S. is a decent side on the international stage now, one that has to be taken seriously by any team in the world. And that's a huge advance from what any European would have said before the World Cup. |
Sports Illustrated June 13, 2002 Grant Wahl |
Gray Goose Somewhere between villain and hero lies U.S. soccer defender Jeff Agoos. |
Salon.com July 2, 2002 Andrew O'Hehir |
Ten things I learned about life and soccer from the 2002 World Cup There is a football God, and despite the wild twists and turns of this year's tournament, He's still Brazilian. |
Sports Illustrated June 5, 2002 Grant Wahl |
Opening statement Much, perhaps too much, goes the American way in their first match of the World Cup. |
Salon.com June 12, 2002 Andrew O'Hehir |
Sacre bleu! Dios mio! It's the Bizarro World Cup! France fades into Sartrean nothingness, Argentina dances the tango of despair and the United States and Japan, titans of world baseball -- sorry, I mean soccer -- rise up. |
Sports Illustrated July 13, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Confessions of a soccer fan My reaction to Frank Deford's "soccer is un-American" piece in SI not long ago... |
Sports Illustrated September 23, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Coming of age U.S. men's soccer joins ranks of the world's best... |
Sports Illustrated May 16, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Don't send Mathis to Europe yet Just because MetroStars striker Clint Mathis is the hottest U.S. player in years, MLS doesn't want its fans to assume he'll be on the next flight to Europe... |
Sports Illustrated August 10, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Fire-MetroStars rivalry turns ugly "It was gonna be a bloodbath"... Tempers flare on the field, and on the national team's bench... Joe-Max, Five Bellies and two continents... Who is the cleanest team in the MLS? |
Sports Illustrated May 14, 2003 Grant Wahl |
Inside Soccer: Hitting Home After 12 months of foreign success, Brian McBride is thriving Stateside. |
Sports Illustrated June 20, 2002 Grant Wahl |
World Class By thumping archrival Mexico, the U.S. punched through to soccer's elite eight, its best showing in 72 years. |
Sports Illustrated November 16, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Meola, Ramos turn back the clock Nobody was more instrumental in keeping the Americans' World Cup qualifying campaign alive this week than two grizzled vets, goalkeeper Tony Meola, 31, and midfielder Tab Ramos, 34. Both players' careers were left for dead in 1999, yet both came back to play splendidly... |
Sports Illustrated June 7, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Garber talks Ten months after leaving the NFL to take over as MLS commissioner, Don Garber sat down with me in his Manhattan office on Tuesday for a wide-ranging discussion on MLS, its present and its future.... |
Sports Illustrated April 12, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Overbeck gets assist from Devers Soccer news: U.S. defender Carla Overbeck has Graves' disease... Why do some players star in the club game but flounder at the international level... special meeting Wednesday in Chicago with Fire coach Bob Bradley... etc. |
Sports Illustrated May 27, 2002 Grant Wahl |
World Cup ball has a mind of its own For all the controversy over the years about whether baseballs are juiced -- Major League Baseball has never admitted to doing so -- the funny thing about the World Cup is that soccer officials trumpet the fact that their ball comes equipped with an extra kick... |
Sports Illustrated June 20, 2002 Grant Wahl |
German studies If the Americans are going to beat Germany -- and I think it's entirely possible as Germany was the least impressive of the eight second-round winners -- they'll have to prevent the Germans from running roughshod over them in the midfield. |
Sports Illustrated May 14, 2002 Grant Wahl |
No mas for Armas What now for the U.S.? Chris Armas, the U.S.'s tough-as-nails defensive midfielder, will miss the World Cup after tearing his right ACL against Uruguay. But this isn't a catastrophe for the U.S. team... |
AskMen.com Rob Fox |
Thierry Henry Won't Save Soccer In America Beyond the money, it's difficult to see why a player of Henry's stature would want to compete in a league that's seen by many outside of North America as a golden retirement home for European and South American pros. |
Sports Central June 5, 2014 Kevin Beane |
The Father of U.S. Soccer U.S. men's soccer coach Jurgen Klinsmann raised some eyebrows in a New York Times profile today when he declared the World Cup unwinnable for the Americans in 2014. |
Salon.com May 30, 2002 Andrew O'Hehir |
The greatest show on earth It's World Cup time again -- when more than a billion people will be enthralled not just by the joy of victory and agony of defeat, but also by the mystery and despair that is championship soccer... |
Sports Central February 12, 2009 Kevin Beane |
Liveblogging the USA/Mexico Match The U.S. Men's National Soccer Team kicks off the final round of World Cup qualifiers against its toughest opponent in the region and their bitter rivals -- Mexico. |
Sports Central March 31, 2005 Kevin Beane |
World Cup Fever, Anyone? Sports fans who find themselves lost between seasons, or in the midst of boring ones, may find that soccer fills the void quite nicely -- particularly, the high-stakes, world cup level. |
Sports Central June 28, 2007 Kevin Beane |
The Gold Cup is Golden (Pt. 2) A recap of the Gold Cup playoffs. |
Sports Illustrated June 17, 2002 Phil Taylor |
No vacancy U.S. has no room for soccer on its full sports plate. |
Sports Central June 27, 2006 Mark Chalifoux |
Closing the Door on the Cup To send off the World Cup in proper fashion, here are some things I think about the World Cup and Team USA. |
Sports Central June 14, 2007 Kevin Beane |
The Gold Cup is Golden There is plenty of meaningful, enjoyable soccer played in-between World Cups at the international level |
Sports Central June 29, 2010 Brad Oremland |
Why I Don't Love Soccer Why has the beautiful game of soccer, something easy both to play and to understand, failed to make headway against baseball and basketball and American football? |
Sports Illustrated May 18, 2000 |
Klinsmann loves L.A. Soccer News: Still, don't expect Klinsmann to join the Galaxy -- he retired for good in 1998... MLS discovery zone gets ugly -- again... MLS players responded to the following question: Who's the best coach in MLS? Who's the worst coach?... |
BusinessWeek May 1, 2006 Stanley Holmes |
A Breakout Year For Soccer? Investors seem to think MLS has a big future. You be the judge. |
Sports Central March 27, 2008 Kevin Beane |
World Soccer Recap Pro soccer teams the world over are compelled to release their players to go play for their country. |
AskMen.com |
Craziest Soccer Fans These guys own it, and are sure to entertain us through the dullest 90 minutes the international soccer stage has to offer. |
Sports Central December 17, 2006 Greg Wyshynski |
MLS Grows Up Lamar Hunt's dream of America as a Soccer Nation is still unfolding. But his vision of Major League Soccer as a professional sports league has become a reality. |
Sports Central July 15, 2006 Greg Wyshynski |
A Penalty Kick in the Pants Forget that famous head-butt. The real tragedy, the true outrage, of this near-classic match is the way it ended. |
Sports Central June 2, 2011 Kevin Beane |
2011 Gold Cup Preview Nearly a year has passed since the World Cup has passed, which is usually the beginning and the end of United States interest in soccer. |
Sports Central July 1, 2010 Kevin Beane |
On Soccer, Instant Replay, and Culture Five quick thoughts on the World Cup, and the need for instant reply. |
AskMen.com June 16, 2014 Simon Kuper |
Why We're Seeing The Return Of Attack Soccer (And Why It's Better For The Fans) We know what viewers want: stars playing attacking soccer. |
Sports Central May 12, 2006 Ray Leroy |
Soccer: The Beautiful Game June 9th will kick off the most watched sporting event in the world, as 32 teams from across the globe vie for professional soccer's 2006 World Cup. |
Sports Central March 7, 2007 Will Tidey |
World Cup 2018: U.S.-Bound? U.S. soccer fans seem destined to have the world's greatest sporting event on their doorstep sooner rather than later. |
Sports Central June 16, 2011 Kevin Beane |
Gold Cup Heats Up In my last column, I previewed and predicted the Gold Cup. Now that the quarterfinals are set, how did I do? |
Salon.com May 24, 2002 Allen Barra |
Soccer may be the world's sport, but it will never be America's Every four years soccer officials assure us that if the U.S. men's team makes a run for the World Cup, their sport will finally break through in America. Dream on. |
BusinessWeek July 1, 2010 Ryan Bradley |
Ben Hooper: Scoring on Soccer's Rich History Ben Hooper left pro soccer and found his footing with retro-designed soccer T-shirts. |
Sports Illustrated May 21, 2002 Grant Wahl |
Soccer coverage SI's coverage of soccer is expanding -- just not as fast as, say, boating... |
Sports Illustrated June 17, 2002 Tim Layden |
Give soccer a chance If there were justice in the sports universe, the players from an amazing spring would momentarily step aside today. All would understand that what is taking place in the World Cup is just a little bit better than what they are doing or have done. |
Sports Illustrated June 3, 2002 Grant Wahl |
Soccer crazy Miami couple travels the globe to watch U.S. team |
Outside June 2008 Mark Anders |
Turf Battle U.S. soccer fans are turning to homegrown hero Taylor Twellman, the New England Revolution's 28-year-old striker. |