Major League Soccer: Gameweek 14 Preview

Once again, I will keep these short with the World Cup going on. It was hard to gauge all of the teams after a long break, but Columbus and Los Angeles still appear to be the top teams in the

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A Look To The Future: Projected US Gold Cup Squad

The best thing about soccer is that it never ends. The US may be out of the World Cup but it is less than a year away from being in the CONCACAF Gold Cup where they will look to top

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A Closer Look At The Future Of The US Squad

A new World Cup cycle is set to begin for the United States and the first step is to evaluate the current squad and what there future is with the squad. Qualifying won’t begin until 2012 so there is time

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World Cup Day 19: Things We Learned

The quarterfinals are set as Paraguay and Spain took the final spots. Paraguay defeated Japan on penalties after playing to a scoreless draw. Spain advanced defeating Portugal behind a second half goal from David Villa getting the break through against

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World Cup Day 18: Things We Learned

The heavyweights progressed today as Netherlands advanced to the quarterfinals with a 2-1 win over Slovakia. In the other game, Brazil started off slowly but two goals in a four minute span but them in control and they cruised to

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World Cup Day 19: Spain-Portugal Preview

It may be the final game on the knockout round, but it is a good one. The Iberian battle will pit two teams will plenty of talent and both teams will be disappointed with an exit at the Round of

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World Cup Day 19: Paraguay-Japan Preview

This is the battle of the the lesser known teams in the Round of 16. It will feature two teams that prefer to counter attack so it will be interesting to see which teams looks to take control of the

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World Cup Day 18: Brazil-Chile Preview

Brazil start their work in the knockout round against a familiar opponent in Chile. The Brazilians have not been free flowing as usual this tournament, but they do appear to be a tough team to defeat. Chile lost their last

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World Cup Day 18: Netherlands-Slovakia Preview

Netherlands are one of the tournament favorites and they get their knockout round started against Slovakia, who advanced after being bottom of Group F heading into the final day. Both sides have exciting attacking midfielders where Marek Hamsik will square

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World Cup Day 17: Things We Learned

The second day of the knockout round saw the match-up of some teams with good footballing pedigrees. However, both games ended in fairly big blowouts. Germany defeated England 4-1 behind a brace from Thomas Muller. In the second game, Argentina

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