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It has been a long time coming for the US Men’s National Team. A solid three-game winning streak. Typically these sorts of things happen around the January friendly time. It certainly isn’t the first time this has happened but with Jurgen Klinsmann in as boss, it is. So what can we take away from these…[continue reading]

A fun bit of news broke late yesterday evening. Two US National team defenders George John and Omar Gonzalez were said to be leaving the national team camp for “club-related matters”. Naturally their two teams instantly sent out messages about those matters. For one player it was about a loan, the other a transfer. Gonzalez…[continue reading]

The annual January friendlies are set for the US Men’s National Team and now the roster is out. Fans will finally get to see the likes of FC Dallas defender George John and LA Galaxy defender Omar Gonzalez in action for Jurgen Klinsmann as well as MLS Rookie of the Year CJ Sapong. Out of…[continue reading]

The usual pair of January friendlies for the US Men’s National team have been announced today by the USSF. Jurgen Klinsmann will lead his team against Venezuela in Phoenix on January 21 and then again on January 25 against in Panama City against Panama. The January friendlies are typically a time for US-based and Scandinavian-based…[continue reading]

Juergen Klinsmann picked 22 players for the U.S. men’s national team friendlies at France on Nov. 11 (3 p.m. ET, ESPN2, Univision, ESPN3.com) and Slovenia on Nov. 15 (noon ET, ESPN2, Galavision, ESPN3.com). A few surprises but mostly what you would expect from Klinsmann at this point. It seems as though Orozco Fiscal has replaced Jonathan…[continue reading]

A bit of news we heard about yesterday over on Twitter. University of Akron head coach Caleb Porter has been officially named the US U-23 head coach – more importantly the Olympics head coach for the US. Porter will lead the U-23 team to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games when they compete in CONCACAF…[continue reading]

In a way, the future is really now. The Mexico friendly for the US National Team a few weeks ago was merely a money grab for the parties involved. Sure it was Jurgen Klinsmann’s first match with the US but he barely got anytime to really build the team he wanted before hand. This time…[continue reading]

Some may get upset by this kind of news, others will likely not care and then there will be a select group that will be happy with this. LA Galaxy forward/midfielder Landon Donovan said today that he will skip the upcoming Belgium friendly in Europe to turn to the Galaxy to play in a big…[continue reading]

On a recent Twitter Q&A, US National Team keeper Tim Howard gave a rather candid response about playing in Major League Soccer again some day.  “Oh, one hundred percent. If all things were to work themselves out I would really, really like to come back and play a few years in MLS. A lot of…[continue reading]

It will be a fairly slow week around these parts, seeing how MLS is pretty much off this weekend (except for two games). With a FIFA fixture on the calendar this weekend there are a full slew of MLSers involved in friendlies and even some World Cup qualifiers. MLS released this list of players and…[continue reading]