Posts by Noah Davis

  • We Went There: USMNT Beats Turkey As the World Cup Looms

    We got a glimpse of the future of Jurgen Klinsmann’s United States men’s national soccer team in the 26th minute of Sunday afternoon’s 2-1 defeat of Turkey.

  • Parade’s End

    The generation of Dempsey and Donovan makes way for the next.

  • The 23 Most Important Members of the USMNT

    The men Jurgen Klinsmann will use in June, as well as a highly subjective guide to their relative importance to World Cup success.

  • We Went There: USMNT-Mexico in Arizona

    The results of friendlies, of course, don’t matter, even ones against Mexico. This game was about the bigger picture: the summer in Brazil.

  • Dempsey in Winter: The Fading Magic of the USMNT Legend

    This was going to be a column about failure. Clint Dempsey had one goal in his first 10 appearances in Major League Soccer and hadn’t scored for the U.S. men’s national team since June 2, 2013, a six-match drought. More concerning was his recent loan spell at Fulham, the club where he rose to international […]

  • Don’t Take Julian Green to the World Cup

    It’s hard to know how good Green would be come June. It’s even harder to know how he would fit in within the U.S. team, a squad that thrives on its hard-work, cover-for-each-other system, requiring players who have an intimate understanding not just of their roles, but of their teammates’ roles too.

  • Michael Bradley

    Michael Bradley Returns to MLS and Everyone Screams

    So, Michael Bradley is coming to Major League Soccer. And not just to Major League Soccer, but to Toronto FC, a club that is at best a chaotic mess and at worst terrible. Or maybe reverse those. Regardless, Bradley’s transfer from Roma, a team that sits in second place in Serie A, is shocking; it’s […]

  • Argentina

    We Went There: Argentina, Minus Messi, Takes on Ecuador

    At kickoff, the little man was not in the building. As his Argentina teammates lined up to battle Ecuador at MetLife Stadium on Friday night, Lionel Messi and his otherworldly talent were in Barcelona recovering from a hamstring tear that will sideline him for the rest of the calendar year. But the game must go […]

  • Klinsmann

    For Some USMNT Players, the Work to Reach the World Cup Has Just Begun

    In January 2006, Freddy Adu was 16 years old and training with the United States senior team for the first time. Head coach Bruce Arena called the starlet into the team’s January camp, a three-week training stint that played a massive role in determining who would make the roster for the upcoming summer’s World Cup […]

  • Brooklyn Nets

    Opening Night in Brooklyn, Year 2

    If there was a Year 1 winner when the Nets moved to Brooklyn, it was the Modell’s on Flatbush Avenue that sits across the street from the Barclays Center. What was formerly a rundown sporting goods store with little on the shelves transformed itself into a bright beacon of fluorescent light featuring row upon row […]

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