Posts by Noah Davis

July 9, 2013
USMNT ‘B’ Team Looks to Impress Klinsmann at Gold Cup

The CONCACAF Gold Cup is a silly tournament with a rather goofy name. It serves as the regional championship, which means a bunch of teams play a bunch of games, then the United States and Mexico meet in the finals. The structure of the tournament, which started Sunday when tiny Martinique defeated Canada, 1-0, courtesy […]
June 28, 2013
Third Time Is Not the Charm: Ghana Sends USMNT U-20s Home From World Cup

Three times, the United States men’s national team has faced Ghana with a chance to advance in a World Cup. Three times, it has failed. The Black Stars bounced the Americans from Germany in 2006 and from South Africa in 2010, while the Black Satellites — the nickname given to the country’s Under-20 side — […]
June 19, 2013
Jozy’s Got It: Altidore’s Goal Helps USMNT Beat Honduras, Near World Cup Qualification

In the end, the quietest man on the field made the loudest statement. Jozy Altidore, who has stopped speaking to the media, scored in the 73rd minute to give the United States men’s national team a 1-0 victory over Honduras in Sandy, Utah’s Rio Tinto Stadium. The win, which leaves the Americans on top of […]
June 12, 2013
No Sleeping in Seattle: USMNT Dominates Panama in World Cup Qualifying

Midway through the first half of what would become a convincing 2-0 win over Panama for the United States men’s national team, an American winger played a cross in from the flank. The raucous crowd at Seattle’s CenturyLink Field, more than 40,000 strong, gasped in anticipation as they saw Jozy Altidore lurking in the penalty […]
June 10, 2013
A Good Day at the Office: The USMNT Makes Amends in Kingston

Before Friday night, the United States men’s national team had never won a World Cup qualifier in Kingston, Jamaica, posting an 0-1-4 record that included a painful, troubling loss last September. Nor had Jurgen Klinsmann, the squad’s head coach, used the same starting lineup more than once in his first 27 games. Both of those […]
June 5, 2013
We Went There: The New York Cosmos Reboot

Two attractive women stand as still as statues at the front of a conference room in the midtown Manhattan Four Seasons. Each one wears the beige dress–maroon hat combination of an Emirates Airlines flight attendant and stands next to a soccer jersey that bears the name of the carrier front and center and the crest […]
June 4, 2013
How Australian Sports Science Is Changing America

For a country of just more than 20 million people, Australia boasts an impressive sporting legacy. Individuals frequently top international podiums in cycling, swimming, and track and field, while its national teams challenge for titles as well. The nation’s basketball squads are perennial overachievers and the men’s soccer team looks set to reach a third […]
May 30, 2013
Belgium Has Cake, Eats It, Too, While Easily Defeating USMNT

On Wednesday night, United States men’s national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann trotted out his 26th different starting lineup in the 26 matches he has coached. Not that it mattered. No combination of American players would have been good enough to contend with the young, creative, and excellent Belgium side that ran roughshod over the red, […]
May 24, 2013
Can Sunil Gulati Reform FIFA?

Somewhere in Panama City on April 19, Sunil Gulati won an election by a single vote. A representative from the tiny British territory Anguilla (FIFA rank: 206) broke a 17-17 deadlock, giving the United States Soccer Federation president a slim victory over Mexico’s Justino Compean. As a result, Gulati earned a four-year term on FIFA’s […]
May 16, 2013
We Went There: Grand Central Station’s Rumble on the Rails

“Are you ready to RUMBLE?!?” a man wearing sunglasses, a black suit, impressively shiny black shoes, and an American-flag bow tie asks as he stands on a raised wrestling mat. The Iranian supporters standing in the temporary bleachers on the other side of Grand Central Station’s Vanderbilt Hall most certainly are. They explode into cheers, […]

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