Posts by Noah Davis

  • USMNT Advances, But Plenty of Questions Remain

    In the end, there were plenty of smiles from the United States national team. Tired, relieved smiles, but smiles nonetheless. The Americans, with a huge assist from the enthusiastic home crowd at Kansas City’s Livestrong Field, reached the final round of CONCACAF World Cup 2014 qualification with a 3-1 defeat of Guatemala. Jurgen Klinsmann’s Stars […]

  • Route One in the Rain: USMNT Gets Needed Three Points in Antigua

    Eddie Johnson’s first goal for the United States Men’s National Team came in the forward’s first start on October 10, 2004. Johnson, then 20 years old, netted three more three days later against Panama and finished 2006 World Cup qualifying with seven goals in six games. The Florida-born Johnson was strong, fast, and talented, exactly […]

  • Is MLS Making the Rest of CONCACAF Better at the Expense of the U.S. National Team?

    When the United States men’s national team fell 2-1 last month in Jamaica, it was the squad’s first loss in 19 games against the Caribbean country. But American supporters no doubt noticed something familiar about the match: the faces of the Reggae Boyz. Four of Jamaica’s starters and two of the substitutes play in Major […]

  • The Portland Timbers Reserve League Is Sort of Insane

    On August 26, 14,121 spectators watched the Portland Timbers fall 3-1 to the San Jose Earthquakes. In itself, that figure is unremarkable. Average attendance at Major League Soccer games this season is nearly 19,000 per game, more than the NBA and the NHL. But this wasn’t a regular fixture. Thirty-two-year-old Turkish forward Sercan Guvenisik — […]

  • The USMNT Beat Jamaica in World Cup Qualifier Rematch

    In a virtual must-win match for the United States Men’s National Team, Jurgen Klinsmann’s side did exactly what they needed to do, and nothing else. Herculez Gomez’s 55th-minute free kick provided the only score on a beautiful night in Columbus, Ohio, propelling the Americans over a Jamaican squad that defeated them just four days prior […]

  • A Bad Night in Kingston Leaves USMNT Needing a Win in Columbus

    For 36 seconds, things unfolded perfectly. The final strains of Jamaica’s amazing national anthem were still echoing around Kingston’s Independence Park when Clint Dempsey slotted home a rebound of Herculez Gomez’s shot, giving the United States men’s national team a 1-0 lead over Jamaica in an important World Cup qualifying match. The winner of the […]

  • Lionel Messi

    Al Jazeera’s New Sports Network Changes the Soccer-Watching Landscape

    Last week, watching soccer in the United States changed forever. While ESPN and Fox Soccer Channel still have the biggest matches — American World Cup qualifiers in the U.S., the English Premier League, and the Champions League — a network that didn’t exist as recently as June owns the English-language television rights to virtually everything […]

  • Abby Wambach

    Extra Time

    After another Olympic gold medal, the never-ending battle for U.S. women’s professional soccer rages on.

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