Topic: U.S. Men's Soccer

April 12, 2013

Viva Azteca: Yakkin' About Soccer's Strangest, Scariest Stadium

Aaron Gordon

Estadio Azteca is one of the stranger, better and more terrifying places on earth to watch a soccer game. And maybe to watch anything, actually. Two Azteca veterans compare notes on one of soccer's holy, and wholly weird, sites.

February 20, 2013

Robbie Rogers, Out and Out

Kevin Koczwara

Last week, former U.S. Men's National Team player Robbie Rogers came out and retired from soccer. This is probably not the end of this story, which now belongs to Rogers himself.

February 11, 2013

Be Here Now

Kevin Koczwara

Jurgen Klinsmann was hired to overhaul the U.S. Men's National Team, and lay the foundation for the future of American soccer. But to finish the job, let alone be around to finish it, he'll have to survive the present.

December 12, 2012

Winning Over The World

Noah Davis

Call it soccer diplomacy if you like, but American coaches have slowly won over the hearts and minds—and won quite a few games, in the case of new Egyptian National Team head coach Bob Bradley—of soccer teams from the Netherlands to Iran.

August 16, 2012

Everything and Nothing and the U.S. Men's National Team Finally Winning in Mexico

Noah Davis

It took 75 years, but the U.S. Men's Soccer team finally won a game in Mexico thanks to a 1-0 win in a skeleton-crew friendly on Wednesday night at Estadio Azteca. The result was about as meaningful as meaningless games get.

July 18, 2012

What We Talk About When We Talk About Clint Dempsey

Noah Davis

Clint Dempsey just finished the best season any American soccer player has ever had in Europe. He is about to get very, very rich because of it. But the enigmatic dude from Nacogdoches, Texas remains stubbornly, and more than a little admirably, hard to know.

April 13, 2012

Cold-Blooded Old Timers

Noah Davis

Old-timers' games aren't traditionally the place to find heated competition. But this weekend's Legends Challenge benefit game between the United States and Mexico isn't your average old-timer's game—mostly because, even for players who have been off the field for a decade or more, this isn't your average rivalry.