Gregg Berhalter submitted 40 names for Concacaf as a provisional roster for the upcoming Nations League finals. I believe that an analysis of this list can tell you quite a bit about the current USMNT depth chart in Berhalter’s…
It is September 2, 2021, the USMNT is about to take the field in El Salvador to start The Ocho, or more formally, CONCACAF World Cup Qualification. They will be stepping on the field after playing club games that…
The failure of the mostly MLS based U23 team to qualify for the Olympics, much has been said about the quality of USMNT U23 players in Europe versus MLS YNT. No doubt, players like Christian Pulisic, Weston McKennie, Tyler…
The 2021 Olympic Qualifying roster has just been dropped and it could be the strongest team the USA has ever sent to the qualifying tournament. However, it is not the strongest roster it could have sent. In fact, it…
Donovan or Dempsey or...
Who is the best ever, Landon or Clint? Clint or Landon? Dempsey or Donovan? Been a topic for a decade at least in USMNT circles. Landon has the USMNT numbers, but Clint has the European…
The Past
Following the disaster in Couva, USMNT fans and pundits struggled with how it could happen. There was a sense that the team on the field was too MLS heavy. However, it had only 6 MLS players starting.…
Soccer fans in the USA have a league pyramid conversation that just doesn’t happen with fans of other American sports. “What league is best and which of two leagues is better?” NFL fans know which league is the best…
Most USMNT will point to one position, on the team, as the weakest and that is striker (no reason to discuss Left Back, that is always a problem). There are options that sound perfectly fine on paper: A young…
The USSF DA
The DA is dead…Long live the DA! Yes, USSF killed the Development Academy with almost no notice. As usual with USSF, something was done by fiat, with very little input from stakeholders, with almost no notice…
Importance of USMNT in UCL
"Every World Cup and European Championship winner since 2000 has been in the top five nations for most players in the Champions League that same season," says Simon Gleave of data analysts Gracenote.
Just…
There were several persistent issues fans and pundits had with Gregg Berhalter and the USMNT in 2019, beyond results.
Four of the biggest were:
The continued presence on rosters of mid-20s players, from MLS, that were given…
In February 2015, Borussia Dortmund signed 16 year old Christian Pulisic and brought him to Germany. This was not done to save the USMNT program, but many view it that way as there are more US Soccer players in…