As the US ready to hire a new coach, it’s both fashionable and fair to return to a timeless debate: What style of play should the US adopt? And given the 2018 World Cup qualification failure, is it right to privilege results over substance, at least in the short-term? Or does that cheat the program in the long-term?
Tweet Neil W. Blackmon France collected a second star Sunday, winning the FIFA World Cup in a thrilling, strange 4-2… Read more »
Tweet Neil W. Blackmon Light of August, William Faulkner’s masterful meditation on race, otherness and alienation in the postbellum south,… Read more »
Tweet Soccer is a game that can make you feel incredibly alive and yet ready to die all at once,… Read more »
Tweet Without fail, for ten years, Anna Echeverria has spent weekend mornings waking up before the sun. She makes the… Read more »
Tweet Neil W. Blackmon A little over a year ago this week, ahead of the US-Mexico qualifier at Estadio Azteca,… Read more »
Tweet Group G Predicted Order of Finish: Belgium, England, Panama, Tunisia Belgium’s once-a-lifetime generation of talent mostly ply their trade… Read more »
Tweet Group F Predicted Order of Finish: Germany, Mexico, Sweden, South Korea No one has retained the World Cup since… Read more »
Tweet Group E Predicted Order of Finish: Brazil, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Serbia It took Brazil two years and a manager… Read more »
Tweet Group D: Argentina, Nigeria, Croatia, Iceland A difficult group to project, with talent everywhere, and the world’s greatest player…. Read more »
Tweet Group C Predicted Order of Finish: France, Peru, Denmark, Australia A fun group. France have been my pick to… Read more »
Tweet Group B Predicted Order of Finish: Portugal Spain, Morocco, Iran The decision by La Furia Roja to fire Julen… Read more »