usa soccer

The women's US soccer team is one of the more heavily favored ones in this years World Cup and yesterday they did not disappoint.

For long I've been a defender of U.S. Soccer.  While I've never tried to make them out to be world beaters, I've always painted them in a positive light.  Well Saturday night's 4-2 thrashing of the U.S. by Mexico - and make no mistake, it was a thrashing - has changed my perspective.  Time to call it like it is.  The U.S. is not a really good soccer team.

It's the second straight Gold Cup final that Mexico has beaten the United States, this one is just a little bit more disappointing.

As many of you know, I'm a huge soccer fan.  And for the past few years, I've been searching the internet to find a DVD copy of the 1994 USA vs. Columbia World Cup match - which resulted in a 2-1 win for the Americans - their first win in a World Cup in 44 years. This is also the same game where Columbia's Andres Escobar scored an own goal - which ultimately would lead to his death a month later. 

This weekend's sports landscape featured an international soccer friendly between the U.S. and Spain.  I was lucky enough to be there when the World Cup champions brought the fury of their game down on Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, with disastrous results for the U.S. Make sure to check out the gallery of my pictures included at the top of the article - and their captions, AND THEIR CAPTIONS - to

It's not often you get to see the world's best player live in action.  It's even more rare to watch the world's best player when he's not even from this country. On Saturday night, I got to watch Lionel Messi live in person and the striker from Argentina didn't disappoint.