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It's time again for Good Soccer/Bad Soccer, our weekly roundup of soccer happenings from around the Amerisoccersphere. This week, we're adding the word "North" to our typical regional purview for reasons that you can probably guess. Before we dive in, share this newsletter
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Two-and-a-half months on from the first troubling cries that the situation in Vancouver for the Whitecaps might truly be dire, new reporting is shedding light on just how far down the relocation road MLS is with the Canadian outfit. It's decidedly not good. I'm not going
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Welcome back to Good Soccer/Bad Soccer, your weekly home for an extremely random collection of American soccer stories. This week's bag of soccer news runs the gamut, which is great because who doesn't love getting to use the word "gamut"? A reminder: If
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I think I have a problem. I, like almost everyone else on the planet, really like good soccer. The kind of soccer than makes you scream OOOH! when something remarkable happens. I'm a big fan of saying "GOOD BALL" when a pass is made that cuts
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Welcome back to Good Soccer/Bad Soccer, our weekly roundup of exciting, distressing, and/or otherwise interesting soccer new from around this weird and wild soccer nation of ours. If you have a tip for GS/BS, drop in the comments or find me on Bluesky. Give That Man A
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First, I think I need to make a quick apology for how sporadic Soccer Eagle has been over the last week. My 5-year-0ld brought home preschool cold germs, the most insidious of all the cold germs, and I've been slowly trying to work my way out of a
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Now Are We A Real Soccer Country? This week's GS/BS can't help but start with the most talked about story in American soccer: Christian Pulisic's Raya profile. Why are we talking about Christian Pulisic's Raya profile? Because Christian's ex
Flying high since 2008
Patrick Agyemang is the first legitimate World Cup roster candidate to be eliminated from World Cup consideration thanks to a devastating Achilles tendon injury the forward suffered on Sunday playing for Derby County. We knew the soccer fates would come for someone, we just didn't know who. And,
Finally, for sure this time, the window of experimentation and audition is over for the USMNT ahead of the most important World Cup in the history of the sport in the United States of America. I think. Certainly Mauricio Pochettino is out of chances to see players first hand in
Welcome to Good Soccer/Bad Soccer, a weekly roundup of American soccer things that your friendly neighborhood Soccer Eagle (that's me) came across during his soccer travels. Since this is the first edition of GS/BS, let me give you a sense of what we're doing
Declaring that there was plenty good in the USMNT's 5-2 loss to Belgium in Atlanta on Saturday is a reasonable thing to do that is nevertheless something of a tough sell. The number "5" causes discomfort. "Discomfort" is a good word to describe how
One of the things that intrigues me most about the USMNT as we get ready to watch it play a pair of friendlies against two top 10 nations is that we have no clear notion what are our expectations should for this year's World Cup. There's
Last time we checked on the collective bargaining situation with the USL and its players, the two sides were locked in a tug-of-war that showed no signs of reaching a resolution. Despite the previous agreement ending all the way back on December 31 and the new USL Championship season having
Some quick thoughts on MLS's week in the Concacaf Champions Cup. MLS: Good enough to beat Mexican sides at home, sometimes by convincing scorelines, but not good enough to make those wins stand up in the second leg in Mexico. It's a tale as old as
Subscribe to Soccer Eagle I'm a soccer guy. Ever since I took the first steps towards a soccer media career with my first blog post in 2008, soccer has been at the center of my sports experience. But before I was a soccer guy, I was a baseball
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Today's Soccer Eagle is going to take a quick look at the biggest MLS story of the week, engage in a bit of attitude adjustment, and look ahead the Week 4 of the still-young top-flight American soccer season. And. Here. We. Go. Orland City and Oscar Pareja'
I cannot emphasize this point enough: United's quest to mine for new fans in Baltimore feels quixotic when Baltimore sports fans' prime directive (other than root for Baltimore if possible) is never to support teams from DC.
I'm a sucker for pointing at the big, seemingly symbolic moments re: American soccer's growth. Intellectually I understand that big moments come and go and whatever the initial rise a big moment might cause, it's never quite as massive as we imagine it will