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I'm twelve hours on from USA 4, Paraguay 1 and while some of it might be lack of sleep or too much caffeine, my buzz is strong. The soccer team I have cared more about than any other in the history of my soccer experience—and the very
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World Cup Day 1 gave us a colorful opening ceremony that even too much of Gianni Infantino's bald pate couldn't ruin, a not-so-convincing Mexico win marked by three dismissals, and as South Korea triumph over Czechia in Guadalajara. Fly With The Soccer Eagle For
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It's June. The World Cup starts in June. That means the World Cup is here. Practically. It's certainly here in my brain, where a chaotic mess of thought threads has already formed around the tournament and what's about to land when the games actually
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Thanks to the top notch reporting of two American soccer journalism's top men, Pablo Maurer and Jeff Rueter, the USMNT roster will land later today with a decided paucity of drama. That development (the roster leak) is maybe more fascinating to me than the roster itself. Pablo and
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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