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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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North Carolina FC is shutting down. Or going on hiatus. Or entering suspended animation ahead of the United Soccer League's planned launch of a first division soccer league in 2028. Whatever the words, the effect is the same: An established American soccer club will stop playing matches with
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This is one of those weird weeks when a bunch of stuff in the personal life and a bigger helping of work (that I myself created) conspired to make it nearly impossible to do a fully fleshed out newsletter. But f**k it, let's see if I can
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It's October, and you know what that means. Falling leaves. Pumpkin spiced everything. My birthday. And a FIFA date featuring US men's national team games against Ecuador and Australia. It's questionable what we'll learn from the 180 minutes of soccer the American
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Hi! So I'm back. Apologies for the interruption in regular service here at Soccer Eagle—my trip and broadcast schedule in Albuquerque for last week's big Meow Wolf Night show for New Mexico United's annual collision of art and soccer prevented me from squeezing
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USMNT roster time is a truly special time in the world of American soccer. Nothing brings out the angst and self-loathing quite like the naming of fewer than two dozen players to represent our aspiring soccer nation, regardless of the stakes. It's probably more indicative of our
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Paxten Aaronson, a 21-year-old Philadelphia Union academy product who left the Union to join Eintracht Frankfurt after making just over 40 total appearances for the club, is coming back to MLS. Aaronson is joining the Colorado Rapids as a DP, leaving behind (for the moment) the dream of