Comments on: Confederations Cup Coda

By: soccer goals

soccer goals — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:13:53 +0000

great feature. Thanks. RUN DMB will not make the SA Roster.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:36:59 +0000

I could not disagree with you more about Clark. He's got some skills, but he has to think way to much to make any kind of play with the ball – no creativity, no insight, looks lost when he has some space. Maybe some better competition would help him there, or maybe it would just expose weaknesses that you can't fix. Either way, right now, he's a liability.

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American Soccer Roundup for June 29th | Soccer Academics — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:00:38 +0000

[...] Kick blog says that soccer may have just arrived in the US. American Soccer News does a great job summing up the Confederations Cup and WVHooligan talks about the US getting respect from average [...]

By: ASN_Editor

ASN_Editor — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:08:52 +0000

I think you've answered your own question: Davies needs to move away from his mid-level club and, if not to a topflight squad then at least to a topflight league (Italy, Spain or England, preferably. Alternatively France or Germany or perhaps the Netherlands). Personally I can really see him in Tevez' role at Man United, though that is probably more of a pipedream at this point.

By: US soccer can rise

US soccer can rise — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:45:27 +0000

Good notes…

I saw Charlie Davies score 3 or 4 goals (in my head) in the last two games. The slightest of split second hesitations meant we did not see the ball in the net. If Charlie was regularly playing at this level, I am positive he would have reacted faster in anticipation and netted those goals.

How do we get Charlie and the rest of the best US players sharpened to a world class edge after they go back to their mid-level clubs?