September 3, 2010

Bob Bradley Will Continue As US Men’s Team Head Coach

Bob Bradley, US Men's Team Head Coach

CHICAGO (Aug. 30, 2010) – U.S. Soccer has agreed to a four-year contract extension with U.S. Men’s National Team head coach Bob Bradley. Bradley led the U.S. to an undefeated record in group play at the 2010 FIFA World for the first time en route to a first-place group finish for the first time in [...]

Mike Sorber Is Missouri’s Connection To The World Cup

Mike Sorber, SLU/US Men's Team Assistant Coach

The Post-Dispatch had a pair of excellent articles on Sunday in advance of the World Cup. The first, St. Louis has no playing link to World Cup, opens this way It’s the first time that a U.S. World Cup team hasn’t had at least one player with a connection to St. Louis, though in the [...]

Bob Bradley And The Development Of A Coaching Philosophy

Grant Wahl has a new World Cup blog on the Sports Illustrated website and an early story is about US Men’s National Team Head Coach Bob Bradley, who is wrapping up the US Men’s team preliminary training camp at his college alma mater, Princeton University. Wahl notes early that “Bradley is not the emotive type, [...]

US Men’s Team World Cup Roster Discussions

Bob Bradley, US Men's Team Head Coach

US Soccer Head Coach was interviewed as part of the release of the list of 30 players invited to World Cup training later this month. Lot’s of Coach speak but he does address some of the questions about the forwards who were, and weren’t chosen: On what Edson Buddle and Herculez Gomez did to earn [...]

US National Team Update

Red Card Blog (Chicago Tribune) notes that the U.S. national team will face Trinidad and Tobago in a World Cup qualifier at Toyota Park on Sept. 10, should both teams advance to the semi-final round. The U.S. Soccer Federation confirmed the match Monday and said an official announcement will be made as early as this [...]

US Faces Mexico Wednesday Night On ESPN2

From US Soccer – “With the match falling on an international fixture date, this is an excellent opportunity to get the nucleus of our team together as we continue to prepare for World Cup qualifying,” said Head Coach Bob Bradley, who has collected a 13-5-1 record since becoming head coach last year. “The special nature [...]