Tag: USMNT

  • What to do when the World Cup is over, 2018 edition

    In 2010, the first World Cup where I really paid attention to my own country’s team and cheered them on in a more-than-casual way, I was crushed after they lost to Ghana in the Round of 16, and I wrote this post about what to do next to keep paying attention to soccer, while being an…

  • Cahill, Drogba, Torres, Dempsey. Wait, Dempsey?

    Remember when I told you to keep paying attention to U.S. soccer in between World Cups? Well, if you’re paying attention to the English Premier League right now, you might notice Clint Dempsey’s name popping up among some pretty prestigious strikers. You might remember Dempsey from the 2010 World Cup as the guy who put…

  • Five ways you can keep supporting USA soccer

    Congratulations to the millions of American sports fans who started paying attention to the United States men’s soccer team over the last few weeks at the World Cup! No, really, I’m not being sarcastic this time — you’ve been awesome. Tweeting about the team’s chances, the watershed draw against England, the stunning way they won…