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Sports Illustrated May 2, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Starting at the Top The U.S. is unbeaten in World Cup qualifying. Why is the once-struggling team so torrid?  |
Sports Illustrated October 9, 2001 Grant Wahl |
Mastermind In qualifying for the World Cup, U.S. coach Bruce Arena pushed all the right buttons...  |
Sports Illustrated July 2, 2003 Grant Wahl |
Inside Soccer: Razov's Edge What will it take for the red-hot Ante Razov to make the U.S. team?  |
Sports Illustrated June 20, 2002 Grant Wahl |
World Class By thumping archrival Mexico, the U.S. punched through to soccer's elite eight, its best showing in 72 years.  |
Sports Illustrated June 19, 2001 Ian Thomsen |
A Very Fine Line A retooled defense is spearheading the U.S.'s strong run in World Cup qualifying...  |
Sports Illustrated May 14, 2003 Grant Wahl |
Inside Soccer: Hitting Home After 12 months of foreign success, Brian McBride is thriving Stateside.  |
Sports Illustrated June 18, 2002 Grant Wahl |
Arena football U.S. soccer coach rides instinct into round of eight.  |
Salon.com July 2, 2002 Andrew O'Hehir |
Ten things I learned about life and soccer from the 2002 World Cup There is a football God, and despite the wild twists and turns of this year's tournament, He's still Brazilian.  |
Sports Central March 31, 2005 Kevin Beane |
World Cup Fever, Anyone? Sports fans who find themselves lost between seasons, or in the midst of boring ones, may find that soccer fills the void quite nicely -- particularly, the high-stakes, world cup level.  |
Sports Central February 12, 2009 Kevin Beane |
Liveblogging the USA/Mexico Match The U.S. Men's National Soccer Team kicks off the final round of World Cup qualifiers against its toughest opponent in the region and their bitter rivals -- Mexico.  |
Sports Illustrated May 2, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Inside Soccer Poised and creative, Chris Albright powered the U.S. into the Olympics  |
Sports Illustrated September 23, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Coming of age U.S. men's soccer joins ranks of the world's best...  |
Salon.com May 30, 2002 Andrew O'Hehir |
The greatest show on earth It's World Cup time again -- when more than a billion people will be enthralled not just by the joy of victory and agony of defeat, but also by the mystery and despair that is championship soccer...  |
Sports Illustrated June 20, 2002 Grant Wahl |
German studies If the Americans are going to beat Germany -- and I think it's entirely possible as Germany was the least impressive of the eight second-round winners -- they'll have to prevent the Germans from running roughshod over them in the midfield.  |
Sports Central May 13, 2006 Piet Van Leer |
The Idiot's Guide to the World Cup In less than one month, the grandest tournament on the planet kicks off -- the World Cup of football, or what Americans call soccer.  |
Sports Central June 28, 2007 Kevin Beane |
The Gold Cup is Golden (Pt. 2) A recap of the Gold Cup playoffs.  |
Salon.com June 12, 2002 Andrew O'Hehir |
Sacre bleu! Dios mio! It's the Bizarro World Cup! France fades into Sartrean nothingness, Argentina dances the tango of despair and the United States and Japan, titans of world baseball -- sorry, I mean soccer -- rise up.  |
Sports Illustrated August 31, 2001 |
Donovan's big chance Every indication is that 19-year-old American soccer player Landon Donovan will get his first World Cup qualifying start on Saturday when the U.S. meets Honduras.  |
Sports Illustrated September 19, 2002 Grant Wahl |
Unfamiliar refrain The Yanks are coming! The Yanks are coming! The U.S. is a decent side on the international stage now, one that has to be taken seriously by any team in the world. And that's a huge advance from what any European would have said before the World Cup.  |
Sports Central June 2, 2011 Kevin Beane |
2011 Gold Cup Preview Nearly a year has passed since the World Cup has passed, which is usually the beginning and the end of United States interest in soccer.  |
Sports Central May 9, 2014 Kevin Beane |
World Cup Preview, Groups E and F Groups E and F include Switzerland, Ecuador, Argentina, and more.  |
Sports Illustrated June 17, 2002 Tim Layden |
Give soccer a chance If there were justice in the sports universe, the players from an amazing spring would momentarily step aside today. All would understand that what is taking place in the World Cup is just a little bit better than what they are doing or have done.  |
Sports Illustrated May 21, 2002 Grant Wahl |
Soccer coverage SI's coverage of soccer is expanding -- just not as fast as, say, boating...  |
Sports Central June 29, 2010 Brad Oremland |
Why I Don't Love Soccer Why has the beautiful game of soccer, something easy both to play and to understand, failed to make headway against baseball and basketball and American football?  |