Malouda Takes Five
16 May 2008
Soccer is all about taking the opportunities that get put in front of you. We caught up with French sensation Florent Malouda in Paris and shot five questions at him to find out what makes him tick.
Q: You’ve got some serious power in your shooting boots. Talk us through the 30-yard scorcher you scored for the Europe All-Stars against Man. Utd last year.
A: The crucial thing here is really tight control that allowed me to get my shot in quickly, and this doesn’t give the keeper time to react. I gave the ball a bit of outswing so it goes away from the keeper and pretty close to th ...
Training For Success
12 March 2008
The headlines have been singing Tarp’s praises all year, and with good reason. Lindsay Tarpley is in the finest form of her career. She earned the Top Scorer award at the Four Nations Tournament, she's the leading scorer for the WNT in 2008 with six goals and her stellar play is a big ...
The Anatomy Of An Assassin
25 January 2008
To get better you have to learn from the best. You have to surround yourself with people who live and breathe soccer; people who wake up with an eye for goal and go to sleep dreaming of the ball in the back of the net.
So, with no further ado, we introduce the greatest goal-scorer in US Me ...
Born and Bred
26 April 2007
Michael Bradley is one of American soccer’s favorite sons, and not just because the guy he calls “Dad” happens to be the current coach of the US MNT. Sure it made a difference, but Mike’s the product of so much more than a fortunate soccer legacy. While others were gr ...
Per Ardua ad Astra
23 April 2007
Inked into central midfielder Benny Feilhaber's 22-year old left forearm, where his short-sleeved U.S. MNT jersey cannot conceal, is a personalized reminder, written skin-deep in black Latin calligraphy. It reads, “Per Ardua ad Astra,” which translates into English as “Thro ...
The Next Generation: 365 Talks with C ...
28 March 2007
Following her jaw-dropping, tournament MVP performance at the 2007 Algarve Cup, 365 Todays knew it had to get a hold of US WNT midfielder Carli Lloyd and introduce her to the world she’s about to take over. Thankfully she agreed to sit down, dial us up, and talk about her role on the W ...