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 ...
Boxxy Breaks it Down
10 March 2008
The US WNT is absolutely unstoppable at the moment. They just booked a spot in the finals of the Algarve Cup for a record sixth time. The team followed their opening win against China with a 2-0 defeat of Italy and a stunning second-half performance against Norway for a 4-0 victory.
The wo ...
Abby Wambach: The Yang in my Life
06 March 2008
The US WNT keeps on rolling through 2008, as they devastate China 4-0 in their Algarve Cup opener. The US has now scored a remarkable 13 goals in their first four matches of the year - their most to start a year since 2000.
Playing a crucial role in the rout was WNT striker, Abby Wambach. ...
One-On-One: Michael Bradley
14 February 2008
You can’t argue with the stats: six games in a row with at least one goal, ten goals in the last ten matches, thirteen league goals and seventeen goals in all competitions for second-placed Heerenveen. Not to mention goals against both Eredivisie powerhouses, Ajax and PSV..
The unden ...
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 ...
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