Anthony Brooks recently did an interview with Berliner Kurier where he claims that he will make a decision on US vs. Germany in the coming weeks.
Mr. Soccer Insider Steven Goff is being told that Bryan Gerzicich might be making a move to MLS this summer. Greg Seltzer is also hearing the same thing and adds that he has an offer from a team in Belgium.
In the “sounds about right for his crazy career” department, Freddy Adu has been at the club for about a week now and his manager at Brazilian side Bahia has already been fired.
Brian Span and Djurgården’s game against Mjällby on Monday was suspended due to Djurgården’s fans throwing beer bottles onto the field.
Want to see Michael Bradley in an Italian Volkswagen ad? Why not.
US U-20 forward Daniel Cuevas has returned to full training after tearing his meniscus at the CONCACAF U-20 Championship.
Joe Gyau did a Google Hangout with SWOL yesterday where he talked about life in Germany and the USMNT among other things.
Jason Davis is doing a new morning daily show and had Terrence Boyd on as one of his first guests.
It was only a friendly, but Christian Eissele scored a goal this weekend in Kemi Kings’ 3-1 win over Alex Molano, Lester Dewee and Bodens BK.
The US U-17 team opened up the CONCACAF U-17 Championship with a 3-0 win over Haiti. They play Guatemala next on Thursday.
We don’t post Israeli Premier League highlights that often, but I saw there were some available for Saturday’s game with Bryan Gerzicich. Gerzicich got the start and went the full 90 minutes in Ironi Kiryat Shmona’s 4-3 win. Here are the highlights.
Clint Dempsey was named Fútbol de Primera’s US Soccer 2012 Player of the Year for the second straight year. It was Dempsey’s third time winning the award (also in 2006), but Michael Bradley probably would have won my vote.
Speaking of Dempsey, Fulham have accepted Liverpool’s apology over their recruitment of Dempsey over the summer and have withdrawn their complaint.
Tim Howard will be making his 200th consecutive Premier League appearance on Saturday. Timmy!
Steve Davis had breakfast with Jurgen Klinsmann recently and they talked about Carlos Bocanegra’s current role with the USMNT.
Bobby Wood has played his way into a new contract with 1860 Munich through the 2014-15 season.
Brian Sciaretta caught up with Sebastian Lletget to talk about breaking through with West Ham United.
Bryan Gerzicich has been cleared to play again for Ironi Kiryat Shmona after picking up a calf injury.
Benny Feilhaber signed with Sporting KC this week, but he apparently had some European suitors according to Greg Seltzer.
Seltzer also tells us that Alejandro Bedoya has been offered an extension by Helsingborg, while Swedish champions Elfsborg are also interested in his services.
A bunch of clubs are interested in Michael Parkhurst, who is now a free agent.
According to this report, Klinsmann has contacted Aron Johannsson about playing for the US and he “is now in doubt” over his decision.
Conor O’Brien has turned down a couple offers already and is meeting up with some more new teams according to his agent.
Rapid Vienna might be interested in Mix Diskerud. Much like with Boyd’s move, USMNT assistant Andreas Herzog was the reference. Speaking of Boyd, here is a Google-translated interview he recently did.
Adam Henley was invited to the upcoming US U-20 camp, but Blackburn nixed that idea.
San Antonio Scorpions defender Karsten Smith is currently on trial at Finnish side VPS.
Bryan Gerzicich got the start and went the full 90 minutes in Ironi Kiryat Shmona’s 4-3 loss to Lyon. Ironi Kiryat Shmona fell behind 3-1 in the first half, but came back to tie things up only to give up the game-winning goal in injury time. Here are the highlights.
I am sure that post title will attract some fun Google search key words.
The big news of the day was BeIN Sport announcing that it bought the TV rights to all the US road World Cup qualifiers (minus the potential game against Mexico at Azteca in the Hex) for the rest of this cycle. BeIN Sport is the new Al-Jazeera backed TV station which has been buying up all of GolTV’s old rights (i.e. La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1). This means no more PPV/closed circuit games for the US during qualification. BeIN Sport is already on DirecTV and Dish Network and hopefully should be picked up by cable providers in the future (I am looking at you Time Warner Cable). Steven Goff has all the details right here, plus some other information on the upcoming September camp.
A couple days after Rangers manager Ally McCoist claimed that Ipswich Town made a bid on Maurice Edu, Ipswich Town manager Paul Jewell denied the claim.
Brian Straus recently caught up with Jozy Altidore about his great start to the season.
Birmingham City manager Lee Clark had some nice words about Jonathan Spector and Will Packwood.
I am a week late on this, but Sporting CP have left Oguchi Onyewu off their Europa League roster and there is some speculation that he could be on his way out of the club.
Marcus Hahnemann was on the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast radio show earlier today and claimed that he is in the process of moving his family to Seattle. No word if he is done playing or if he has another job lined up.
Greg Seltzer decided to make some bold predictions on some Americans in Europe for this season.
Tom Marshall is reporting that the USMNT might be looking at Mexican-American goalkeeper Cirilo Saucedo who currently plays at Club Tijuana.
Sticking with goalkeepers, Matt Pyzdrowski has been missing time with Swedish side Angelholms FF due to a concussion and now he has been ruled out for the rest of the season. His latest concussion was his third in the last six months. He made a statement, which you can read right here.
After a couple trials across England/Scotland the past couple months, Anton Peterlin is now back in the US and on trial with the Colorado Rapids.
While Sacha Kljestan and Anderlecht lost in Champions League action on Tuesday, Bryan Gerzicich’s Ironi Kiryat Shmona lost 2-0 to BATE, but Gerzicich did not play due to a torn meniscus.
Bryan Gerzicich and Ironi Kiryat Shmona advanced to the next round of Champions League after winning 6-2 on aggregate. Gerzicich got the start and played 57 minutes in today’s 2-2 draw. Here are the highlights from today.
Nothing like posting some links while the Real Housewives of Orange County yell at each other in the background (please save me!).
While it looked like Geoff Cameron was close to heading to Stoke City last week, it now appears that Stoke City and MLS are a good million dollars away from agreeing on something.
Michael Bradley is officially at Roma and here is some footage from his first day at practice (thanks to Armando for sending this in).
Carlos Bocanegra and Maurice Edu got blessing from the new ownership at Rangers to leave the club and look for a new team.
Charlie Davies did not make his Randers debut this past weekend, but he talked to Brian Sciaretta about his move to Denmark.
Here is what Robbie Findley and Nottingham Forest will be wearing in home games this upcoming season. I have always liked their tree badge/logo.
Brian Span came off the bench and played 45 minutes today in Djurgården’s 1-1 draw to Norrköping.
The second-qualifying round of Champions League starts up this week with Bryan Gerzicich and Ironi Kiryat Shmona playing Žilina tomorrow and Josh Gatt/Molde FK and Daniel Brkovic/Željezničar both playing on Wednesday.
