DaMarcus Beasley came off the bench and scored the then tying goal, but Puebla lost 2-1 to Tigres today.  Michael Orozco Fiscal started for Puebla, while Jose Torres started for Tigres.  Here is Beasley’s goal.

I just want to link again to the footage of Stuart Holden running around as it makes me happy to see.

Speaking of Holden, Bolton manager told BBC Radio Manchesterthat Holden could make his senior-team return next Tuesday in Bolton’s FA Cup replay at Sunderland.

Will Packwood is going to have a third round of surgery to insert a metal plate into his leg.

Zach Pfeffer scored again for Hoffenheim’s U-19 team in his second friendly with the club.

Michael Parkhurst got the start at right back in Augsburg’s 4-1 win over Hansa Rostock in a friendly on Wednesday.  Here is also a photo of Parkhurst in action.

Bob Bradley and Egypt lost to Ghana today, 3-0, in a friendly.

While most of Brøndby’s players are looking for new homes with the club’s financial issues, Clarence Goodson is not ready to return to the US/MLS.

US Soccer continues its “MNT in…..” series with Jose Torres in Mexico.

Will Parchman takes a look at everyone’s favorite Icelandic-American forward Aron Johannsson.

Travis Clark updates us on the latest US U-20 camp.  And Brian Sciaretta has an interview with US U-20 forward Daniel Cuevas.

And finally, Steven Goff has a story up on Joe Gyau.

It looks like the site’s server woke up from its post-turkey nap and is running somewhat faster.  That all said, here are a few links from the last week or so.

This report out of Scotland has Celtic manager Neil Lennon wanting to sign Juan Agudelo after impressing during his training stint with the Scottish club.  STV Sport also did a 13-minute video interview with Agudelo right here.

Some Danish reports are saying Jurgen Klinnsman will help Michael Parkhurst find a new club come January.

Jose Torres is making the move from Pachuca to Tigres UANL.

Staying in Mexico, Tijuana (Joe Corona, Edgar Castillo, Greg Garza) are headed to the Liga MX final to face Toluca after defeating Leon 3-2 on aggregate.  Both Corona and Castillo started in yesterday’s second-leg victory.  By making the final, they also earned a spot in the 2013-14 CONCACAF Champions League.

Greg Seltzer talked to Matt Taylor last week about his success in Germany.

The Bolton News recently did an interview with Tim Ream.  Ream started at defensive midfielder on Saturday in Bolton’s 1-1 draw to Brighton & Hove Albion.

Continuing with the interviews, Brian K. Blickenstaff spent some time with Danny Williams in Germany.

Brian Sciaretta looks at some potential options for the USMNT central defense aside from Geoff Cameron.

Here is a highlight video of Kemi Kings’ Christian Eissele and his 2012 season in Finland, which saw him lead the Kakkonen in goals.

As for some noteworthy performances from the weekend.  Fabian Johnson scored for Hoffenheim in their 2-1 loss to Bayer Leverkusen (highlights here).  Clint Dempsey assisted on one goal and “hockey” assisted on another in Tottenham’s 3-1 victory over West Ham United (highlights here).  And Charlie Davies head-butted a guy (highlights here).

Marc Heider scored his eighth goal of the season in Holstein Kiel’s 3-0 win over Victoria Hamburg in German Regionalliga action.  Eugene Starikov is starting to get more playing time in Russia, getting another start for Rostov in their 2-0 win over Mordovia Saransk.  And Bobby Wood has fought his way back from injuries to make an appearance off the bench (16 minutes) for 1860 Munich in their 2-2 draw to Union Berlin.

So Landon Donovan scored a big goal for the Galaxy tonight.  He recently talked to Julie Foudy about the uncertainty that is his future with the USMNT and soccer in general.  And someone started a funny Sad Landon twitter account.

Jurgen Klinsmann had a pre-Russia friendly teleconference today in which he talked about a variety of topics including Donovan and Jozy Altidore.  You can check out the questions/quotes right here.

Donovan’s Galaxy teammate Omar Gonzalez talked to Ives Galarecp this week about returning from injury and working towards a spot with the USMNT.

A report out of Mexico has Jose Torres headed to Tigres UANL come December.

Greg Seltzer talked to Conor O’Brien earlier this week about his ambitions beyond playing in Denmark.

Brian Sciaretta got some quotes from Anthony Brooks about his season so far at Hertha Berlin.

Here is a video interview with Sacha Kljestan.

And I first posted about Maki Tall last week, but it looks like he has been called into a camp with France’s U-18 team.

Fresh off Tuesday”s victory over Jamaica, Jose Torres was in the lineup tonight for Pachuca and scored what turned out to be the game winner in Pachuca’s 3-2 victory.  Here are the highlights, including his goal around the 1:08 mark.

A lot of injuries in the last 48 hours which will affect the US roster for Wednesday’s friendly.  I am guessing Klinsmann will add a player or two to the roster.

* As Howie reported yesterday, Jermaine Jones is out with a calf injury.

* Timothy Chandler picked up a gluteal muscle strain and will be out the next 2-3 weeks.

* Jose Torres picked up an injury on Saturday night and is likely out for this week’s game.

* And Italy finally announced their roster for Wednesday’s game.  No Mario Balotelli.

***UPDATE***

* Grant Wahl is reporting that Landon Donovan has the flu and might be out for this week’s game as well.  Well crap.

***UPDATE #2***

US Soccer has officially announced that Torres, Donovan and Chandler are out and that Brek Shea and Sacha Kljestan have been added to the roster.  And further roster additions may be made Monday afternoon.

A bunch of different things to check out today.

Apparently all the cool kids are going out on training stints with various teams across Europe.  Omar Salgado will be at Fulham for two weeks.  According to his agent, Juan Agudelo will be in Germany with VfB Stuttgart.  Kyle Berckerman and Robbie Rogers will also be in Germany, but with Kaiserslautern.  And also according to that last link, U-23er Perry Kitchen will be at SC Freiburg.

Jurgen Klinsmann speaks and the players listen.

Staying with the USMNT….I tweeted this on Monday, but there are some rumors that the Camp Cupcake could be headed down to Panama for a game in January.  I also just read that a Galavision announcer said during the US-Slovenia game that the US will play Guatemala in Seattle as well as another unknown opponent at an unknown stadium during that same time period (possibly the Panama match?).  But these are just internet rumors at this point.

Some last few reads with the U-23 team.  Claudio Reyna talks about the youth program, Anthony Brooks gives us a recap of the recent camp in Germany and Conor Doyle also talks about some camp stuff.

Some other odds and ends.

Michael Parkhurst has signed a year extension with FC Nordsjælland.

Jose Torres is close to returning to the field after missing some time with an operation to his left foot.

And finally, CONCACAF has released the 2014 World Cup qualifying schedule.  The US starts things off on Friday, June 8, 2012 against Antigua & Barbuda (that is one team, not two teams, as that would be tough playing 11 vs. 22).

Here are a few links for Wednesday night.

Greg Seltzer talks to OT favorite Matt Taylor about his time in Germany and the possibility of returning to MLS in the future.

Just when it looked like he was finding his groove within the USMNT under Jurgen Klinsmann, Jose Torres broke a bone in his left foot which required a surgery and he will be out for a couple months.

Brian Sciaretta recently caught up with Andrew Wooten to talk about training with the first team at Kaiserslautern.  Wooten scored 15 goals in 29 games with Kaiserslautern’s U-23 team in the Regionalliga last year and has bagged two goals in eight games this year.

The guys over at ESPN Insider’s USMNT blog take their shot at the US World Cup roster for 2014.

Brent Latham wonders when US Soccer will finally replace Bradenton with the Development Academy.

And while we are on the youth talk, Ryan McCormack writing at The Shin Guardian takes a look at the state of American youth soccer at this current time.

Also missed earlier today, Conor O’Brien scored a goal for SønderjyskE in their 1-0 victory over Svebølle in the Danish Cup.  I will be on the lookout for some highlights of it.

Super sub Herculez Gomez came off the bench, played 20 minutes and scored the game-winner in the 89th minute against Jose Torres and his former club Pachuca.  Here are some highlights, including his goal.

A little bit of this and that for Tuesday.

Thanks to Tom for finding some footage of the US-Israel Milk Cup game from yesterday.  Both of the goals can be found in the last 45 seconds of this video.

Brent Latham talked to US U-18 head coach Mike Matkovich about the ongoing Milk Cup.

Latham also has a story up on ESPN Soccernet about Jose Torres’ attempt to get back into the USMNT picture.

While Alejandro Bedoya has agreed to a deal with Rangers to join the club after his contract ends this winter, Rangers really really want him now.

Danish side Brøndby apparently made some recent attempts to acquire Teal Bunbury from Sporting Kansas City, but had both offers rejected by MLS/Sporting KC.

Sebastian Lletget came off the bench and got some minutes with West Ham’s first team in a recent preseason friendly against Dagenham & Redbridge.

And finally, Jermaine Jones has returned to training with Schalke although the club would like to sell him, but there are not a lot of buyers out there interested in his services (likely due to his big contract).