Lets dive right in.

The US moved up five spots to #28 in the latest FIFA World Rankings after their win over Costa Rica and draw to Mexico last month.  Since Brazil is not playing any qualifiers since they are the host nation, they are continuing to drop (to #19!) since qualifiers are weighed more than friendlies.

For those few people who don’t think Terrence Boyd is a “true” American, he got a new tattoo.

The English Premier League will have goal-line technology next season.

Despite being on loan with Sheffield Wednesday, Stuart Holden took over Bolton Wanderers’ twitter account for a couple hours.  Check out the timeline to see the questions that he answered.

Dylan Fahy writes on Michael Bradley for the NY Times.

As for another Bradley, here is a trailer for a documentary on Egypt’s quest to qualify for the World Cup.

Andrea Canales of ESPN FC has an article up on Herculez Gomez.

Sky Sports has a pretty cool scouting report on Anthony Brooks up on their site.

Brian Sciaretta caught up with Duane Holmes to talk about his new contract offer with Huddersfield Town.

And lets finish with a poorly translated interview with Jerome Kiesewetter.

Want a podcast to pass the time today?  Jurgen Klinsmann spoke to the Mens in Blazers this week.

CONCACAF has made some changes to the Gold Cup regarding the rosters and tiebreakers.

Jason Davis has some words on Herculez Gomez over at ESPNFC.com.  It is pretty crazy that all nine of Gomez’s CCL goals have come against MLS teams.

Doug McIntyre wonders (ESPN Insider) if Steve Cherundolo’s USMNT future is murky.

The USMNT has had some width issues under Klinsmann so Matt Wagner writes about possibly moving Timothy Chandler and Fabian Johnson up to midfield.

Brian Sciaretta caught up with Juan Ocegueda this week to talk about the U-20 World Cup draw.

Continuing with the theme of English teams searching far and wide for American goalkeepers, Reading is signing US U-17 goalkeeper Aleks Gogic.

Enjoy the weekend.

Herculez Gomez now has nine career CONCACAF Champions League goals with all of them coming against MLS teams.  Santos Laguna wins the first leg 1-0.  Here is his goal.

Lets start off with some site-related issues.  You may have noticed that the site has been loading really slowly over the last 24 hours and has its moments like this every so often.  I am currently in talks with the hosting company on trying to fix these issues.

As for the next issue, I know some of you who check out the site on their cell phone will sometimes have some “pay day loans” ad scroll across the site making it tough to read.  This site is not supposed to have ads so something is secretly embedding the ads and I am still working on getting this fixed as well.

As for a minor change that is sort of “fun”.  The comments now give you some Spacer Invader-like icon next to your name instead of the silhouette of the head when you post if you don’t have your own gravatar.

And finally, we are looking for a graphic designer for help with a project that could be really cool if we can pull it off.  What we need help with is outside my level of expertise with photoshop.  Please use the contact page to e-mail us if you are interested.

Now lets get to the links.

Our goal tracker was busy yesterday with Bobby Wood, DaMarcus Beasley and Herculez Gomez all scoring goals.  Also in action on Wednesday was Clarence Goodson in Brøndby’s 1-1 draw in the Danish Cup.

Mexico released its roster for the upcoming qualifiers.  And Jon Arnold gave ASN a quick rundown of Costa Rica’s roster.

Brian Sciaretta took a guess at the names that will appear on the US roster.  While Neil Blackmon takes a look at the US midfield.

If you missed it yesterday, the Gold Cup groups and schedule were released.  And this has sort of been rumored in the past already, but it looks like the June 18th qualifier against Honduras will be in Utah at Rio Tinto.

The always good for a couple of laughs Jimmy Conrad did a video interview with Jozy Altidore.

Brian Sciaretta caught up with Terrence Boyd to talk about his progress at Rapid Vienna and where he stands in the USMNT picture.

It now appears that Juan Ocegueda will not be able to play for Chivas Guadalajara and he can’t be sent to Chivas USA since he would have to enter a MLS lottery so he is in limbo land.

And finally, Anthony Brooks might miss this weekend’s game due to a cold (or thanks to Google Translate, he is just really cold).  And Brooks was called into Germany’s U-20 camp, although some say the U-20 team is not that serious compared to the U-21 team (the U-21 Euros are this summer) in Germany, so this could be a good thing for his US hopes.

Herculez Gomez continues his good form by scoring Santos Laguna’s second goal of the night in a 3-0 win.  With the win, Santos Laguna advances to the semis of CONCACAF Champions League.  Here are the highlights.

Herculez Gomez scored his eighth goal of the season and picked up a yellow card in Santos Laguna’s 2-1 win.  Here is his goal.

Howie’s Pick – Jozy Altidore (AZ Alkmaar – Dutch Eredivisie)

Jozy Altidore had two goals and an assist in mid-week Cup action before adding another goal this weekend. With those goals, he breaks Clint Dempsey’s 2011-12 record for most goals by an American in a European season.

Matt’s Pick – Herculez Gomez (Santos Laguna – Mexican Liga MX)

It is hard to not pick Jozy Altidore, but I also wanted to give Herculez Gomez some love for his two goals and one assist on Friday.  Basically I was going to pick whoever Howie did not.  Both Herc and Jozy had great weeks.

Herculez Gomez heard Jozy Altidore had two goals and an assist earlier this week and decided to do the same in the first 24 minutes tonight.  Santos Laguna ended up winning 3-1.  Here are his goals and his assist.

Herculez Gomez used his head to help set up Santos Laguna’s second goal in this 2-0 win over Leon.  You can see his assist around the 1:22 mark.

Herculez Gomez kicked off the Clausura with a goal in Santos Laguna’s 1-1 draw to San Luis.  With tonight’s goal, Herc now has 32 goals in 85 Liga MX appearances since heading down to Mexico in 2010.  Here is his goal.