The LA Galaxy enter the two-week World Cup break undefeated after beating the visiting Houston Dynamo 4-1. Forward Jovan Kirovski led the scoring charge with a first-half brace while forward Tristan Bowen and midfielder Alex Cazumba supplied the second half strikes. It took just 47 seconds for the Galaxy to get on the board. Ivan [...]

A team cannot perform well unless the players are on the same page. If they wish to excel, that page must be well fitted to their individual and collective talents. The best coach builds his plan around his players, ingrains its execution into them, and adjusts as the season’s variables change the players available and [...]

DC United can only be left with a sense of bewilderment after losing to the New England Revolution on Saturday night. Two games into the 2010 season, the team has no points and no goals. “I thought we moved the ball, I thought we created chances,” said head coach Curt Onalfo after the loss to New England. “Unfortunately you have to finish those chances.” And therein lay the rub.

DC United coaching staff have been testing Santino Quaranta as the team’s creative midfielder this preseason. It is part of a larger plan to broaden DC United’s attack this season and its success (or failure) will directly influence the team’s acquisition targets at midseason. ASN’s Steve Long reports from the nation’s capital.

RFK Stadium has seen many hard fought U.S. National Team games and this one was no exception. After going down 2-0 in the first half, the Yanks rallied before a Jonathan Bornstein header deep into stoppage time clinched a 2-2 draw and first place in the Hex. After the match the Chivas USA defender had some interesting observations about overlapping coaching styles at club and country.

Coach Tom Soehn used the 10 day break to drive home the importance of wide play through consistent training and was fortunate to have an opponent well suited to allow his players to grow comfortable with it. His youngsters executed the plan with discipline and effectiveness to pull out a 3-0 victory which gives United the tiebreaking edge over Marathon.

DC United head coach Tom Soehn has this year faced the difficult task of integrating an unusually large number of talented young players into an aging, but still competent squad. Under a normal league play schedule, the team might have expected a smooth integration. But the addition of many mid-week games has had a triple whammy effect on United, from which the club may not recover this season.

DC United shook off the rust of an 11 day rest period, brought on their veteran calming influence at halftime and ran away from a Colorado Rapids team that hasn’t won at RFK in over a decade. Christian Gomez played the role of energized returnee proving himself against the team that sought and then spurned him.

Witness the ascension of Charlie Davies who grew into an impact player during the Confederations Cup and then raised the level of the U.S. Men’s National Team last night at RFK Stadium when he entered the game. Or take Robbie Rogers. He is less well tested, but shares a drive and purpose with Davies that [...]

Parity has provided a plethora of ties in Major League Soccer this season, which among others has meant that each game remains in the balance until the last second. That state of affairs has made Coach Tom Soehn’s attempts to rebuild DC United especially risky. His choice to build the future by playing rookies often, [...]