Highlights: U.S. U23 MNT trounces the Bahamas 5-1
Olympic qualification for 2016 is some ways off, but U.S. Soccer is making clear that there won’t be a repeat of the 2012 fiasco. The U.S. U23, which already had a camp earlier this season, traveled to...
View ArticleJurgen Klinsmann’s roster for September’s friendly is a wonderland
Drink this one in. What we have here is a senior team coach trying desperately to woo hipster-nerd fans with a cadre of young, talented players. Or that’s what it feels like. And it’s working. The U.S....
View ArticleHighlights: U.S. U23s smash Bosnia 5-2; Jordan Morris does a thing
The American U23 team squared off against Bosnia on Friday and recorded a cracking 5-2 win. Goals from Fatai Alashe, Mario Rodriguez, Benji Joya, Alonso Hernandez and, yes, Jordan Morris paced the...
View ArticleJordan Morris’ first USMNT goal came against Mexico in his first start
It happened. Jordan Morris, all 20 years of him, scored his first U.S. national team goal on Wednesday in his first career start. That it was against Mexico only upped the stakes for one of America’s...
View ArticleThere is no Jurgen Klinsmann-led Jordan Morris conspiracy
In 1991, Oliver Stone’s generally well-received JFK reopened the public door to the darkest corners of our neurosis on the eponymous president’s death. Through the course of the movie, main character...
View ArticleThe U.S. won (somehow) against the Dutch in Amsterdam
Mark this one down in the Things That Make Sense In Hindsight Only To Those Who’ve Sort Of Lost Their Mind category. Because this made as much sense as a 300-page ecological survey on coal output in...
View ArticleJurgen Klinsmann Announces 23-man Gold Cup Roster
The 2015 Gold Cup kicks off in less than two weeks, and both expectations and pressure are higher than ever. With an easy ticket to the 2017 Confederations Cup on the line, can the US lock up their...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes with Stanford Soccer
For most kids grinding through youth leagues across the country, college soccer is a step along a path towards a professional career. But while most fans and would-be stars keep up-to-date on the...
View ArticleJordan Morris has a record offer on the table to turn pro, again
For much of the past year, the largest issue swirling around U.S. Soccer involved the metaphysical question of relevance, of whether the U.S. can finally shed its reputation as a card-carrying member...
View ArticleChristian Pulisic and Jordan Morris are taking Germany by storm
Something something American at a German club something something explosion. At the same time Christian Pulisic’s been ripping through Borussia Dortmund’s midwinter hibernation in the Middle East,...
View ArticleJordan Morris (probably) made the right decision by choosing Seattle
Jordan Morris is probably choosing to stay home. There is an old truism in life that you do your best work out of a place of comfort. This is often mistaken for a vague idea of something called a...
View ArticleJordan Morris just became the highest profile Homegrown in MLS history
Jordan Morris cleared the final step to the showroom floor at Seattle’s The Ninety and the flashbulbs popped and crackled like fireworks. Flanked by Adrian Hanauer, Garth Lagerwey, Sigi Schmid and...
View ArticleMorris nets first professional goal for Seattle
A year and a day after scoring his first and only goal for the U.S. men’s national team, Jordan Morris found the back of the net at the professional level for the first time. Morris scored in the 71st...
View ArticleWe just had one of the great weekends ever for the #PlayYourKids movement
On Friday, the announcement we’d spied from a distance finally came to pass. Haji Wright, the electric winger who’d had brief stays with LA Galaxy’s academy team and the New York Cosmos between two...
View ArticleVideo: Jordan Morris, Matt Besler gear up for Copa America push
That, friends, is the deck view from the Jordan Morris family home on Mercer Island in the middle of Lake Washington. Not. Bad. U.S. Soccer today released a video cataloguing the moments before...
View ArticleJordan Morris scores goal while Cristian Roldan talks about Jordan Morris
Jordan Morris is on some kind of form lately. As if directly responding to Jurgen Klinsmann’s bizarre and empirically incorrect decision to leave him off the Copa America 23-man roster, Morris has...
View ArticleJordan Morris is a learning computer
Jordan Morris is not – nor likely will ever be – a hold-up striker. There was some doubt about this early in his career. At Stanford under Jeremy Gunn, Morris was used as one of the two attacking...
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