The US National team is kicking themselves a bit this evening after a 2:2 draw against Poland at Chicago’s Soldier Field. Despite taking the lead on two occasions and outshooting the Euro 2012 co-hosts 17-8 on the evening, struggles in the back line for the Americans prevented them from sealing the victory.

We’ll be providing full coverage of tonight’s friendly match in Chicago between the US and Poland. Keep it here for all the pre-match and in-match commentary, and we’ll follow it up with a post-match recap.

At the World Cup this summer, both England and France fans were dealt some disappointing blows. Sure, the details of what happened in the squads may be different. Arguably, what happened to France was by far worse. While England merely fizzled out (with a few sparks-both good and bad) during the tournament, France exploded. I [...]

Marcelo Bielsa may never be forgiven by Argentina fans for crashing out of the 2002 World Cup in the first round.  His Argentine team were considered favorites after winning the CONMEBOL regional qualifiers, but couldn’t get past either England or Sweden in the group stage.  In hindsight, his tactics (once praised) were dubbed too inflexible, [...]

Credit for this story goes to our much more informed readers, Andrea4m and hkfczrqi.  While doing the previews for today’s international games, I noticed that ESPN had Chile playing in two friendlies tonight against both Northern Ireland and Israel.  Silly ESPN, I thought, clearly this must be an error.  Well, actually, there was an initial 30 [...]

In preparation for South Africa, several World Cup bound teams are playing in friendlies today to physically warmup and mentally prepare for the juggernaut tournament this summer.  Amongst today’s games, fans can look forward to seeing former England coach Sven Eriksson’s Ivory Coast for the first time since he was hired, if Nigeria can overcome [...]

Interesting day of pre-World Cup friendlies that threaten to throw all we know about the World Cup up in the air. For a start, New Zealand as you can see above, beat Serbia to get Kiwki pulses racing that little bit faster in the build up to South Africa.
To put that in perspective, Serbia [...]

When Raymond Domenech leads the French team onto the field on Sunday, in their World Cup friendly versus Tunisia, he will equal Michel Hildago’s record of 75 matches in charge of Les Bleus.  But unlike Domenech, Hidalgo is a revered figure in France’s footballing history.  He led the France team of the midfield “magic square” [...]

No, the video below isn’t the reception I got from my co-workers this morning after returning to work about a week-long vacation. Instead it is from last week’s friendly between Panama and Venezuela. The match, which served as a final tune up for Venezuela before they commence World Cup qualifying in October, ended [...]

International football makes its return to the center stage this weekend and what a return it promises to be. Four teams in Oceania are playing for three spots in the next round of World Cup qualifying. Euro 2008 qualifying returns with some tasty matchups. They are still battling out in Africa with [...]