When you think of great names associated with the World Cup, Lothar Matthaus’ name has to come somewhere near the top. Matthaus represented Germany on the big stage five times, captaining the county’s 1990 World Cup winning team.
As has been the case with other former great players, Matthaus hasn’t had as much success as [...]

They are a country that does not train at home, play games at home and where the majority of the players do not live at home. Despite the obstacles Iraq miraculously captured the 2007 Asian Cup. Will this success carry over through 2010 World Cup qualifying? We will see in just a [...]

Figuring that now is as good a time as any to get around to naming their respective national team coaches, the United States and Canada are expecting to make the choices official this week.
Canadian U-20 coach Dale Mitchell is expected to take over the helm for a country currently ranked 94th in the world, between [...]

After guiding a young Germany team into the semifinals of the 2006 World Cup, Jurgen Klinsmann has been in demand. The coach has been linked to national team managing jobs in the United States, and Australia and, most recently he has been linked with Chelsea. Today it was announced that he will be [...]

That quick little search for the next United States national soccer coach seems to be taking a bit longer than some might have anticipated, but in the interim we can all sit back and be entertained by the speculation and rumors.
A few days back we learned that former Argentina Jose Pekerman would take [...]

Former Argentina head coach Jose Pekerman is now the apparent front runner to become the US national team coach. According to newspaper reports in Mexico (interesting place for this to leak out), U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati said of Pekerman, “We did not sign the contract yet, but it just lacks some details.”
The reports [...]

Mexico legend Hugo Sanchez has been tapped as the country’s new football coach. It has been widely speculated the past few weeks that the former Real Madrid striker would take over for Ricardo La Volpe, who left to guide Boca Juniors after the World Cup. I think this was the best choice for [...]

There has been speculation for some time now that Diego Maradona would one day become a manager and on that day the team he would lead would be Argentina. Those plans might be changed a bit if Honduras has their ways. The Central American country has opened up discussions with the legend about [...]

The vacant United States coaching gig remains vacant for now, but an announcement from the United States Soccer Federation is expected sometime in November. One person that is in the mix is Liverpool legend and current MLS New England Revolutions coach Steve Nichol who wants the job but thinks he won’t get it.
“I’d be [...]

It wasn’t long ago when I was wondering how Luis Aragones has remained the coach of Spain. Well, apparently his bosses have more confidence that he is the right man for the job than I do. Aragones has signed a contract extension to guide Spain through Euro 2008.
Aragones did lead Spain to a [...]