Sideline Views

Cobi Jones apparently picked soccer over baseball long before Taylor Twellman and Marvell Wynne ever came along to make the same choice, bu...

It's pretty amazing that two players who became a couple of the most important cogs in the U.S. national team hailed from the same high ...

Sometimes when you watch a soccer game, it's easy to forget all the hard work that the players put in to get to where they are. Soccer p...

Seems we had a visitor from Croatia check out Sideline Views sometime during the night, well, our night. I have actually seen Croatia play i...

A comment ages ago on this blog chastized us for the non-seriousness of this blog, wondering why we didn't provide more expert analysis ...

The U.S. and Mexico will have more than just a common opponent in the upcoming week. The two nations have a similarity when it comes to thei...

Seems Nery Castillo won't play for Mexico ever. He reportedly told a Greek publication that he prefers to play for Greece over his nativ...

Most of us associate FIFA with the World Cup, international events and on-the-field action. But the sport's powerful governing body also...

Greece is the latest nation to join our merry little bunch here. Greece had probably the biggest upset in soccer history when they won Euro ...

Wednesday's interview of Laurent Merlin might have been the strangest I have ever been in on. While Chivas was finishing their training ...

Sacha Kljestan could be overlooked in Chivas USA's midfield. He shares the middle of the field with Jesse Marsch, perhaps the team's...

I contemplated not putting this up simply because the quality was not the greatest. Plus the host of the event was right smack in the backgr...

I'm a sucker for the fan tribute videos.

For quite a while now, Mexico has courted Nery Castillo. Born in San Luis Potosi to Uruguayan parents, Castillo has played for Greek side Ol...

Cobi Jones is the last U.S. player who played in the 1994 World Cup who is still active in Major League Soccer as a player.

Last clip. I let this one run in an attempt to get a goal but nothing. About 20 seconds after I gave up, of course, someone scored.

More stuff from Wednesday's training session.

Some of Chivas USA's training session from Wednesday. It was something like 7 on 7. The guys in blue bibs are pretty much the starters, ...

HDC isn't too close to Hollywood but sometimes some of the lights and cameras make their way down the way to our neck of the woods. Alon...

From Mark Abbott's speech about Cobi Jones : “In the player draft four years ago, we drafted a young player on the New York team. He wa...