US Soccer Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/us-soccer Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:48:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-BNyb0KwmkKGrHgoH-C8EjlLlhlGBJrZchZqHQ_35-32x32.jpg US Soccer Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/us-soccer 32 32 Decoding Distaff Indifference Toward Women’s Professional Sport https://www.halphillips.net/decoding-distaff-indifference-toward-professional-womens-sport?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=decoding-distaff-indifference-toward-professional-womens-sport https://www.halphillips.net/decoding-distaff-indifference-toward-professional-womens-sport#respond Thu, 27 Jun 2019 15:02:31 +0000 https://www.halphillips.net/?p=3653 Ever wondered why women’s team sports are watched and otherwise supported so meagerly by women themselves? The underlying premise here may strike one as obtuse, even churlish this week, what with thousands of women in the stands watching the 2019 Women’s World Cup in stadia all over France. But none of last week’s Round of […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/decoding-distaff-indifference-toward-professional-womens-sport/feed 0 The Most Productive Response to World Cup Failure? Choose and Support an MLS Club https://www.halphillips.net/productive-response-world-cup-failure-choose-support-mls-club?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=productive-response-world-cup-failure-choose-support-mls-club https://www.halphillips.net/productive-response-world-cup-failure-choose-support-mls-club#respond Fri, 13 Oct 2017 19:26:31 +0000 http://www.halphillips.net/?p=2989 Instead of asking where U.S. Soccer goes from here, let’s take a bit of time to first understand where we are, and why. Dropping the Oct. 10 match to Trinidad & Tobago and missing out on the Russian World Cup this summer do not change America’s standing in the soccer world. In the grand scheme […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/productive-response-world-cup-failure-choose-support-mls-club/feed 0 US Soccer: Just how bare is thy cupboard? https://www.halphillips.net/us-soccer-just-bare-thy-cupboard?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=us-soccer-just-bare-thy-cupboard https://www.halphillips.net/us-soccer-just-bare-thy-cupboard#respond Fri, 24 Mar 2017 19:00:02 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=2690 Some 60 minutes into what remained of a 1-0 game in San Jose, Costa Rica on Nov. 15, 2016, BeIN color commentator Thomas Rongen festered aloud at the visiting Americans’ inability to go forward. He identified the problem, quite rightly, as originating in the center of midfield, where 29-year-old Michael Bradley dropped ever deeper and […]

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]]> https://www.halphillips.net/us-soccer-just-bare-thy-cupboard/feed 0 Unsightly American Soccer Podcast: April 4, 2011 https://www.halphillips.net/unsightly-american-soccer-podcast-april-4-2011?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unsightly-american-soccer-podcast-april-4-2011 https://www.halphillips.net/unsightly-american-soccer-podcast-april-4-2011#respond Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:55:52 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=466 Join Hal Phillips and a cast of characters/correspondents spanning the Globe to discuss  the burning, hot, molten issues of the footballing day. This week we talk with Tom Wadlington about the two international friendlies the U.S. played last week, vs. Argentina and Paraguay. Hal and Tom also touch on the fate of Jozy Altidore, the […]

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