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U.S. Soccer Defeat Would Qualify As A World Class Crisis
by Filip Bondy (Preview | New York Daily News - June 6)
Nobody is quaking in their cleats quite yet. But if the U.S. national team doesn't win tonight's World Cup qualifier against Honduras at Soldier Field, expect the sort of self-examination not experienced among American soccer officials for two decades. more details | go to article

Jozy Altidore's Three Scores Do Trick For U.S. Over Trinidad And Tobago
by Filip Bondy (Result | New York Daily News - April 2)
When Jozy Altidore left the Red Bulls last June to seek fame and fortune in Spain, he soon found himself in the typical soccer purgatory that awaits most young Americans overseas. more details | go to article

Michael Bradley Scores Twice, USA Breezes Past Mexico
by Filip Bondy (Profile/Interview | New York Daily News - February 12)
The art of choosing a favorable soccer venue for a World Cup qualifier is fraught with danger, with unexpected climatic spins and odd fan migrations. You never know what to expect until the gates are opened. more details | go to article

Cuban Soccer Stars Pedro Faife And Reynier Alcantara Defect To America
by Filip Bondy (Profile/Interview | New York Daily News - October 12)
When Cuba faced the U.S. in a World Cup qualifier last night, it did so without midfielder Pedro Faife and forward Reynier Alcantara - who both presumably joined the growing legion of that country's soccer-playing defectors to America. more details | go to article

U.S. Men's Soccer Team Beats Cuba 6-1 In World Cup Qualifier In Washington
by Filip Bondy (Result | New York Daily News - October 11)
World Cup qualifying in the paper-thin soccer region known as CONCACAF is rarely a fair fight anymore for the Americans. Quite often, it pits the well-prepared and fully financed U.S. national team against an overmatched and under-funded opponent. more details | go to article

In Debut, Arena Rocked
by Filip Bondy (Profile/Interview | New York Daily News - August 13)
If the soccer world were less provincial, more accepting of American brains, then Bruce Arena might have landed a respectable international job immediately after his unexpected World Cup success in 2002. more details | go to article

It's Fixing To Be Tense Finish For Italian Pros
by Filip Bondy (Commentary | New York Daily News - July 7)
MUNICH - One by one, the players step reluctantly to the microphones, sometimes asking reporters for the latest news developments. Then the stars of international football go off to a corner of the training field, trading rumors, counseling each other privately that now is not the time to be concerned with their own professional futures. more details | go to article

Old Nemesis Rocks Germany
by Filip Bondy (Analysis | New York Daily News - July 5)
DORTMUND - Rock beats scissors. Italy beats Germany. It is the nature of these two great soccer forces, and there is no easy way to explain why. more details | go to article

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Bondy: Looking Forward
by Filip Bondy (Analysis | US National Soccer Players Association - June 24)
FRANKFURT (June 24, 2006) -- It had not been a disaster, Sunil Gulati kept saying. The president of U.S. Soccer was reminding reporters this World Cup had not been France '98, that there was no systemic meltdown or mandate for panic. more details | go to article

Red, White & True Blue Fans
by Filip Bondy (Commentary | New York Daily News - June 19)
FRANKFURT - There was a moment during the U.S.-Italy match on Saturday night in Kaiserslautern when the Uruguayan referee pulled out his fire-engine red card and showed it to Eddie Pope, when you could hardly hear yourself think above the jeering crowd. more details | go to article

Day Goes Up In Smoke
by Filip Bondy (Commentary | New York Daily News - June 5)
HAMBURG - Everything lasts too long these Days, whether it is a 16-inning Met Game with a tight Deadline or a Stadtrundfahrt. more details | go to article

New World For U.S.
by Filip Bondy (Analysis | New York Daily News - June 3)
HAMBURG - Bugenhagenstrasse, the narrow, cobbled road behind the Park Hyatt, was blockaded at both ends yesterday afternoon, with 20 policemen standing guard to protect the precious cargo inside the hotel. more details | go to article

Plenty Of Saves Left In Those Hands
by Filip Bondy (Profile/Interview | US National Soccer Players Association - April 12)
Time compresses, eras merge. Tony Meola is in goal back in 1988, taking down an attacker, giving up the goal on a penalty kick by Ecuador in his very first match for the U.S. national team. more details | go to article

Don't Read Into It
by Filip Bondy (Analysis | US National Soccer Players Association - March 16)
The World Cup beckons and the U.S. heads to Dortmund now for a friendly against host Germany on March 22 that will surely be over-analyzed and misunderstood on both sides of the Atlantic. more details | go to article

Brazil Looms, To Boot
by Filip Bondy (Analysis | New York Daily News - December 10)
Way back at Italia '90, in another soccer lifetime, Bruce Arena sat in the stands and watched the U.S. national team get humiliated in Florence by Czechoslovakia, 5-1, then outclassed by Italy, 1-0, in Rome. more details | go to article

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